A librarian with a job on the side (are you surprised? Combine municipal employment and a female-dominated profession and you won’t be.) as a dominatrix apparently makes for a hilarious news item. My favorite comment: “Shahan, who worked for 25 years at the Western Washington University Library, took the Concrete job without telling the Upper Skagit Library District’s board of directors about her unusual predilections.” OK, which do you think would be more likely to keep you out of a job: being into leather or bringing it up in your interview?

Also, I have the sneaking suspicion that part of the hilarity is the idea that a librarian might have an interesting home life. Who’d a thunk it????