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I'm a fan of the person just stone-cold getting a glass of blood from the tap
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Captain Quack posted:What is this? Piano pants??? Yes. Yes they are. Slutty pianos make baby Jesus cry. Antivehicular posted:I'm a fan of the person just stone-cold getting a glass of blood from the tap 
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Mar 28, 2019 21:25
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Ah yes, the lesser known 5th horseman of the apocalypse: pratfalls
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Apr 1, 2019 18:37
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Apr 1, 2019 18:56
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somewhere, ted cruz just orgasmed.
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Apr 1, 2019 19:47
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Your link is broken. Right-click the image you want to share and select "copy image location/url/address" and paste that into your post.
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Apr 2, 2019 03:04
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Sighted while rummaging around a second-hand book shop: A guide on how to become a television forum moderator... ...and a comic book with an oddly-disconcerting ad for its long-defunct Australian publisher on the back cover. (The comic itself was a reprint of Tarzan newspaper strips from the US.) 
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Apr 9, 2019 13:22
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The Kins posted:Sighted while rummaging around a second-hand book shop: A guide on how to become a television forum moderator... Oh man, I bet this one has some awkward and hilarious pictures inside.
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Apr 9, 2019 18:03
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The Kins posted:...and a comic book with an oddly-disconcerting ad for its long-defunct Australian publisher on the back cover. (The comic itself was a reprint of Tarzan newspaper strips from the US.) How many times can YOU spot the name "Murray"!
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Apr 10, 2019 02:47
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Furry Murray was a cat. Furry Murray wore a hat. Furry Murray was a really Shameless self-promoter, wasn't he?
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Apr 10, 2019 12:38
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This book is exceedingly rare, but I've finally found a copy after years of diligent searching:   The reason that it's so rare is because it was the first real anti-scientology book, and L. Ron Hubbard himself ordered his idiot followers to not only destroy every copy they could find, but also attempt to ruin the author's reputation and literally try to drive her insane: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Freakout The IRS decision to declare scientology a tax-exempt religion is high on the list of the dumbest loving things the U.S. government has ever done, and that's a long list. On a lighter note, this is a book by the cartoonist who draws Bizarro, mainly about staying with strangers during a publicity tour, during which time he also finds out his wife is cheating on him. I used to have a copy, but got rid of it at some point. As so often happens, I've wanted to read it again, so here we are:  Not a book, but I figured I'd share it anyway. My friend's brother used to have a 45 rpm record with the theme from the 1967 Spider-Man cartoon, and I've been looking for a copy for almost 25 years. I can find no trace of it online, and would have thought it didn't even exist if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes and heard it with my own ears back in high school. I don't actually know if this is the same record, and don't currently have a record player to listen to it so I don't even know if it's the classic theme song, but after searching unsuccessfully for a quarter century I figured I'd risk buying it anyway:   This isn't a book either, but it's too drat weird not to share: 
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Apr 12, 2019 19:52
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Gutter Phoenix posted:
I don't think that is the TV theme. https://www.discogs.com/Ron-DanteWebspinners-The-Amazing-Spider-Man-From-Beyond-The-Grave-A-Rockomic/release/10030266 You tube has the full recording -> a link to the "Theme" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-61kPB1-mA&t=328s
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Apr 15, 2019 00:33
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ScottyJSno posted:I don't think that is the TV theme. Holy poo poo, that's terrible! Not what I was looking for, but I am not disappointed.
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Apr 15, 2019 14:53
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Libraries apparently will often get self-published books mailed to them unsolicited by the author. My college library would just dump them on their "free books" rack by the door. There were some interesting titles, I wished I'd saved some. For content have the esteemed Massachusetts businessman Lord Timothy Dexter. Among his many notable accomplishments he wrote a book, A Pickle for the Knowing Ones  Dexter was very wealthy but had little education. His book had poor spelling and grammar and absolutely no punctuation.  When readers complained, he added this footnote:  The industrial district in Newburyport is named after him and if you want a copy the local bookstore keeps it in print! 
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Apr 16, 2019 04:41
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Pekinduck posted:For content have the esteemed Massachusetts businessman Lord Timothy Dexter. Among his many notable accomplishments he wrote a book, A Pickle for the Knowing Ones Yes! When I was little I had a copy of The World's Greatest Cranks and Crackpots which appears to be the source of the bulk of that wikipedia article.
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Apr 16, 2019 05:43
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Still more intelligible than 80% of Youtube comments.
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Apr 16, 2019 11:31
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Pekinduck posted:
For being what seemed to be an arrogant loving idiot, this last bit was brilliant.
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Apr 16, 2019 11:48
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I went back to the book shop. The most horrifying of crafts gets a book all its own...  A selection of back issues of a magazine published by the British Army. Quite what they were doing in an Australian suburb is anybody's guess.  Another UK magazine. This one's on Archive.org if you're looking for that absolute banger of a type-in Battle of Trafalgar BASIC game for your ZX81.  GOING TO HELL WITH THE SPEED OF AN ARROW 
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Apr 16, 2019 12:17
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Pekinduck posted:Libraries apparently will often get self-published books mailed to them unsolicited by the author. My college library would just dump them on their "free books" rack by the door. There were some interesting titles, I wished I'd saved some. I swear I've read about this in an anthology of historical curiosities or something like that. I recognize the title. Self published books are great (often in a terrible sort of way), but the old and crazy ones are special because printing and bookbinding was labor intensive and expensive back in the day. For example, it cost $3,000 or thereabouts for Joseph Smith to have the first batch of The Book of Mormon printed in 1830, which is equivalent to over $70,000 today. (If I remember the story right, he had one of his followers sell his farm to pay for it. LOL!) Tangentially, I've always liked the fact that Ben Franklin made his fortune as a printer, mostly because I worked as a printer from my late teens into my early thirties before escaping that dying trade for a new career. We all owe a great deal of thanks to copy machines, zines, cheap self-publishing, and the internet when it comes to having access to crazy crackpot texts that only appeal to a small group of weirdos. ~Coxy posted:Yes! When I was little I had a copy of The World's Greatest Cranks and Crackpots which appears to be the source of the bulk of that wikipedia article. I didn't read about A Pickle For the Knowing Ones in this book, but I love these sorts of nutcase compendiums, so I'm gonna try to track it down. The Kins posted:I went back to the book shop. Truly, the darkest, spookiest, and most evil of crafts.
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Gutter Phoenix posted:Truly, the darkest, spookiest, and most evil of crafts. Quilting with Cthulhu
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DerekSmartymans posted:Quilting with Cthulhu Brocade with Beelzebub
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Apr 17, 2019 03:42
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Megabound posted:Brocade with Beelzebub Crochet with LaVey
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La Brea Carpet posted:Crochet with LaVey Scrapbook with Satan
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JPrime posted:somewhere, ted cruz just orgasmed. Country girls make do.
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Pththya-lyi posted:Scrapbook with Satan Macramé with Mephistopheles
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I made myself a book:
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Has anyone read Gary Lachman's stuff? Particularly interested in this:
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Tuxedo Ted posted:
The trilogy is 3.99 @ Kindle (probably all the other main ebook sites too since everyone's gone over to agency pricing) fairly regularly. search for: "The Darwath Series: The Time of the Dark, The Walls of Air, and The Armies of Daylight". For those of us that prefer to read such things on a kobo or similar, you might want to search for "Apprentice Alf" as well. Of course, ebooks have their own problems, aside from the whole agency pricing and digital rights mangling and the centralized distribution model and etc... here's some examples: 1. Reginald Hill. You can't buy about 80% of the Daziel and Pascoe series as ebooks in the US. 2. A. J. Orde (pen-name of Sherri Tepper) - wrote a p. good detective series around dogs and antiques and family. Ebook? Hah! 3. Nick O'Donahue - wrote a series about a vetinary (sp) school for fantasy animals that sounds great, except it's oop and way expensive and of course no ebook version 4. Richard Roberts - his publisher wasn't paying royalties, so he pulled the rights, so at the moment you can't buy any of the "Please Don't Tell My Parents" line as an ebook 5. G. Derek Adams - He just decided to stop selling "Asteroid Made of Dragons", which is a shame because the other two he has up were well worth $1. If there's any comprehensible reason it's not on his blog.
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Serious Party Gods posted:Has anyone read Gary Lachman's stuff? Particularly interested in this: I looked this up. Gary Lachman was the bassist of Blondie, and seems to be into all sorts of crazy new-age poo poo. I've never heard of him as a writer, and have never read anything he's written, although it seems like the sort of thing I'd read for shits & giggles.
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Gutter Phoenix posted:I looked this up. Gary Lachman was the bassist of Blondie, and seems to be into all sorts of crazy new-age poo poo. I've never heard of him as a writer, and have never read anything he's written, although it seems like the sort of thing I'd read for shits & giggles. He hasa well reviewed book about esoteric thought, chaos magik, in regards to the Trump adminstration.
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La Brea Carpet posted:He hasa well reviewed book about esoteric thought, chaos magik, in regards to the Trump adminstration.  LOL! Now I want to read some autobiographies about Blondie to see how the rest of the group felt about this mad man! I love this thread. It's always giving me new ideas on weird garbage to cram into my brain through my rapidly deteriorating eyes.
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   The last one seems to be a modest collector's item. It's all about how tanning and bodybuilding will bring glory back to Japan by creating REAL MEN. If only more alt-right no-fappers committed seppuku.
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I'd never heard of Mishima before but after a quick google search he sounds like a fascinating individual. But then I say that about all would-be coup leaders.
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Check out his short story “Patriotism”. It’s especially interesting knowing a bit about the author’s politics and his dramatic end.
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Apr 25, 2019 14:37
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Favorite art book from my one of my "Top 5" favorite VIsUal ArTISts. OOP so I guess it's kinda rare. Is it wonderful? Certainly.  [placeholder for scans]
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thepopmonster posted:5. G. Derek Adams - He just decided to stop selling "Asteroid Made of Dragons", which is a shame because the other two he has up were well worth $1. If there's any comprehensible reason it's not on his blog. It seems to be available on Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/asteroid-made-of-dragons
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Gutter Phoenix posted:
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Jerry Cotton posted:I was just reminded of this children's book because of something I read on the forums and now I need to track down a copy. It is, in fact, a very good book. I liked it when I was a kid and my own kids like it now. Author was active from the late 60s until he got drunk and froze to death in a snow drift in 1979; he left behind a moderate body of work containing several classics that are still getting new printings, movie adaptations, etc.
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The Wiggly Wizard posted:
I've heard of Yukio Mishima (particularly his suicide by sword), and thought I'd read a couple of his books 10-15 years ago, but it turns out I was thinking of Osamu Dazai, another famous Japanese author who killed himself at a young age. Gustave Doré rules.   Flannelette posted:Some things are worth dying for. Goddamn sex blimp.
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