http://www.sarazarr.com/archives/293 The Official Web Site of Author Sara Zarr Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:32:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.sarazarr.com/archives/293/comment-page-1#comment-3697 The Stories of a Girl » stuff you could be watching On Demand + other news Sun, 18 Feb 2007 20:13:41 +0000 http://www.sarazarr.com/?p=293#comment-3697 [...] Hey! Cynthia Leitich Smith’s blogs are back up, so hurray for that! I’m very excited to read her new novel, Tantalize. Gothic horror! In a restaurant! Also, remember when I mentioned scrotums the other day? Now everyone is talking about them! Read about it in the NYT, and weigh in with your opinion over at the AS IF! blog. As many other bloggers have pointed out, one of the oddest sentences in the NYT article is, Authors of children’s books sometimes sneak in a single touchy word or paragraph, leaving librarians to choose whether to ban an entire book over one offending phrase. “Sneak in.” It’s true. Kind of like subliminal advertising, you know? We just like to see what we can get away with. I like to really be tricky, like, “Bobby’s mother explained how their house was in escrow. ‘Tummy ache?’ she asked, when Bobby made a face.” See how I did that? Sneaky! But really, we are not even talking about a bad word, here. And in case you didn’t already know this, the scrotum in question in the book is a dog’s. You can Google scrotum lucky to find lots of blog posts about this issue, and also information about cute little purses they make in Australia. [...] [...] Hey! Cynthia Leitich Smith’s blogs are back up, so hurray for that! I’m very excited to read her new novel, Tantalize. Gothic horror! In a restaurant! Also, remember when I mentioned scrotums the other day? Now everyone is talking about them! Read about it in the NYT, and weigh in with your opinion over at the AS IF! blog. As many other bloggers have pointed out, one of the oddest sentences in the NYT article is, Authors of children’s books sometimes sneak in a single touchy word or paragraph, leaving librarians to choose whether to ban an entire book over one offending phrase. “Sneak in.” It’s true. Kind of like subliminal advertising, you know? We just like to see what we can get away with. I like to really be tricky, like, “Bobby’s mother explained how their house was in escrow. ‘Tummy ache?’ she asked, when Bobby made a face.” See how I did that? Sneaky! But really, we are not even talking about a bad word, here. And in case you didn’t already know this, the scrotum in question in the book is a dog’s. You can Google scrotum lucky to find lots of blog posts about this issue, and also information about cute little purses they make in Australia. [...]

]]> http://www.sarazarr.com/archives/293/comment-page-1#comment-3098 bmad Mon, 12 Feb 2007 00:47:23 +0000 http://www.sarazarr.com/?p=293#comment-3098 actually mean and vulgar are fine as long as no women get maimed for being blonde. actually mean and vulgar are fine as long as no women get maimed for being blonde.

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