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Thursday August 26, 2004
One of my arguments with irresponsible comics is that
there are still all the related products meant to draw kids in, including cartoons.
That's a shame because there have been a lot of good ones including Cartoon Network's
Teen Titans and the new Justice League Unlimited. I've been watching the new episodes on
Saturday nights, they are not as well done as the Batman toons done in the early 90s
but its always fun to see childhood heroes in actual action.
The big surprise has been the toon immediately
following
JLU called Megas XLR, you can check out CN's page on them here and a faster loading,
better informed site here.
It has the best theme song going but I enjoy it because the lead character, Coop, shares
a certain level of depravity (impairment of virtue and moral principles) that I first
learned from watching the Cosby show. It was the episode where Dr. Huxtable is forced
to describe his recent eating adventures involving hoagies, chocolate soda, and
strawberry cheesecake, to his doctor. Both of these men get serious when they have to
but understand that the finer things in life are usually unhealthy and are best enjoyed
in large quantities.
Warning: Its 100% a guy's show, but then you probably already
figured that out.
We really need to consider an age rating system for
books. One where adult collections aren't just checked out to kids but are also not
even browseable by kids. Case in point: The Surrender by Toni Bentley. Described
as an 'erotic memoir' in Publisher's Weekly, this little gem of an autobiography
describes Toni's sexual exploits ending in her 'rhapsodic experience with sodomy'.
Bet her parents can't wait to meet her boyfriend.
Its gets a star of approval by PW along
with a half-page interview with the author. I'm not going to say libraries can't
buy the book but if you do and a teen or tween gets a hold of it and checks it out
you deserve every swear word the parent yells at you.
Unless its something I really want to highlight my
responses to the Feedback Forum will be put with the post-in-question in brackets.
While I'm talking about it, I had a couple emails
explaining to me that the first sentence on the 'Librarians For Bush' page shouldn't use
the word 'their' unless 'person' is 'people' otherwise I should use his/her. Well, tough.
I will never, ever use 'his/her'. Its dumb. Proper grammar would have been just 'his' but
can you imagine the emails I would have gotten on that?! For a while now I have used
'their' as a sexless singular when needed. As far as I'm concerned that makes the most
sense.
I've read some harsh criticism of his interview style
but for some reason I liked catching the occasional Late Late Show with Tom Synder.
He just seemed like a fun guy to shoot the bull with for a couple hours. I came
across his website today and the name of it alone is pure Snyder, www.colortini.com
He's still writing a regular column. Oddly enough his latest is somewhat political and
certainly leftwards of myself but check him out anyway.
This is the bomb baby!!
I've been a Block and Westlake fan for a while now
and Max Allan Collins wrote Road To Perdition which was a great movie. These are
must haves on the star power alone, the covers are just the icing on the cake!
According to a poster over at Captain Comics the
latest issue of Green Lantern has the current Green Lantern, Kyle Rayner, finding
his mother murdered and stuffed in an oven by Major Force. This is most likely a
way to lead into the upcoming GL mini-series meant to bring Hal Jordan back into
the role.
A little background: It was the first couple issues
introducing Kyle Rayner as the new Green Lantern (almost 10 years ago) that had
the villain Major Force killing Kyle's girlfriend and stuffing her into a
refrigerator. This in turn inspired the creators of the site Women in Refrigerators
which details all the abuse that has been heaped on female characters in comic
books. Got that? Introduce new character = stuff dead girlfriend in refrigerator.
Get rid of character = stuff dead mother in oven.
If Your Child Is Reading A Comic Book -
Take It Away From Them!!!!
Tuesday August 24, 2004
Time to go, I still have the flu which is so
much fun. Thank God for Nyquil.
I just got a good deal on a computer, need to get
a monitor but hopefully that won't be too long. This means I'll be able to blog
24/7 if I want. That's bad. For me and for you.
Later.
Better yet call an insane asylum cause the nuts are
are in town:
Please join us if you're so inclined.
I get a kick out of certain activists who try and stay
above the fray so to speak, at least in public. They don't or rarely get involved in debates online.
Their own personal sites stick to the issues that matter to them and only
in a non-confrontational way. Apparently someone is letting their hair down a little, more then what
I usually see anyway. Here's a post from their blog over at that bastion of unbiasedness,
Radical Reference titled Deaths Because Of Republicans. Tyrants aren't we?
You go girl!
From an emailer in reference to an earlier
post:
No, we do. I don't think any US librarians would say we've got it as bad
as folks behind the Curtain, or in China, etc. did. We know the
difference. One of the reasons that we don't have it as bad is that groups
like ALA and the ACLU are always agitating and fighting for people's
Constitutional rights and free speech.
Isn't it a quote, often attributed to Jefferson that "eternal vigilance is
the price of liberty."?
And those who constantly cry wolf get eaten. The fact
of the matter is there is no censorship in the United States as ALA tries
to argue it. Censorship is the
government coming into your home and saying you can't read such-such. When ALA and
the ACLU get all excited about Moore not being able to publish his book or Moore not
being able to show his movie, what they are really doing is taking away the rights of
the publisher or Disney to not be associated with the likes of Moore. Anybody can write
whatever book they choose, go to Copico, print off as many copies as they
want and give to whomever they please. Do that in Cuba and you'll be jailed, beaten, and
starved, then freed in effort to show the world how compassionate Cuba is and to show
Cubans what you will look like if you cross Castro.
Sunday August 22, 2004
Kudos Jack on the scoop. LJ
acknowledges Librarians
For Bush while chastising us for not addressing "the debate over how the Patriot
Act lowered the legal standard for such searches, from requiring "probable cause"
that a crime has been committed to requiring that a search be part of a terrorism
investigation."
As Jack points out, being part of a terrorism
investigation is probable cause.
Does Librarians Against Bush and LJ point out that
section 215 cannot be used against American citizens solely on evidence that comes
under free speech? That means an American watching the Towers fall on 9/11 and heard
by people saying "Allah bless Osama Bin Laden" could not be investigated under the
Patriot Act.
Does LAB and LJ point out that simply because an
American citizen is being investigated by law enforcement officials using the Patriot
Act doesn't negate the right they have under the law? That means the right of
an attorney and the right of a trial by jury.
Does LAB and LJ point out that knowledge does matter?
That libraries exist for something more than entertainment? That if you spend your
time and energy gathering knowledge and information and then use that knowledge and
information to kill people or to attempt to kill people the time spent goes
against you? On the contrary, LAB and LJ want you to believe that what happens in a
library is sacrosanct and should never be brought up in a courtroom *ever*.
Libraries and librarians who promote the value of
knowledge when its time to increase their budgets but deny the fact that same
knowledge can be used for evil as well as good are liars and hypocrites. These are the
people who believe its our fault we were attacked on 9/11. These are the people who
think its horrific that libraries were looted in Iraq but have no comment on the
hundreds of thousands of dead there by Saddam's hands. These are the people who worry
more about a criminal's rights and ignore the crimes against the victim.
We were victimized on September 11. That wasn't the first
time. Its been going on for some 20 years now. We are not going to be the victim anymore.
If you sneak into this country you will be caught. If you've been hanging out here waiting,
communicating with your fellow criminals online, you will be caught and whatever is
found on those computers will be used against you. If you've managed to become a
citizen, unfortunately no longer a difficult task, and you've been using us to search
for building or city plans, knowledge to create small weapons, ways to best disrupt
our society, you will be caught and that information will be used to convict you and
then execute you.
Well that was embarrassing.
I've been out of it for a couple days now with the
flu, still am (if you know me do not call me, I will rip your head off). I will be
playing catch up throughout week and I'm sure beyond.
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