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London Calling

03 Saturday Oct 2009

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banned books, london times, micro-fiction, twitter

I’ve been writing Twitter-sized micro-fiction stories over here: http://twitter.com/JoshuaDoetsch

 
And today, one of my stories got mentioned as a favorite in the London Times.
 
Check it out!
 
Not bragging…just very far away from home and can’t post little achievements on my parents’ fridge no more.
 
Next, promised blog entry (the sequel to last blog entry) coming soon. Promise.
 
PS – This week was Banned Books Week. I was originally against banning books…but now I see the perhaps unintentional genius behind it. What better way to get our children to read than to say, "That? Oh…you don’t want that…that’s too dangerous…"

Special Place for Special Folk

04 Friday May 2007

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 Read a couple alarming articles about the banning of books (alarming because the ease of which the books were banned and alarming because said books didn’t even contain the objectionable material they were accused with).  I’d like to write a thoughtful essay on all of this, speak with erudite flourish and acumen on the subject.  But I don’t have time at the moment (just time enough to fling a few big words out to make me sound smart).  Thankfully, I did find an image that kind of paraphrases what I would have gone on at length about…

 

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