Weird, I did not see the original news story yet ... When I was in grade 9, we were encouraged to go to see the stage play 'Equus' by Peter Shaeffer, and the theater presenting it offered significant discout for highschool students. There is nudity in that play ! And other potentially objectionable things like insanity , violence, singing of television commercial jingles, .. > -----Original Message----- > From: something-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:something-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of > Laurie J. Rich > Sent: 04 October 2007 16:04 > To: General Wunderland.Com Discussion List > Subject: [Something] A good reason and place to buy comics > this month... > > Heard via boingboing.net... > > "Dan from Silicon Valley's Hijinx Comics writes, > > I own and operate a comic book shop in San Jose, CA which was > recently voted best comic shop in Silicon Valley. I write free comic > retailing software and I also run an online graphic novel store called > ComicBookShelf.com . > > The recent teacher ousting over Eightball #22 was a real wakeup > call that there is a lot of work to do on making the public understand > what a vital and important artform comics can be. A world where an > educator loses their job for recommending Dan Clowes is a world I > don't want to live in! > > That's just one of the reasons I'm proud to announce that > ComicBookShelf.com will donate 5% of every online sale to the Comic > Book Legal Defense Fund which supports comics-related first amendment > cases. > > We're also donating an additional 5% to the Hero Initiative which > helps get financial help to golden age comic artists who never made > any royalties from their priceless creations. > > Furthermore, until the end of October 2007 we will double the > donation to both organizations, meaning 20% of every sale will go to > these worthy organizations. > > Shipping is always free anywhere in the US and we support Google > checkout for safe and secure payment processing. We carry a wide array > of books and our open source bookstore recommendation algorithms let > you rate books and get recommendations. Kind of like Netflix does, but > for graphic novels." > > Laurie > > -- > "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, > signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not > fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." > President Dwight D. Eisenhower > April 16, 1953 > _______________________________________________ > Something mailing list > Something@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.looneylabs.com/mailman/listinfo/something >