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We have always wondered who would win in the conflict between pirates and ninjas. Here is some of the much sought after evidence that shows pirates are truly better than ninjas.

1. Water And The Earth

Pirates have a natural tendency for doing battle on water where waves keep the battle field in constant motion. This may make many pirates unsteady on stable land; however, it areas with varying elevation the pirates advantage may increase from the standard 75% of the Earth that is made up of water.

2. Pirates and Puzzles

Pirates have a very keen sense of puzzling abilities. Their incredible puzzling skills are so potent that they even created a MMORPG to recruit and train more pirates. So since many people like puzzles and pirates are good at puzzles; pirates have more appeal to everyone.

3. The Triond Test: Pirates / Ninjas

At the time this article was published Triond had over 100 pages of pirate related articles and poems. There were less than 50 pages containing poems and articles about ninjas. Some may claim that ninjas are more stealthy, of course everyone can see a wet ninja that’s in the ocean.

4. Pirates And Ninjas In Art

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Even in art we can see that the ninjas are no match for the pirates. Ever since the ninjas were driven into hiding, pirates have been tackle more noble projects such as eliminating Digital Rights Management. They have also supported Anonymous in the war against Scientology through the protests called “Sea Arrgh I and II”.

5. Pirate Talk

Pirates regularly share their linguistic ability with all in the world. Ninjas hide in fear for their language is no match for the complexity of all that is pirate speak.

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NOTE TO SELF: WONDER HOW THIS WILL AFFECT CELEBRITY BELIEVERS?



Germany's top security officials said Friday they consider the goals of the Church of Scientology to be in conflict with the principles of the nation's constitution and will seek to ban the organization.

The German government considers Scientology a commercial enterprise.

The interior ministers of the nation's 16 states plan to give the nation's domestic intelligence agency the task of preparing the necessary information to ban the organization, which has been under observation for a decade on allegations that it "threatens the peaceful democratic order" of the country.

The Church of Scientology, in a response sent to CNN, denounced the German proposal, calling it out of step with various international court rulings. Read the Church of Scientology response

The ministers, as well as federal Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, "consider Scientology to be an organization that is not compatible with the constitution," said Berlin Interior Minister Ehrhart Koerting, who presided over the officials' two-day conference.

READ THE REST OF THE STORY HERE:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/12/07/germany.scientology.ap/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

Church of Scientology's Response:

While failing to pursue the Hamburg Minister of Interior's motion, the Minister of Interior Conference has demonstrated that they are completely out of step with the rest of the world. Their statement and recommendation are a blatant attempt at justifying the ongoing and never-ending discrimination against the Church of Scientology and its members in Germany.

Ten years of OPC surveillance has uncovered absolutely no wrongdoing which could justify a ban, as conceded by Federal Minister of Interior Wolfgang Schauble in his interview with German Radio. There is no evidence of wrongdoing to uncover.

The suggestion that the OPC not only continue but expand its intrusive and illegal investigation represents a desperate attempt to concoct a justification for a never-ending investigation that wastes millions of taxpayer euros.

FULL RESPONSE:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/12/07/scientology.response/index.html

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They have merged as one. You have been warned.

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I am not referring to the red dress. I am referring to these pajamas:
Aw man. PJs with excuses for not going to bed written all over them? A free board book? Hot dogs? The words "Vroom! Vroomy - Vroom - Vroom!" written all over your legs?

And what do the adults get? This. Ugh.

Not like I care or anything.

*sniffle*

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This is what happens when author/illustrators get their own friggin' blogs. Oh sure, they're all cute and cuddly at first. Then they start to grow up and post information that, quite frankly, YOU should have thought of in the first place. Take as your example Mr. Mo Willems' posting, I'm Off. Don't let its title mislead you. He isn't off in the least. In fact, he's touting about information regarding the Ezra Jack Keats Contest here in NYC. Basically, kids create their own picture books and the winners get people like Mo Willems to present to them their awards.

At this moment the Donnell Central Children's Room has all the books, winners and otherwise, up for viewing until April 30th.

Why check it out? Partly because some of the books are scary-good. And partly because these are some of the titles of the others:

• World Famous Hector - Could have gone with any name. Went with "Hector".
  
• When Snowflakes Stop! - We would have also accepted "When Snowflakes Go Bad".
  
• This Boy is Not Too Bad - I'm loving the correct usage of the word "too".
  
• Steak Tree - Mmmm. Steak tree.
  
• Never Apologize for Your Art - Which bears a Jackson Pollock lookalike on the cover. And my personal favorite . . .
  
• Poor Ugly Devil - Exactly what it sounds like.
  

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Fab.
Duh.

What? You want more? You're insatiable. I love that about you.

All right, so last night was the night El Hombre Pichon, Mo Willems, came in to the Donnell Library to speak to the masses on everything from new and upcoming books to how to draw everyone's favorite boid. As you may recall I had a teensy tiny fear that no one would show up. Then we'd have Mo Willems, a room of three people, and in my dark despair I'd somehow end up downing the entire bottle of Yellowtail we had on the refreshment table.

Anywho, the room filled up perfectly. Everyone had a seat, everyone was able to see Mo do his Mo-thing, and the temperature hovered around 97 degrees. So we were not too packed, nor were we bereft of patrons. It was fabulous. Next week's presenter Meghan McCarthy was on hand to view the festivities too. Y'all need to come see her as well. She has not yet reached Mo-heights, so we need to show her that she is loved. Chris Barton already said that he might come and he lives in friggin' Austin, Texas. THAT is the kind of dedication I'm talking about, people!

Cool Things Gleaned:

• There is another pigeon book in the works. Mo would not tell us the plot or any real details except to hand us the first four words. Here they are: The Pigeon Wants a. Finish the line correctly, win a sweet. As we have already covered hot dogs and buses and as the Pigeon website is not proffering any clues, I'm going to guess that it's The Pigeon Wants a Girlfriend. Admit it. You would kill to see that book. Especially if the beloved was not a pigeon at all but something more eclectic like... a horse.
• Performing the book Today I Will Fly as Reader's Theater works magnificently. Particularly when you've an adorable four-year-old read off the, "Woof Woof Woof," lines.
  
• I got to see a galley of Knuffle Bunny Too (which contains information within on how to pronounce it). The new book has magnificent views of the Arch in Grand Army Plaza (Brooklyn) taken at 3 a.m. on the top of the main branch of the Brooklyn Public Library. The story itself repeats tropes from the previous book smartly and then the whole affair becomes rather Noir. In a good way, mind you. The Pigeon also suffers an untold indignity in this title that I will not divulge except to say that it involves curly blond hair.
• This was a fun little detail from Mo's blog that I had seen briefly on his site but was explained better by him in person. If you read the man's regular postings then you know that he posts the art that kids send him, especially when it's particularly good. So this kid sends in the "DVD" of the upcoming film Super Mo Willems as shown here:
  
  But the thing is that the date on this has been erased and moved up in time. Apparently it used to say 2007. Now it's 9/12/08. As Mo mentioned on his blog, "Must have had some production problems, or perhaps the star wouldn't stop frowning or something."
  

I met his agent too. This was the woman who shopped Pigeon around for 2 years before anyone took a chance on buying it. Makes you wonder about the people who turned it down, no? HAHAHAHA!

I should mention that due to the rarity of the ARC, I did not get my own copy of Knuffle Bunny Too. Sad me. But you know what Meghan McCarthy did? She brought me a freak-ass awesome bright n' almost shiny copy of her newest title Strong Man. Shown here:



A magnificent evening all around. I'm now going to attempt to convince my boss that the Donnell Central Children's Room should serve as the repository of the Papers of Mo Willems. I mean, the poor guy lives in Brooklyn and keeps a whole heckuva lot of his stuff. Surely we could serve as his beneficiaries, yes? Yes?

I'll work on it.
Thanks again to Mo Willems for doing this for NYPL.

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Oh sure. He seems like a nice man. He loves his wife and daughter. He worked for Sesame Street. He does low-paying lectures to the public for free at the library (more on THAT later). But what do we really know about Mo Willems? What if he had some deep dark secret in his past. What if.... WHAT IF ....

He made graphic novels!!!



Okay. So posting this information on your blog kind of negates the whole "deep dark secret" thing. Granted. What I love about the panels I've seen is that if you're familiar with Mo's books, you can sort of piece together whether or not they look like his style. They do. It was called The 7th Helper and it was supposed to take place outside of the DC Universe. So where's the GN today? Says Mr. W, "DC said they’d release it as a B&W manga, which I don’t believe, but still hope for." It seems to me that with the rise in Mo's popularity, his audience is growing up and getting into graphic novels. And what with graphic novels being bigger than ever (i.e. bought by libraries) the time couldn't be better to release a Mo Willems bit of graphic paraphernalia. Heck, if Tek Jansen can do it, so can Mr. Mo.

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