08/30/03 SAT:
---Text to follow?
Wednesday, August 27, 2003
08/27/03 WED:
---Mainly processed orders today, but I did get a weblog entry for 8/19/03 put up (not so many things to check over or links to set up).
---Heard from Chaosium:
Hi Chris,
We've moved since I got this last email from you. We have released at least
DISCIPLES OF CTHULHU II, THE WHITE PEOPLE (Machen) is at the printer, we'll
have a restock on NAMELESS CULTS on Wednesday. We no longer use Wizard's
Attic for fulfillment. We would be interested in resuming relations with
you. If interested, please feel free to contact me either phone or email.
Please also note our new address and phone numbers.
---I know I ordered these things before, but I will do so again now, because I know I have a few people who want them. I think I still have NAMELESS CULTS already in stock.
---Discologue:
- J.S. Bach TRIO SONATAS
- Szigeti/Schnabel MOZART/BEETHOVEN SONATAS
---Mainly processed orders today, but I did get a weblog entry for 8/19/03 put up (not so many things to check over or links to set up).
---Heard from Chaosium:
Hi Chris,
We've moved since I got this last email from you. We have released at least
DISCIPLES OF CTHULHU II, THE WHITE PEOPLE (Machen) is at the printer, we'll
have a restock on NAMELESS CULTS on Wednesday. We no longer use Wizard's
Attic for fulfillment. We would be interested in resuming relations with
you. If interested, please feel free to contact me either phone or email.
Please also note our new address and phone numbers.
---I know I ordered these things before, but I will do so again now, because I know I have a few people who want them. I think I still have NAMELESS CULTS already in stock.
---Discologue:
- J.S. Bach TRIO SONATAS
- Szigeti/Schnabel MOZART/BEETHOVEN SONATAS
08/26/03 TUE:
---Here now:
Blackwood, Algernon THE LOST VALLEY and Other Stories, Stark House, 7/03, (visionary horror; Simon Clark intro), new 17.95
---Still can’t find a web presence for Stark House, so no link.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice THE ETERNAL SAVAGE: Nu of the Neocene, Bison Frontiers of the Imagination '03, (Tom Deitz intro), new 11.95
Copper, Basil THE HOUSE OF THE WOLF, Sarob Press, 7/03, (orig; Arkham House, 1983; adds intro by author and afterwod by Stephen Jones who also provides interior illos), new in dj 42.50
Evenson, Brian THE BROTHERHOOD OF MUTILATION, Earthling Publications, 8/03, 1st, one of 315 SIGNED copies, (Paul Di Filippo intro), 48-page booklet, new 10.00
Lasley, Roger UNPAINTED, UNFINISHED, UNSTAINED, '03, (even more guitar solos & duets ), CD, new 15.00
---Good stuff.
---Back in stock:
CONJUNCTIONS: 39 (The New Wave Fabulists), Bard, 2nd, (Straub [guest editor]), new 15.00
---Conjunctions link leads to Issue #40 (which looks good) at the moment (9/03). Click on Archives and then issue #39 to get to the contents of this issue. The URL is the same all the way.
Dowling, Terry BLUE TYSON, Aphelion '92, 1st, (intro by Jack Vance), new 10.00
---AN INTIMATE KNOWLEDGE OF THE NIGHT, Aphelion '95, 1st, (stories), new $10
---TWILIGHT BEACH, Aphelion '93, 1st, (stories; Australian SF cosmology), new $10
McNamara, Peter & Margaret Winch (eds) ALIEN SHORES, Aphelion '94, (A Landmark Collection of Australian SF; Damien Broderick intro; 603 pgs), new $15
---Discologue:
- Sarah Vaughan KEN BURNS JAZZ
- John Coltrane KEN BURNS JAZZ
- Blur THE BEST OF BLUR (2CD) - bonus live disc (Xgau: A Minus)
---Rec’d this email from Belgium:
Dear Chris
I hope your still alive?? :-)
---My reply:
"I think I am still alive, but I guess that depends on which parallel universe this is. I sometimes wonder."
---Here now:
Blackwood, Algernon THE LOST VALLEY and Other Stories, Stark House, 7/03, (visionary horror; Simon Clark intro), new 17.95
---Still can’t find a web presence for Stark House, so no link.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice THE ETERNAL SAVAGE: Nu of the Neocene, Bison Frontiers of the Imagination '03, (Tom Deitz intro), new 11.95
Copper, Basil THE HOUSE OF THE WOLF, Sarob Press, 7/03, (orig; Arkham House, 1983; adds intro by author and afterwod by Stephen Jones who also provides interior illos), new in dj 42.50
Evenson, Brian THE BROTHERHOOD OF MUTILATION, Earthling Publications, 8/03, 1st, one of 315 SIGNED copies, (Paul Di Filippo intro), 48-page booklet, new 10.00
Lasley, Roger UNPAINTED, UNFINISHED, UNSTAINED, '03, (even more guitar solos & duets ), CD, new 15.00
---Good stuff.
---Back in stock:
CONJUNCTIONS: 39 (The New Wave Fabulists), Bard, 2nd, (Straub [guest editor]), new 15.00
---Conjunctions link leads to Issue #40 (which looks good) at the moment (9/03). Click on Archives and then issue #39 to get to the contents of this issue. The URL is the same all the way.
Dowling, Terry BLUE TYSON, Aphelion '92, 1st, (intro by Jack Vance), new 10.00
---AN INTIMATE KNOWLEDGE OF THE NIGHT, Aphelion '95, 1st, (stories), new $10
---TWILIGHT BEACH, Aphelion '93, 1st, (stories; Australian SF cosmology), new $10
McNamara, Peter & Margaret Winch (eds) ALIEN SHORES, Aphelion '94, (A Landmark Collection of Australian SF; Damien Broderick intro; 603 pgs), new $15
---Discologue:
- Sarah Vaughan KEN BURNS JAZZ
- John Coltrane KEN BURNS JAZZ
- Blur THE BEST OF BLUR (2CD) - bonus live disc (Xgau: A Minus)
---Rec’d this email from Belgium:
Dear Chris
I hope your still alive?? :-)
---My reply:
"I think I am still alive, but I guess that depends on which parallel universe this is. I sometimes wonder."
Monday, August 25, 2003
08/25/03 MON:
---Now that school is back in session I am hoping that the summer doldrumms that seem to have overwhelmed me (or at least slowed me down to a feeble pace) will give way to a period of renewed vigor. High in priority is the catching up on this weblog space.
---Not such a good start this morning, however, when I went down to the cellar to find I had left the dehumidifier basket slightly ajar, causing its auto-shutoff feature to malfunction. A goodly amount of overflow onto the floor made me to have to move quite a few boxes around, with not much around to be found. Fortunately I only put boxes of old magazines on the bottoms of stacks, so if they got wet it is no great catastrophe. Evenso, it looks like the magazines did not even get damp. Three bottom boxes soaked up a bit of moisture, but they will still be usable when they dry out, as they are doing now with certain alacrity on our back porch, where the sun is blistering again today. These are those boughten Store-Away boxes that stack well and provide good insulation for their contents.
---Now that school is back in session I am hoping that the summer doldrumms that seem to have overwhelmed me (or at least slowed me down to a feeble pace) will give way to a period of renewed vigor. High in priority is the catching up on this weblog space.
---Not such a good start this morning, however, when I went down to the cellar to find I had left the dehumidifier basket slightly ajar, causing its auto-shutoff feature to malfunction. A goodly amount of overflow onto the floor made me to have to move quite a few boxes around, with not much around to be found. Fortunately I only put boxes of old magazines on the bottoms of stacks, so if they got wet it is no great catastrophe. Evenso, it looks like the magazines did not even get damp. Three bottom boxes soaked up a bit of moisture, but they will still be usable when they dry out, as they are doing now with certain alacrity on our back porch, where the sun is blistering again today. These are those boughten Store-Away boxes that stack well and provide good insulation for their contents.
08/20/03 WED:
---From Golden Gryphon:
Kelly, James Patrick THINK LIKE A DINOSAUR and Other Stories, Golden Gryphon '03, (first major retrospective; Kessel forword), {hc in dj still avail. @ 22.95}, new 15.95
---But I wonder how many more of those hcs I might have. This was Golden Gryphon book #1 back in 1997, now out of print in hardcover.
---Back in stock:
Bishop, Michael BRIGHTEN TO INCANDESCENCE, Golden Gryphon '03, 1st edn, new in dj 24.95
---Disc Log:
- The Fabulous Thunderbirds T-BIRD RHYTHM (Xgau: B Plus)
- Panjabi MC BEWARE (Xgau: A Minus)
- Ella Fitzgerald KEN BURNS JAZZ (Xgau: A Plus)
---From Golden Gryphon:
Kelly, James Patrick THINK LIKE A DINOSAUR and Other Stories, Golden Gryphon '03, (first major retrospective; Kessel forword), {hc in dj still avail. @ 22.95}, new 15.95
---But I wonder how many more of those hcs I might have. This was Golden Gryphon book #1 back in 1997, now out of print in hardcover.
---Back in stock:
Bishop, Michael BRIGHTEN TO INCANDESCENCE, Golden Gryphon '03, 1st edn, new in dj 24.95
---Disc Log:
- The Fabulous Thunderbirds T-BIRD RHYTHM (Xgau: B Plus)
- Panjabi MC BEWARE (Xgau: A Minus)
- Ella Fitzgerald KEN BURNS JAZZ (Xgau: A Plus)
08/19/03 TUE:
---Catalogued today:
Costello, Mark BIG IF, Norton '02, 1st edn, (governmental novel), new in dj 24.95
Geyh, Paula, Fred G. Leebron & Andrew Levy (eds) POSTMODERN AMERICAN FICTION: A Norton Anthology, 5th, (stimulating, capacious), new 25.95
---Back in stock:
Kelly, Walt POGO: Volume Nine, Fantagraphics, 6/98, (cartoon collections), new 9.95
---POGO: Volume Eleven, Fantagraphics, 6/00, (comic strips), vg+ (actually “as new but back cover creased”) 7.50
---Discologue:
- Wide Right WIDE RIGHT (Xgau: A Minus)
- Sonic Youth TEXAS, 1986: Live at the Continental Club
- MC5 TEEN AGE LUST
- RAGGA RAGGA RAGGA! 2003 (Xgau: A Minus)
---Catalogued today:
Costello, Mark BIG IF, Norton '02, 1st edn, (governmental novel), new in dj 24.95
Geyh, Paula, Fred G. Leebron & Andrew Levy (eds) POSTMODERN AMERICAN FICTION: A Norton Anthology, 5th, (stimulating, capacious), new 25.95
---Back in stock:
Kelly, Walt POGO: Volume Nine, Fantagraphics, 6/98, (cartoon collections), new 9.95
---POGO: Volume Eleven, Fantagraphics, 6/00, (comic strips), vg+ (actually “as new but back cover creased”) 7.50
---Discologue:
- Wide Right WIDE RIGHT (Xgau: A Minus)
- Sonic Youth TEXAS, 1986: Live at the Continental Club
- MC5 TEEN AGE LUST
- RAGGA RAGGA RAGGA! 2003 (Xgau: A Minus)
Monday, August 18, 2003
08/18/03 MON:
---This back in stock:
Chesbro, George C. THE KEEPER, Apache Beach, 3/01, (fantasy with incredible action), new / dj 26.95
---Here today:
Hartwell, David G. & Kathryn Cramer (eds) YEAR'S BEST FANTASY 2, SFBC ('02), new in dj 10.99
Jepson, Edgar THE GARDEN AT 19, Midnight House ('02), (orig; 1910), new in dj $40
---Disc Log:
- Jimmie Rodgers RCA COUNTRY LEGENDS (Xgau: A)
- Charles Mingus THE CLOWN
- Count Basie KEN BURNS JAZZ
---This back in stock:
Chesbro, George C. THE KEEPER, Apache Beach, 3/01, (fantasy with incredible action), new / dj 26.95
---Here today:
Hartwell, David G. & Kathryn Cramer (eds) YEAR'S BEST FANTASY 2, SFBC ('02), new in dj 10.99
Jepson, Edgar THE GARDEN AT 19, Midnight House ('02), (orig; 1910), new in dj $40
---Disc Log:
- Jimmie Rodgers RCA COUNTRY LEGENDS (Xgau: A)
- Charles Mingus THE CLOWN
- Count Basie KEN BURNS JAZZ
08/15/03 FRI:
---Here today:
Effinger, George Alec BUDAYEEN NIGHTS, Golden Gryphon '03, 1st edn, (foreword and story intros by Barbara Hambly; near-future cyberpunk), new in dj 24.95
---Catalogued today, these new ones from Apache Beach:
Chesbro, George C. LONE WOLVES: Short Fiction, Apache Beach, 6/03, new 16.99
---PRISM: A Memoir As Fiction, Volume 1: The Dark Engine, Apache Beach, 6/03, (plumbs the shadowy depths of a writer's badly bruised heart), new 16.99 (formerly available in hc)
---These back in stock from Apache Beach:
Chesbro, George C. AN AFFAIR OF SORCERERS, Apache Beach, 11/99, SIGNED (as are the others listed below), (1979 Mongo mystery; #3 in series), new 16.99
---THE BEASTS OF VALHALLA, Apache Beach, 11/99, (Mongo #4; mys), new 16.99
---BLEEDING IN THE EYE OF A BRAINSTORM, Apache Beach, 1/02, new 16.99
---CITY OF WHISPERING STONE, Apache Beach, 11/99, (Mongo #2; mys), new 16.99
---DREAM OF A FALLING EAGLE, Apache Beach, 1/02, (Mongo #14; mystery), new 16.99
---SHADOW OF A BROKEN MAN, Apache Beach, 11/99, (Mongo #1; mys), new 16.99
---TWO SONGS THIS ARCHANGEL SINGS, Apache Beach, 11/99, (Mongo #5; mys), new 16.99
---all these are signed by the author, thanks to the offer.
---Disc Log:
- Art Pepper NO LIMIT
- Youssou N’Dour & Le Super Etoile REWMI (Xgau: A Minus)
- Roger Lasley WHAT CHEER ROAD - guitar picking at its best, available from me ($15), as are all the Roger CDs; this one was his first issue
---Here today:
Effinger, George Alec BUDAYEEN NIGHTS, Golden Gryphon '03, 1st edn, (foreword and story intros by Barbara Hambly; near-future cyberpunk), new in dj 24.95
---Catalogued today, these new ones from Apache Beach:
Chesbro, George C. LONE WOLVES: Short Fiction, Apache Beach, 6/03, new 16.99
---PRISM: A Memoir As Fiction, Volume 1: The Dark Engine, Apache Beach, 6/03, (plumbs the shadowy depths of a writer's badly bruised heart), new 16.99 (formerly available in hc)
---These back in stock from Apache Beach:
Chesbro, George C. AN AFFAIR OF SORCERERS, Apache Beach, 11/99, SIGNED (as are the others listed below), (1979 Mongo mystery; #3 in series), new 16.99
---THE BEASTS OF VALHALLA, Apache Beach, 11/99, (Mongo #4; mys), new 16.99
---BLEEDING IN THE EYE OF A BRAINSTORM, Apache Beach, 1/02, new 16.99
---CITY OF WHISPERING STONE, Apache Beach, 11/99, (Mongo #2; mys), new 16.99
---DREAM OF A FALLING EAGLE, Apache Beach, 1/02, (Mongo #14; mystery), new 16.99
---SHADOW OF A BROKEN MAN, Apache Beach, 11/99, (Mongo #1; mys), new 16.99
---TWO SONGS THIS ARCHANGEL SINGS, Apache Beach, 11/99, (Mongo #5; mys), new 16.99
---all these are signed by the author, thanks to the offer.
---Disc Log:
- Art Pepper NO LIMIT
- Youssou N’Dour & Le Super Etoile REWMI (Xgau: A Minus)
- Roger Lasley WHAT CHEER ROAD - guitar picking at its best, available from me ($15), as are all the Roger CDs; this one was his first issue
Wednesday, August 13, 2003
08/13/03 WED:
---These here today:
Eskridge, Kelley SOLITAIRE, Eos, 9/02, 1st edn, (debut novel), new in dj 24.95
Le Guin, Ursula K. THE DISPOSSESSED, Perennial Classics '03, 1st thus, new 13.95
---THE LATHE OF HEAVEN, Perennial Classics '03, 1st thus, new 12.95
PURPLE PROSE #17, 7/03, (Terrill Tales: Reign of the Rajah by Will Murray, about influential pulp editor at Popular Publications, Rogers Terrill; more), new 5.00
Tapply, William G. THE SNAKE EATER/THE SEVENTH ENEMY/CLOSE TO THE BONE: A Brady Coyne Omnibus, St. Martin’s Minotaur, 10/00, new 17.95
Wangerin, Walter, Jr. THE BOOK OF THE DUN COW: Special 25th Anniversary Edition, HarperSanFrancisco '03, 1st thus, (adds new afterword), new 13.95
---Music played:
- Son Seals LIVE AND BURNING (Xgau: A Minus)
- Badly Drawn Boy HAVE YOU FED THE FISH? (Xgau: A Minus)
- 40 YEARS AND ONE: Philip Corner Plays the Piano (an XI Records promotional freebie)
---These here today:
Eskridge, Kelley SOLITAIRE, Eos, 9/02, 1st edn, (debut novel), new in dj 24.95
Le Guin, Ursula K. THE DISPOSSESSED, Perennial Classics '03, 1st thus, new 13.95
---THE LATHE OF HEAVEN, Perennial Classics '03, 1st thus, new 12.95
PURPLE PROSE #17, 7/03, (Terrill Tales: Reign of the Rajah by Will Murray, about influential pulp editor at Popular Publications, Rogers Terrill; more), new 5.00
Tapply, William G. THE SNAKE EATER/THE SEVENTH ENEMY/CLOSE TO THE BONE: A Brady Coyne Omnibus, St. Martin’s Minotaur, 10/00, new 17.95
Wangerin, Walter, Jr. THE BOOK OF THE DUN COW: Special 25th Anniversary Edition, HarperSanFrancisco '03, 1st thus, (adds new afterword), new 13.95
---Music played:
- Son Seals LIVE AND BURNING (Xgau: A Minus)
- Badly Drawn Boy HAVE YOU FED THE FISH? (Xgau: A Minus)
- 40 YEARS AND ONE: Philip Corner Plays the Piano (an XI Records promotional freebie)
08/12/03 TUE:
---Got a slow start owing to reshelving books. Five-mile run too.
---Here today:
Boyle, T. Coraghessan DROP CITY, Viking '03, 1st, (1970 hippies), new in dj 25.95
De Lint, Charles WAIFS AND STRAYS, Viking '02, 1st, (stories; Windling preface), new in dj 17.99
---(writer) & Charles Vess (illus) A CIRCLE OF CATS, Viking '03, 1st, new in dj 16.99
Lee, Tanith A BED OF EARTH, Overlook '02, 1st edn, (Secret Books of Venus #3), new in dj 25.95
---WOLF QUEEN, Dutton, 4th, (Claidi Journals #3), new in dj 16.99
Yorke, Malcolm MERVYN PEAKE: My Eyes Mint Gold, A Life, Overlook '02, 1st edn, (incisive and immensely readable biography; 368 pages), new in dj 37.50
---Discologue:
- THE KINGS OF HIGHLIFE (Xgau: A Minus)
- THE COMPLETE STAX/VOLT SOUL SINGLES Volume 3: 1972-1975 (Disc 9)
---Got a slow start owing to reshelving books. Five-mile run too.
---Here today:
Boyle, T. Coraghessan DROP CITY, Viking '03, 1st, (1970 hippies), new in dj 25.95
De Lint, Charles WAIFS AND STRAYS, Viking '02, 1st, (stories; Windling preface), new in dj 17.99
---(writer) & Charles Vess (illus) A CIRCLE OF CATS, Viking '03, 1st, new in dj 16.99
Lee, Tanith A BED OF EARTH, Overlook '02, 1st edn, (Secret Books of Venus #3), new in dj 25.95
---WOLF QUEEN, Dutton, 4th, (Claidi Journals #3), new in dj 16.99
Yorke, Malcolm MERVYN PEAKE: My Eyes Mint Gold, A Life, Overlook '02, 1st edn, (incisive and immensely readable biography; 368 pages), new in dj 37.50
---Discologue:
- THE KINGS OF HIGHLIFE (Xgau: A Minus)
- THE COMPLETE STAX/VOLT SOUL SINGLES Volume 3: 1972-1975 (Disc 9)
Monday, August 11, 2003
08/11/03 MON:
---This weblog should be the place, even if all other evidences fail, where if someone is interested, they can find out if I am still alive. But lately even this has not been the case. I have fallen way behind in getting these posts put up. I won’t recite what excuses I might or might not have. Some of the reasons might become implicit in the content of intervening entries. Suffice it to say that I want to get caught up so I can keep these posts more contemporaneous. Instead of try to play catch-up by putting up the oldest entries and trying to work my way to the present, I will set up blank entries for the missing days, to be filled in as time and volition allow. I hope I can henceforth put up more recent entries on a more current-time basis. That way things will be in their proper order when they do appear, and I can still write things like this here and have them apply to the day they were posted.
---This weblog should be the place, even if all other evidences fail, where if someone is interested, they can find out if I am still alive. But lately even this has not been the case. I have fallen way behind in getting these posts put up. I won’t recite what excuses I might or might not have. Some of the reasons might become implicit in the content of intervening entries. Suffice it to say that I want to get caught up so I can keep these posts more contemporaneous. Instead of try to play catch-up by putting up the oldest entries and trying to work my way to the present, I will set up blank entries for the missing days, to be filled in as time and volition allow. I hope I can henceforth put up more recent entries on a more current-time basis. That way things will be in their proper order when they do appear, and I can still write things like this here and have them apply to the day they were posted.
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