Brock About Town

go Brandon! Also GOP: Let’s drive the least efficient possible vehicles as much as possible and consume as much gas as we can in protest against nothing. Also libs are dumb and don’t understand basic economics like supply and demand. Let’s go Brandon! —John C.

When I drove by, there were Confederate flags too. Also have your free speech but you aren’t permitted to park on the I—80 on ramp and over the curb on the grass. Why weren’t they told to relocate their vehicles?? —Katherine O.S.

/LittleVillage READER POLL:

What’s in that pelican’s mouth?

Jason Momoa’s scrunchie 46.7%

Elijah Wood’s cigarettes 13.3%

What are they protesting again? —Ali N.

I’m not sure even they know. —Tania D.

Mask and vaccine mandates. Iowa had neither. —Julie J.

Grassley’s ‘Marmaduke II’

20%

MY WEED!!!

20%

iowa City students stage a walk out to protest Gov. reynolds banning transgender girls from playing girls’ sports at school (March 12)

Remember this, whoever you are, however you are, you are equally valid, equally justified, and equally beautiful. —Jenni R.

UAY is proud of local youth for once again leading the way and using their voices to speak up. Adults, we would do well to listen. —United Action for Youth

Young people making us all look stupid. Again. Good for them. —Tyler A.

The kraut-er in the rye: Five (more) local reubens, graded (March 15)

That’s a lot of As this year! —Leather B.

Thoma’s Meat Market has a dope Reuben... their Cuban is fire too. —Prafasi

New Pi has an amazing turkey Reuben. At least when they used to have a deli. Maybe the Coralville of C.R store has a deli that makes it still. —Nathan W. As a fellow Reuben fanatic, this is the kind of journalism I’m looking for! —Emmylane L.P.

BROCK ABOUT TOWN

WHilE i’M SUrE some of you imagine me as a Baba Yaga-type figure that sits in a tree on College Street, judging people and collecting Natty Light cans for the five-cent redemption fee, I actually do have a day job. Every morning, I drive almost an hour to a public library which will here remain nameless, because the one five minutes down the street from my house would be too easy to get to. When I got the job, the hiring manager asked me if I enjoyed working with the public. I said yes, because I did not know what I was talking about.

This week, I cleaned up the aftermath of a “cake fight” between two middle-aged men and had an hourlong conversation with a teenage boy about censorship after I suggested he not watch porn on the library computer, three feet from his grandma. Every morning, the same elderly man comes to my desk and provides me—an hourly, part-time employee at the very bottom rung of the totem pole— with a list of grievances about our policies, our collection and the way the magazine room smells like cough medicine. Once, a lady made me look up reviews of half the books in our romance section, because she only wanted to read the ones that “really knock your socks off.”

Deidre DeJear, the sole Democrat running for governor, discusses how to win in iowa City (March 15)

This woman is an intellectual and could lead us in a very positive forward way…a way where we won’t cringe telling someone we’re from Iowa when asked. —Jordan S.

Deidre needs to come out for legal weed. She can get the independent vote and get young people to turn out. It’s also a simple way to see if she has good judgment. Eventually it’s republicans will legalize weed, they will get and deserve credit for it. —Ofer S.

little Village Studio Visit ft. Dan padley (March 16)

Dan is a national treasure. —Andy B.

What a stud. Seriously one of the best musicians. And best humans. —River B.

Dan slays. One of the tastiest guitarists this side of the Mississippi. —Trevor P.

A prince. —Tyler J.

I need an entire Dan Padley biopic but until then I’ll just watch this on a loop. —Aly R.

AUDREY BROCK

And you know what annoys me more than that? All the people who aren’t coming to the library. Seriously, people. You’re not doing yourself any favors by spending $24.99 every time you get the urge to “read the classics.” Get yourself to the library and check out a book. If you can’t read, check out a DVD. If you, like everyone else, torrent all your movies, just come hang out. It’s the coolest place on Earth.

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