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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • It’s the same with those (Insert Theme Here): Pass it On billboards by the Foundation for a Better Life. They’re funded by Phil Anschutz, a billionaire who owns the AEG entertainment group and has funded groups like the Parents Television Council, the Federalist Society (which helped get all those GOP justices on the Supreme Court and federal courts), and other conservative groups. I gag having to pass those things on the freeway.











  • I doubt it. It’s not a blanket “buy everything” policy; we do have some standards we abide by like significance and value to the collection, the level of interest the community would have in something, how much it’s been covered beforehand by reviewers or the media in general, etc.

    Even if by some chance we actually did bring something like that into the collection, the policy allows for materials to be challenged by patrons. One probably wouldn’t be enough to get something removed, but I imagine something like that kind of manifesto wouldn’t stop at just one challenge.


  • When I was in middle school a kid who went to the same Buddhist temple as my family died in a plane crash on Guam. Pilot error, apparently.

    We weren’t BFFs but he was a nice kid and we had been on a few camping trips together just the year before. My younger sister was pretty close to him and got the news from his parents the day after the crash. He was popular so they ended up having something like a memorial for him at the Sunday school. People were pretty broken up about it. His parents ended up separating a few years afterward, though they stayed in touch with each other at least.

    It was the first time anyone other than a grandparent or older relative I knew had died, so it kind of messed with my head for a while. I know I definitely haven’t really enjoyed flying ever since, at least.