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This work looks at the top ten albums in the UK and the USA. It lists the hits side by side for instant chart comparison. The chart listing also includes the LP's previous month's position, record label and weeks in the top ten, while symbols indicate gold and platinum albums and an artist's first and most recent top ten entries. Additional sections provide an artist index in which each group or individual is listed alphabetically, and which includes mini-biographies. There is also an additional album title index to enable the reader to cross-reference if only the album title is known. Hundreds of trivia chart facts are also included in the book, as well as opening features for each decade giving an overview of the developments of that particular era. ... Read more

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Score and 17 parts for jazz ensemble. ... Read more

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Fiction. Non-fiction (Wool Dyeing with Lichens in the Aleutian Islands), recipes, poetry, photography, etc. ... Read more

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GF0499; includes sheet music/tab for ""502","Bad Omen","Holy Wars..The Punishment Due","In My Darkest Hour","Peace Sells","Poison was the Cure","Take No Prisoners" and "Tornado of Souls". ... Read more

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Now more than ever, Americans are troubled by questions. As sweaty modernity thrustsitself upon us, the veil of ignorance that cloaked our nation hangs in tatters, tatteredtatters. Our "funny bones" are neither fun nor bony. Glum is the new giddy, and theold giddy wasn't too giddy to begin with.

What can be done to stop this relentlessmarch of drabbery? Nothing. But perhaps this book can be used to dull the pain. Includedherein:

The Ten Worst Films of All Time, as Reviewed by Ezra Pound over ItalianRadio

Unused Audio Commentary by Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky, Recorded Summer 2002,for The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring DVD (Platinum Series Extended Edition),Part One.

How Important Moments in My Life Would Have Been Different If I Was Shotin the Stomach

My Beard, Reviewed

Circumstances under Which I Would Have Sex withSome of My Fellow Jurors

Words That Would Make Nice Names for Babies, If It Weren'tfor Their Unsuitable Meanings

As a Porn Movie Titler, I May Lack Promise

IneffectiveWays to Subdue a Jaguar

Eleven Lunch Meats I Have Invented

Four Things I WouldHave Said to Sylvia Plath if I Had Been Her Boyfriend

And much, much more, including20 brilliant new lists . . .

Most appealing in the book's starting lineup is J.M. Tyree's "On the Implausibility of the Death Star's Trash Compactor." Humorous as well as thought-provoking, this essay makes the perfect amuse bouche for what is arguably the collection's main course of hilarity, "Fire: the Next Sharp Stick?", "Candle Party," and "Unused Audio Commentary by Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky, Recorded Summer 2002, for the Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring DVD (Platinum Series Extended Version), Part One," all to be found in the early middle. Though a familiarity with candle parties, Howard Zinn, sharp sticks, and other topics satirized in this book is helpful, it's not necessarily required for understanding the jokes. The biggest risk here is binge-reading, as you may exchange audible laughter for the feeling that you are being force-fed an ice cream sundae. If you pace yourself--say no more than four to six pieces at a time--you should have the energy for the final third, including the funny list marathon at the end. Or save a few portions for later when you are really starving for a good laugh. --Leah Weathersby ... Read more

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Not Much Here
Not much here.I didn't understand most of it.The parts I understood, I didn't like.

...strong feelings that parts were written just for me...
Maybe it hints at my age or "demographic", but I was profoundly influenced and thoroughly troubled by this prose.Chomsky on Middle Earth? Cobra recruiting? The death star trash compactor?It's like it was written just for me!

As a mere imitiation of the original idea, I may try to continue the Star Wars essay concept by creating a marketing analysis on the faulty business model of itinerant Jawa scavengers on Tatooine.It's bugged me for a while, but come on, who starts a family business in the desert looking to collect errant droids?It's the desert! Desert+robot bounty=Return on Investment?Clearly there are much more successful droid scavenger companies out there with a lot less hassle.Amortizing a sandcrawler?The mileage is terrible not to mention the poor fit and finish.Attacks by Tusken raiders?The raiders know where the action is, so why not avoid the unhealthy competition?Sure this work suits the Jawa's disposition, but it's probably safer for them to be a lumberjack, drug dealer, work at Disney, or even be a magician's assistant by far!

Clearly an issue of location, seasonality, and optimization of the Jawa's service industry model.

This book is outstanding.

And the Oscar for 'Spot-On Review' goes to...
...Eric J. Baur "Internet Consumer" (for which, see below on the reviews page).

Holy mother of comedy, Batman!Could a 'humor' anthology be any less humorous?I'll position myself slightly to the left(?) of Baur and say, I thought there was more than just one worthy entry in this volume, but no more than half a handful.And by 'worthy', I don't mean in the sense that they were laugh-out-loud funny, but that they prompted a giggle or two -- moments of almost ecstatic relief in an otherwise completely dreary reading experience.

On the other hand, I'll position myself slightly to the right(?) of Baur and say, much as I, too, despise new-SNL, I'd rather be forced -- Clockwork Orange-style -- to watch new-SNL skit after unending skit -- than be forced to read more Egger picks from the McSweeney's humor archives.

Suggestions for future CiDbTA readers (those with copy in hand): 1. read 'chapter' headings (pausing to chuckle occasionally); 2. skip chapter content; 3. deaccession CiDbTA, by any means necessary, from private collection; 4. never speak of this again.

Great doorknob
I bought this book thinking it would make a good bookstop. Doorknob. Showstopper. Whatever.
I was quite disappointed. This book is not suitable for any kind of portmanteau. It makes you think, however. I had at least three, not, four thoughts while, before, instead and after reading it. For that, I will be inmensely grateful.

Hm.My rating stars may be tainted.
I was so extremely bored by the stories, that the time I got to the lists I was almost falling off of my couch laughing.I loved the lists.Loved.But I must be honest and wonder if this was a true literary effort, or a study regarding the effects of different types of comedy on vaguely intelligent human beings.

If the latter is the case, myself and my boyfriend were tearing the book out of each others hand to giggle endlessly over the absurdity of the contents. ... Read more

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Dark Horse Insider issue #18, Volume 2. June 1993. Includes Star Wars Tales of the Jedi strip continuation part 4, X, Pit Bulls, Ghost, Monster, Manga Art Contest, Sneak Previews, Golden City and more! Arcadia cover art by Frank Miller. ... Read more

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Finally Available~Since 1992, Dia has presented the Robert Lehman Lectures on Contemporary Art. Like the Foundation's "Discussions in Contemporary Culture" symposia series, the Lehman lectures are an example of Dia's ongoing commitment to cross-disciplinary critical and intellectual discourse. The long-term, often site-specific, exhibitions at Dia offer a fertile space for discussion.~Edited by Lynne Cooke and Karen Kelly, together with Bettina Funcke, this second volume of collected theoretical and critical essays are by a multidisciplinary group of lecturers, and are focused on the exhibitions mounted at Dia from 1995 through 1998. Nine diverse contributors range in scope from art historian David Sylvester and philosopher Sarat Maharaj to architectural theoretician Beatriz Colomina, from philosopher Mark Taylor to fiction writer and cultural critic Marina Warner. These writers, among others, take on the challenges of illuminating, analyzing, and exploring the work of a disparate group of internationally recognized artists, including Alighiero e Boetti, Jessica Stockholder, Gerhard Richter, Juan Muñoz, Fred Sandback, and Andy Warhol. Together, the essays in this book present a broad-based account of contemporary artistic practice, criticism, scholarship, and theory.

Edited by Lynne Cooke, Karen KellyBettina Funcke.~Essays by Beatriz Colomina, Juan Maidagan, Dave Hickey, Michael Newman,Robert Farris Thompson,David Sylvester and Marina Warner.~Foreword by Michael Govan.

Paperback, 5.5 x 8 in./200 pgs / 18 color and 100 b & w. ... Read more