Irony: Librarians Yelling

I was in the ladies room chatting with a woman sporting a Texas Conference for Women tote bag, who began thanking me profusely when she realized I was the one who dished on Martha Stewart in our coverage of that event, but we were interrupted by shrieks from the main room of the Molotov Lounge when former Austin Chronicle city editor and current bonds backer Mike Clark-Madison called the Libraries for Austin party with the early vote totals: With almost 63,000 votes counted, Prop. 6 (which would pump $90 million into building a new central library) was passing with 60% of the vote.

Said Cynthia Charles, manager of the Carver Branch, "We always knew we were going to get it. Just glad that we got our new daddy. Make that our sugar daddy. It's awesome." The "daddy" is our big new main library, she later explained. "Brenda [Branch, director of the Austin Public Library] is going to be so happy we're going to have to resuscitate her."