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.

Sunday, April 19, 2009

Rest In Peace

The author JG Ballard, famed for novels such as Crash and Empire of the Sun, has died aged 78 after a long illness.
His agent Margaret Hanbury said the author had been ill "for several years" and had died on Sunday morning.