I’ve been meaning to note this stuff for a while, just because. I get the impression that Google’s cache could expire at any moment, so I saved a local copy of this article about the man who was banned from the Ann Arbor District Library for cussing loudly.
Usually people like this man have interesting websites. Not this guy — he is busy with his second book, an unauthorized bio of ol’ black-turtleneck-guy from Apple. About all I could find that weren’t directly related to his first no-seller were a couple of articles here and there about his “library activism:”
- A librarians’ zine — I guess they didn’t know him like we did.
- His Congressional testimony imploring them to keep the L.O.C. open later at night.
- Among several articles about him in his old haunt, Seattle, was this piece where he asks the Microsoft exec — the subject of his first bio — for his government record, which he believes MS has.
- Oh, and this doozy of an op-ed he sent the AA News about how Ann Arbor was supposed to welcome his abuse. Lord knows I can get trite here, but I’m not foisting my invective on a real newspaper.
As is apparent to the reader by now, but I remember this guy from my brief time at the library. I could talk for hours, but I’d like to sum it up by simply saying that he spent hours at a time in the lab, the incident in question wasn’t the first time he cussed out a library staffer, and, by and large, he had it coming. I only wish I could’ve been there to wave at him on his way out. You know he’s going to parade back in there at 9am on December 30, and smugly continue upon his path of devastation. Or he could also go pretty much anywhere else in the world except within 20 miles of the bpdw.commentary mansion, which, frankly, would be ideal.
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