The Dragon's Take on Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook

I always like the Dragon's 'tude when he posts. Plus Anthony Bourdain kicks ass. Word up to Tod and his chef buddies in Seattle for turning me onto his delectable culinary arts and nefarious wit. Oh, and Dragon? Don't ever mention Borders again or we'll dismember you and flavor some sea water with yer bones. Arrrrhhh!

...By way of explaining my personal aesthic to other creative friends, I use to say that I wanted to be the love child of Captain Kangaroo and William S. Burroughs. I want to synthesize a certain sense of whimsy, with a darker, edgier side. In the culinary arts, Alton Brown represents the geeky, playful side of that equation. The edgier, more punk side is best represented by Anthony Bourdain. And fortunately for me, Borders had his Les Halles Cookbook in stock.
Now, I've never really had any aspirations to master French cuisine. I always viewed it as hoity-toity and pretentious. My predilictions have always been towards simple, basic peasant fare, with perhaps a little something extra added, but built on a solid working class foundation. Of course, the more I have managed the kitchen in our household, the more this working class frugality has led me to do things like save every bone that comes off a plate. I'm using more and more stock in my cooking, and it seems ridiculous to pay the exorbitant prices grocery stores ask for what tastes like sea water with a hint of meat flavor...Read More...

Darwin's Origin of Species now an Audiobook!

Thanks Boing Boing.

All hail the flying spaghetti monster!

A shout out from Honky Tonk Dragon

Thanks Ben!

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Last of Loompanics' Books

Gotta make sure you get your Harry Potter fix ASAP, so you pre-ordered using the link below? But now, you're feeling a little guilty because that purchase took money away from an independant bookseller who is just barely scraping by?

Well bruthas and sistas, Rev. Dragon has the route for the absolution of your literary sins!

The Dragon's good buddies over at the Hungry Hollow Book Farm, have managed by hook and crook to get their hands on what remains of the now defunct Loompanics Press's stock.

I know for sure they still have copies of the Loompanics' edition of the Principia Discordia, and here's just a small taste of some of the titles in their stash:

Cao Dai Kung-Fu: Lost Fighting Arts of Vietnam $14.25

Check Fraud Investigation $22.50

Close Shaves: The Complete Book of Razor Fighting $75.00

Combat Knife Throwing $25.00

Community Technology $10.00

Comparative Data: State and Provincial Licensing Systems $49.95

Complete guide to science ficiton conventions $14.50

That's right kiddoes, instructions on building a new identity, building siege engines, hacking computers, all kinds of forbidden information is available from Pirate Papa and his book pirate cronies. Proceeds go to feed and shelter these lovely ladies, so don't hesitate to go purchase some titles that will make your mother and George Bush cringe.

And if you tell 'em that the Dragon sent ya, they just might send a little love my way...

(Yes, many of these titles are for informational purposes only, as well as not intended for minors, all other disclaimers apply. Your mileage may vary.)

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"Alternadad" Leads Daddy Book Deluge

"I'm a new dad. I can type. I used to be cool (if you count watching Lorelai totally tear Emily a new one, that is). I'm trying to figure it all out. I want a book deal! According to the Boston Herald, daddy books are the new black. Or at least the new mommy books. Neal Pollack's new and so-far excellent "Alternadad" is at the top of the diaper heap."

Thanks Strollerderby and Pirate Papa!

Wiki's list of essential anarchist books

Here's Wiki's page on my favorite anarchist printer/author, Fredy Perlman.

and an excerpt from his book Against His-Story, Against Civilization:

"And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight
Where ignorant armies clash by night. (M. Arnold)

Here one can neither stand nor lie nor sit
There is not even silence in the mountains
But dry sterile thunder without rain...(T.S. Eliot)

The darkling plain is here. This is the waste land: England, America, Russia, China, Israel, France....

And we are here as victims, or as spectators, or as perpetrators of tortures, massacres, poisonings, manipulations, despoliations.

Hic Rhodus! This is the place to jump, the place to dance! This is the wilderness! Was there ever any other? This is savagery! Do you call it freedom? This is barbarism! The struggle for survival is right here. Haven't we always known it? Isn't this a public secret? Hasn't it always been the big public secret?

It remains a secret. It is publicly known but not avowed. Publicly the wilderness is elsewhere, barbarism is abroad, savagery is on the face of the other. The dry sterile thunder without rain, the confused alarms of struggle and flight, are projected outward, into the great unknown, across the seas and over the mountains. We're on the side with the angels...Read More..."

as well as an online collection of some of his writings

and Black and Red Books

Book on Educational Wooden Toys

It's only $75.00, shit. But it's a beautiful book!

Edu-Toy: Edutainment Toy Series vol. 1 wood
Naef and European Wooden Toys

Author & Publisher: Mikado Koyanagi, Co Ito, Japan
Pages: 160
Edition: Softcover
Year: 2004
Text: Japanese
Size: 8 1/4"
Illustrations: Profusely illustrated in color.
Condition: New

Wonderful rare book published in Japan about the best educational wooden toys that were ever made. Includes current- and out of production toys by Naef, Antionio Vitali, Kathrin Kiener, Selecta, Keller, Breitschwerdt, Creative Playthings, Dusyma, Carstens, Profuond and many more! Fabulous book for collectors and parents who want to give their kids the best educational toy available!