Kiwa Media, a New Zealand company, was showing QBook, an iPad application that converts children's print books into multilingual, interactive digital versions.
It was both funny and wrenching, something out of Wallace & Gromit that might convert children viewing it to a lifetime of vegetarianism.
Vampires were considered "edgy" by the mainstream, two-pairs-of-jeans, never left their hometown crowd, when just a generation ago, it would have been considered a conspiracy to convert children into satanic worship, like D&D was in its time.
To my mind, nothing better in converting children's books to film has topped these.
As she said, "My critics are at liberty to claim that I'm trying to convert children to Satanism.
Watch out, parents: this bedtime tale may even convert children who are afraid of the dark into adventuresome night owls.
In particular, she said, she is concerned that local antigay propaganda harps on claims that gay men and lesbians are out to convert children and spread homosexuality.
She scoffed at Mr. Oestreicher's claim that teaching good eating habits would convert children into vegetable zealots or stop the widespread habit of hurling picked-at school lunches into the nearest trash can.
There are the films which are really all a dream (Minority Report, Total Recall, Taxi Driver), the films which convert children to an extreme ideology (beware Communist propaganda The Muppets and environmentalist manifesto The Lorax) and then there are the films that are in fact live action sequels of cult comic strip Calvin & Hobbes (okay, that's just Fight Club).
People on TV were rioting, burning everything from draft cards to bras, and homosexuals were "converting children".
