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Southland Tales: The Prequel Saga
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Southland Tales prequel episodes in graphic novel format.
Updated Feb 11, 2012
The Last of Sheila DVD
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Recommended by Ken Jennings:
"he Last of Sheila, a little-known 1973 puzzle-whodunit written by none other than Stephen Sondheim. Sondheim was and is a game and puzzle nut, a guy who once published his own collection of British-style “cryptic” crosswords and use to host elaborate murder mystery weekends with his friend Anthony Perkins. Perkins and Sondheim collaborated on the script to this amazingly intricate whodunit featuring a quintessential seventies cast (James Coburn, Dyan Cannon, Richard Benjamin, Raquel Welch, etc.). I saw this last week and it just knocked me on my ass. I’ve seen plenty of movies from this 70s fad for convoluted murder puzzles (Deathtrap, Sleuth, all those mediocre Agatha Christie movies starring down-on-their-luck “international” casts in alphabetical order) and Sheila, with its literally dozens of clues and puzzles hiding in plain sight, makes them all look like Encyclopedia Brown mysteries. " (via Ken Jennings)
Updated Dec 29, 2011
Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World by Michael Lewis
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Anything by Michael Lewis is outstanding, so I assume this will be too.
Updated Dec 5, 2011
The Prestige (2006)
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Added to my Shopping Guide Wish List
Updated Dec 2, 2011
Inception DVD Movie
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Added to my Shopping Guide Puzzle Films
Updated Oct 24, 2011
Harry Potter and History by Nancy Reagin
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Haven't read it yet, but HogwartsProfessor.com says: "It’s a wonderful collection written by historians from a diverse array of backgrounds covering topics from the real life Nicolas Flamel to the parallels between events in real human history and the history created by J.K. Rowling for her wizarding world." (via Hogwarts Professor)
Updated Aug 2, 2011
bacon jam
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I have not tried this, but I want to. Real bad...
From the description: "we take a big bunch of really, really good bacon and render it down...add a bunch of spices, onions, etc...and let it simmer for about 4 hours...give it a quick puree, and blast chill it...and you have bacon jam..."
Updated May 23, 2011
Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players
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Recommended by Ken Jennings. Scrabble stories are always good stories.
Updated Mar 2, 2011
Threadless: Ten Years of T-shirts from the World's Most Inspiring Online Design Community (9780810996106): Jake Nickell: Books
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I want this book, mainly for the autobiographical history bit. Heard about it on NPR's Marketplace. Threadless launched in, like, 2000. I think the word "crowdsourced" wasn't even coined for another 5 or 6 years.
Updated Mar 2, 2011
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