But not Kansas City? Rats.

Having played MLWM, I can say it's a hell of a lot of fun. Every game of it I've played has been tragic and grotesque and comical and moving.

If only Mark had some noive!

Jeff, you seem to be misunderstanding how libraries select materials for collection, and you're making broad, mistaken assumptions based on your misunderstanding. Unless you're willing to stop that, I'm done responding to you, because it's not worth my time and effort. Just because someone's wrong on the internet, it doesn't mean I have to do something about it.

And don't hold your breath for the "all books on the web, libraries are obsolete" day, because if that day ever comes, it will long after you and I have passed on.

Some of us library folks are doing as much as we can to get DRM out of libraries and to keep it out.

And Jeff, libraries are all about collecting things, regardless of the "legitimacy" of the publisher. Being container-agnostic, it doesn't matter who the publisher is, just that it merits being in a library's collection.

Mark, I hope your kids never have to see you with the scribble-scrabble.

Mazel tov! What an outstanding name! (My wife looked at the picture and said, "Look! The baby has greater-than and less-than signs for eyes!" Which struck us both as very appropriate for a happy baby mutant.)

That absolutely made my day. Thanks for posting this!

Ian Holmes @12: It WAS Netherhall (good ol' Nevrall) where I went to school. I was an American in the lower Sixth Form, 1986-87.

I lived in Cambridge, England when I was 16/17 (in the late '80s). For my friend's birthday, some schoolmates hired a stripper to come into our school sixth form common room. She did a little stripper dance, stripping down to her bra and knickers. Nobody--students, teachers, administrators--seemed to have a problem with this. Maybe cream on the buttocks is where they draw the line in UK schools.