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JnnyThndrs posted:More remnants of mid-Seventies 'culture': My great-aunt gave me this book when I was small:  I miss it. Slug Signorino is a weird artist.
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I hope this fucker drowns in a grain silo
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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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Jun 4, 2018 23:04
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Oh, man, that Radio Recipes cookbook is legit. I really miss the days when just about any little group - a church, a school, an office - would have everyone contribute a recipe and collect them in those little comb-bound cookbooks with tiny print runs and charmingly amateurish typesetting and illustration and etc. I have a fair few of these, but the one I don't, and wish I did, was the one from my elementary school. All the teachers and staff submitted recipes, and as a kid that was still capable of having his mind blown by seeing a teacher outside of the school, it was like forbidden knowledge.
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Oh, man, RE/Search. I guess I was just alive at the right time and place, because I remember there being this moment where their stuff was really easy to find - I even saw some of their publications in Barnes & Noble, of all places, when I worked there. It wasn't all to my taste, but it was always guaranteed to be interesting and show me stuff I hadn't seen before. Then I moved a bunch of times and gradually gave 'em all away and haven't even thought about them for years until now.
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Jul 16, 2019 12:16
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Daniel Cohen wrote a lot of books for a juvenile audience, many of which scared the loving socks off of me in the mid-1980s. I never saw this one, from 1973, in the wild, but it's a pretty heavy (albeit well-researched and respectfully written) trip for a children's library shelf.         
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Aug 2, 2019 11:33
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Ornamented Death posted:I'm immensely jealous of folks that live within reasonable proximity to places like Half Price Books. There's like two good used book stores near me, I've gone through their inventory with a fine-toothed comb, and they don't get stuff I care about in very often. Don't be: Half Price really isn't good anymore.
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Aug 14, 2019 02:14
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just some unsettling cover art; I get that it's intended to be, but it's a little too good at its job
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Aug 17, 2019 13:24
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We gettin' pulpy up in here?       
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Aug 21, 2019 12:52
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I'm just crazy about old textbooks.                
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Aug 23, 2019 15:38
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Another big gay pulp grab-bag        Cover art quality varies in this one, unfortunately; I just had to include CARNAL URGES when I found it, though, because it is just the most blandly 80s thing imaginable.
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Aug 28, 2019 13:21
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bweep boop! posted:And while picking through the pulp section of the store that features shelves three books deep in no order whatsoever, I found something incredibly insane that crosses over with the VANTASM! thread: I can't find anything about this after a (brief) search but I'm dying to know how our heroes, who are on "the way to the White House" and planning to "build an empire based on the word of God" (honestly, if you just look at the cover and read the first paragraph on the back, it sounds like they're the bad guys) end up fighting each other after presumably vaporizing a forest full of cocaine-fueled Nazis.
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Aug 31, 2019 13:51
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bless the uncredited gig writer who was tasked with making a children's read-along narrative out of Super Breakout     
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             tag yourself, I'm definitely fun_dude
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Sep 5, 2019 12:17
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Pretty sure that speaks to those of us in and around this thread. (I would never collect hockey pucks, but having one on an end table would be nice. The heft and texture of them makes them just pleasurable to hold.)
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Sep 13, 2019 12:08
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Gutter Phoenix posted:But man oh man, I'm glad you mentioned Cult Crushers, because I started reading it this afternoon and had to stop after 3 chapters because it is so motherfucking insane I can barely hide my glee as I type this on my phone!! Hell yeah, I cannot wait. I don't read or post in The Book Barn subforum, but I know that "Let's Read" threads have been posted there. I definitely think Cult Crushers needs its own dedicated thread, but it would probably get a lot more eyes and participation in GBS.
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Sep 23, 2019 11:13
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I appreciate the recently-posted advice for getting rid of those god damned ThriftBooks spine labels, as there are about eleventy thousand books in my house defiled by them and after Baby's First Attempt at peeling them off, I quickly said "gently caress it." Could be a nice project for a cold weekend morning in the next couple months.
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Oct 17, 2019 11:33
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Jerry Cotton posted:The big flea market down the road has some café tables near the door and there's always one or two professional or would-be professional buyers sitting there behind metre-high stacks of records, comics, and/or books, armed with a twelve-pack of Ronsonol and depression. 
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Oct 18, 2019 13:08
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In searching for one of my many white whales, I discovered this book on archive.org and it's absolutely bonkers (and I mean that as a compliment). There's way, way too much good stuff to post, so I just grabbed random samples (right after I ordered a used copy):      
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Only for the likes of Carl H. Yaeger - profoundly square, yet bloodthirsty in a horny way that is not-entirely-successfully sublimated - is "Brenton Massingale" a tough, All-American, revenge-gettin' name. new for 1963... the "Brenton" sectional sofa, by Massingale
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Oct 29, 2019 02:48
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Tiggum posted:Are all his protagonists senators? No, no, this one gets elected President. On waves of outrage.
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Heath posted:A regal looking man with a scepter and a crown on his three foot erection carries an rear end. Having this as an avatar, were it permitted, would be the ultimate power move. I've got a bit of an effort-post on the stove for this thread, but in the meantime, please enjoy the dopiest pulp smut title I have ever seen. I cannot find any information about this book, which is a pity since I would just love to know how an author working in this genre in 1971 contrived to combine sex and computers. 
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Tiggum posted:Will an ebook version do? quote:It was sex, sex, glorious sex that kept Zip alive and he never forgot it he felt if it wasn't for his daily meat rations he would be a poor, withered old man. When Zip awakened each morning to the wet, hot tongue of his sleep-in maid he certainly didn't resemble any old man. what in the absolute heck
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of potential interest to this thread https://twitter.com/ScarredForLife2/status/1193270596676837380 
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 When old man Grandpa Googlemeyer falls down and bangs his head, he discovers a new-found memory. He calls up his son Jim's reckless childhood and all of the crazy stunts Jim and his brothers pulled off in the neighborhood. The story is very funny and lighthearted until his favorite grandson Barney is involved in a tragic paintball adventure, which makes the old man turn serious. Grandpa Googlemeyer is a classic storyteller and keeps you laughing and crying in his details. Eddie Patowski, the town bully, pounds Barney on the football turf daily, but he is no match for a Googlemeyer in the forest. His foolish ways lead him down a trail of chaos and destruction. Can Barney, Kurt and Jim Googlemeyer save Eddie? Read inside and find out, but the old man will keep you laughing, crying and guessing until the very end. 
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Arivia posted:I feel like this should say Alpha Complex on it, not New York. Are you suggesting Friend Computer made a mistake?
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Good news!
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This thread has done it to me again. I'm skimming through this book on archive.org:  and it's so peculiar and charmingly written that I know I need a physical copy to settle in with and actually digest. Anyway, here's a passage I had to share: the recipe for TITTY SAUCE YAMS.  This recipe from BEFORE THE TIME OF CHRIST sounds good, too:  A good peanut butter sandwich is "absolutely impossible to get" unless you follow this recipe:  I am completely smitten with the way he rhapsodizes over hamburgers and hot dogs:  edited to add: One of these is NOT like the others: 
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who among us hasn't searched for a used copy of Electrocution Night '78?
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wa27 posted:Any opinion on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman? It seems like something that would be extremely up your alley. That show, against all odds, did get a DVD release and I've watched ~75% of it and it's really dang good. It's a huge investment of time, so I couldn't say, honestly, "hey, go watch every episode of this unusual 70s soap" but I'm really fond of it and found it full of surprises above and beyond its spawning Fernwood 2-Night.
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wa27 posted:I have the DVD set and want to get back into watching it every night. It can be tedious at times (it is a soap opera, after all), but it's really something special. I've actually never seen Fernwood 2Night but I know the set includes several episodes as bonus content so I should probably check it out. There's a very good and admirably thorough episode guide here (PDF link).
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Nessa posted:We actually had to fire a client last year because he was awful and kept harassing us, even calling us names over the phone. Wowie zowie!  The author's description: "I tell you this book is a shocker! You must read it to believe it. Trillions of dollars! Hard-earned trillions of dollars have been gambled away in the outer space. Many intelligent minds have been killed, many innocent people including little children and vulnerable people have either died or have been neglected to live in pains and abject poverty because of some few people. Some few cowboys and cowgirls have created this myth that God does not exist, and they have gone all out with no expense spared to prove to themselves and the rest of the world that there is no God, there is no Jesus Christ, there is no heaven and there is no hell. In the process, they have lined up their pockets, lined up the pockets of their friends and family and lined up the pockets of some willing and unwilling politicians via lobbying, campaign financing and even infrastructure projects.They have used fraternal, professional, family and any kind of ties you can imagine just to keep this champagne flowing to the point where governments around the world have been sucked into this illusion and competition and unknowingly, they have kept the taps of the champagne fully opened. In this book, the most critical questions about heaven, earth, the galaxies and all the planets have been answered. This book also brought up some critical information about the categories of heaven and the levels of heaven. All of these have been backed up with scriptures in the Christian Holy Bible. Thank you, Jesus! Thank you, Lord!" I've seen Christianity inspire some pretty bold strains of weirdness but this is... new to me.
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I just had to double-dip on this guy and praise the lord, there is a brief preview of his children's book, "The Adventures of Princess Pauline, Prince Ademola Jnr, and Their Blue Dragon": 
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Not my book, not my scan, but I love this cover: Richard Belzer wrote (well, co-wrote, you know how it is) two novels with himself as the main character:   I love this conceit, but I feel like it's something only character actors could really pull off. Even with the help of a ghostwriter, it's a lot more honest than those thrillers written by powerful people with thinly-veiled stand-ins for themselves being hyper-competent:  
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I don't have a picture of it at the moment (I'd have taken a photo of the cover but it is completely blank and unremarkable), but I received in the mail yesterday my copy of Poison Gas, a 1928 science fiction play that takes place in the far-off, doomed future of A.D. 1950. Here's a summary I found: Having been born when and where I was, I tend to associate apocalyptic fiction with nuclear weapons and/or biological warfare, so discovering the existence of this play - published all of once and seemingly extremely obscure - was something special. I'd like to scan it in its entirety to a PDF to upload to (e.g.) archive.org to be preserved forever - something I've never done before! This is going to be a busy weekend but I intend to post highlights when I get around to reading it.
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Resident Idiot posted:... magazine thread, you say? Here. Almost 100 pages of densely-packed posts of scans from all kinds of magazines, comics, and ephemeral publications. It's great.
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