Taffey Anderson, a mother in Halsey, Oregon, was shocked--shocked, I tell you--when her 13-year-old son came home from his high school library with a copy of The Book of Bunny Suicides. So disturbed was she that she's refusing to return the book, lest another impressionable mind be warped by its cartoons depicting rabbits on the … Continue reading And Don’t Get Her Started on Watership Down
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Sit, Stay
The film version of JR Ackerley's paean to his pooch My Dog Tulip is well underway--68 minutes of an expected 88 minute run time have been completed. The book is an unflinching look at dog ownership--and to judge from the clips on http://www.mydogtulipfilm.com, the movie isn't prettying up Ackerley's frank and funny book. Voice actors … Continue reading Sit, Stay
Fry’s on the Road
British humorist (and technology enthusiast) Stephen Fry is coming to America. His new show--helpfully titled "Stephen Fry in America" has just begun airing on the BBC. Even better for those of us west of Iceland, there's a long excerpt from the book of the same name on Fry's blog. In it, Stephen muses on how … Continue reading Fry’s on the Road