Parents Complain About Book's Undertones
"SAVANNAH, Mo. - A children's book about two male penguins that raise a baby penguin has been moved to the nonfiction section of two public library branches after parents complained it had homosexual undertones.

The illustrated book, "And Tango Makes Three," is based on a true story of two male penguins, named Roy and Silo, who adopted an abandoned egg at New York City's Central Park Zoo in the late 1990s"

Oh, those parents should be so proud of themselves. Because, at the top of my list of concerns about society today, "penguins turning our kids gay" comes right before "slapping the bejeezus out of South Dakota" and that oil addiction everyone is talking about.

I'd have to say, if Satan's Bookclub were going to endorse an iPod cover, it would have to be this one, from Podstar.

It comes in eight evil designs. But only for the nano, which I do not have. More's the pity.

Link via popgadget.net

The Vatican says Harry Potter could lead kids to Satanism.

Awww...yeah!

For those of you who are not familiar with the game, Louise and I go to a lot of book signings together. Typically, male authors are enamored with her "delightful" Scottish accent and just want her to talk endlessly about whatever she wants. When this happens, it's basically free reign for me to mock her. It's only fair. I don't have anything delightful. So I have to work with what I've got. She is a bit worried about breaking her record because Mr. Gaiman is British, and may not be impressed with her musical voice. But as I pointed out to her, Clive Barker loved her, and he's British. She'll not get to use THAT as an excuse. As her accent is not only Scottish, but it's from a particularly delightful region of Scotland, accent-wise. So she tells me. Often.

I'll let you know how it all works out. Trust me.

So, in celebration of Neil Gaiman being here next week, and Terry Pratchett being here this week, Louise and I were wondering... how about Good Omens for the next bookclub selection?

Additionally, as I finally tore myself away from the grip of the Sims2, I've noticed what a bad reader I've been this summer. Hence, what a bad librarian for Hell I have been. But no more! I have stack of books I am reading, and certainly one of them will end up being bad for you. I've added my reading list off to the right, including a link to a page where I keep track of all the books I read. Which I started doing about two years ago.

So, I've renewed my pact with Satan, and promise to cause much more mischief from now on.

Seems to me, that would be something Satan would keep his eye on, very closely.

Well, I do not rightly know how to explain “"trash sex magic",” other than to assure you, there are forces at work in this book, and they aren’t working for Jesus. It’s the story of Raedawn Sommershoe and her mother Gelia, who live in a trailer on the bank of the Fox river. Rae and her mother have a magical connection to nature in all it’s carnal, sexy glory. Their lives, and the lives of the other odd characters living along side them, are endangered when the meadow across US 31 is torn down to make way for condos. Alexander Caebeau, exiled from his home in the Bahamas by his magical granny, is getting tired of tearing down trees, putting up buildings, and getting fat on hamburgers. When he meets Rae, things start to change for, and about, Alexander, spring goes on hyper drive, the river starts to rise and nature gets seriously pissed off with commercial real estate planners.

This book is dank, dark and swampy, you feel moist just reading it. It smells of mold and musk, and it makes you sneeze with the pollen it puts off. There is a lot of heat in this story, and it's not a dry heat, kids. It's sticky, green, sweaty and... oh, ok, slutty, in it's lushness.

Oh, how many delicious, warm, slick, animalistic ways does this book endanger your soul? Almost too many to count. There’s alcoholism, drug use, incest, racism, spousal abuse, violence, greed, paganism, therianthropy, worshipping of false idols, tree homicide, magic, extreme nudity, underage sex, dirty sex, animal sex, fish sex, bug sex, mud sex, tree sex, homosexual sex, evil real estate tycoons threatening the lives of small children and immoral insurances salesmen. It gets a four out of five just for making you think that there might be magic in nature that exists outside of God's plan. As if!

In the meantime, please enjoy this story of a woman who thinks she knows Harry Potter better than J.K. Rowling, so she wrote a revised edition of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. And her issue is not what you'd think, at first, if you have read the book. It has to do with romance. And I have to say, I agree with J.K. Rowling on this one. This woman is crazy! The romantic relationships have been obvious for many books.
(Link via Bookslut)

edited to add: I have no idea if that article is true... given the source, it could be a parody. You never know. Either way, it's funny. I thought it was real when I first read it, but after investigating the site a little further. :)

For each type checked above also indicate level of vividness/graphicness using the following as a general guide:
Basic (B): large breasts
Graphic (G): large, voluptuous bouncing breasts
Very graphic (VG): large, voluptuous bouncing breasts with hard nipples
Extremely graphic (EG): large, voluptuous bouncing breasts with hard nipples covered with glistening sweat and bite marks.

Here's to hoping that some of you are enjoying EG sexual content in your lives as we speak.

Via Dr. Frank

Dear Beloved,

My name is Mrs. Karen Grant I am a dying woman who have decided to donate what I have to you, I am 59 years old and I was diagnosed for cancer about 2 years ago, immediately after the death of my husband, Who had left me everything he worked for. I have been touched By God to donate from what I have inherited from my late Husband to the you for the good work of God, rather than allow My relatives to use my husband hard earned funds ungodly. 
Please pray that the good Lord forgive me my sins. I have asked God To forgive me and I believe he has because He is a merciful God.

I will be going in for an operation tomorrow morning. I decided to WILL/donate the sum of $5,500,000(five million five Hundred thousand dollars) to you for the good work of the lord, and also to help the motherless and less privilege and also for the assistance of the widows according to (JAMES 1:27).

At the moment I cannot take any telephone calls right now due to the Fact that my relatives are around my health status and me. I have adjusted my WILL and my Executor is aware I have changed my will; you and he will arrange for the change of ownership of the funds as it is presently deposited in a strong trunk box, and lodged in a coded Security company whose name is withheld basically for security and confidential purposes and would only be released to (you).

I wish you all the best and may the good Lord bless you abundantly, and Please use the funds well and always extend the good work to others. Contact my Executor Simon William with this specified emailrusolicitor@netscape.net with your full names contact telephone/fax number and your full address and tell him that I have WILLED ($5,500,000.00) to you that we have been friend for some years before now as I rightly introduced you to him, and I have also notified him that I am WILLING that amount to you as my best friend for a specific good work. I know I don't know you but I have been directed to do this by God. Thanks and God bless.

NB: I will appreciate your utmost confidentiality in this matter until the task is accomplished, as I don't want anything that will jeopardize my last wish. And Also I will be contacting with you by email as I Don’t want my husbands relatives or anybody to know because they are always around me.

Regards,
Karen Grant

What really cheeses me off is the lack of value we, as a country, place on education. Military military military. ... fuck the environment... fuck public schools.... yep, that's about it. If a school is forced to chose between a librarian, and a computer teacher, that school is not getting enough money. I hope everyone remembers this sacrifice the next time a school levy comes on the ballot in Tamworth NH.

from bookslut, who thinks they've f'ed with the wrong profession, as librarians like to fight. Yeah!

And then she punched the bookseller in the face for daring to question her parental judgement. Ok, no, she didn't. But, yay my mom for valuing my abilities to process the information in this book and not go out and get knocked up.

Bookclub Forum.

More tomorrow...