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The Current Gas Prices
Lest The Bookshelf® return to its former rant-happy ways, here’s one with some general positivity. What with gas prices getting higher than friend of The Bookshelf® and noted ginger ale enthusiast J Calloway at a ginger ale festival, it looks like we’re back to more reasonable numbers on the boards. The $2.399 low price in […]
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Once Again Being One Up on the Mass Media Or The Critical Reception to Jackass: Number Two
It’s well known that aside from some misinformed old-cootedness about video games, we hold Roger Ebert in pretty high esteem around these parts. His cancer-surgery-turned-surgical-complications has taken him out of the reviewing game since mid-summer, and though no announcements have been made, I’m guessing he won’t be back until “Oscar season” starts in mid-November. Regardless, […]
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The Death of WKAP
WKAP failed in its bid to be the real version of WKRP. It was not based in Cincinatti. Call me lame. I like oldies music. Not like the sleepy old easy listening fifties stuff that you’re used to thinking about when you think of AM radio. I’m talking about the British Invasion of 1965, the […]
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Pirates Magazine Premier Issue – The Cover
The first in what might be a series of reviews. I was at the bookstore the other day, more-or-less stocking up for what ended up being a fictional trip to China, and after picking out a selection of books, I wandered over to the magazine section of Borders. The goal of magazines at a newstand-type […]
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Fancy-Schmancy Pet Food
If they’re good enough for gourmet food, they’re good enough for Iraq. Photos courtesy of www.petsinuniform.com. Check out their “exotics” page TODAY! I’m curious to see what The Bookshelf’s current vet-in-training has to say about this, if anything. I don’t understand the appeal things like this. Yes, that’s right, “premium holistic gourmet dog and cat […]
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Putting Things on Notice
I’m calling you out, Andy Dick! I read on a semi-well-known TV blog that this guy created an internet page that generated Stephen Colbet-style “On Notice” lists. All you have to do is type in whatever you want to put on notice, hit a button and a picture will be generated that you’ll be able […]