Anyone who knows me, or who has been following this blog for awhile has heard me bemoan the lack of teens in my library (in fact, anyone over the age of 12 and under the age of 50 avoids this place like the plague). Despite trying a variety of programming with mixed results, I cannot get a steady stream of kids up in here. I've been following the wise, wise advise that I picked up somewhere: do what you are interested in . And it works, if the passion is there, it comes through the program and the patrons can tell. It works. BUT, today I overheard one of my coworkers talking about a programmer from another library. She said, "He doesn't do any of the stuff Tex tnjava does, his teens like the (insert the hockey team) and (insert local football team). You know, normal things." First of all, you should have heard how the word "stuff" was said (as if she were referring to toxic waste and/or child predators). And to clarify, the "stuff" I ...