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. . . 1999-08-04 |
Amazon stretchmarks: If you decide to check out The Complete Films of Buster Keaton, you'll receive a specially tailored message that
Our auction sellers recommend:The scary thing is they were able to figure out that I wear a 42D....
- NEW BUSTIER 42D (Current bid: $20.50)
. . . 1999-08-19 |
Yeah, I know the whole Web is getting into the Amazon Recommendation game, but by sacred Hera's bracelets mine are still the best:
You requested: Early Girls, Vol. 1 (Ace Records girl groups collection)Our auction sellers recommend:
. . . 1999-08-24 |
Doug Asherman is heartened by Amazon's fight against traditional gender roles:
When I looked up Once Upon A Time In China at the Amazon web site, auction recommendations included a cup and saucer and the hardcover edition of The Joy Luck Club. Man, did you ever feel like someone really has your number?
. . . 1999-08-25 |
In the Company of Mormon:
The titles below are particularly popular with customers from Brigham Young University.
1. HTML 4 for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide
2. Tainted Truth; The Manipulation of Fact in America
3. Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (Darth Maul Cover)
4. Asking the Right Questions : A Guide to Critical Thinking
5. Film Scheduling : Or, How Long Will It Take to Shoot Your Movie?
6. The Millionaire Next Door : The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy
7. Mary Parker Follett : Prophet of Management
8. Film Director's Team
9. The Act of Marriage : The Beauty of Sexual Love
The titles below are particularly popular with customers from West Sacramento, CA.
1. Songs From Ally McBeal Featuring Vonda Shepard
The titles below are particularly popular with customers from Charities & Nonprofit.
1. Live Now Age Later : Proven Ways to Slow Down the Clock
. . . 1999-11-03 |
As if they weren't in enough trouble, Beth Rust tells us that Amazon is now competing with drivers-ed films and Variety box-office predictions:
The link is to Dead Men Do Tell Tales, one of my favorite forensic-anthropologist-memoirs books. The auction suggestions that came up?
- Skid Resistance of Highway Pavements
- Fight Club poster (Brad Pitt)
. . . 2000-03-03 |
Dedicated consumer and Mistress of Morbidity Beth Rust uncovers evidence of previously unsuspected information sharing between Amazon and DoubleClick:
They know too much about me... I just looked up a new Feng Shui book in Amazon - you know, the "put a green glass bowl in the southwest corner of your office to encourage the flow of energy" stuff - and the "Auctions" cross-reference that showed up was:POISON & DRUG Labels from 1910's-1920's: LOT of 10 (Current bid: $8.99)
. . . 2000-05-04 |
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The death wish of Amazon Books & Garden Tools has swollen past themselves and their investors to the point of sending subliminal suicidal messages to their own customers! Witness the back of this ungainly plastic travel mug mailed to the Kokonino household as a "gift": |
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. . . 2001-10-09 |
Speaking of consumption, Beth Rust forwards the following list of shopping ideas from Amazon: |
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. . . 2003-11-22 |
Amazon MSN stretchmarks
. . . 2005-01-05 |
Adding immeasurably to my cred as a "literary blogger," Aaron Mandel has sent me a scoop. And not just any scoop — a scoop of edible offals!
Several years ago it was your webpage that alerted me to the existence of contemporary authors Ass Meat Research Group, Chilled The Fresh and Frozen Horse. | ![]() |
I see Bloo the Meat and Preserved the Salted have also been active:
Still no reprints of Rosin the Bow or Preserved Fish, however. I blame copyright extensions.
. . . 2011-11-13 |
We thank Dr. Josh Lukin for recommending The Prison and the American Imagination and related reading:
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accelerated depreciation on my debt to society?
. . . 2013-06-16 |
Je souhaite dans ma maison:
Un lion rugissant sa raison,
Une chèvre, qui mange de toute sorte
Et dort en paix, comme une poule morte.
CONSUMER ALERT: We watched this last night, and neither Goat nor Dead Hen appear! Dead Duck and Zebra do OK jobs, I guess, but anyone who buys this hoping to enjoy another signature turn by Dead Hen or Goat will be very disappointed!
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