The other day I read an article in a Flagstaff newspaper that basically confirmed two things for me. One is that there actually is a World Book Day and the other that some people are just never happy.
A young girl in a small Idaho town was giving out books on World Book Day - well, one book in particular - a book that had been banned from the local schools. It was the book by Sherman Alexie - a semi-autobiographical novel - The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian. I must confess I have never read it. SOME people called the police on this young woman - probably the same people who had it banned in the first place. The police arrived and decided there is no law against giving away books...FOR FREE..on World Book Day, so they went away. Which was pretty easy for them because their job was, well, to do nothing. The girl gave out the rest of the books and everyone was happy - except for the people who called the police in the first place. But I got thinking....they probably are happy...because they sound like the type of people who are at their best and most happy when they have something to be unhappy about, so in the end I suppose everyone was happy...........smiley face!
AND you are probably asking: So Colleen, why was this particular book banned? And I can tell you. It was banned because in one part of it masturbation is mentioned. Not in the small town in Idaho kind of way "Oh my GOD, I have masturbated, what have I done, now I must suffer eternal hell with lots of flames and damnation, woe is me" kind of way, but the "Yeah well, I masturbated - what about it?" kind of way. And small town Idahoians really don't like that kind of talk. No Way!
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I have always maintained that the Disney parks are NOT, as stated, the happiest places in the world. The times I have been there, there are numerous children in stages of breakdowns from having...so much fun. The parents are frazzled because they spent on this money coming down to show their kids a great time and to keep up with the Jones who brought their kids down last year and bragged about it all summer. The kids are overtired, hot and cranky and crying. So, when I read a review about a new movie that is out - Escape from Tomorrow - which is seemingly filmed at a Disney location (but in fact was filmed in an unobtrusive and surreptitious way at both Disney places in the U.S., because they were afraid the Mice people would shut them down plus they had it edited in South Korea to keep it all quiet) I was not surprised by the plot.
Escape from Tomorrow tells of of the White family's last day of their vacation at Disney World. The dad finds out that he has been fired from his job and the day just gets worse as he slowly sinks into a mental breakdown. I kid you not!! He soon imagines Disney characters turning on him, his own wife and children start to look like something out of Village of the Damned and he has a very uncomfortable fixation with two young girls.......apparently the ending is "messy." Think I'll add this to my 'skip it" list...oh yeah!
Things I have learned this week:
Jeffrey Willard Wooten, 50, of Norcross, Georgia, was arrest for robbing a Waffle House. He forced the employees into the back room, grabbed the cash and ran. Sadly, Jeffrey was easy to spot because his choice of weapon was a pitchfork. Don't you just love The South?
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There are a LOT of avid cyclist in this part of the world, but I am thinking that it is going a little too far:
Monday is Bike to Work Day
Tuesday is Bike to School Day
Wednesday is Bike to Breakfast Day
Thursday is Bike to Ice Cream Day
and my personal favorite....
Friday is Bike to Beer Day
I guess you don't bike on the weekend....what? no biking to the Lord?
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Some people can't count.....we stopped by a local restaurant and a lady approached our friend about singing at a party she was having. She said it was a big deal with lots of musicians and our friend would have a great time. Then she said "I have four parties a year - one every six months." Oooookkkkaaaayyyy.....
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The Google really is an amazing place. We have a large bronze dog in our foyer. He was purchased as a birthday gift for me a few years ago and I just love him...I pat his head regularly and he wears our old Copper Dog's tags. As we bought him from a consignment antique store in Old Town Cottonwood we really didn't know his origin. I have been trying to find out, through The Google, about this dog.
"Daniel Pierre, 1988, 2/10" is written on his side and that is how I started out. Took me a while, but last night I received an email from the REAL Daniel Pierre who lives in Flagstaff and has his own foundry. Turns out our dog, Bowser, was one of only two not ten. The original was made for a couple in California. Still don't know how ours ended up being sold here....but at least we know there are only two of them in the world - he was very special to me before that - but now he is a two-of-a-kind he is more so.....wonder if I could ever get my hands on his brother???
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