MetaMaus by Art Spiegelman — book trailer

[Video Link] A very good short book trailer that's really a short documentary in which Art Spiegelman reflects on his masterpiece, Maus. I can't wait for this new book, called MetaMaus.

In METAMAUS, Spiegelman employs prose, drawings, documents, and photographs to trace the intersecting paths of history, family, and comics that led to the creation, twenty-five years ago, of MAUS, his Pulitzer Prize winning comic book about the Holocaust.

Pantheon Books will publish MetaMaus on October 4th. In the meantime, view additional material from the book and bonus DVD on Art Spiegelman's Facebook page: Facebook.com/ArtSpiegelman

MetaMaus: A Look Inside a Modern Classic, Maus (Via Potrzebie)

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Trailer Tuesday: Pretty Poison (1968)

[Video Link] Carla and I saw this in London in 1984 at an Anthony Perkins triple-feature (along with The Trial and another Perkins movie I can't recall). Pretty Poison was our favorite of the three.

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Trailer for creepy thriller novel, Bedbugs

[Video Link] In Gweek 014 I discussed a psychological thriller novel I enjoyed by Ben H. Winters called Bedbugs. Here's the trailer for it.

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Minecraft “Adventure Update” trailer released

The forthcoming 1.8 "Adventure Update" of Minecraft adds randomly-generated villages, a more refined control system and game mechanics, larger and more realistic ocean and mountain biomes, and the Endermen.

If you never look directly at Endermen, shadowy creatures with long and narrow limbs, they don't even notice you. But once you do, they turn and stand and look at you, too. As long as you're looking directly at Endermen, they'll stay put and you'll stay safe. "As soon as you look away," creator Notch writes, "they will run (very fast) towards you."

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Video trailer for new book: Crap at My Parents’ House

[Video Link] Here's the trailer for a funny book called Crap at My Parents' House.

Crap at My Parents’ House is a laugh-out-loud celebration of all the weird, odd, and unfathomably tacky stuff that our moms and dads accumulate without our knowledge or consent. Comedian Joel Dovev has compiled and commented upon the best (or would that be worst?) items submitted by folks from around the globe in a very funny—but fair—way, revealing all those dirty secrets that range from deer hoof bottle openers and plush Oscar Meyer Wienermobiles to soccer-playing Jesus ceramics and grizzly bear toilet paper holders. Whether you’re 15 or 65 and still shaking your head at your mom and dad’s decorating choices, Crap at My Parents’ House is a reason to be thankful for parents being so unintentionally hilarious.

My parent's have a collection of crap, too, which they keep in their basement in a cabinet of ugliness, but they do it intentionally. They have exquisite taste in home decor.

Crap at My Parents' House

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Hunter Thompson’s Rum Diary trailer, starring Johnny Depp

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Johnny Depp reprises his role as Hunter S. Thompson for The Rum Diary, the good Doctor's 1959 novel that didn't see publication until 1998. (Thanks, Bob Pescovitz!)

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