{"id":24004,"date":"2018-12-15T17:46:33","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T23:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=24004"},"modified":"2019-01-03T12:02:19","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T18:02:19","slug":"good-book-album-hunting-december-15-2018-christmas-shopping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/15\/good-book-album-hunting-december-15-2018-christmas-shopping\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Book \/ Album Hunting, December 15, 2018: &#8220;Christmas Shopping&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a couple of hours to myself this afternoon as my children and my beautiful wife prepared for the Sunday School Christmas Program tomorrow.  So I went and did a little bit of Christmas shopping which brought me to ABC Books and Relics Antique Mall, where I found a little something for myself as well.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh147.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>ABC Books posted on social media that they&#8217;ll be closed next week for the annual inventory, so I told the proprietress that I would help by making it so they didn&#8217;t have to count so high.<\/p>\n<p>I got:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Cold, Dark Night<\/em> by Mike Daniels, a short story chapbook whose author had a book signing today.<\/li>\n<li><em>Games Zen Masters Play<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><em>Pragmatism<\/em> by William James, which I would be surpised if I didn&#8217;t own in some form already.<\/li>\n<li><em>Taekwondo Kyorugi: Olympic Style Sparring<\/em> to see if I can learn any new tricks since everyone at the dojo has seen my old tricks.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Martial Artists Way<\/em> by Sifu Glen Doyle and with a forward by Elvis Stojko.  Because if anything screams authentic martial arts, it&#8217;s an intro by a male figure skater.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Paper Dragon<\/em> by Evan Hunter.  I told the proprietress that he was better known as Ed McBain, but his birth name was Sal Lombino (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ed_McBain\" target=\"_new\">look it up<\/a>).  I am a font of knowledge.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have more books than I could ever read at this point, <em>but not more books than I want<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I also picked up a couple records at Relics (but not the Phoebe Snow album that <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/01\/good-album-hunting-november-30-2018-christmas-shopping-at-relics-antique-mall\/\" target=\"_new\">I spotted earlier<\/em><\/a> but seems to have disappeared).  Browsing records is getting to be painful at the antique mall as the prices still are climbing.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, I got:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Gentle Is My Love<\/em> by Nancy Wilson, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/12\/14\/obituaries\/nancy-wilson-dead-jazz-singer.html?fbclid=IwAR06Rl7H39i7-_mhZ1F6Ib8d6pTFz2533Vx9LdcrqSj7452D7rk2r3RhSLY\" target=\"_new\">died earlier this week<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><em>Passion Fruit<\/em> by Michael Franks since WSIE is feeding me a steady diet of his song &#8220;The Lady Wants To Know&#8221; (which is not on this album).<\/li>\n<li><em>Prisoner in Disguise<\/em> by Linda Ronstadt because by Linda Ronstadt.  QED.<\/li>\n<li><em>Inside Moves<\/em> by Grover Washington, Jr., because who doesn&#8217;t like sax?<\/li>\n<li><em>The Misty Sax of Ace Cannon<\/em> because who doesn&#8217;t like sax?  Do I have to repeat myself?<\/li>\n<li><em>Dream with Dean<\/em> by Dean Martin.  I think I already have it, but the cover on this is cherry.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I think I&#8217;ve fallen out of the &#8220;One for you, one for me&#8221; protocol this year in Christmas shopping, but I&#8217;m still <em>spending<\/em> more on others than myself, but that&#8217;s only because I&#8217;m avoiding the eight dollar LPs.  <em>For now.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a couple of hours to myself this afternoon as my children and my beautiful wife prepared for the Sunday School Christmas Program tomorrow. 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