The Ninth Strange Day

Threats Force SC Library to Cancel Summer Program

A South Carolina library system has closed down its summer programs for young adults after receiving threats and allegations that it was trying to promote “witchcraft” and “drug use.”

The Pickens County Library System’s half-hour summer programs for middle and high school students were supposed to take a light-hearted look at the topics “Secrets and Spies: How to Keep a Secret by Writing in Code or Making Invisible Ink” and “What’s Your Sign?” Another program was to examine astrology, palmistry, and numerology; and others were to feature tarot cards, tie-dying t-shirts, how to make a Zen garden, and yoga.

Now the programs are cancelled in the wake of phone and e-mail threats from the community, believed to emanate from a single local Baptist church. The astrology program was labeled as “witchcraft” by callers, while the Zen garden and yoga programs were objected to as “promoting other religions.” The t-shirts workshop? “Promotes the hippie culture and drug use,” callers said.

Man. I really hate people.

Left work about 4:45.

Got home about 7:20.

Wish I could say traffic was bad.

Doctor Who toys. Some of them. No Ninth Doctor yet, but I has a Time Lord!

And a werewolf. And some others.

Today is International Panic Day.

Here. Have a song for the occasion.

If you have my email address, want my email address, or are just curious as to what my email address is, even though you have no intention of ever emailing me… listen up!

Please change your address books to:

My data @ dataangel . net address still works, but it is flaky. I also greatly dislike that it doesn’t let me see the email I’m replying to while I’m replying to it. I have a lousy memory and it’s just better if I have the whole thread somewhere I can find it.

If this is the email address you already had for me… you can go about your business. Move along. Move along.

I’ve been adding stuff to Flickr, but haven’t thought to mention that I’d done it.

There’s new photos.

There. Mentioned it.