Michael Popek's Blog, page 216
February 2, 2013
Giveaway winner
This week's winner was
Debbie
, who entered right here on Forgotten Bookmarks.
I see you have your email in your Blogger profile, so I'll send you a note in a moment.
Thanks to all who entered, see you next week.
I see you have your email in your Blogger profile, so I'll send you a note in a moment.
Thanks to all who entered, see you next week.
February 1, 2013
Friday Giveaway: 16 Vintage Classics (contest closed)
Another batch of vintage books this week.
Contest now closed, winner announced in a moment.
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Friday Giveaway: 16 Vintage Classics
January 31, 2013
The Most Beautiful Woman In Great Britain
Newspaper clipping:HER GRACE, THE DUCHESS OF LEINSTER
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN IN GREAT BRITAIN WHO DIED TUESDAY
Found in "The Life of Cicero" by Conyers Middleton. Published by Wells and Lilly, 1818.
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January 30, 2013
Excelled By None
Trade card advertising Prince Albert Cigarettes, as sold by Geo. W. Helme, 133 Water Street, New York.Found in "The Recollections of Felix Mendelssohn" by Eduard Devrient. Published by Richard Bentley, 1869.
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January 29, 2013
Ask The Blind Man How You Look
A truly odd note. I left in the grammatical and spelling errors, but threw in an occasional paragraph break to make it readable (OK, more readable) -
The lingering memories and the stench of reality is enough to make a crazy-man sain. With our thoughts controlled by superficiality and political correctness. By the time you fit in, is the same time you realize that you are more like a character on a sit com then yourself. So when the pirate (?) comes, and he will come, take the advice he gives you.
So you watch re-runs of M.A.S.H. and stupid commercials, performed by carrot top, you realize your being corrupted by your television and the stupid ideas of some executive of NBC. It must have been amazing for a little Indian boy to fish a never seen before stream that lays unmolested (?) and unpolluted by man. But its man's destiny to corrupt and manipulate the stream for his own benefit. The day comes when the stream has been over fished and is now undesirable to the common man. It takes the demented (?) man to be drawn to the beauty (?) to the water that is poluted and unpure. Where fresh water use to flow, fungus grows. The fish the stream use to hold are no longer there and the stream has become undesirable, but there is something buetiful with the river's ugliness. Beauty has corrupted me to a point were I can't tell the ugly child how cute he is. I want my cake and eat it now.
The laundry in the wash is clean but stinks of mildew. Left for too long and that will happen time and time again. Irresponsibility leads to mildew smelling clothes. Take advice from the stupid man because you might be surprised at the truth in his simple ideas. Ask the blind man how you look because perception becomes a reality. Reality is a perception because perception becomes a reality. If an idea is agreed upon being true it is then and only then that it becomes true even if it is a lie. Wars are fought over ideas.
Found in "Lost Hollywood" by David Wallace. Published by LA Weekly Books, 2001.
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The lingering memories and the stench of reality is enough to make a crazy-man sain. With our thoughts controlled by superficiality and political correctness. By the time you fit in, is the same time you realize that you are more like a character on a sit com then yourself. So when the pirate (?) comes, and he will come, take the advice he gives you.
So you watch re-runs of M.A.S.H. and stupid commercials, performed by carrot top, you realize your being corrupted by your television and the stupid ideas of some executive of NBC. It must have been amazing for a little Indian boy to fish a never seen before stream that lays unmolested (?) and unpolluted by man. But its man's destiny to corrupt and manipulate the stream for his own benefit. The day comes when the stream has been over fished and is now undesirable to the common man. It takes the demented (?) man to be drawn to the beauty (?) to the water that is poluted and unpure. Where fresh water use to flow, fungus grows. The fish the stream use to hold are no longer there and the stream has become undesirable, but there is something buetiful with the river's ugliness. Beauty has corrupted me to a point were I can't tell the ugly child how cute he is. I want my cake and eat it now.
The laundry in the wash is clean but stinks of mildew. Left for too long and that will happen time and time again. Irresponsibility leads to mildew smelling clothes. Take advice from the stupid man because you might be surprised at the truth in his simple ideas. Ask the blind man how you look because perception becomes a reality. Reality is a perception because perception becomes a reality. If an idea is agreed upon being true it is then and only then that it becomes true even if it is a lie. Wars are fought over ideas.
Found in "Lost Hollywood" by David Wallace. Published by LA Weekly Books, 2001.
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January 26, 2013
Giveaway winner
This week's winner is Giselle Feuillet-Tunis, who entered over on Facebook.
Thanks to everyone who entered, see you next week!
Thanks to everyone who entered, see you next week!
January 25, 2013
Friday Giveaway: 15 Vintage Classics (contest closed)
Contest now closed, winner announced shortly.
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Friday Giveaway: 15 Vintage Classics
January 24, 2013
Target Practice
I found this poor soul of a book this morning, looks like someone used it for target practice.
You can see the embedded BBs or buckshot pellets that are still left, a few have fallen out over the years.
The book is "Herbert Hoover: A Reminiscent Biography" by Will Irwin, published by Grosset and Dunlap, 1928.
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