Category: Fine and Not So Fine Arts
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Disco Dancing with Donny and Marie
Disco with Donny and Marie Heaton and Zimmerman 1979 I had a reference question a while back where I had to explain Donny and Marie to a teenager. God, I felt old. If you are more than 40 years or so, you probably remember them fondly or with disdain. I…
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Be a Clown (or not)
Be a Clown Stolzenberg 2002 Long time site fans will know that I have clown “issues”. However, that does not mean that I get to exempt my collection from clown materials. I just don’t want to be alone when dealing with said clowns or material. My little phobia is also…
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A Mime Two-fer
Be a Mime Stolzenberg 2001 Submitter: I have another mime book that I found at my local library. Although the print date is 2001, the photos look like the 1970’s. Unlike Mary, I am not disturbed by clowns and mimes. However this book gave me a case of the shakes.…
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Time to Dance!
Mambo Made Easy Book Guild of America 1956 Submitter: Though the information in these books are still relevant, and four of the five books still have the original 45 RPM records (!), the books are in rough physical condition and they never circulate. In addition, 60 years after their publication,…
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Say Something!
Happy Jack’s Mime Time Feder 1985 Long time readers of this site probably know my issues with clowns. To me, mimes are similar to clowns, though not as terrifying. As mime books go, I would imagine this isn’t too bad. There are enough details that make me think this is…
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More Clown Trauma
How to be a compleat clown Sanders 1978 Holly is usually the one that answers our submissions/emails, so you can imagine how much she enjoyed forwarding this one to me for posting. She is just hilarious. Submitter: This one just came, along with a lot of other weeded books, from a…
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