Love that pic. What season is my favorite depends on what area we're talking about. If it's LA, my favorite season is Fall. Fall blows all the smog out of LA, leaving the air clean and crisp and exposing the beautiful mountain views that were part of the reason people flocked to LA in the first place. If we're talking the Bay Area, spring is my favorite season because of the flowers and early fruit harvests.
- Spidra Webster
Summer - Autumn in New Brunswick comes in a very close second. (Autumn in Alberta, not so much)
- Nathalie, Dreamer of FF
I like summer because it simply makes me happy, but fall is the best! Nothing beats scarves, sweaters, and awesome warm hats!
- Anna Haro
Spring, then fall. Then summer. Winter sucks apart from being a little pretty sometimes. Spring is awesome because 1) it means winter is over, and 2) everything is coming back to life.
- Kamilah Gill
Absolutely the fall! Besides the fresh fallen leaves, which are "bee-you-tee-full" I might add, it's much more than that. It's almost as if the combination of loneliness, togetherness, sweetness, sorrow, happiness, tribulations and love was come together in one lump sum as if that same "sum" was something tangible that you could wrap your arms around it, embrace it and never let it go :+)
- Tim Tunnicliff
I love Fall (and winter). I have allergies, so dead plants are good plants. ;-)
- Jason Huebel
"More than a month after two Kentucky public-library employees were fired after refusing to allow a child to check out The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier, details surrounding their dismissal finally are emerging. In a lengthy article in the Lexington Herald-Leader, we learn the story didn't begin on Sept. 22, when Jessamine County Library circulation-desk attendants Beth Bovaire and Sharon Cook decided the graphic novel was inappropriate for the 11-year-old girl who had reserved it. Instead, events date back almost a year, when the 57-year-old Cook, appalled that children had access to the Alan Moore-Kevin O'Neill book, challenged its inclusion in the graphic-novel section, which apparently is tantalizingly close to Young Adult Fiction. When that didn't work, she checked the book out of the library -- and kept renewing it, effectively removing it from circulation, until Sept. 21. That's when Cook tried to renew Black Dossier again, only to discover the computer...
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- RAPatton
from Bookmarklet
"Wilson's article includes plenty of background on the library's policies, and Cook's efforts to challenge the book according procedure, which required her to, y'know, actually read it: "People prayed over me while I was reading it because I did not want those images in my head." Cook and Boisvert contend the graphic novel amounts to pornography, and that the library could be committing...
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- RAPatton
If she has issues with Black Dossier, imagine what she'd think about the Lost Girls.
- RAPatton
While I agree that LXG:BD is not appropriate for an 11-year old, I don't agree with the librarians' de facto censorship of the book.
- Bill Sodeman
I wouldn't give it to my 11 year old, but you are correct in that it was not her decision to make
- RAPatton
This seems like a case that the ACLU might take up, and I wonder what the ALA would say about it.
- Bill Sodeman
Note that it says library employees and not librarians. There is a difference. Regardless, they shouldn't do this, but lets not malign librarians. I suspect their supervisor didn't know what they were doing.
- Katy S
Okay - just read the article Bill linked to. They aren't librarians, one claims that her manager supports her, but we don't hear anything from that manager. What they are doing (checking out the book and not returning it) is very common practice among those who want to ban books.
- Katy S
"Earlene Arnett, director of the Scott County Public Library, explains that "libraries take censorship very seriously. We also take the parent's role very seriously. I'm sure they don't want me to make their decisions for them."" That says what I would say well enough.
- Michael W. May
I stopped reading the single issues because it seemed like I would enjoy it much more as a collected trade. The movie stuff, though, makes me want to pick it up.
- Jason Toney
I just put my copies of the first 5 issues up on ebay on Saturday. Did the 6th issue ever come out?
- James Ferguson
Tell me how 5 ended and I'll tell you if there was a 6th. The most recent issue was the one where Kick Ass was tortured and you found out what was in Big Daddy's suitcase. I don't know if that was 5 or 6; I think 6 issues are out and the 7th will be the final
- RAPatton
I don't think that was issue 6, so I guess it came out. I don't even remember Big Daddy having a suitcase.
- James Ferguson
The things you don't know about Big Daddy could fill a briefcase
- RAPatton