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Life and Marilyn

Evidently, I was born under the Sign of Marilyn in the Life Magazine Zodiac. Think what you may about Google Books, but this new project is kind of cool, and …

Zines

Great article on some of the difficulties and other concerns surrounding the digitization of those hand made photocopied zines from the 1980s and 1990s. Having worked for a Kinko’s branch …

Returning Soon

Look for this page to start being interesting (OK, maybe that’s an overstatement) any day now with the return of the blog and other exciting features.

On Airports

A great thing about having lots of credit at the local used book emporium is that you sometimes take a chance on a  book you might not have grabbed if …

Guiding Lights

Guiding Light, the oldest dramatic series on American TV (or maybe any other, for that matter) has been cancelled after seventy-two years on radio and TV. Almost all these shows …