The trouble with some people is they work too hard.

...and sometimes it just isn't the right fight.

As I may have already mention, I work in a library. What you may not know is that libraries are very controversial, especially to those who need a cause in their lives.

The above quote is from the movie The Way We Were. In this movie, Katie, is never happy unless she is working for a cause. This ultimately ends her marriage, but I digress....

One of the county libraries here in KY is facing a difficult problem involving the difference between censorship and civic responsibility. Two of the library employees were dismissed for removing a graphic novel from the shelves without permission and refusing it to patrons. They violated several privacy laws in doing this (looking up patron name, age, etc...) all in the name of child protection.

Now, this particular county is all up in arms and the library is being scrutinized for it's acquisition policy and how it is a danger to the community and the lives of their children. They want several adult books removed from the library because children can see them and check them out. The library stands behind it's policy that it is the parents, not the library, that should monitor what their child reads...this particular group disagrees.

So here is my question, dear readers, where do we draw the line? When does it turn from civic responsibility into censorship? Or is it all the same thing? Whose is ultimately responsible for our children?

Discuss.....

You make your point as delicately as ever, Mr. Pelt.

Thank You Very Much

FREE THERAPY! FREE THERAPY! That's right, Kmama is offering up some free therapy in her Thank You Very Much Thursday post. Who couldn't use some free therapy? I know I could. If you could as well, type up your thank you's, post 'em out on your blog, come on over to The Daily Dribbles and link up!

Here goes....

To my regional consultants, who blame everything on Frankfort state office. I would like to thank you for your insightfully clever emails that make everyone feel so warm and fuzzy inside. I know that it sometimes seems that we here in our ivory towers enact policies just to make your life more difficult...... but I promise we don't. Thanks again......

To 'traveling evangelists', who don't have churches of your own because you are so busy sticking your nose spreading the gospel to the masses. You make board meetings so much more fun and you hurt your cause more often than you help it...so thanks.

Wow...that really is therapeutic....

Wordless Wednesday - What movie?

And now for something completely different

I'm going to institute a new thing here on confessions...every Friday I'm going to ask the Five Favorite Flicks question. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to see if you can narrow down you faves in said category. So here goes....

Since today is Friday the 13th I thought we should kick off our Friday Fest with Five Favorite Fright Flicks. These can be anything that startled, scared or just generally creeped you out. I'm a person who is easily scared so no laughing at my top five because the generally public will most likely find them lame...but they scared me.

Secret Window - I can't look at a black wide brim hat the same

Psycho- A boy's best friend shouldn't be his mother...

Halloween- Yuck, William Shatner never looked so bad...or maybe he did?

Skeleton Key- Love that voodoo that you do so well

The Shining- and I thought I liked the mountains of Colorado

Alright guys...I've showed you mine. Now you show me yours!

Sound off....

Wordless Wednesday

On Wednesdays, I'm going to be checking your movie knowledge...just to see how smart you are. I will paste a picture below, dear readers, and I want you to tell me your best guess on the movie it is from....

I'll give you an easy one to start

Let the games begin.....

I will love you my whole life...You and no other

This is my cell phone id for my house. Since no one but Nicky calls me from there, I thought it was sweet. Nick's cell id is the dialog between Leia and Han about being a scoundrel...but that is a whole another post....

I'm a sucker for GOOD love stories..(Braveheart, Shakespeare in Love, Becoming Jane...etc.) So it really shouldn't have been a surprise that I enjoyed The Time Traveler's Wife, but it kind of was! I have been disappointed of late with the lack of "believable" romance in movies. I know, I know...time travel is not really what most people would call believable, but somehow it worked.

I have a theory..even if the story is not credible, as long as you have characters/actors that make you can care about them it will almost always work. That is what this story has going for it. Henry (Eric Bana)and Claire (Rachel McAdams) DeTamble are very much in love and not by any choice of their own. Claire meets Henry when she is six and he is thirty-six. Henry is a research librarian (like him already, right???) who has a genetic anomaly that allows him to travel to certain important times in his life. It is kind of hard to explain, but suffice it to say, unlike Dr. Sam Beckett, he can never change anything. No matter what he does or who he talks to, he has no control over the future. So his death is inevitable and unchangeable, but he sees it happening. Sometimes he shows up older with a little gray and sometimes he shows up younger with a little longer hair. On his wedding day, young Henry "leaps" out and is replaced by older Henry with graying temples and the reaction of the wedding guests is kinda cute.

This story is hard to sum up or explain without giving the whole movie away, but you see the difficulty that they face and the love it takes to overcome it all. So..... if you are in a mood for a nice cryfest, this is your movie.

Little side note, Eric Bana looks really good at any age!!

l don't read books, because if they're any good they'll make 'em into a miniseries.

...even if they aren't any good, they still make them into a movie.

I told myself a few years ago that I would NOT, under any circumstances, watch another Nicholas Sparks movie. I failed miserably....

Sunday evening I watched Nights in Rodanthe. It was like an accident I couldn't walk away from...I just sat there utterly transfixed. I write this, dear readers, as a time saving measure for you.

Let me begin by giving you a little tip....if you see Nicholas Sparks connected with any book, movie or miniseries remember this and you will be saved 120 minutes of your life. THEY DIE IN THE END!!! It doesn't matter what it is about, someone will die in a very tragic way just as they come out of a very dark period into the light of love. There...now you know.

"Nights" is no exception. I knew someone was going to die once they spent the better part of an hour building up the relationship into a love you cannot live with out. This movie stars Richard Gere and Diane Lane as two people who are escaping the current tragedy in their life (death and/or divorce) by hiding out on a beach. They are thrown together during a hurricane and love blossoms...

Gere leaves on some mission of mercy to be a doctor in some poverty stricken country and Lane goes home to her suburban life and they write dirty letters back and forth to each other. Soon she gets a letter telling her he will be coming home on such and such a date and she spends the rest of the movie preparing for his return....but...guess what....you guessed it. He never makes it home. Instead, his son shows up with a box to let her know that this is all that is left of him.

Now you know how every Nicholas Sparks book/movie ends ....consider this my public service announcement for the month.....