Notes | Brutkey

Attention song-writers.

If you are a fan of Harry Chapin's "30,000 pounds of bananas" song. Source material for a sequel is now available:

"Hot dog spill leaves slippery mess on Pennsylvania highway"

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/hot-dog-spill-leaves-slippery-mess-pennsylvania-highway-rcna222586

#Oops

Milcom Miasma
@mmiasma@mastodon.sdf.org

My favorite quote for today:

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

Note on the photo: The chair has been in my wife's family for close to eighty years and was traded to my wife and I by her grandfather for a bottle of his favorite scotch. I think we got the better of the deal.

#Quotes

An antique rocking chair sits in the foreground. Behind is a bookcase full of books (some of them banned) and a floor-standing reading lamp. The photo is in black and white. The chair has been in my wife's family for close to eighty years and was traded to my wife and I by her grandfather for a bottle of his favorite scotch. I think we got the better of the deal.

Milcom Miasma
@mmiasma@mastodon.sdf.org

Late last year I decided that I needed to read the 100 most banned and challenged books from the last decade (2010-19).

https://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/decade2019

I want to understand why people want to ban them. After reading a book on the list, I write a very short review (500 characters) and post it in #BannedBooks. My friend and author @wasootch@mastodon.sdf.org has been kind enough to post all the reviews on her blog at:

https://lkinley.com/milcom-miasmas-reviews-of-top-most-banned-books/

Please follow along or better yet, join in.

A graphic offering the challenge of reading the one hundred most banned and challenged books of the past decade. 2010-2019. And a pressure-inducing question about whether I can complete the challenge.