I've never heard of this...pretty cool though, especially considering I went to a booksale at a local library today (and found a copy of VENUS ON A HALF SHELL by Kilgour Trout!)

I saw author Michael Chabon speak last month and talked a long while about Whacky Packages...it's funny to see a coffee table book about them now.

I just listened to this episode today at the gym.

***SPOILER****

Is it wrong of me to think that the main loan huckster guy they interviewed got what he deserved now that he can't pay his own bills?

Nice! My wife is a grad student there (Library Sciences FTW!) so we'll have to check it out.

@Xeni

Best whiner rebuttal ever.

I just finished this book yesterday. It was very good - his examination of Cormac McCarthy's THE ROAD and Howard Chaykin's AMERICAN FLAGG! were the highlights, in my opinion.

I always say that if a beer needs something added to it after the fact, then that beer is crap.

I had the Black Monarch's Castle (so awesome!) and I begged my mom for the monorail, but never got it. Now, I'm begging my wife to let me buy some of the Indiana Jones stuff. They would be the first Lego sets I've bought in at least a decade.

I spent an hour on the phone the other night talking to a friend about this very book and HST in general (he's read it, I haven't). I guess I have to pick it up now that it's got Boing Boing's approval as well. Doubly good.

But seriously, everyday I wish HST was alive just to cover the campaign. I don't think there will ever be another person that can dissect a candidate like Thompson could.

I love that Aquaman. If DC published an Aquaman book with that look, I would definitely pick it up.

I really have to believe that that family was making it all up. I HAVE to believe.

Seriously, people, we have to stop with the "does this really belong on Boing Boing?" crap. Just stop it. The great thing about Boing Boing is that you can read the serious stuff and you can read the off-the-wall crap, or you can just ignore everything. If you want control over the postings go to Digg or create your own damn blog.

I like Jack of Fables, but I personally feel that a "Tales of"-style book would have been better suited for the Fables universe. Instead of only focusing on Jack, we could have more stories with the Farm animals, or those Fables that are out spying in the world. But I'll take what I can get when it comes to Fables.

Oh man, what a great idea. I hate trying to fill large bottles in the sink because half the water stream goes down the drain. To me, this thing is a "duh" moment. Why hadn't somebody thought of this before?

I've always heard that if a Simpson's movie was made it would signal the end of the show. Is that still true? Can fans expect a second movie?

Boing Boing TV? Oh, this is hot. People look at me funny when I say I don't have cable. Stuff like Boing Boing TV is ten times better than the crap that's on $60/month cable.

While I would not recommend this book to any of my younger students, it's definitely not any worse than the crap kids see on prime time TV. BTW, this is one of the best issues of Eightball, in my opinion.