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The Censor Keeps a Copy
Twenty years ago, give or take, a friend told me a story he expected me to admire. He was a Latter-day Saint who worked in technology, and he was, as I understood it then, the bishop of his ward, an unpaid office the church gives to laymen who keep their day jobs, so he kept a company's hours all week and presided over a congregation on Sundays. There was a Mormon bookstore he went into often, and one day he walked in and found a new display for Goosebumps, the paperbacks with the dripping green logo about haunted masks, a ventriloquist's dummy with a mind of its own, and a werewolf in a Florida swamp. He spoke to the owner. The owner told him the books were selling well and that those sales were keeping the store alive. My friend pressed him on content, judged the whole series blasphemous, an invitation to the occult at a child's price, and let it be understood that if the titles stayed on the shelf a report would go to the stake president. A week later he came back. The books were gone, the owner was distant and cold, and my friend bought a couple of books, in his own phrase, to make up the difference. He told me this the way another man might tell you he had coached his kid's team to a championship. He was proud. The word I have settled on, twenty years later, is forensic: he had investigated, prosecuted, and won, and he walked out of that store on the high of it. […] -
The Censor Keeps a Copy
Twenty years ago, give or take, a friend told me a story he expected me to admire. He was a Latter-day Saint who worked in technology, and he was, as I understood it then, the bishop of his ward, an unpaid office the church gives to laymen who keep their day jobs, so he kept a company's hours all week and presided over a congregation on Sundays. There was a Mormon bookstore he went into often, and one day he walked in and found a new display for Goosebumps, the paperbacks with the dripping green logo about haunted masks, a ventriloquist's dummy with a mind of its own, and a werewolf in a Florida swamp. He spoke to the owner. The owner told him the books were selling well and that those sales were keeping the store alive. My friend pressed him on content, judged the whole series blasphemous, an invitation to the occult at a child's price, and let it be understood that if the titles stayed on the shelf a report would go to the stake president. A week later he came back. The books were gone, the owner was distant and cold, and my friend bought a couple of books, in his own phrase, to make up the difference. He told me this the way another man might tell you he had coached his kid's team to a championship. He was proud. The word I have settled on, twenty years later, is forensic: he had investigated, prosecuted, and won, and he walked out of that store on the high of it. […] -
The Censor Keeps a Copy
Twenty years ago, give or take, a friend told me a story he expected me to admire. He was a Latter-day Saint who worked in technology, and he was, as I understood it then, the bishop of his ward, an unpaid office the church gives to laymen who keep their day jobs, so he kept a company's hours all week and presided over a congregation on Sundays. There was a Mormon bookstore he went into often, and one day he walked in and found a new display for Goosebumps, the paperbacks with the dripping green logo about haunted masks, a ventriloquist's dummy with a mind of its own, and a werewolf in a Florida swamp. He spoke to the owner. The owner told him the books were selling well and that those sales were keeping the store alive. My friend pressed him on content, judged the whole series blasphemous, an invitation to the occult at a child's price, and let it be understood that if the titles stayed on the shelf a report would go to the stake president. A week later he came back. The books were gone, the owner was distant and cold, and my friend bought a couple of books, in his own phrase, to make up the difference. He told me this the way another man might tell you he had coached his kid's team to a championship. He was proud. The word I have settled on, twenty years later, is forensic: he had investigated, prosecuted, and won, and he walked out of that store on the high of it. […] -
The Censor Keeps a Copy
Twenty years ago, give or take, a friend told me a story he expected me to admire. He was a Latter-day Saint who worked in technology, and he was, as I understood it then, the bishop of his ward, an unpaid office the church gives to laymen who keep their day jobs, so he kept a company's hours all week and presided over a congregation on Sundays. There was a Mormon bookstore he went into often, and one day he walked in and found a new display for Goosebumps, the paperbacks with the dripping green logo about haunted masks, a ventriloquist's dummy with a mind of its own, and a werewolf in a Florida swamp. He spoke to the owner. The owner told him the books were selling well and that those sales were keeping the store alive. My friend pressed him on content, judged the whole series blasphemous, an invitation to the occult at a child's price, and let it be understood that if the titles stayed on the shelf a report would go to the stake president. A week later he came back. The books were gone, the owner was distant and cold, and my friend bought a couple of books, in his own phrase, to make up the difference. He told me this the way another man might tell you he had coached his kid's team to a championship. He was proud. The word I have settled on, twenty years later, is forensic: he had investigated, prosecuted, and won, and he walked out of that store on the high of it. […] -
The Censor Keeps a Copy
Twenty years ago, give or take, a friend told me a story he expected me to admire. He was a Latter-day Saint who worked in technology, and he was, as I understood it then, the bishop of his ward, an unpaid office the church gives to laymen who keep their day jobs, so he kept a company's hours all week and presided over a congregation on Sundays. There was a Mormon bookstore he went into often, and one day he walked in and found a new display for Goosebumps, the paperbacks with the dripping green logo about haunted masks, a ventriloquist's dummy with a mind of its own, and a werewolf in a Florida swamp. He spoke to the owner. The owner told him the books were selling well and that those sales were keeping the store alive. My friend pressed him on content, judged the whole series blasphemous, an invitation to the occult at a child's price, and let it be understood that if the titles stayed on the shelf a report would go to the stake president. A week later he came back. The books were gone, the owner was distant and cold, and my friend bought a couple of books, in his own phrase, to make up the difference. He told me this the way another man might tell you he had coached his kid's team to a championship. He was proud. The word I have settled on, twenty years later, is forensic: he had investigated, prosecuted, and won, and he walked out of that store on the high of it. […] -
Movies of the day (4/8)
🎬 District 9(2009)
🎬 Freaky Friday(2003)
🎬 The Little Rascals(1994)
🎬 Goosebumps(2015)
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#District9 #FreakyFriday #TheLittleRascals #Goosebumps #Adventure #Comedy #Family #Fantasy #Horror #Romance #ScienceFiction #Movie #MovieOfTheDay #OnThisDay #TMDB -
Geekly Weekly Sunday Digest #287
December 29th - January 4thA weekly Pop Culture Ranking
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#StarWars #SkeletonCrew
#Bookie
#TheAgency
#Wicked
#CreatureCommandos
#DexterOriginalSin
Repost if you agree, comment if you don’t!NEXT WEEK TOP TEN
#Flow
#Goosebumps
#AmericanPrimeval
#ThePitt
#MayfairWitches
#YsMemoire
#FreedomWars
#Disfluency
#ChicagoFire
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Geekly Weekly Sunday Digest #287
December 29th - January 4thA weekly Pop Culture Ranking
Full lists at 99geek.ca
Subscribe for free to get it in your email!New Releases Personal Ranking
#StarWars #SkeletonCrew
#Bookie
#TheAgency
#Wicked
#CreatureCommandos
#DexterOriginalSin
Repost if you agree, comment if you don’t!NEXT WEEK TOP TEN
#Flow
#Goosebumps
#AmericanPrimeval
#ThePitt
#MayfairWitches
#YsMemoire
#FreedomWars
#Disfluency
#ChicagoFire
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R.L. Stine Says Three New ‘Fear Street’ Films Are in the Works, Reacts to How ‘Goosebumps: The Vanishing’ Elevates the Horror
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@mdmrn @Kitty @HailsandAles yeah, really digging this one 🙂
Jesus Christ Superstar somehow creeps into our jams frequently.. we're especially fan of the songs by Judas. "Damned For All Time / Blood Money" a big favorite.This version is pretty good, but I'm to used to the movie record i guess.
Jesus is good for some #goosebumps in #Gethsemane
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Calling it here, I don't think I'll get any more votes.
Between here and Tumblr, 39 people voted for my first #rideopreads book! And the winner is
Kingdom Keepers: Disney After Dark with 21 total votes.
But don't worry, I'll be reading Goosebumps next. After that, books will be chosen randomly from the list I'm compiling.
#reading #read #book #books #bookstodon #themepark #themeparks #disney #kingdomkeepers #disneyafterdark #goosebumps #horrorland
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I'm just curious if I'll get a bigger response here vs Tumblr...
I'm a former rider operator with several years of experience working in theme parks and a lifetime hyperfixating on theme parks.
So I'm going to read fiction set in theme parks and nitpick how wrong they are.
What book should I start with?
#books #book #bookstodon #goosebumps #onedayathorrorland #rlstine #kingdomkeepers #disneyafterdark #disney #themeparks #rideopreads #reading