You know, I have 2 copies of The Giving Tree. One that my mom gave me, probably 25 or so years ago...maybe a little longer, and one that a friend gave to me for Christmas last year...

In between receiving the two, I've most definitely had my objectivist phases..

Posted by: Brink at June 24, 2007 5:07 PM

I had a totally forehead slapping moment after I posted this. You know that Mortgage Company you see online everywhere, Lending Tree? I never made the connection until now.

Posted by: steven at June 24, 2007 7:23 PM

You know, my best friend maintains that Shel Silverstein made gross advances at her when she was significantly underage. Those were the houseboats in the seventies, my friends. Even the children's book writers were mad louche and full of weed. It was a dirtier time, with more freedom and a lot more rattan furniture.

Posted by: Cintra "Where the Sidewalk Ends Up With Somebody Getting Their Eye Out" Wilson at June 26, 2007 12:58 PM

Cintra, If she says so, I can't doubt it. That whole area was seething with pedos and worse. And really, the whole county had pretty much given up it's moral authority regarding the relationship of adults and kids. We are both aware of a certain teacher that conducted affairs with students and the same teacher once told me in all seriousness that they "probably should stop doing coke (with me) at school."

It's not like parents didn't know what was going on back then, they just chose to ignore it. I can't tell you how many parents I did drugs with simply because I did so much with them that the memories are hazy.

Good times.

Posted by: steven at June 26, 2007 1:55 PM

The dude who lives above me. HIs name is SHEL. And he's a total fucking douche.

He wears the same hawaiian shirt every day. He has two beater cars that he never uses and they hog up all the parking and he knocks on my door and tells me my music bothers him because the ceilings/floors have poor insulation.

Prick...

Posted by: Brink at June 27, 2007 3:12 AM

"preventive" please.

One of my mother-in-laws friends gave our daughter a children's book on manners "edited" by Karen Santorum that was pretty heavy on the Shel Silverstein, which I thought was nice because Silverstein also wrote some impossibly bawdy stuff and showed up at least a few times in Playboy.

And the book is being ... recycled.

Posted by: philip at June 28, 2007 3:16 PM

Malheureusement, all blogspot linkages (especially blatant ones) such as objectivist tree are sehr verboten, outa bounds, Classified Information Actually (CIA) from here within the Middle Country (zhong guo中国).

Maybe they are outa-(web)sights, or &ndash shall we say? – outasites!

Some people did a good number, right?

Maybe it is the cow who laughs!

Posted by: chairman dao at June 29, 2007 8:20 PM

preventative is just fine too, philip.

and what's wrong with children's book authors writing outside of that genre? as long as the bookstore isn't idiotic i see no issue there..

Posted by: cmj at July 4, 2007 4:42 AM