August 2008
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Boat - Topps
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WatchPaul Mawhinney was born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA. Over the years he has amassed what has become the world’s largest record collection. Now, at an advancing age, stricken with diabetes and legally blind, Paul wants to sell the collection.
It’s been appraised at about $50 million, but Paul is asking a mere $3 million.
Mygazines Offers Full Magazine Scans Online →
Enjoy it while it lasts.
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I’ve been reading a lot of Daniel Clowes lately and halfway through David Boring I figured out the thing that kind of bothers me about his work: he loves to throw murders and killings into his comics (and movies) without his characters hardly affected by them. In the opening pages of David Boring, Boring’s friend SPOILER is murdered. Whatever, shrugs David, he felt uncomfortable around...
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Remember This? A project to record everything we... →
Aaron showed me his album collection last night—he burns each and every one, all 4,700+, to data disc—and I was reminded of this article and the concept of lifelogging.
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Omega The Unknown, A Look At A Remarkable Marvel... →
The collected Omega the Unknown will undoubtedly be a much anticipated book with its quirky take on the original. The following excerpt from Lethem’s novel, The Fortress of Solitude, is an apt introduction to his retelling of the Marvel Comics classic:
The heralded Omega? He turns out to be a mute superhero from another planet, pretty much Black Bolt mated with Superman, if you allowed the...
Gisele Bundchen just totally walked by Aaron and I with two cones of soft serve on Newbury St. Totally. She made her way to her All-Pro boyfriend’s Lexus parked and then things got pretty hot and heavy. From less than ten feet we watched as they seriously made out—ice creams in hand—in the front seat of the car. And I swear to you he drove away before they unlocked lips.
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"The Dinner Party" by Joshua Ferris (The New... →
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She & Him - Sentimental Heart
As if Zooey...
Rainn Wilson on Fresh Air →
Has the total cast of The Office now been on Fresh Air? This makes at least four. Or three. And Ricky Gervais.
Brian once pointed out that when Terry Gross says “Fresh Air” it sounds like “Fresh HAIR.”
gOS Space Adds Mac-Like Looks to a Free Linux... →
I’ve been wanting to get a new laptop, one that’s small and light enough to carry at all times, and I’m thinking about getting some sort of cheap netbook and installing this as an alternative to a Macbook Air.