Year: 2005

Why do these people hate America?

Yahoo! News – Some Miss. Libraries Ban Jon Stewart Book

GULFPORT, Miss. – Library officials in two southern Mississippi counties have banned Jon Stewart’s best-selling “America (The Book)” over the satirical textbook’s nude depictions of the nine U.S. Supreme Court (news – web sites) justices.

“I’ve been a librarian for 40 years and this is the only book I’ve objected to so strongly that I wouldn’t allow it to circulate,” said Robert Willits, director of the Jackson-George Regional Library System of eight libraries in Jackson and George counties.

“We’re not an adult bookstore. Our entire collection is open to the entire public,” Willits said. “If they had published the book without that one picture, that one page, we’d have the book.”

Wal-Mart has declined to stock the book because of the page, which features the faces of the nine Supreme Court justices superimposed over naked bodies. The facing page has cutouts of the justices’ robes, complete with a caption asking readers to “restore their dignity by matching each justice with his or her respective robe.”

I’ll be doing an appearance tomorrow, Sunday, on Fanboyradio.com at 7 PM EST, 6 PM Central time.

I’ll be announcing some stuff.

PAD

It’s the official comments thread for “Hulk #77,” out this week.

Whad’ja think?

You know the letters that start off like this:

Naturally, this letter will come to you as a surprise since
we have not met, permit me however to introduce myself; I
am Paul Rhodes, a white Zimbabwean Farmer, currently in
hiding in Zimbabwe.

Or it’s some variation thereof in which they go on to say how they need your help in getting money into the country?

So how long before we start seeing them that begin with, “I am (fill in name), and my entire family’s assets were wiped out by the tsunami in Indonesia…except for $15 million in a Swiss bank account…”

PAD

Newsarama is reporting that Will Eisner passed away from complications related to his recent quadruple bypass.

Eisner, Kelly Freas…God, is this year off to a crappy start.

I’m looking right at the Eisner Award plaque I got back in 1992, which I had him autograph on the back. What a great moment that was in my life.

I know they both had good runs and left behind an incredible body of work, but that just doesn’t really mollify it, y’know?

PAD

I got an invite from the Writers Guild announcing a special screening of “Fahrenheit 9/11” this Wednesday that’s going to be followed by a Q&A with Michael Moore. Unfortunately, that’s my bowling night, I’m just starting with a new league, and one has to prioritize.

Has anyone heard anything or any interviews with Moore post-calamity (or, as it’s also called, election day?)

PAD

Moviepoopshoot.com listed “Fallen Angel” in their 2004 round-up as “The Best Book You’re Not Reading.” Which I guess is pretty good, except for the “Not Reading” part. You can check it out or, if you wish, here’s an excerpt. Interestingly, they featured the cover of issue #14 about which I just got an e-mail from a frustrated fan who can’t find it in any local store.

“It