I just ordered a buncha books!

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And a CD and a DVD.

My birthday was Wednesday. My mom sent me a check, my FIL sent me a giftcert, and Mr. Rilch gave me some $$$. So I went on a book-buying binge!

3 items from Barnes and Noble. (One will probably arrive separately.) 14 items from individual sellers in Amazon Marketplace. From experience, I know that some will be in the mailbox, some will be personally handed to me by the mail carrier, and the B&N package may have to be picked up at the post office. It’ll be so much fun, like getting presents every day!

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Erm…yeah.

And exactly what books did you buy?

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I miscounted. It’s 17 items total.

From Barnes and Noble:

Look-Alikes: The More You Look, The More You See, by Joan Steiner. I had a calendar of this the year before last. She uses junk-drawer objects to construct scenes. Like, in a classroom, the wall clock is a peppermint disk, the desks are graham crackers with licorice legs, a stamp is a map on the wall, and so forth.

Orlando Bloom Has Ruined Everything, by Bill Amend. The new FoxTrot collection.

A Birthday For Frances, by Russell Hoban. What can I say; I love that little badger.

From other sellers:

I Need All The Friends I Can Get, by Charles Schulz. Peanuts-related, but not a collection of cartoons: aphorisms on the left-hand page and illustrations on the right.

Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine, by Jay Williams and Raymond Abrashkin. I read it when I was a kid, and I’m now jonesing to see the contrast between late-'50s computer tech and today.

Now Everybody Really Hates Me, illustrated by Roz Chast.

The Party After You Left: Collected Cartoons 1995-2003, also by Roz Chast.

Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year 2004, edited by Charles Brooks.

The Best Political Cartoons of the Year, 2005 edition, edited by Daryl Cagle. No, they don’t overlap. But can you tell I love cartoons?

Twilight: Los Angeles, by Anna Deavere Smith. What happened in LA during and after that incident in 1992 that nobody wants to talk about.

Double Wedding by William Katz. A whodunit set in DC. Friend who lives in DC recommended it, saying it’s as good as a travelogue.

How to Really Fool Yourself: Illusions For All Your Senses, by Vicki Cobb. Just what it says. Should be a trip.

Absolute Beginners, by Colin MacInnes. London, Soho, 1958. (Yes, I know the movie sucked; doesn’t mean the book does.)

The Rottweiler, by Ruth Rendell. She is the only author whose books I will buy sight unseen, without reading a review or customer feedback.

Interior Desecrations: Hideous Homes From the Horrible '70s, by James Lileks. Need anyone ask? :wink:

CD: Rum, Sodomy and the Lash, by the Pogues. My cassette finally wore out.

DVD: Trekkies. Documentary about Trek fans. With this, Galaxy Quest and Free Enterprise, I finally have the Geek Trilogy.

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The new Foxtrot collection is good. Well, I enjoyed it anyway. My father took a look at in and just went, “Huh?”.

The Trekkies dvd is fun as well. There’s a sequel, Trekkies 2 but I havent seen it yet so I can’t comment.

Now thanks to you, I just ordered the Best Political Cartoons of the Year, 2005 from Amazon.

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Welll, I’m glad I was a good influence on you!

Nothing’s arrived yet…

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I thoroughly enjoyed both of the Trekkies movies. The second one concentrates largely on Trek fans in Europe. It also has some hilarious Trek-themed rock & roll bands. Klingon punk-rock guys and such. Like the first Trekkies, it has several interviews with the former Whitewater juror who wore her Star Trek uniform to court.

As Spock would say… fascinating.