Wilde and Uncensored

Have you read this yet?
A new uncensored edition of Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray has been released.

What I find particularly amusing is the reasoning behind the censoring in the first place - the editor "Decid[ed] that the novel as it stood contained "a number of things which an innocent woman would make an exception to"..."

While it really annoys me that women are being used as an excuse by men, it also makes me laugh. Because I imagine if anyone had actually asked a woman about it, the conversation would have gone something like this:

Male Editor:  Would you be willing to read this piece of slash fiction?

Woman: Slash? I love slash! Gimme!

Male Editor: Dammit. You're supposed to be repulsed. The homoerotic subtext is right out in the open.

Woman: Yes! Yes, yes, yes! Hand it over NOW!

Male Editor: Well, no, I'm sorry. You'll have to wait until something called The Internet removes the editor-as-gatekeeper model and makes slash available to all.

Woman: Dammit.

Pigs Take Main Street

I honestly love our local news:

Police responded to five large pigs stopping traffic on Main Street. Two cruisers and Lt. Bob Hazelwood joined the effort to return the pigs to their pen. It wasn't easy. "One of those pigs is over 400 pounds," Hazelwood noted. Nor are pigs easily cowed. They don't move even when confronted or coaxed. Police eventually resolved the problem by shaking containers of grain, which the hungry pigs were unable to resist and happy to follow.

Giant Book Fair Coming to Los Angeles

When:
Saturday April 9 2011 from 11am to 2pm

Who:
Over 300 authors (including me) will be signing books from all genres.
$5 at the door.
You can bring your own books to be signed or buy books there.

Where:
Westin Bonaventure Hotel
404 South Figueroa Street
Los Angeles California

More Info and a List of Authors Attending:
[link]

School Funding - Listen up, Idaho!

For a well-reasoned, well-written essay on the reality of teaching in today's public schools, please read:

Thoughts on Policy Changes:

"I teach elementary school. My students hug me at the end of the day. At the start of vacations, they tell me ..."

Pug vs Cat (the non-violent protest)