{"id":634,"date":"2007-09-21T23:21:20","date_gmt":"2007-09-21T23:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=634"},"modified":"2007-09-21T23:21:20","modified_gmt":"2007-09-21T23:21:20","slug":"friday-linky-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=634","title":{"rendered":"Friday Linky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before I run out of Friday, here is some quick linky.<br \/>\nA Connecticut high-school teacher resigns after parents of a 13-year-old girl complain that he gave her a pornographic comic.  &#8220;It\u2019s not even like a gray area,&#8221; <a href=http:\/\/www.nhregister.com\/site\/news.cfm?newsid=18835279&#038;BRD=1281&#038;PAG=461&#038;dept_id=590581&#038;rfi=6>the father said<\/a>. &#8220;It\u2019s clearly over the line&#8230; I personally don\u2019t ever want him teaching again.&#8221;  The comic in question? <a href=http:\/\/www.comicsreporter.com\/index.php\/comic_book_assignment_that_led_to_teacher_resigning_was_eightball\/>Eightball #22 by Dan Clowes<\/a>.  Say what?  <a href=http:\/\/www.icaruscomics.com\/wp_web\/?p=882>Simon Jones gets sarcastic<\/a>: &#8220;You know, for once I\u2019d like to see a supposed controversy over porno comics to actually involve porno comics.&#8221; Much more info at <a href=http:\/\/tcj.com\/journalista\/?p=443>Journalista<\/a> (where I saw the Simon Jones quote) and <a href=http:\/\/thismodernworld.com\/3974>This Modern World<\/a>.  (Eightball #22, later collected as &#8220;Ice Haven&#8221;, is fantastic by the way.)<br \/>\nRules to live by: James McM gives outlines his <a href=http:\/\/www.additiverich.com\/knife\/archives\/002146.htm>principles of Jamesism<\/a> (see the comments).<br \/>\nOn Wednesday in Wellington I ran into Anita who gave me a postcard to send calling for the removal of disgraced police commissioner Clint Rickards; today she has <a href=http:\/\/norightturn.blogspot.com\/2007\/09\/guest-column-firing-clint-rickards-is.html>guest-blogged in detail on the subject at No Right Turn<\/a>.<br \/>\nMaking Light&#8217;s sublime Jim MacDonald <a href=http:\/\/nielsenhayden.com\/makinglight\/archives\/009378.html>retraces the 1961 route of Betty and Barney Hill<\/a>, fisking the account as he goes. (This was the journey in which <a href=http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Betty_Hill>the Hills were supposedly abducted by aliens<\/a>, the first such claim ever recorded. The fictional events of Close Encounters of the Third Kind were directly influenced by the story of the Hills.)<br \/>\n<a href=http:\/\/andrewrilstone.blogspot.com\/2007\/09\/its-intenational-talk-like-pirate-day.html>Andrew Rilstone has the final word on Talk Like A Pirate Day<\/a>.<br \/>\nAnd last but not least, <a href=http:\/\/d3vo.blogspot.com\/2007\/09\/rumpus-photos.html>Rumpus photos<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before I run out of Friday, here is some quick linky. A Connecticut high-school teacher resigns after parents of a 13-year-old girl complain that he gave her a pornographic comic. &#8220;It\u2019s not even like a gray area,&#8221; the father said. &#8220;It\u2019s clearly over the line&#8230; I personally don\u2019t ever want him teaching again.&#8221; The comic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=634\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday Linky<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-ae","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}