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Herewith is the first of a series of several Carl Wilson/Celine Dion mega-posts. At least that’s how things are shaping up at the moment. I should be running out of puns for subject headings in about 3 more posts… At any rate: FOR YOUR LISTENING PLEASURE:PRI’s show Fair Game with Faith Salie had Carl on […]

Way back in August we announced a 33 1/3 t-shirt design contest through Threadless.com and the results are finally in. Here is the winning design (final shirt does not have the 33 1/3 Loves Threadless logo in the bottom left): They ran out of stock before I could even put up a post about it,

It’s almost two months later and Powell’s managed to squeeze about 20,000 more words out of twenty 33 1/3 authors past, present, and not-too-distant future to promote their buy 2, get 1 free deal on 33 1/3’s which, incidentally, runs through the end of the year, if you still have some holiday shopping to take

It’s been a little quiet around here recently – I’ve been out in California; moving into a new apartment; interviewing people for jobs; and generally keeping busy. Looks like it’ll be just as busy until the end of the year, but just to keep everyone in the loop: * We’re perilously close to having finished

We are coming up to the end of the 33 1/3 guest bloggers at the Powell’s blog… Carl Wilson has a post on Celine Dion, distractions, and digressions later this week, and Drew Daniel finish things up with a post on Throbbing Gristle next week. BUT DO NOT FEAR! Powell’s will be running the buy

I’m only 5 months late in noticing, but the NY Times books department has a nice little blog going called “Paper Cuts.” It features interviews and bits and pieces from the cutting room floor. Favorites include this slideshow of book ads from the “Golden Age of Book Advertising” (who knew there was ever a Golden

As mentioned below, Powell’s Books is running a buy 2, get 1 free deal on 33 1/3’s, and have asked 33 1/3 authors to write some guest posts for their blog…and here’s the latest link-heavy update on where to find them. (This week Cesar Millan is also guest blogging at Powells, so it’s one stop

Another of the books that’s currently at the printers is Drew Daniel’s study of Throbbing Gristle’s 20 Jazz Funk Greats. Mostly written in a linear, track-by-track style, the book makes great use of interviews with the band members, and veers off on the occasional, fascinating tangent. Here’s an extract from the chapter on “Still Walking”:

1. Look out for an excerpt from Drew Daniel’s excellent Throbbing Gristle book either today or tomorrow. 2. For those of you who haven’t yet requested the PDF of chapters 1 and 2 of Carl Wilson’s book about Celine Dion, the offer’s still open – just send an email to letstalkaboutceline at yahoo dot com,

Given that the soonest we could possibly have another open window for proposals is around this time next year, it’s a bit dumb to be posting this now, but hey: which albums would you most like to see covered in the series? Bear in mind that the “one book per artist” rule is being discarded