{"id":35398,"date":"2026-06-25T16:17:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T21:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=35398"},"modified":"2026-06-25T16:17:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T21:17:19","slug":"good-media-hunting-june-25-2026-lutherans-for-life-rummage-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/25\/good-media-hunting-june-25-2026-lutherans-for-life-rummage-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Media Hunting: June 25, 2026: Lutherans For Life Rummage Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or <em>not<\/em>, as it turns out.  In past years (see <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/26\/good-book-hunting-july-24-2016-lutherans-for-life-rummage-sale\/\" target=\"_new\">2016<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/24\/good-book-hunting-115\/\" target=\"_new\">2017<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/21\/good-book-hunting-june-20-2024-the-lutherans-for-life-church-rummage-sale\/\" target=\"_new\">2024<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/20\/good-media-hunting-june-19-2025-the-lutherans-for-life-rummage-sale\/\" target=\"_new\">2025<\/a>), I&#8217;ve come away with stacks of books, videos, and records, but this year, not so much.  There were <em>no records<\/em> I could find (maybe <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/24\/book-report-garage-sale-vinyl-by-christopher-jones-2024\/\" target=\"_new\">Chris Jones<\/a> is still in town and went to &#8220;Lutheran Night&#8221; for $5), and the electronics section was underwhelming (one year, I bought two TI99s there, but that has been a long, long time).  They did have <em>two<\/em> copies of Renoir&#8217;s <em>Little Ir\u00e8ne<\/em>, and I was sorely tempted to buy one or both of them and replace one or more of the non-<em>Little Ir\u00e8ne<\/em> Renoirs in the living room with the new copies to see how long before my beautiful wife said anything, but a whole year is a long time to hold on to them to donate back to the sale next year.<\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s what I got.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gmh06262026.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I got:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One book: <em>Bald Knobbers: Vigilantes on the Ozarks Frontier<\/em> by Mary Hartman and Elmo Ingenthron.<\/li>\n<li>Almost the first two seasons of the television series <em>Monk<\/em> (I&#8217;ve read <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/25\/book-report-mr-monk-goes-to-the-firehouse-by-lee-goldberg-2006\/\" target=\"_new\">Mr. Monk Goes To The Firehouse<\/em><\/a>, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/27\/book-report-mr-monk-goes-to-hawaii-by-lee-goldberg-2006\/\" target=\"_new\">Mr. Monk Goes To Hawaii<\/em><\/a>, and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/16\/book-report-mr-monk-is-miserable-by-lee-goldberg-2008\/\" target=\"_new\">Mr. Monk Is Miserable<\/a><\/em> and really enjoyed them, but that might be more Lee Goldberg than liking the characters or show).  I was <em>almost<\/em> because Season Two is missing the first disc.  Which is probably for the best.  It takes me forever to go through a complete season of a television program as it is.<\/li>\n<li><em>Blade<\/em> and <em>Blade II<\/em>.  Which I might already have, but it never hurts to be sure.<\/li>\n<li><em>Point Break<\/em>, the original.  Which I saw in the theater and must have seen since.  But when?  If I didn&#8217;t note it on the blog, did it really happen?  (If I did note it on the blog, did it really happen?)<\/li>\n<li><em>Superman: The Movie<\/em>.  I think my wife already had it; if we do, it&#8217;s hidden in the to-watch cabinet with this new copy going on top.<\/li>\n<li><em>Father of the Bride<\/em>, a Steve Martin movie.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Ghost and Mrs. Muir<\/em> with Rex Harrison and Gene Tierney.  You and I both know this will be the first thing from this stack that I watch<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Eight dollars total.  Thirteen when you throw in a $5 birthday present for my wife.  A whole twenty because it&#8217;s a good cause.  And I didn&#8217;t have to stop by Stick It In Your Ear Records to buy a new set of mylar record sleeves and to paw through the cheap record crates.  Which my youngest, whom I coshed to come with me, appreciated since time away from the glowing box is time wasted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or not, as it turns out. In past years (see 2016, 2017, 2024, and 2025), I&#8217;ve come away with stacks of books, videos, and records, but this year, not so much. There were no records I could find (maybe Chris Jones is still in town and went to &#8220;Lutheran Night&#8221; for $5), and the electronics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35399,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35398\/revisions\/35399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}