RIP Literature
As some of you may, or may not know, there are only 5 episodes left of Reading Rainbow, the best kids show ever. Reading is a dying art, and Reading Rainbow has become one of its first casualties.
Thats not its only casualty though. If you read the St Pete Times on Monday you might have seen that Salinas, California is closing all of its public libraries. The same libraries that John Steinbeck himself may have been a patron. One of the libraries is actually named after him. After the citizens of Salinas voted against a minuscule hike in sales tax the city no longer has the budget to fund its public libraries. I wonder how Steinbeck would feel about his beloved Salinas becoming the largest city in the United States without a public library. What will they do with the land? I dont know, maybe they'll build some rabbit farms for "guys like us".
Books are just taking a beating. Looks like video games won. Google is trying to put entire libraries online, and I think that's a great idea, but reading something online isn't the same as cracking open a book.
Maybe the cancelling of RR is easier to take since they changed the theme song. Damn that old one kicked ass.
"The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
--Mark Twain
Thats not its only casualty though. If you read the St Pete Times on Monday you might have seen that Salinas, California is closing all of its public libraries. The same libraries that John Steinbeck himself may have been a patron. One of the libraries is actually named after him. After the citizens of Salinas voted against a minuscule hike in sales tax the city no longer has the budget to fund its public libraries. I wonder how Steinbeck would feel about his beloved Salinas becoming the largest city in the United States without a public library. What will they do with the land? I dont know, maybe they'll build some rabbit farms for "guys like us".
Books are just taking a beating. Looks like video games won. Google is trying to put entire libraries online, and I think that's a great idea, but reading something online isn't the same as cracking open a book.
Maybe the cancelling of RR is easier to take since they changed the theme song. Damn that old one kicked ass.
"The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
--Mark Twain