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Weekend Getaways: The Creation Museum, KY
IMG_3308.JPG, from a photoset originally uploaded by Dr JonboyG.
“The Creation Museum presents a “walk through history.” Designed by a former Universal Studios exhibit director, this state-of-the-art 60,000 square foot museum brings the pages of the Bible to life… [With] over fifty exotic animals, life-sized people and dinosaur animatronics, and a special-effects theater complete with misty sea breezes and rumbling seats.”
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Fletcher Hanks Dropin’ A-Bombs
Wow just got the word that the new book of Fletcher Hanks comics is set to land this week. For most of us our first taste of this undercover genius was from the few pages reprinted in the awesome book Art Out of Time, and even with that books steller line up of underground and obscure weirdness from bygone days. Fletcher Hanks was easily the best thing in there.
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Fletcher Hanks Dropin' A-Bombs
Wow just got the word that the new book of Fletcher Hanks comics is set to land this week. For most of us our first taste of this undercover genius was from the few pages reprinted in the awesome book Art Out of Time, and even with that books steller line up of underground and obscure weirdness from bygone days. Fletcher Hanks was easily the best thing in there.
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Chris Nieratko, author of SKINEMA
After a hit column in VICE Magazine about his past seven years of drug-induced exploits, Chris Nieratko and VICE Books have published Skinema. A detailed account of his life as the editor of Big Brother skateboard magazine, VICE columnist and a co-founder of the legendary Jackass crew, Skinema is the ultimate tell-all of a life of great excess.
Chris is a remarkably charismatic guy, and can tell stories that will captivate anyone. Along with signing books, expect Chris to answer some questions and tell a few tales. You can check his website out at www.chrisnieratko.com. There is new footage of him on www.vbs.tv, as well as information on www.viceland.com.
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New Stuff 6/2/07
Wow, new issue of Ugly Things and a new book by Daniel Higgs with art and an Audio CD put out by Thrill Jockey, and thats just the tip of this weeks iceberg.
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Cool goings on
A few weeks ago we had some cool visitors, Esther Pearl Watson and Mark Todd, comics artists (“Unlovable”) and authors of the fantastic book Whatcha Mean Whats a Zine. They talked about stuff and showed us their amazing paper mache photocopier!
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2NDHAND & Tao Lin reading, reviewed
Literago’s Nick Osdick has an excellent review (as well as some photos) of the last THE2NDHAND event at Quimby’s, which featured an “Inside The Actors Studio” Q&A with hip-lit dreamboat, Tao Lin.
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Dishwasher Pete at Quimby's!
“Dishwasher Pete” Jordan enthralled a packed house here at Quimby’s with passages from his book Dishwasher: One Mans Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States. He was nice enough to get artsy and all cardinal direction-y in our photobooth. What we thought was super cool was that we were the only bookstore in Illinois that he read at on his tour (on purpose!), since he has a longstanding relationship with both Quimby’s and Steven, the original owner of Quimby’s. We are proud Dishwasher Pete did his fantastic event here, and we wish him luck on his way back home to Amsterdam, where he and his wife are in the process of buying a bike shop.
