I am livid and pissed off beyond words right now. A very old and mostly abandoned, but beautiful, cemetery in Bruce Township, Michigan, that I have visited many, many times has been completely destroyed by reckless, disrespectful, asinine, heartless fucktards. The criminals toppled over headstones and threw the famous...
It’s August 1st, and that means a new edition of my paranormal column, Across the Great Divide! This time around I discuss the new horror movie, The Conjuring. There’s always a suspicious rift between what is real and what is fantasy when it comes to films based on actual events;...
The Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library knows a thing or two about the controversy surrounding censorship. Vonnegut has found his novels on the banned books list repeatedly and, last year, writer Corey Michael Dalton spent Banned Books Week imprisoned within a jail cell made out of banned books at the...
Sometimes it’s the weirdest things that stick in my mind over the course of the day. I have to wonder if I just think too much, but I am who I am- what I am- and you all love me for it. Throughout the day I’ve heard many people...
Just about anything, in any format, can get censored or banned these days- books, television, movies, art, and music, to name a few. Now we can add classic nursery rhymes to the list of “offensive” material. The world, it seems, has completely lost its sense of reason and logic....
Today, Racheal and I passed by an antique dealer in a small farming community and decided to stop in. I’m glad we did, because we found a copy of Rudyard Kipling’s “The Phantom ‘Rickshaw and other Eerie Tales”, a collection of short stories published in 1888. It was sitting...
The Irish Censorship of Publications Board was established in 1929 by the newly-formed Irish Free State (boy, isn’t that a contradiction in terms) to examine and restrict ‘obscene’ publications. Liam O’Flaherty’s The House of Gold had coincidentally been released that same year and enjoyed a brief time in print...
Texas-born Tomás Rivera’s coming-of-age story of a Mexican boy’s life in a migrant family in the 1940s and 1950s, with its themes of family life and tensions, is apparently too much for the parents of a Clarke County seventh-grader and they want the book banned. They demanded that the...
We know that the mentality behind censorship and the banning of books is shortsighted and narrow-minded; but when that ignorance causes those words to completely disappear from the world, it’s just nauseating. That’s what is happening to rare nationalist works that were banned by the British during India’s quest...
Some label it as historical romance; while others argue that it doesn’t have all of the required elements, thus making it simply an historical novel- but all would agree that the 1936 work by Margaret Mitchell is one of the quintessential works of American literature. However, as one has...