Today is slogging by..

Today is slogging by. Not sure slog is a word? If it isn't, it damn well should be. Means to move at the pace of a snail. Snail like. Or a piece of wood that one is lugging or slogging up a hill. Snail like with heavy lifting involved. Or a day that lacks energy and the time on the clock never moves no matter how much you look at it. Making up words runs in my family - we are a family of Miss Malaprops (I think that is the correct spelling).

In last 24 hours have managed to talk myself into and out of and into buying Farscape DVDs for $69.99 at Best Buy. Although DeepDiscount may still be cheaper - need to double check shipping. (I work in procurement, in other words - I buy things for a living - construction and consulting services, so I can't not check prices. Hey beats selling things. Suck at selling things.) Have come to the conclusion that I deserve the treat. Plus Farscape is distinct. We'll never see its like again. Buffy is the same way. Some shows are copied ad naseum, while others stand distinct and off, left to center. Rarely rerunned and hard to come by. That's my latest justification at any rate.

Have decided to avoid the news until Sarah Palin finishes her book tour. Yes, I'm fairly liberal, although most people are liberal in comparison to Palin, Palin makes George HW Bush and Ronald Regan look liberal, and I couldn't stand them either. Made that decision last night. My blood pressure can't take it - I was yelling at the tv last night during her interview with B. Walters on ABC News.

And I am currently living in cold and flu central - people are coughing around me. Several people are out sick or have been out sick and returned with just a cough. They are taking turns. Five go out, they come back, another two go out...and you hear coughing off and on, competing with the whirl of the air vents. (Cold air not hot, because the building ventilation system is confused and thinks it is still summer.)

Writer's Block and Brad Meltzer...the upcoming BTVS S8 writer..

What (if any) books would you ban from a high school library? Are there certain subjects that you feel are inappropriate for teenagers regardless of literary merit?



I wouldn't ban any books from a high school library. At the age of 16 - I read Rosemary Rodgers and Harold Robbins, I also thumbed through Erica Jong's Fear of Flying (the most boring thing I'd attempted). I read anything and everything I could - as did my parents when they were young, which may be why they didn't constrict my reading. My father used to read Ian Fleming novels. Reading shows you different worlds and different perspectives. When you read, you think. You choose how to respond to the text. It is an interactive enterprise. To ban a book, any book, is sending the wrong message. Also, the most violent, and graphic novel of all time is probably the Bible. Ages ago - only monks were permitted to read it, because it was considered too difficult for the common folk.

( a bit of a criticism regarding Brad Meltzer of the Buffy comics, which I'm cut tagging to protect those on my flist who love the comics and are sick and tired of rants or critques about them, I feel your pain. So this cut is for you. )