Actual screen cap from an Amazon order I placed yesterday (click to embiggen):
Think I’ll have to pass on the $12 million in expedited shipping costs. I don’t need it that bad…
Gonna Pass on the Expedited Shipping, Thanks
January 16th, 2018Dolores O’Riordan, RIP
January 15th, 2018Just heard the news that Dolores O’Riordan, the lead singer for The Cranberries, has just died at the untimely age of 46.
There were most famous for “Zombie” and a few other hits, but my favorite song of theirs has always been the melancholy “Daffodil Lament.” Here’s a live version.
(Hat tip: Derek Johnson.)
Elvis vs. King Kong vs. Godzilla
January 10th, 2018Mark Finn reminded me that Elvis Presley’s birthday was this week, so to celebrate I thought I’d put up this very, very silly video…
Shoegazer Sunday: Deafcult’s “Rubix”
January 7th, 2018Australia’s Deafcult released their album Auras last year, and “Rubix” is off that.
Library Addition: Ray Bradbury’s The R.B., G.K.C., and G.B.S. Forever Orient Express
January 6th, 2018Here’s an odd little item I picked up off eBay:
Bradbury, Ray. The R.B., G.K.C., and G.B.S. Forever Orient Express. Joshua Odell Editions, 1994. First edition chapbook original, consisting of a long, skinny (17 1/2″ x 5 1/2″) outer cardstock binding with the four pages of the poem laid in (not stapled or otherwise attached), a Fine- copy with a pinhole through the top of the chapbook and one tiny white scratch to rear, otherwise mint. Reportedly done in an edition of 300 copies. Signed by Bradbury. Poem, longish by Bradbury standards, about Bradbury riding a train with G. K. Chesterton and George Bernard Shaw in the afterlife. The rear cover says that this is an excerpt from the forthcoming Journey to Far Metaphor: Further Essays on Creative Writing, Literature and the Arts, a book that Joshua Odell Editions evidently cancelled. This work would later show up in Bradbury’s collection The Cat’s Pajamas. Bought off eBay for $37.79.
Colin Furze Shoots 1000 Rockets Off A Bicycle
December 31st, 2017To celebrate New Year’s Eve, here’s everyone’s favorite mad inventor firing 1000 rockets off a bicycle. (For certain values of “bicycle.”)
Happy New Year!
Library Additions: Two Michael Swanwick Chapbooks
December 29th, 2017Put in my yearly order to Dragonstairs Press:
I’ll have copies of both of these available through the next Lame Excuse Books catalog.
Library Additions: Two Signed Harlan Ellison Firsts
December 28th, 2017Two more books bought relatively cheap off ebay:
Library Addition: Signed/Limited Edition of Jack Vance’s Ecce and Old Earth
December 27th, 2017I’d picked up the other two signed/limited Cadwell books cheap, but I needed this middle book to complete the trilogy.
Vance, Jack. Cadwell II: Ecce and Old Earth. Underwood/Miller, 1991. First edition hardback, #107 of 500 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket in a Fine- slipcase with one 1/8″ square spot of soiling to spine rear. Hewett, A84. Bought from a fellow Jack Vance collector who was downsizing for $75.
Things I’m Thankfull For: Jigsaw
December 26th, 2017Jigsaw the Golden Retriever, the oldest of my two dogs, just turned 14.
I asked my vet how he was doing for his age. She said “I don’t know. They don’t usually live this long.”
Jigsaw started out as an unrestrained riot of affection and turned into a dog that everyone loves.
Here are a few pictures of him over the years.
With an old dog, you know your days together are limited, and you just try to cherish the time you have left.