This won’t be the first time I tried to defend the seemingly indefensible on this blog. So let’s take a deep breath, swallow the bit of throw-up that’s rising in my throat and dive right in… 😉 Social media sites (especially Twitter) exploded over the past 24 hours after an e-vite for a $250/person fundraiser […]
 So this is an interesting one… Pace’s Grade One class has started a daily reading log where they’re assigned some easy readers.  They have to record the titles of the books as they read them. In addition to the assigned reading, they can also record any other books (or chapters of books) they read or […]
This week is Banned Books Week in the US (as opposed to last week of February in Canada for some reason.) Â Oh well – I’ll happily celebrate any week that celebrates banned books and pass along great articles profiling authors who’ve been banned. In 2008, when Phillip Pullman learned his novel, The Golden Compass, […]
Doug Stanhope is a fucking awesome comedian who is cool with people torrenting his stuff… And “his stuff” includes brilliant material like this… And this…
Every year, Freedom to Read Week comes to an end and I feel like I have so many posts I could do left in the hopper. Â I thought about doing a link dump of all the things I’ve collected but instead, I’ll just post one last one… Top 10 Shocking Documentaries of All-Time
One of the great things about working at Regina Public Library is that we have a couple very unique elements compared to most other public libraries in Canada – we have an in-house, fully operational art gallery and we also have a single screen art house theatre. As far as I know, this was the […]
/r/ImGoingToHellForThis is a sub-Reddit dedicated to “Tasteless “politically incorrect” dark, offensive, & twisted humor of all types is welcome here. Absolutely NOTHING & NOBODY is sacred, taboo, or beyond being joked about.” aka a perfect way to end Freedom to Read Week.
Yesterday, I said that during Freedom to Read Week, often everything starts to look like a Freedom of Expression issue. I didn’t mention another aspect of this in that sometimes, something that looks like a freedom of expression issue could also actually highlight something else – potentially even something criminal. And lo and behold, something […]
During past Freedom to Read weeks, I’ve noticed that everything starts to look like a Freedom of Expression issue. Â (That’s probably a good thing that we should keep in mind year-round anyhow.) Â For example, we’re only halfway through the week and I’ve had three distinct experiences that weren’t official FTRW events but which brought forward […]
Every year during FTRW, I usually like to post one (potentially) offensive song (eg. a song with lots of swearing or controversial lyrics or whatever) because it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. 😉 Sometimes these songs use swearing to make a point about censorship, sometimes they use swearing for humourous effect and sometimes the […]
