Up Front: Get Your Hand Off It
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I can't believe I just wrote that...
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JoJo,
I can't believe I just wrote that...
Well, I'm glad you did! I've had "stinky poo, stinky poo, knickers, knickers, knickers" in my head for the past few weeks, for some reason, and now it has been laid to rest.
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No they wouldn't - paper is carbon neutral.
Actually it's better than carbon neutral - if it ends up in a landfill
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Xeno,
Seriously, Aleister Crowley wrote limericks? Now that is scary. Do demons materialise if you recite them out loud, I wonder?
I was surprised when reading "Diary of a Drug Fiend" to discover the lyrics of Head Like A Hole's "Over the Top"
It's really not that good a book though. A load of libertarian nonsense dressed up in occult nonsense.
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Ugh, To Kill A Mockingbird. I got a detention over that book.
(Throwing it on the desk mid-lesson and calling the author a hack then getting into an hour long "debate" with the English Lit teacher maaaaay have had something to do with it...)
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A nice analysis of some of the (socio-political) issues with To Kill A Mockingbird
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They banned a John Willie book! In 1995! Ridiculous! How can anyone think of banning a bondage comic featuring characters such as:
Sweet Gwendoline "Ah! Who will save her!"
Faithful Frederick (our hero).
Sir d'Arcy d'Arcy (the foul fiend).
Dad (poor but honest).
The Mysterious Countess. -
Actually it's better than carbon neutral - if it ends up in a landfill
As it happens, when the subject under discussion is "book burning" the landfill quotient is usually close to zero...
But this does raise one of my personal bug-bears with "standard" carbon accounting...
When it comes to counting where carbon is captured, or released, it seems we assume it all goes into the atmosphere as soon as a tree is felled... Which, if you burn it, or let it decompose, is reasonable enough of an assumption.... but if it becomes the framing timber of a house, or a lounge suite.... not so much?
If we grow trees, and use their wood to make durable goods, surely thats taking carbon out of the atmosphere?
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That Wikipedia list is blowing my mind. Deenie? The one about the impossibly attractive teen with scoliosis? What... oh, that's right. Wanking. There's wanking in Deenie.
Oh Danielle, Judy Blume is the most dangerous author of them all.
I've been doing a thing where I've been rereading the books I read as a child...including quite a lot of Judy Blume.
I'm definitely feeling a lot more subversive. And I haven't even got to Forever yet.
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Fletcher: you're right - and sending your newspapers to the tip rather than recycling them means more trees will be grown and more carbon pulled out of the atmosphere
We've been so used to recycle because we 'must save trees' but we're in a different world now - taking carbon out of the atmosphere and putting it back in the ground is just about the best thing we can do - so dumping the paper recycling in the tip (coal a million years from now) is the responsible thing to do
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I've been doing a thing where I've been rereading the books I read as a child...including quite a lot of Judy Blume.
I'm definitely feeling a lot more subversive. And I haven't even got to Forever yet.
Wait till you get to Wifey. It was certainly an education to me at the age of 12.
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Courtesy of Neil Gaiman, I've just read this Wall Street Journal piece about Banned Books Week. It's... bordering on hilarious the way it manages to portray librarians as unAmerican enemies of free speech, and book challenging as both a sure way to protect children, and too ineffective to worry about. Kudos. The cartoon is especially peachy.
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It's... bordering on hilarious the way it manages to portray librarians as unAmerican enemies of free speech, and book challenging as both a sure way to protect children, and too ineffective to worry about.
I think we can put it down as being yet another example of reality's well-known liberal bias.
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I've read that article several times over now and I still can't distinguish any sort of point to it.
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I always like this one - the banning of "Making it with Madamoiselle."
Which turned out to be a pattern book.
Surprised I found a link, the reference is down the bottom of the page,
And what earned Captain Underpants a place on the list?
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Fletcher: you're right - and sending your newspapers to the tip rather than recycling them means more trees will be grown and more carbon pulled out of the atmosphere
Yes, but it takes a lot more energy to transform wood into paper products than paper into recycled paper and land fill material is subject to anaerobic decay producing methane.
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Good Jelly the Nun?
Nuns in jelly?
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Wrestling?
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Further triumphs for Phillip Pullman .. up to #2 on the list of most-frequently-banned books in the US:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/sep/30/american-library-association-banned-books
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Some happy news for the authors of what is currently the most challenged book in the US.
It's a very cute picture book about penguins with possibly the most cunning title ever. On account of its infamy, it's experiencing a flurry of sales this week, hooray! I'm off to buy another one. If we keep this up, lucky baby Gemma will never have to eat gruel.
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