The Mutt’s Nuts

20th February 2007 with 3 Comments

The current censorship debate is, as usual, fuelled mainly by people who haven’t read the book - The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron - and have no intention of reading it.
Dana Nilsson, for example, a teacher and librarian from Durango, Colorado, does not seem to have noticed that the objectionable word in the [...]

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Out-takes I

16th May 2006 with 1 Comment

‘It’s the latest thing,’ JD continued. ‘First thing they gave me was a vacuum constriction device. It was an elastic band on a plastic cylinder attached to a vacuum pump, and I had to put my digery-doo inside the cylinder, then pump the air out of it.’
Marie closed her eyes. Tried to [...]

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