2003 – commonplacebook.com

Coming Summer of 2004, starring Angelina Jolie, Gwyneth Paltrow & Jude Law. Thus guaranteeing that I, Doug and Amy will all be in the theater to watch. Very 1930’s Art Deco style movie, with Angelina in uniform, flying a plane. I will so be there. Gwyneth is a reporter. I wasn’t paying that much attention to Jude Law in the trailer, but I’m sure he was hot, too. For a boy.

Pope speaks out against equal marriage rights for gay people

Post author:HFM
Post published:December 30, 2003
Post category:GLBT Issues Politics Religion

On Sunday, Pope John Paul spoke out against equal marriage rights for gay and lesbian people.

“In our times, a misunderstood sense of rights has sometimes disturbed the nature of the family institution and conjugal bond itself,” John Paul said.

Let me repeat: never setting foot in a Catholic church again.

Mind the Gap

Post author:HFM
Post published:December 29, 2003
Post category:Art

My sister Stacy sent my brother Gary a t-shirt for Xmas that says “Mind the Gap” the famous phrase that is announced on London Underground platforms as the trains are coming in to warn people not to step into the gap between the train carriage and the platform. Here’s a website that examines the origin of the phrase.

People who have visited England’s capital city say ‘Mind the Gap’ to each other – often accompanied by knowing glances and subtle nods – while the rest of the world wonders what they are on about. This article introduces some little known facts about the phrase and its usage.”

And here’s the official London Underground’s website, where you can buy a “Mind the Gap” t-shirt or even the logo from your favorite Underground stop. Apparently, the trendy thing to do is wear your stop’s logo around so people can introduce themselves if they live near you.

Gay Gatherings Removed from Video Footage at Lincoln Memorial

Post author:HFM
Post published:December 29, 2003
Post category:GLBT Issues Media

According to 365 Gay News:

(Washington, D.C.) All images of gay gatherings at national sites, including the Millennium March on the Washington Mall have been ordered removed from videotapes that have been shown at the Lincoln Memorial since 1995 according to a civil service group.

Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) says that the directive came from National Parks Service Deputy Director Donald Murphy. Murphy is said to have been concerned about pictures in the video that showed same-sex couples kissing and holding hands after conservative groups complained.

The Millennium March held in 2000 to bring attention to LGBT civil rights issues drew tens of thousands of gays and their supporters to the mall for one of the biggest demonstrations since the civil rights and anti-war marches of the 1960s.

In their place, the Park Service is inserting scenes of the Christian group Promise Keepers and pro-Gulf War demonstrators though these events did not take place at the Memorial in what Murphy calls a “more balanced” version.

I happened to attend the GLBT Marches in Washington in 1987, 1993, and 2000. I’ll be looking into this issue some more.

UPDATE: According to this article, the footage of gay and lesbian gatherings will not be removed, but the historically inaccurate footage of anti-gay christian groups may still be added. Apparently the pressure to do this editing is coming from conservative Kansas Republican congressman Todd Tiahrt

In Defense of Global Capitalism

Post author:HFM
Post published:December 29, 2003
Post category:Art

Nevermind this, it’s just a link I’ll add to my library “to buy list” once I’m not busy at work.

Xmas Update

Post author:HFM
Post published:December 29, 2003
Post category:Journal Monkeys

My mother knitted me a cool winter hat, and also got me a Bundt pan to make Monkey Bread (because I dropped HUGE hints about wanting one!).
The Year of the Monkey is coming up (Jan 22nd), you know. I know because I was born in the Year of the Monkey. and Monkeys Are Cool ™.

Village Voice: Our 25 Favorite Books of 2003

Post author:HFM
Post published:December 28, 2003
Post category:Reading Lists

The Village Voice

Actress in the House

By Joseph McElroy

OVER

OK, 432 PP., $26.95

Buy this book

It begins with a stage-slap, witnessed by a man named Daley, then spirals into cul-de-sacs of memory, ruminations on love and aging, ever returning to the linear narrative–the coupling of the actress and the man–before setting out again. Imbued with the peripatetic rhythms of consciousness, Actress‘s dazzling syntax configures language as the tension between repression and discovery, coaxed forward by McElroy’s tantalizingly patient hand.

Newbery Medal Winners

Post author:HFM
Post published:December 28, 2003
Post category:Reading Lists

The Newbery Medal was named for eighteenth-century British bookseller John Newbery. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.

2005 — Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata

2004 — The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread by Kate DiCamillo, illustrated by Timothy Basil Ering.

2003 — Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi
Hardcover

2002 — A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
Hardcover |
Paperback |
Large Print |
Audio Cassette

2001 — A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
Hardcover |
Paperback |
Large Print |
Audio Cassette

2000 — Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
Hardcover |
Paperback |
Large Print |
Audio Cassette |
Microsoft e-book

1999 — Holes by Louis Sachar
Hardcover |
Paperback |
Large Print |
Audio Cassette |
Audio CD

1998 — Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
Hardcover |
Paperback |
Audio Cassette

1997 — The View from Saturday by E. L. Konigsburg
Hardcover |
Paperback |
Audio Cassette

1996 — The Midwife’s Apprentice by Karen Cushman
Hardcover |
Paperback |
Audio Cassette

1995 — Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
Hardcover |
Paperback |
Large Print |
Audio Cassette

1994 — The Giver by Lois Lowry
Hardcover |
Paperback |
Audio Cassette |
Audio CD

1993 — Missing May by Cynthia Rylant
Hardcover |
Paperback |
Audio Cassette

1992 — Shilohby Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Hardcover |
Paperback |
Large Print |
DVD |
VHS

1991 — Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
Hardcover |
Paperback |
Audio Cassette

1990 — Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Hardcover |
Paperback |
Large Print

1989 — Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman
Hardcover |
Paperback

1988 — Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman
Hardcover |
Paperback

1987 — The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman
Hardcover |
Paperback

1985 — The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley
Hardcover |
Paperback

1984 — Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary
Hardcover |
Paperback

1982 — A Visit to William Blake’s Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard
Hardcover |
Paperback

1981 — Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson
Hardcover |
Paperback |
Audio Cassette |
Lesson Plans on CD

1980 — A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl’s Journal, 1830-1832 by Joan W. Blos
Hardcover |
Paperback

1979 — The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
Hardcover |
Paperback

1978 — Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Hardcover |
Paperback |
Audio Cassette |
Lesson Plans on CD

1977 — Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
Hardcover |
Paperback |
Audio Cassette |
Lesson Plans on CD

1976 — The Grey King by Susan Cooper
Hardcover |
Paperback |
Audio Cassette |
Microsoft e-book |
Adobe e-book

1975 — M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton
Hardcover |
Paperback |
Microsoft e-book |
Adobe e-book

1974 — The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox
Hardcover |
Paperback |
Audio Cassette |
Lesson Plans on CD |
Study Guides

1973 — Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George

1972 — Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh by Robert C. O’Brien

1971 — Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars

1970 — Sounder by William H. Armstrong

1969 — The High King by Lloyd Alexander

1968 — From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg
Hardcover |
Paperback |
Audio Cassette

1967 — Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt
Out of Print

1966 — I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
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Paperback |
Audio Cassette

1965 — Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska
Hardcover |
Paperback |
Audio Cassette

1964 — It’s Like This, Cat by Emily Neville
Hardcover |
Paperback |
Audio Cassette

1963 — A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Hardcover |
Paperback

1962 — The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare
Hardcover |
Paperback |
Audio Cassette

1961 — Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell
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Paperback |
Audio Cassette

1960 — Onion John by Joseph Krumgold
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Audio Cassette

1959 — The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
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Audio Cassette

1958 — Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith
Hardcover |
Paperback

1957 — Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorenson
Hardcover |
Paperback |
Audio Cassette

1956 — Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham
Hardcover |
Paperback

1955 — The Wheel on The School by Meindert DeJong
Hardcover |
Paperback; illustrated by Maurice Sendak

1954 — And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold
Hardcover |
Paperback

1953 — Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark
Hardcover |
Paperback

1952 — Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes
Hardcover |
Paperback

1951 — Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates
Hardcover |
Paperback

1950 — The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli
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Paperback |
Audio Cassette

1949 — King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry
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Paperback |
Audio Cassette

1948 — The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois
Hardcover |
Paperback

1947 — Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
Hardcover |
Paperback

1946 — Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski
Hardcover |
Paperback

1945 — Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson
Hardcover |
Paperback

1944 — Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
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Paperback |
Audio Cassette |
Audio CD

1943 — Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray
Hardcover |
Paperback

1942 — The Matchlock Gun by Walter Edmonds
Hardcover |
Paperback

1941 — Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry
Hardcover |
Paperback |
Audio Cassette

1940 — Daniel Boone by James Daugherty
Out of Print

1939 — Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright
Hardcover |
Paperback |
Audio Cassette

1938 — The White Stag by Kate Seredy
Paperback

1937 — Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer
Hardcover |
Paperback

1936 — Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
Hardcover |
Paperback

1935 — Dobry by Monica Shannon
Out of Print

1934 — Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs
Hardcover |
Paperback

1933 — Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Lewis
Hardcover |
Paperback

1932 — Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer
Out of Print

1931 — The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth
Hardcover |
Paperback

1930 — Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field
Hardcover |
Paperback

1929 — The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly
Hardcover |
Paperback

1928 — Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji
Hardcover

1927 — Smoky, the Cowhorse by Will James
Hardcover |
Paperback

1926 — Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman
Hardcover

1925 — Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger
Out of Print

1924 — The Dark Frigate by Charles Hawes
Hardcover |
Paperback |
Audio Cassette

1922 — The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon
Hardcover |
Paperback

Howard Dean: ‘Let a Jury Pronounce bin Laden Guilty’

Post author:HFM
Post published:December 27, 2003
Post category:Politics

Matt Drudge spins the statement as “Dean not ready to pronounce Osama bin Laden guilty.” Read the actual article for yourself and decide whether Drudge’s strange smear interpretation is justified.