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Children’s books caught up in lead ban

When thousands of children’s products, largely from China, were removed from shelves because of lead content, Congress decided it had to take action. That action, however, may lead to children’s books printed before 1985 being removed from the shelves of used bookstores and libraries.

The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA), signed into law last […]

Tim February 11th, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: A Reading Life, Law | Comments are closed | |

Weekend Edition: 2-7

Random Observations

I did it again. Even though I watched the halftime performance Sunday night, I forgot Springsteen tickets went on sale Monday morning. Making it worse, it didn’t sink in until the middle of the night Monday. Of course, perhaps that should be expected from someone who turned the Super Bowl off at the […]

Tim February 7th, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: Weekend Edition | Comments are closed | |

So I’m not bad if I’m not reading the literary “canons”

I’ve often posted about what I call my illiterati status. In other words, despite all the books I’ve read there’s a lot of canonical authors I haven’t read. Well, I’m pleased to announce that at least one British author, James Delingpole, has given us all permission not to worry about the so-called canon.

Writing in […]

Tim February 5th, 2009 | Tags: | Category: A Reading Life | Comments are closed | |

Midweek Music Moment: The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys, Traffic

To a certain extent, Traffic reflected the the interband traffic that went on in British rock music in the late ’60s and early ’70s. Formed in 1967 by guitarist Dave Mason, drummer Jim Capaldi, woodwind player Chris Wood and you-name-it-he-can-play-it Steve Winwood, the band would see Mason come and go over the next few years […]

Tim February 4th, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: Music | Comments are closed | |

Whither arts funding in bad economic times?

It didn’t take long. Within hours of Gov. Mike Rounds announcing he was proposing cutting all funding for the South Dakota Arts Council, the e-mails started flying. One I received even contained a sample letter to cut and paste and send your legislator (or the entire Legislature) urging reinstatement of that funding. And arts organizations […]

Tim February 2nd, 2009 | Tags: | Category: State and local matters | Comments are closed | |
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