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Understand I only work two hours from 7-9 at the library. Tonight I was the only guy there. Their is only one other Micheal. He works tomorrow. Anyway. recently they have been sceduling people too many hours and their isn't enough work for us. So today people worked from 10-5 then I came in. Needless to say there was no work. However we do have two very gossipy woman who wanted to talk about things they didn't feel I was old enough to listen too *sighs* So I was sent upstairs to the childrens room to stamp cards. So basically I was told not to return for awhile. Well I stamped the cards than talked to the lady up there before returning a half hour later.
At that point I was sent back upstairs to retrieve a coveted box from the hcildrens room. I return they hand me a box of books and tell me to make them look appealing on the table of stuff to be sold. So I spent tenty minutes organzing these things. Now you have to unerstand I'm very much into art so when I organize books if they are not alphabetical they are done by color and size. Beucase I like all the books to appear to be basically the same height. So I do that will all the hardcovers and stake the paperbacks on the bottom shelf. But there were a few more paperbacks to do but the ladies wnated to talk again so I was sent to the basement to make myself scarce.
So I sit down in the basement for an hour or so. Clearing out some newspapers that are too old and need to be thrown away as well as sitting there reading a people magazine. Such trash but whatever. I return and shelve the only three books there are to be shelved. I here the two ladies talkign about this National Geographic Magazine someone donated. I don't know how many of you are familiar with the magazine but they ahve some of the best photographs ever in them very artistic. All of them are tastefully done. However the lady deemed the magazine too vulgar for a good catholic woman to be looking at or any one else for that matter. She than declared that she was making an executive descions and threw it int he garbage. Not even the recycling!! the garbag!! I just wanted to rip it out of there and take it home with me. They were beautiful photographs....
After that I wandered around for the last 10 minutes then went home disgusted. Sighs
LOve and Peace and Trees and Moose
Andy
Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?
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Andy, this is my advice to you. Take it for what it is worth.
When one of us deems something to vulgar for anyone else we are letting that person decide what is free speech. I disagree with many people, and many topics, but I will fight for their right to speak them.
We in America talk about burning a flag as so offencive that we want to make the act illegal. I say (excue my language) fuck that. I don't agree with flag burning most times, but I will fight anyone wjo says they don't have the right to express themselves in that way.
In all my years I have only found one movie that I could support it's ban, and even then I am extremely shakey.
In short, say what you feel. Be who you are. And damn the rest.
With the greatest love,
Kevin
"Be excellent to each other, and, party on dudes"!
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smith
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Registered: January 1970
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I know just how you feel, Andy. I work at the public library here and I watch them put certain books on a shelf in the back room, never to be seen again (except by me, who reads them all) I wish you could have gotten that National Geographic out if the trash. My Mama subscribes to it and I've never seen anything in one that isn't culturally beautiful. You can travel the world in those pages.
In elementary school, our librarian was like 753 years old and she would take a black magic marker and color clothes on the natives. We would try to hold the pages up to the light to see what it was we weren't supposed to see.
If they have a children's room, why not ask if you could do the bulletin boards in there? I do the ones for the kids and love planning them.
Keep a paperback book stuck in your back pocket and read everytime they send you away. It's the library, after all. When I have to sit at the checkout desk (boring) I always read.
You added Moose  ) heehee !
((hugs}} for another good day. How many left till vacation?
smith
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5 Days till vacation yay!! My older brother flies home today for the first time in like a year so that is cool:) My other brother will come home probably on friday which is cool to but I see him much more often. I actually do normally have a book I am reading but if they catch me reading they yell at em and say that they aren't paying me to read. I help Michael plan and prepare a lot of the crafts and story time stuff. I like doing that itsfun. But seriously you wont find any inappropriate books in our library anywhere (I know I've looked) They censor everything so much it is not fair. One time I was searching for books with a gay theme in it. Beucase I was curious ya know. And our library had nothing. Absoulutly nothing. Made me sad. All we have is like 'good proper books' *Sighs*
Peace Moose Trees and LOve
Andy
Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?
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5 Days till vacation yay!! My older brother flies home today for the first time in like a year so that is cool:) My other brother will come home probably on friday which is cool to but I see him much more often. I actually do normally have a book I am reading but if they catch me reading they yell at em and say that they aren't paying me to read. I help Michael plan and prepare a lot of the crafts and story time stuff. I like doing that itsfun. But seriously you wont find any inappropriate books in our library anywhere (I know I've looked) They censor everything so much it is not fair. One time I was searching for books with a gay theme in it. Beucase I was curious ya know. And our library had nothing. Absoulutly nothing. Made me sad. All we have is like 'good proper books' *Sighs*
Peace Moose Trees and LOve
Andy
Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?
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marc
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Needs to get a life! |
Registered: March 2003
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Here in sandusky you can find books of a gay theme as long as they have no graphic sexual content. Movies can be ordered as well.
As far as monitoring content available in libraries, that is a two sided coin. On the one hand there is the right to view these materials. While on the other hand is the duty to protect children as well as the rights of those that do not want themselves exposed to such material.
The only realistic solution is that if you want to read them, buy them as is your right.
But remember other people have just as much and as many rights as we that do enjoy gay books/movies.
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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marc
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Needs to get a life! |
Registered: March 2003
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Here in sandusky you can find books of a gay theme as long as they have no graphic sexual content. Movies can be ordered as well.
As far as monitoring content available in libraries, that is a two sided coin. On the one hand there is the right to view these materials. While on the other hand is the duty to protect children as well as the rights of those that do not want themselves exposed to such material.
The only realistic solution is that if you want to read them, buy them as is your right.
But remember other people have just as much and as many rights as we that do enjoy gay books/movies.
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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marc
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Needs to get a life! |
Registered: March 2003
Messages: 4729
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Oh my...... De Ja Vu.......
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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Oh Andy , at the library i go to there is a bunch of book with gay themes in it. I have rented several movies ( although not very graphic) that show gay couples in it and certainly have a tittle that says GAY all over the cover. I found some book i'm planning to rent later on about gay teenagers and it seems like a great a book based from what i read. I'm sorry you cannot find these type of books or movies in your library. I guess some states still live in 60s and 70s , c'mon this is 2004 already.
You don't love someone because they are beautiful, they are beautiful because you love them.
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timmy
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Has no life at all |
Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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Mind you N Geog used to be the ONLY educational book of nudes that was "school acceptable"
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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My school has around 15 gay-themed books.
It's a fairly small library though.
You said when you'd die that you'd walk with me every day
And I'd start to cry and say please don't talk that way
With the blink of an eye the Lord came and asked you to meet
You went to a better place but He stole you away from me
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Bear in mind, Tim, we're talking about the United States of America, which day after day goes out of its way to provide irrefutable proof to the rest of the world of how it is on so many levels the world's most backward country.
I just can't understand why people like that "Madame Methuselah" librarian in smith's elementary school feel the need to hide from view things which everybody has. "Can you say 'futility', boys and girls?"
And Andy, I know you feared for your job; but if it were me, I would have simply said to her, "Well, I'm not Catholic" and helped myself. And, by the way, if you can't read in a library, then what does she expect you to do when she sends you away by yourself so that she can bear her false witness with whoever's ear is available to bend? Not a single gay-themed book in the entire library? That is totally unacceptable!
We do not remember days...we remember moments.
Cesare Pavese
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marc
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Needs to get a life! |
Registered: March 2003
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Most states have programs by which people can order books and they will be pulled from other libraries from across the state.
All you need is the title of the book or movie and a willingness to wait (here it can be upwards of a month) to view it.
Here, the library has even purchased books or movies that I wanted to see.
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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