To be able to say "Noggle," you first must be able to say "Nah."
Every week, I listen to a pile of records. Well, not a pile. A stack. You see, as I get them out from the shelves to give them a spin, I start stacking them next to the record player not unlike a college student stacking his beer cups at a Milwaukee church fair. As trophies […]
It’s been a bad season for the local book fairs and Brian J. I missed the one in Clever because I didn’t know when it was (although since I’m a Friend of the Clever Library, I probably got a notification that I discarded). I missed the Christian County Library book sale due to car problems. […]
This week, I stopped by the aforementioned book sale twice: The first time, I hit the LPs. The second time, I hit the dollar books. I don’t have a picture of the 42 LPs I bought, but rest assured they include a lot of Frank Sinatra, a couple of Herb Alpert titles I did not […]
Tam K. on collecting the old-fashioned way: (I’m not going the internet auction site route, because it always feels to me like the gun collecting equivalent of hunting over a baited field. It’d be like having a computerized database of exactly what old sports cars are in which barns across the country, or having clear […]
So I snuck off to the book fair in the middle of the day yesterday to check out its selection of LPs and whatnot. Scratch that: The whatnot was eliminated by the sheer number of LPs. I browsed through the ones on the tables (not the ones on the floor), and it took me over […]
You might have thought, gentle reader, that I let you down last week when I only bought a few books in Clever. Oh, but see what I’ve done now in Ozark. In my defense, it was a date night where I treated (or was treated to by) my beautiful wife to a fine Italian dinner […]
What is Herb Alpert’s favorite glass? One might respond a glass of Tequila, but no: This advertisement is from 1993, and, forgive me, I associate Herb Alpert with the 1960s and maybe the 1970s because of his prevalence on LPs. Most of my Herb Alpert LPs are from the early years (The Lonely Bull, Going […]
All right, so I read a book on Swedish history, which led to my new taste for lingonberries and then to commenting on Swedish news. When will it end? When will Brian J. cease with this little blog goofery fixation on Sweden? Not yet. So I mentioned I went to the Friends of the Clever […]
I had a couple of minutes to kill before picking my children up from school yesterday, and instead of going to Hooked on Books and spending a couple minutes browsing the dollar books, I went to a nearby antique mall to browse. Which led to buying some records, and often for more than a dollar […]