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Monthly Archives: February 2009

“What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance.”

  From Liam’s Pictures from Old Books Cooking has long been a hobby of mine and we’ve acquired and sold a few interesting cookbooks, but it’s a specialty that deserves more focused attention than we can generally spare. But the lure of a good cookbook is still undeniable to me. I will even read them [...]

“Satire is a lesson, parody is a game”

art by the great Wally Wood I can’t remember where I received this ridiculous yet captivating collection of Star Wars Mad Magazine parody covers from, but I’m thinking maybe Bookninja. This collection is the perfect amount of Mad for me: a few quick chuckles at the myriad ways Star Wars can be mocked in simple [...]