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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Conflict of Interest Required Reading?

Posted by Dan Savage on Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 9:30 AM

An uncharacteristically alert "Savage Love" reader sent along this picture of the bookshelf in his four-year-old daughter's daycare center. Um...

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So, you're saying most of us are not alert?

(and that must be a pretty advanced daycare centre if 4 year olds are reading chapter books...but cool that it's there)

Posted by Canuck on March 29, 2011 at 9:40 AM

That whole top shelf is intended for adults, Dan.... Don't worry too much. :-)

Posted by lblah on March 29, 2011 at 9:40 AM

What - no "Sex at Dawn"? What kind of bobo daycare do they think they are?

(Hola, Canuck...I think you're quite alert, in fact one of the best lerts I've read....)

Posted by gloomy gus on March 29, 2011 at 9:42 AM

Why, hola back at you, gus! (get it? holla back?? I crack myself up...) and thank you, dear...I do try to work on my lertness, whenever possible.

Posted by Canuck on March 29, 2011 at 9:58 AM

Seattle needs more 'lerts, not more 'loofs.

Posted by Cindy Lou Loof on March 29, 2011 at 11:02 AM

@1 I wasn't alert enough to catch that implication.

Posted by Ophian on March 29, 2011 at 11:04 AM

@5 Canada has lerts and loofahs...that's why we have such smooth skin...

@6 Yeah, I'm beginning to think he spends a lot of time laughing at us...

Posted by Canuck on March 29, 2011 at 11:14 AM

Canuck, as long as he spends less time laughing at us Sloggers than we spend laughing at each other, I'm fine with that.

Posted by gloomy gus on March 29, 2011 at 11:50 AM

True, gus...slog does give us a lovely platform on which to be comprehensively annoying, and you can't put a price on that!

(please tell me you're going to the IGB event tonight?? I know you like to be cryptic, so you could wear your Groucho eyeglasses+nose combo and lurk, and give us a full Michael K-worthy recap tomorrow...)

Posted by Canuck on March 29, 2011 at 12:07 PM

That looks like a brand new book compared to mine. A lot of those books look newerish so I wonder if the top shelf is off limits to kids?

Posted by despicable me on March 29, 2011 at 12:20 PM

Canuck, I am indeed, barring a friend I'm bringing home from surgery having complications... I did just check back at the site and there are actually tix still available! Maybe there'll be a rush of sales at the door...I do hope there's a cheering throng of us flying blind monkeys!

Posted by gloomy gus on March 29, 2011 at 12:39 PM

Woot! Team Blind Monkey RSVPs...full report in the a.m., please and gracias, darling...

Posted by Canuck on March 29, 2011 at 12:45 PM

Agreed that the top shelf looks like it's all adult books - perhaps for parents to borrow? Definitely "Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together In the Cafeteria?" isn't for four-year-olds, either, unless they're very precociously interested in race identity and our educational system.

Posted by 14thblackbird on March 29, 2011 at 1:16 PM