Saturday, July 25, 2009

Ultimate Book of Spells


was a cartoon that was very similar to Harry Potter in which it had a young boy who discovers he is a wizard and magic is real and goes to a special boarding school to develop their talent. He soon discovers there is an evil wizard trying to take over the world and he must stop him with his two new friends and a talking book This show was also known as UBOS which is the shortened title. It aired on YTV in Canada.

Friday, July 3, 2009

All the Visions

Here's a book by my favorite author, Rudy Rucker. It is one I'd never heard of. I saw a copy of it for sale on Amazon for something like $3, so I ordered it. Turns out, it's actually 2 books in one
It is back to back with this one: Space Baltic by Anselm Hollo. Never heard of him but I'll read it anyway. This is a first, should I count it as one book or two? Since they are both very short and share a cover and one spine I will count it as one book. It is also a first in that since I could find no usable images of the covers on the internet, I simply shot pictures of the book, under lamp light with my cell phone and sent them to my e-mail. Problem solved.

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

food book

How I Learned to Cook:
Culinary Educations from the World's Greatest Chefs (Hardcover)

Sunday, June 7, 2009

Douglas Coupland

The unique author of Generation X and JPod, Douglas Coupland, is on The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos.

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Monday, June 1, 2009

Visual Bibliography


An complete overview of Philip K. Dick publication historry of his Science Fiction novels. More than 425 books covers are presented at a frenetic tempo dictated by Tito Puente's drums.

Monday, May 25, 2009

buy or steal this book

I bought this book in a convenience store or grocery store back in the mid to late eighties. I was on Freewheel with my dad and we were camping in some small town in rural Oklahoma, so I had some time to kill. This was a really good book and I highly recommend it. The main thing I remember about it is that it educated me about something that I had never heard about before: Absinthe. Anyway a few years back, I was flipping through the channels on TV and an interesting movie was on. A lot of it seemed familiar. They went to a commercial and when they came back they mentioned the name of the movie. That's when I learned that this book had been adapted into a film in 1997. I didn't watch the whole thing, but I'd like to someday. So once again, awesome book, it has a talking vase, and Amazon has hardback copies for a penny.