well, I felt it was time to look at the velvet said the angry queen.

well well well. I had a bit of fun with Livejournal. There is a community called, ljconfessional where people pour their sick little hearts out. Most of it is pretty docile stuff. Yesterday I decided to have a little fun. Because well it was Sunday and I love causing a great amount of chaos. My wish was granted. I haven't seen so many irate people since they introduced new coke.

I feel slightly ashamed. But not enough.....

In other news, I made a big ol' batch of bread, cleaned the kitchen, did my laundry and even made my bed. My mother is coming to visit, I figure I would attempt to make the house look half-way decent. It isn't like she will make rude comments about my house-keeping...but still. Guests are guests.

I finished watching another batch of Fellini films. Ahhhhh the grandiose feeling of it all. Next I will be wading through more English new wave films. (so think crooked teeth, black and white film, and 'common folk')

I had a lovely conversation on the telephone last night, lying in the bath. There is something appropriately decadent about taking phonecalls in the bath.

read fuckers....read.

well well well. I think that a little education is in order folks.
I am going to bore you a bit more with Banned Book week.
(be grateful you can read the trash you do)

in 585 BC (that is before crack)
Aesop (a greek slave and story teller...talk about multi-tasking) was thrown from the cliffs at Delphi for sacrilege because of his fables.

in 213 BC
Confucian books and scholars (that is right people too) were burned by the Qin Dynasty officals. A single copy of the sage's works were saved in a state library.

In 1726
Johnathin Swifs, "Gullivers Travels" were banned and expurgated repeatedly for being "obscene and wicked"
apparently they never read V.C. Andrews.

1788. Shakespeare's King Lear (my personal favorite tragedy) was banned from the English Stage until 1820. In deference to the insanity of King George III.
(sensitive bunch those germans of saxe-coburg)

1859 George Eliot's Adam Bede was condemned as the "vile outpourings of a lewd woman's mind" and withdrawn from British libraries.

1920- James Joyce's Ulysses (not an easy read in my opinion) was banned in this country.and 500 copies were burned by the US Post Office.
People used to smuggle in copies of this book from Europe....like drugs.
"dude...I got the hook up on some sweet Ulysses"
"dude I am jonesin'....first edition"

1987 (this one cracked me up) The Millers Tale from Chaucers,"Canterbury Tales" was denounced as "pornography and women's lib." this bawdy 14th century story was declared off limits for students in Columbia County, Florida.

In my research I have noticed a number of book bannings in the great state of Florida....

Now I will drink my hot chocolate and read subversive literature.