A reminder.
The Annual Banned Books Reading, brought to you by the good folks at the Pittsburgh chapter of the ACLU, the Carnegie Library, and WYEP, is taking place tonight.
It's free and open to the public.
For some strange and as yet unexplained reason, they've asked me to be the MC.
UPDATE: This was a lot of fun and being master of ceremonies wasn't nearly as frightening as I thought. Did you know that a WHERE'S WALDO book had been banned? Along with the poem "Jabberwocky"? Me neither.
Interspersed in the live readings were video clips of other local Pittsburghers (Bill Peduto and Lynn Cullen included) reading from some other banned material (The Bible, Shel Silverstein and so on).
Read a banned book!
4 comments:
John K. says: Will you open with a reading from the most banned book the ACLU, the bible ?
There should be an addition to the schedule: perhaps you can read something from the "Love of Chair," blog, which was banned after it got a link in the Post-Gazette.
Come off it, John K.
Where's the Bible banned, huh? I'm guessing your one of those people upset that it's not in our schools, right?
But if it were, whose version should we teach? The Catholic interpretation? That would probably upset alot of Protestants and Born Agains to hear that the Book of Revelation is nonsense or that there's no such thing as the Rapture. Or should it be the Presbyterian interpretation or the Episcopalian or the Methodist or the Baptist?
Which version of Christianity would you have us teach?
Perhaps folks like yourself would be better served to actually READ the Bible and the words of Jesus:
"When you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, who love to stand and pray in the synagogues and on street corners so that others may see them. Amen, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you pray, go to your inner room, close the door, and pray to your Father in secret."
John K. says: Jesus told me to hate you.
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