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A funny version of something similar was Road to Perdition. It started out as a comic book written by Max Allan Collins, who also writes movie novelizations. It got turned into a movie and then they put out a novelization, written by Max Allan Collins. So he wrote a novelization based on a movie based on a comic book that he wrote.
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can you please please please post a scan or photo of a couple pages of "Great Theatrical Disasters"? I really want to know.
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The Youngest Raccoon Dog keeps running afoul of the Juche Ideal  
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Jim Barris posted:can you please please please post a scan or photo of a couple pages of "Great Theatrical Disasters"? I really want to know. I don't remember when or where I got that book, but I know I had been hoping it was a Murder Can Be Fun style compilation of literal disasters at theaters, or even a bunch of stories about horrible failures like that Spider-Man play on Broadway a few years ago that cost a fortune and closed quickly. Instead, it's a just a bunch of lovely, pointless stories about British theatrical productions written in an equally lovely, dry, rambling British style. I guess it might be funny or interesting if I liked hyper-pretentious overwrought comedy, or had any respect for legitimate theater, but I don't. This one is definitely going in the next book purge pile so that maybe someone else can enjoy it. Anyway, here's an example. It's the best story I could find, and one of the shortest:  Keith Atherton posted:I have a North Korean children's book Keith Atherton posted:The Youngest Raccoon Dog keeps running afoul of the Juche Ideal Holy poo poo, this are amazing!! Is that for real?
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Speaking of disasters, this is a funny and interesting book about the making of The Room. I know that there was a James Franco movie made about it, but I can't imagine it's anywhere near as good as this book and have no intention of ever seeing it.  Here's a fun book about The Cramps:  Lux Interior (R.I.P.) spit this wine cork at me during a Cramps concert about fifteen years ago. It's one of my most prized possessions.  A couple more music books:   Miscellaneous religious books:        One of the four different translations of The Satyricon I have picked up over the years:  A couple of biographies:   Speaking of biographies, I just started reading the Al Jourgensen/ Ministry memoir I posted awhile back, and it is hilarious! I recommend it to anyone who likes that sort of music. Gonna finish it as soon as I'm done posting this. The last two random books that I have pictures of on my desktop:   I got a bunch of new books in the mail, but I have to go pick them up. Maybe I'll do that tomorrow. I've probably only posted a quarter/ third of my books in this thread so far, but I don't really see the point of posting pictures of super common stuff that everyone has already seen elsewhere and/or read already. I'll go through my shelves again soon and see what other fun oddities I have.
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I bought a friend of mine this book for his birthday around the year 2000
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The first of the four Space Cat re-issues was released. It's a well-done little volume. The other three books in the series are schedule to be published by the end of the year.  I picked up a couple of books about octopuses that I've been wanting to read:   I ordered a whole bunch of books on ebay for a couple of bucks apiece. First up, the kids book about Manatees written by the author of The Burning Bed:  Two novels by Ice-T:   Two books by Norm Abram. I don't do any carpentry, but I have always loved watching The New Yankee Workshop for some reason. I even have a personalized autographed photo I got at an Alameda County Fairgrounds home show about twenty years ago. Also an autographed set of plans detailing how to build a piece of furniture (I can't remember exactly what right now).   An autobiography by former Democratic congressman/ Dukes of Hazzard star Ben Jones. I read it years ago and remember it being interesting.  That reminds me, Ben Jones runs a handful of Dukes of Hazzard museums/ stores called Cooter's Place. I ended up on their website eight or nine years ago and ordered a few stickers, magnets, and an autographed picture of Ben Jones, all for less than $20 (at the time)! It looks like all that stuff is still on the website, so here are pictures:     Anyway, I had all my mail shipped to my parents' house at the time because I was in the process of moving. One day I went over there and my dad showed me the package from Cooter's Place and asked me why the hell I was having a bunch of porn sent to their house. OK, back to the books. The Ben Jones book led me to this, which I bought because I loved that dumb show as a kid. Also, it was dirt cheap.  I wish someone would write a similar companion guide to "CHiPs", but no such luck. I might have to do it myself. I'll have to settle for this:  I figured this might be interesting. I'm hoping there are some good stories about the making of Better Off Dead and [/i]One Crazy Summer[/i].  My ridiculous early-to-mid-90's high school rock band was called Spam Nation, so I couldn't resist buying a cheap copy of this:  "Why Do Men Have Nipples?" was the name of a Spam Nation song, and also the title of the unfinished fourth album we were working on when we broke up in 1996.  All this talk of Spam made me want to re-read these two books. I used to own the first one, but seem to have lost it at some point.    Speaking of crap I bought on ebay, I recently picked up this shirt for $12. I used to have one just like it, which I got for the cost of shipping & handling through some Spam-related mail-in offer during the mid-90's.  
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I know I used to have a couple of old Spam catalogs from the mid-90's, so I just went digging through some old boxes of miscellaneous crap that I haven't looked at in 20 years. Although I didn't find the catalogs, I did find some funny stuff. No books, but gently caress it, I'm posting here anyway. Feel free to skip my pointless nostalgia. A plastic 3-ring binder from Showbiz Pizza:   I used to work at a small copy shop owned by right-wing crazies, and they received this nutty newsletter:  I always wanted to order thousands of tiny rubber fetuses. I'm not sure what I would have done with them, but I'm sure I would have thought of something hilarious.  A pamphlet from noted pyramid schemesters Kirby on how to sell $2,000 vacuum cleaners to suckers:  A post-brain surgery picture of Ronald Reagan with a half-shaved head. I cut it out of the Chicago Tribune when I was ten because I thought it was funny (which it is), and have somehow managed to hang on to it for thirty years.  In 1997 I stopped at a gas station somewhere near Santa Rosa, CA and the mini-mart was completely stick with It'sa brand merchandise. Stuff like "It'sa Cola!" and "It'sa Sandwich!" Here is a candy wrapper I saved because it was so goddamn weird. Look at those loving quotes!!  I have never seen It'sa brand anything ever again, and can't find any information on it online. If anyone knows anything about it, clue me in. I love this picture, and have been trying to find my clipping of it for years! It is from the back of a Totino's Party Pizza box circa 1991. God speed, Pizza Boy...  I used to clip out all sorts of silly poo poo from newspapers and ads. I played in 10 bands between 1991 and 2014, and it was always nice to have a bunch of miscellaneous material to use on flyers. Other stuff was just too funny to not save, such as this:  Here are some Spam Nation (see previous post) flyer templates, none of which were ever used because they are all so busy that it made it difficult to read the actual show information. I just found about 30 of these.        The cover of the first Spam Nation album (1995), which was only available on cassette because CDs were still prohibitively expensive. That is a picture of me shortly after turning eight in the summer of 1985.  Spam Nation band photo from 1995. That is a seventeen-year old, long-haired version of me on the floor, Thighmaster at my feet. (Unrelated fun fact: I once used the Thighmaster 10,000 times in a row on a bet. I could barely walk the following day).  Thanks for your indulgence. Back to posting books...
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There's a spot in my apartment building where people leave random household items for a day or two before they go in the trash/ get donated elsewhere. This morning there was a box of paperback books, mostly by Stephen King and James Patterson. I left those behind because I didn't think I'd read them. However, there was one book in the box that stood out from all the others; one that clearly belonged on my shelves:   This seems like an appropriate price to charge for a self-published paperback:  This book reminds me of how much I miss the show Doomsday Preppers. If you've never seen the episode where a guy goes speed-dating to find a woman who will embrace his prepper lifestyle, and then insists that they wear a blindfold while he drives them to his "bugout location" on the first date, do yourself a favor and watch it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUyDVh5kDTg&t=2014s
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Gutter Phoenix posted:In 1997 I stopped at a gas station somewhere near Santa Rosa, CA and the mini-mart was completely stick with It'sa brand merchandise. Stuff like "It'sa Cola!" and "It'sa Sandwich!" Here is a candy wrapper I saved because it was so goddamn weird. Look at those loving quotes!! holy moly do I ever want to know more about this whole "It'sa" line of products; that is weird and compelling and, of course, nearly impossible to effectively keyword search for
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Pastry of the Year posted:holy moly do I ever want to know more about this whole "It'sa" line of products; that is weird and compelling and, of course, nearly impossible to effectively keyword search for Tell me about it! I have wasted all sorts of time searching using every word combination I can think of, but the results always end up being too narrow or too broad. Also, Google doesn't differentiate between "it'sa" and "it's a." My girlfriend brought this 1982 Patty Hearst autobiography yesterday. I'm looking forward to reading her firsthand account of life with the Symbionese Liberation Army. 
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During the 1968 Democratic and Republican conventions, ABC televised 11 debates between William F. Buckley and Gore Vidal. Towards the end of the tenth debate, during a heated exchange about political protesters and free speech, Buckley mentioned Nazi sympathizers and Vidal said, "As far as I'm concerned, the only sort of pro-crypto-Nazi I can think of is yourself." Buckley furiously responded, "Now listen, you queer. Stop calling me a crypto-Nazi, or I'll sock you in the goddamn face, and you'll stay plastered". The moderator stepped in and the debate ended shortly thereafter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY_nq4tfi24&t=642s The two were separated by a curtain during the final debate, and they never spoke to one another again. This recent book has the full text of the debates, as well as some explanation of context and historical background.  Buckley published an account of the incident titled "On Experiencing Gore Vidal" in the August 1969 issue of Esquire magazine. The following month they published Vidal's vicious (and hilarious!) response, "A Distasteful Encounter With William F. Buckley, Jr." In the latter, Vidal implied that Buckley had vandalized a church in 1944 because the pastor had sold property to a family of Jews. Buckley sued both Vidal and Esquire for libel (it turned out it was Buckley's siblings that had vandalized the church). Esquire settled the matter by paying for Buckley's $115,000 in attorney fees. in 2003, both Buckley and Vidal's essays were republished in this book:  Buckley sued Esquire for libel a second time, and they again settled by paying Buckley's attorney fees, plus $10,000 in damages. The Esquire anthology was taken out of print, but used copies can still be found for relatively cheap (less that $10).
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This little book contains four or five of Gore Vidal's political essays, and is the first of his books I ever read. I picked it up on a whim in 1996 and found it to be a pleasant combination of informative and funny.  It led me to this massive 1,300 page compilation of 114 essays, which was deeply influential to my developing political beliefs, and also introduced me to Suetonius, Montaigne, and H.L. Mencken, among others.  I bought this book at a thrift store in 1997. It's the first of his novels that I read.  It's also the first volume of his Narratives of Empire series to be published. Here they are in chronological order of the storyline: Burr (1973) 1876 (1976) Lincoln (1984) Empire (1987) Hollywood (1990) Washington, D.C. (1967) The Golden Age (2000)    These two historical novels are excellent. Creation is my favorite of his (mostly) serious fictional works.  Because his historical novels were massive works that took him years to write, he used to occasionally publish crazy unconventional novels that are difficult to describe. Here are two:   Messiah (1954) is the eighth novel published under his name, and his first satirical work. He claimed to have been essentially blacklisted by the literary world after publishing his third book, The City and the Pillar (1948), which featured a protagonist coming to terms with his homosexuality.  He also wrote five mystery novels for quick money under various pseudonyms between 1950 and 1954: Here is a collection of the three novels he wrote as Edgar Box (1952-1954).  I went looking for pictures of the originals and saw that Gore Vidal's personal copies are currently being sold on ebay. Anyway, here are the covers:    He published A Star's Progress (aka Cry Shame!) in 1950 as Katherine Everard. It is the rarest of his books because it hasn't been reprinted in nearly 70 years. I don't own a copy, but here are pictures of the covers:   He published Thieves Fall Out as Cameron Kay in 1953. It's not super rare, and copies of the original seem to sell for about $30.  Hard Case Crime reprinted that one in 2015. I have a copy, but don't feel like digging it out to take a picture before posting this, so here's one from their website;  Prolific as he was, Gore Vidal didn't publish any novels between Messiah (1954) and Julian (1964). Instead, he made his fortune during that time writing television plays.   Actually, he did publish a collection of early short stories in 1956:  Getting back to where I began, here is a collection of essays written after the publication of United States:  This is his 2003 take on the formative years of the U.S.  Gore Vidal died in 2012 at the age of 86. He didn't publish much in his final years, but by most accounts he was a bitter husk of his former self by the end, so that's probably for the best. Gutter Phoenix fucked around with this message at 05:09 on Jun 6, 2018 |
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Gutter Phoenix posted:A few months ago I wandered into a nearby church rummage sale and bought a whole bunch of WW2 paperbacks for a quarter apiece. Here are a few: Here are a bunch more:                        
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 I used to have a newer version of this autobiography by Lincoln Steffens, a turn-of-the-century muckraking reporter. He had an interesting life, but not interesting enough for me to ever read his 900 page autobiography again. However, there is one passage that I have never forgotten. In it, he relates a conversation he had with a billy-club-wielding New York City cop bragging about a couple tricks of the trade used to get rid of people sleeping on public benches: "It's the funniest sight in the world to see the effect of a proper lick with a stick on a man's two feet. You don’t get the chance to try it very often. In my day we old cops used to practice it, very easy, on one another, and when you could do it you’d go out and find your bum. I remember the first time I got one just right. He was asleep on his back on a park bench, his two feet stuck out clear and even. Gosh, I was glad, and careful. I sneaked up on him from behind, knelt down, spit on my hand, and aimed. I was so nervous that I dropped my raised arm twice before I felt steady and ready. Then – say, but then I let her go, I whacked level and straight, hitting the bottoms of both boots at the same instant, and, well, it happened – what they always said would happen. That bum rose, stiff like a stick; he didn’t bend a knee or move an arm. I think he didn't wake up. He just rose up, running – I mean that he was running by the time he came erect, and with never a holler or a look behind, he was running hell-bent across that park and -- I watched him; I walked over in the direction he disappeared and – he’s running yet. Yep! I bet that when he woke up, he was surprised to find himself running; it was so unusual for him to run that it woke him, but he couldn't stop, of course. His spine -- ." (It cuts off that way in the original text.) Anyway, I've always wanted to try that on one of my friends, but never have a billy-club handy when they pass out on park benches. Some day...
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There was a period between 2005 and 2008 when I had a three-hour daily commute on the bus. It was terrible, but I read a whole lot of books. I consistently maxed out the number of books I was allowed to put have on hold at the Portland public library, and abused the inter-library loan system asking for all sorts of crazy poo poo to be sent to me from all around the country. Some of the books I checked out (especially through inter-library loan) are pretty rare and prohibitively expensive. For instance, I checked out the Gore Vidal mystery, A Star's Progress!, written under the pseudonym Katherine Everard that I posted yesterday. It's worth about $1,000, and only one library in the country had it available through inter-library loan. I don't have a fond opinion of Portland, but I will admit that their library system was great. Anyway, I was reading so many goddamn books that I started keeping a list so that I'd actually remember the titles and/ or authors. This turned out to be a good thing, since I read a lot of obscure stuff, and was also averaging about 200-250 books a year. I found the list when I was searching for that Lincoln Steffens quote, and saw all sorts of great books that I had totally forgotten about. I figured I'd post some fun stuff that stands out. The Lonely Trip Back by Florrie Fisher   Florrie Fisher was an unhinged former prostitute/ junkie who gave presentations to high school kids. She also filmed a famous PSA in 1970 called The Trip Back. Watch it. The book is just like that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vd7o2g6w7A It was the inspiration for Stranger's With Candy, and is even a special feature on the first season DVD set.   I had completely forgotten about this book. Copies of the hardcover seem to go for about $75, but I'm going to keep my eyes peeled for a cheaper copy.
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Gutter Phoenix posted:"It's the funniest sight in the world to see the effect of a proper lick with a stick on a man's two feet. You don’t get the chance to try it very often. In my day we old cops used to practice it, very easy, on one another, and when you could do it you’d go out and find your bum. I remember the first time I got one just right. He was asleep on his back on a park bench, his two feet stuck out clear and even. Gosh, I was glad, and careful. I sneaked up on him from behind, knelt down, spit on my hand, and aimed. I was so nervous that I dropped my raised arm twice before I felt steady and ready. Then – say, but then I let her go, I whacked level and straight, hitting the bottoms of both boots at the same instant, and, well, it happened – what they always said would happen. That bum rose, stiff like a stick; he didn’t bend a knee or move an arm. I think he didn't wake up. He just rose up, running – I mean that he was running by the time he came erect, and with never a holler or a look behind, he was running hell-bent across that park and -- I watched him; I walked over in the direction he disappeared and – he’s running yet. Yep! I bet that when he woke up, he was surprised to find himself running; it was so unusual for him to run that it woke him, but he couldn't stop, of course. His spine -- ." I have so many questions. Why couldn't he stop? WHAT ABOUT HIS SPINE?
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Gutter Phoenix posted:It was the inspiration for Stranger's With Candy, and is even a special feature on the first season DVD set. God drat, thanks for that. I always felt like I should know what that show was referencing but it never clicked. Looking at those two side to side, it’s obvious.
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Got this at Goodwill today. It's a detailed history of the bridges crossing a 20-mile stretch of river in rural Nebraska, near where I live. I haven't read much yet but the chapter titles have me intrigued at least. The Platte River is shallow enough to walk across in most spots. Even back then.  The whole thing is written in that fixed width typeface.
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Ah, those Golden Field Guides are so good! I think every science class in my school had s set of them and the Life Nature Library.
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After three months collecting sweet, sweet unemployment, I figured I should actually buckle down and start seriously looking for a new job. Imagine my surprise when I got hired by the very first place I applied! I start tomorrow, so I decided to take advantage of my last free weekday to run every errand I could think of. This included a stop by the local Salvation Army to browse the books. There wasn't anything amazing, but I did grab a few things. At a mere dollar for softcovers and two for hardcovers, I was willing to take some risks.     I used to have this one, but must have gotten rid of it at some point. I remember it having some interesting information in it, so I figured I'd pay a buck and give it a second chance.  Not a book, but I also bought this ugly rug for $3 so I have something to stand on/ soak up water when I'm washing dishes:  In addition to those, another book about octopuses arrived from Amazon:  In other semi-related book news, one of my girlfriend's author buddies was in town for a convention this weekend so we took her out to dinner last night. Most of the conversation was book-related, but at one point she was telling us how she had recently become obsessed with a short-lived 1979 TV series called Supertrain. Apparently it was a knock-off of The Love Boat, except that it took place on a high-speed Supertrain as it traveled across the country. Now, this sounds exactly like the sort of silly garbage that I would be a superfan of, and yet I had never heard of it before! Even more shocking, she proceeded to tell me that Supertrain was created by none other than Donald E. Westlake, one of my all-time favorite authors!! My mind was blown. I honestly cannot fathom how the existence of this show has managed to evade me all these years. It makes me wonder what other crazy things are out there just waiting to be found... 
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Gutter Phoenix posted:I picked these up at a garage sale today: For some reason I really, REALLY want to know what's in this book. I wouldn't be surprised to find a photo of Jack Nicholson at a New Year's Eve party. Yes, I know that was the Overlook, but still.
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yaffle posted:I can only hope that this takes place in the same universe and "The Big Bus". I had never heard of The Big Bus before. First Supertrain, and now this. What other lost gems have I managed to overlook??!! Also, just like Supertrain had a Donald E. Westlake connection I should have known about, the movie poster for The Big Bus was done by my previously mentioned all-time favorite cartoonist, Jack Davis. I just scanned through the four books of his artwork that I own, and none of them seemed to have anything about The Big Bus, except for one that included it in a list of movie posters he drew.  Zamboni_Rodeo posted:For some reason I really, REALLY want to know what's in this book. I wouldn't be surprised to find a photo of Jack Nicholson at a New Year's Eve party. It's a little 34-page self published book about a hotel in Ireland. I have no idea how it ended up among a bunch of books about Tiananmen Square at a garage sale in Alameda, California. I picked it up because it was an irresistible combination of odd and cheap. As an added bonus, it doesn't take up much room on a book shelf.    GRINDCORE MEGGIDO posted:This is an excellent thread and I hope it keeps going. I have a lot more books to post, and keep acquiring more, so I'll do my part to keep it going. I hope others continue to contribute as well, because I've already learned about a bunch of crazy stuff and am always on the lookout for more!
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I got this book a few days ago:  I've been really busy and exhausted due to starting a new job this week, so I haven't quite finished it yet, but it has already made me laugh to the point of tears at least three or four times. Not many books can do that to me. I've seen a lot of live comedy shows, but Jon Benjamin made me laugh harder than anybody else. I saw Jon Benjamin Has a Van - Live at Cobb's Comedy Club in San Francisco during the 2012 SF Sketchfest shortly after the vastly underrated TV show Jon Benjamin Has a Van had finished airing on Comedy Central, but before it had been officially cancelled.  The Sketchfest show was great. Chelsea Peretti opened and spent the first five minutes doing her best to totally alienate the audience. Then she spent the next ten minutes winning them back. It was amazing. I had no idea who she was, but I made a point to remember her name because she was loving great. After that, the three co-stars of Jon Benjamin Has a Van took turns doing stand-up sets. I remember them being funny, but I don't recall much beyond that. Jon Benjamin came on about halfway through the show and said that he didn't really have any material, but that he stopped at an airport drug store before leaving NYC and bought a bottle of pills that he wanted to tell everyone about. It was called Semenax, and claimed to double the volume of male ejaculations, "because that's what women want, right?" He went on and on about it with his standard deadpan delivery, at times just reading the label from the bottle. It was funnier than it had any right to be. He came on a second time at the end of the show and reminded the audience that he didn't have any material, but he did buy a porno magazine called Straight Stuntin at the airport, so he would talk about that. He spent about ten minutes reading the letters to the editor out loud, and it was the funniest loving thing I have ever heard. I was laughing so hard that I had tears streaming down my face and I could barely breathe. I've seen a lot of live comedy shows, but nothing has come close to that. Unrelated, but his appearance on this talk show promoting a clip from his new movie Chin Dildo is pretty good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DHVf0_SvZI  In short, Jon Benjamin is funny.
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 Hopefully this works. Been enjoying this thread, a few books I own have already been posted so here's some new content. The Neubauten book cover glows in the dark! obscure_reference fucked around with this message at 18:17 on Jun 15, 2018 |
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muscles like this! posted:Apparently the reason that Jon Benjamin Has a Van was short lived was because he entered an agreement to make a show for Comedy Central, they gave him money and then he took that money and made a completely different show with it. Whatever Comedy Central wanted would have been hot garbage in comparison. They should have given him a bonus.
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Thanks for reminding me H. Jon Benjamin had a book out. I was looking for a good light read for a vacation coming up. Here's a few books off my shelves:  A friend went to a sci-fi museum and got me a postcard of one of this story's original covers.  I doubt I'll ever find or afford that one, but its nice to dream.  A classic. And a pretty good read too, if you can find it. Basically, Budweiser the Brown there is from another world, a big bad evil is gonna unmake the entire universe, so he takes a baby from there to earth and dumps it on some poor woman while he fucks off to mess with the big bad and make it lose the trail of the baby. The baby may or may not be the key to saving its former home.  I was surprised to see this one on the shelf. This one's an Ace Double, but the other book in the back half (Danger from Vega, John Rackham) isn't as interesting to look at. Unless you're into giant blue ladies in togas.  I'm not much of a collector, but this might be the only sorta hard-to-find book I own.
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muscles like this! posted:Apparently the reason that Jon Benjamin Has a Van was short lived was because he entered an agreement to make a show for Comedy Central, they gave him money and then he took that money and made a completely different show with it. this story really should end with "he spend all of it customizing the van", drat.
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