Playboy..... In braille!?!?!?
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Anybody see the movie Sneakers? Had Robert Redford, Dan Akroyd, and Sydney Poitier?
Had a guy in there played by David Strathairn who was a blind soundman and he was reading a copy of playboy in braile that looked exactly like this one.
Had a guy in there played by David Strathairn who was a blind soundman and he was reading a copy of playboy in braile that looked exactly like this one.
PLAYBOY ON THE METRO?
(From "Bob Levey's Washington," "The Washington Post," March 23, 2000.)
John O'Master, of Beltsville, Md., is one of my most observant readers. But even he couldn't believe his eyes.
John was riding the Metro into town to have lunch with his daughter. At one stop, a man got on "with a beautiful, big, Lab guide dog." The dog guided the man to a vacant seat facing John.
Obviously, the man was blind. But that didn't prevent him from removing a magazine from his backpack. John was startled to see that it bore a "familiar bunny logo."
Yes, sports fans, the man proceeded to read the current issue of "Playboy" in braille.
A proper sort, John was a bit worried that the blind man might try to "read" "Playboy's" always-revealing pictures in public. The man "ran his fingers across the bumps on the totally blank pages," John reports. Whether he was reading an article or ogling a curvaceous cutie, John couldn't tell.
A little research reveals that the braille "Playboy" does not offer breasts or buttocks. It restricts itself to words.
The braille version of Hugh Hefner's signature mag is not published by Playboy Enterprises. It's published by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, a division of the Library of Congress.
NLS has published a braille "Playboy" since 1970. Frank Cylke, the director, said the publication has 500 regular readers.
NLS publishes 40 other magazines in braille, including "National Geographic," "Boys' Life," "Atlantic Monthly," "Ladies' Home Journal," "Ebony," "Consumer Reports," "U.S. News and World Report" and "Rolling Stone," Frank said. The agency distributed 24 million books and magazines last year, making it the largest such service for the blind in the world, Frank said.
Spending public money for saucy reading has long irritated conservative politicians. In 1985, funding for the braille "Playboy" was cut off by Rep. Chalmers Wylie (R-Ohio). He argued that spending $103,000 in taxpayers' money for a magazine that was "seen" by fewer than 1,000 people was irresponsible.
The decision was appealed to U.S. District Court here in Washington. Judge Thomas Hogan overruled the decision of Congress on First Amendment grounds. Funding for the braille "Playboy" has not been disturbed since.
By the way, John and readers, NLS also provides "talking book" editions of "Playboy." I've read a few pieces in "Playboy" over the years. I guarantee you that hearing them read aloud would spice up any Metro trip, any day.
(From "Bob Levey's Washington," "The Washington Post," March 23, 2000.)
John O'Master, of Beltsville, Md., is one of my most observant readers. But even he couldn't believe his eyes.
John was riding the Metro into town to have lunch with his daughter. At one stop, a man got on "with a beautiful, big, Lab guide dog." The dog guided the man to a vacant seat facing John.
Obviously, the man was blind. But that didn't prevent him from removing a magazine from his backpack. John was startled to see that it bore a "familiar bunny logo."
Yes, sports fans, the man proceeded to read the current issue of "Playboy" in braille.
A proper sort, John was a bit worried that the blind man might try to "read" "Playboy's" always-revealing pictures in public. The man "ran his fingers across the bumps on the totally blank pages," John reports. Whether he was reading an article or ogling a curvaceous cutie, John couldn't tell.
A little research reveals that the braille "Playboy" does not offer breasts or buttocks. It restricts itself to words.
The braille version of Hugh Hefner's signature mag is not published by Playboy Enterprises. It's published by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, a division of the Library of Congress.
NLS has published a braille "Playboy" since 1970. Frank Cylke, the director, said the publication has 500 regular readers.
NLS publishes 40 other magazines in braille, including "National Geographic," "Boys' Life," "Atlantic Monthly," "Ladies' Home Journal," "Ebony," "Consumer Reports," "U.S. News and World Report" and "Rolling Stone," Frank said. The agency distributed 24 million books and magazines last year, making it the largest such service for the blind in the world, Frank said.
Spending public money for saucy reading has long irritated conservative politicians. In 1985, funding for the braille "Playboy" was cut off by Rep. Chalmers Wylie (R-Ohio). He argued that spending $103,000 in taxpayers' money for a magazine that was "seen" by fewer than 1,000 people was irresponsible.
The decision was appealed to U.S. District Court here in Washington. Judge Thomas Hogan overruled the decision of Congress on First Amendment grounds. Funding for the braille "Playboy" has not been disturbed since.
By the way, John and readers, NLS also provides "talking book" editions of "Playboy." I've read a few pieces in "Playboy" over the years. I guarantee you that hearing them read aloud would spice up any Metro trip, any day.
