OK I currently have no #men’s stuff at my store (click on word store above) yet—but I have some great 1980’s and 90’s #Nascar stuff that’s going on soon—so keep checking it and the Blog out. BY the way I have cleaned it up a bit already so if you looked yesterday try again today.
NOW THE BLOG:
Since it’s Book Drop Friday time thought I’d give you some books for men today:
1. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison: The growling giant of great American novels, maximalist and mythic, devoured by, and reborn in, all the craving, rage, and lunacy one nation — and a nameless young narrator — can hold
2. Dino by Nick Tosches: Biography of Dean Martin, dripping with Tosches’s love and contempt for the Italian barber’s son
3. Advise and Consent by Allen Drury: Written by a 1950’s newspaper hack whose beat was Capitol Hill, Has got closet cases and State Department commies, confirmation bloodbaths, blackmail, and suicide, and is as gripping today as when it first appeared fifty years ago.
4. What It Takes by Richard Ben Cramer: Published this gorgeous and absorbing undertaking about running for the American presidency in 1992… this is the book against which all such books will be measured for the next fifty years.
5. Women by Charles Bukowski: Henry Chinaski, the gritty, drunken poet protagonist of Bukowski’s best novel, is an irresistible bastard, .. rough, more than a little mean, eternally horny, broken, beaten, isolated, needy, and somehow smarter than he used to be. http://www.esquire.com/features/essential-knowledge/top-books-for-men-0310#slide-9
100 years ago today (June 11, 1914) George Herman “Babe” Ruth” made his major league debut as a pitcher (he stayed in for seven innings for the Red Sox /beat Cleveland Indians 4-3)
As you know I’m a collectible person and so let’s look at some manly collectibles: Steins (I will have steins on my store, but nothing this fancy)
METTLACH STEINS Popular since the 1950 with US collectors they are manufactured at the Villeroy & Boch factory in Mettlach, Germany. You can identify them as most include the word “Mettlach” and either “Vileroy & Boch” or “VB” on the bottom. They are numbered and vary in value depending on the numbers made, markings etc. Examples: #2038/Rodenstein, Germany motif with relief, figural inlaid lid went for $1,663 lately (and it had a repaired chip) #3156/Chicago landmarks etched inlaid (repaired chip) $2,760 #3091 Drinking knights etched by Schlitt $636 #1817 Bicycle etched by Schultz (new lid) $1,470 #2765 Knight on white horse $1,740 Rita Rudner’: Men like to barbecue. Men will cook if danger is involved. “Let me finish my beer.” (Stark) “Of course. The end of the world can wait.(Kasabian)”― Richard Kadrey, Kill the Dead “Don’t wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.”Roger Zelazny, Prince of Chaos