A few things:
1. I am still exhausted after my sister-in-law’s wedding this weekend. I was the best man, which was more involved than I had originally believed. Special props to the photographers, the DJ, and the caterer, all friends and family who went above and beyond what was expected. Contact these guys for your next wedding, bar mitzvah, super sweet sixteen, or Guy Fawkes Day party.
2. Luckily, this week is Spring Break, and I have the next couple of days off of work and grad school. What does this mean to you? Well, hopefully I’ll get back on track with the Ontology 101 project, and actually start posting again about books that I’ve stolen (I know that’s what you come here for). You can also look forward to an interview with Eddie de Oliveira, author of Lucky and Johnny Hazzard, to be published later this week. Until then…
3. A few placeholders to quell some of that Monday boredom:
A. Go to Strange Maps. Another great WordPress blog that lives up to its name. Love it!
B. Tarantino/Rodriguez’s Grindhouse comes out the first week of April. Looks like good old fashioned fun. Check out the full theatrical trailer–
C. Enjoy this Silver Surfer cover art gallery before the upcoming Fantastic Four sequel ruins the best Marvel Comics character ever.
Cover art by French artist Moebius, who created a line of comic books with Alejandro Jodorowsky in the 1970s.
Biblioklept 
Thanks for putting up the link to Strange Maps. That is a great blog. And it led me to the coolest website I’ve seen all week: http://www.worldmapper.org/index.html
I have a thing for maps.
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Is that the same Moebius with the infinitely recursive comic strip?
btw, The Old Book Shop on Beach Blvd (just past the Thrift Store) is closing its doors for good on the end of the month. Lotta books to be got on the cheap. Check it out.
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Ah…The Old Book Shop…what total assholes those guys were (on par with the assholes at neighboring Active Electronics (RIP)). I remember them refusing to sell me James Dickey’s *Deliverance* as well as some old issues of Cerebus because I was like 13 or 14. They kept all of the issues of Cerebus in the back too, like they were pornography or something. When I was in college I offered to buy the whole box of back issues. They wanted to look up the price of each issue in a comic book price guide. I pointed out that *no one* would ever even know that the issues even existed because they were hidden in the back…there wasn’t a sign or anything saying “Cerebus comics hidden in the back” (because they were non-DC, non-Marvel black and whites?) This led to an argument over who was running the store and how it should be run. Those guys were assholes and I’m glad their store is closing.
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Oh.
Well, right now everything’s priced on a sliding scale of fifty cents to two bucks. Chances are nobody there now remembers you or your refusal of sale—the owner has alzheimers and his wife’s running the place.
Even though I lost faith in them after their murals were poorly repainted only to be later painted over, that store will always stick with me as the bastion of fantasy and nostalgia from which I dug up Beowulf at age twelve.
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Sorry. I came off a little harsh there, I realize…
Thanks for plugging the sale–I’ll try to swing by (I’ll also try to temper my bad memories in the future.)
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