Editor & Publisher: “At least 25 of the 200 or so “Opus” client newspapers might not run the Sunday-only comic’s next two episodes, which feature Islamic references and a sex joke.”
One of the very funny strips in question can be found here.
Year / 2007
Genovese Revisited
Forbes: “A security video from an apartment hallway shows at least 10 witnesses ignored a woman’s cries for help for more than an hour as a man beat and sexually assaulted her, prosecutors said Thursday.”
New Review
My review of Rupert Thomson’s Death of a Murderer appears in this Sunday’s Los Angeles Times.
Lost Email
Freedom Babies
If, like me, you’re one of those people who ponder too much over why things are the way they are, considering why specific colors and symbols are chosen to reflect concepts and the like, Lynn Peril has revealed a partial answer to why boys are associated with blue and girls are associated with pink. It turns out that these hues weren’t always assigned this way. According to Lynn:
Prior to the mid-19th century, babies usually wore white. Then a trendsetter in France got the bright idea to identify girls with pink and boys with blue. In Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women (1868), artistic Amy March puts blue and pink ribbons on her sister’s newborn twin boy and girl “French fashion, so you can always tell” them apart.
So we can blame the French for all this claptrap. I intend to track down this mysterious trendsetter and determine what other contributions he made to society at large.