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Lately i have been spammed with emails and facebook group invitations with petitions for blink 182 to play some festival or another, and its really gotten annoying. ive heard a bunch of people talking about how Blink 182 is reuniting and how great it is, but i have to say im not very optimistic.  first of all when the band broke up, it was full of drama, and it ended with all of the members actually hating eachother. Aside from that after leave each member formed new bands that all went in totally different directions. 

and just for the record, i happen to like blink 182 a lot and have most of their old albums, it isnt like i am just sour about a band a never liked.

but everything aside, i feel even if they do tour no matter what there will be fans at tghe shows, but unless they are just going to be playing their old songs, i think critics might not be so friendly.

Banned Books

On Friday we discussed the book we were about to start reading, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The idea that the book was only to be taught in AS classes, and was banned from all other classes came up.  it got me thinking; i wondered why it had been banned, and what other books had been banned at New trier over the schools history, and i came across this article: Banned from the bookshelf it was written about the fact that not 1 book has been banned outright from the New Trier classroom. it further explained that one of the only 2 books that were, "seriously questioned" was in fact Huck Finn. i found that the reason for its questioning, is that there may be a problem where some students might feel uncomfortable because of the issues of race brought up during the story. the article explained a lot, but i just found it strange how the main point of evidence used in this article is that the parents in our community are supposedly more educated than that of other areas, and that because of it, there is no need to ban books. i understand what the writer is getting at, but even if a person is educated, he/she can still feel uncomfortable, or offended by what is being taught to their kids.