Category Archives: On the Web

Bookshelf porn

I have seen some of these before, but there are enough new ones to post about it. The typogrphically inspired on remains one of my all time favorites.

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But I have to say that this one…

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What is in a name?

I ran across thebookseller.com’s “Oddest Book Title Prize” this weekend. So far I Was Tortured By the Pygmy Love Queen has my vote. You can vote too, with the winner being announced March 28th.

I mean really “pygmy love queen”? How do you come up with that?

Sci-fi Folk Art

My Cyrillic is a little rusty (ok, non-existent) but I’m pretty sure this one is The Matrix.

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Someone has created artistic panels, in the style of Russian Folk Art, of some of the great science fiction movies. No doubt they were fun do create. There are a few I can’t guess, if you can tell what panel #7 is supposed to be, please clue me in.

A silent scene starring Samuel

According to the YouTube page, this 1m45s film is the only known footage of southern author Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain). It was taken in 1909 at Stormfield, Connecticut.