Archive for the 'scrotum' Category
Drive-through window at Decatur library?
January 5th, 2008Not exactly…
Don’t Smoke ‘Em If You’ve Got ‘Em
December 17th, 2007Especially if it’s a two-year old and you, as the parent, put the video up on MySpace.
Sheesh.
Judge removed after jailing entire courtroom
November 29th, 2007And you thought librarians were uptight about cell phones.
What a strange story (via)
Buy This Banned Book
November 28th, 2007This makes sense.
Love this quote - “Even though the Higher Power of Lucky had won several literary awards, I didn’t go looking for a copy until the there was a big fuss about the word scrotum.”
Opining About Human Filtering
November 25th, 2007Library board takes appropriate action: None
Who Said Librarians Were Geeks/Nerds/Dorks?
October 30th, 2007Terry’s Workblog - “A Jack-o-Lantern with the MARC record of the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown” (via)
Air Travel Stinks
October 28th, 2007Supposed to get into Monterey at 7:30PM. Now, I’ll be arriving at 1:30AM (fingers crossed).
And people ask me why I don’t travel anymore. Question answered.
More on Filtering at SJPL
October 24th, 2007Editorial - “Responding to a minor nuisance at the downtown library by dampening the rights of inquiry and speech of all patrons at every city library is an unacceptable trade-off.”
Read a Banned Book Today
September 16th, 2007AP - “Not all penguin stories are equal in the public’s mind.”
Sex novel writer is feeling the heat
April 15th, 2007Whenever I read articles like this, I always think…
…I gotta get me that book.
So, will your public library carry it? Mine does.
Newsday Takes on “Scrotum” Debate
February 27th, 2007I was wondering how LI libraries were dealing with "The Word". Newsday has some thoughts from LI librarians:
"On Long Island, librarians at public libraries have stocked "Lucky," according to youth services directors for the Nassau and Suffolk library systems. But school libraries are another story. Some local school librarians may not be ordering it, and [...]
Other “scrotum” Books
February 19th, 2007Via Bookslut, a list of more children’s books that contain the word scrotum, courtesy of Gelf Magazine.
Children’s Book Stirs Battle With Single Word
February 17th, 2007Heh!
"The word “scrotum” does not often appear in polite conversation. Or children’s literature, for that matter.
Yet there it is on the first page of “The Higher Power of Lucky,” by Susan Patron, this year’s winner of the Newbery Medal, the most prestigious award in children’s literature. The book’s heroine, a scrappy 10-year-old orphan named Lucky [...]