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New Stuff This Week

Published on November 14, 2009 0 Comments

Here’s new stuff this week. And just for your viewing pleasure, a picture of compost worms one of our employees had delivered. Delicious!

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Zines

Subversive Activity #3 $2.00

Spec Book by Matt Ehling $5.00

The Benefactor Sum 09 $15.0

Comics, Comix, Mini and Not So Mini

Tales of Good Ol Snoop Doggy Dogg by TJ Yost $3.00

Wuvable Oaf #2 by Ed Luce $3.95

Titus and the Cyber Sun by Lale Westvind $9.00

Myriad Issue #1 and #2 by Stephanie Richardson $2.00 each

Tank Girl: Skidmarks #1 by Martin and Dayglo (Titan) $3.99

Marauders #1 by Matt Kubinski $3.00

Not My Small Diary #15 vol 1 and 2 set $6.00

Pope Hats #1 by Ethan Rilly $4.00

New Jack Chick stuff in varying prices!

Graphic Novels

Hot Potatoe by Marc Bell (Drawn + Quarterly) $39.95

Strange Suspense vol 1 by Steve Ditko (Fantagraphics) $39.99

Pim and Francie by Al Columbia (Fantagraphics) $28.99

Deadbeat by Jeremy Massie (Alterna Comics) $6.95

Jesus Hates Zombies Yea Though I Walk vol 3 Featuring Lincoln Hates Werewolves by Stephen Lindsay and Daniel Thollin (Alterna Comics) $6.99

American Terror vol 2 Confession of a Human Smart Bomb by jeff McComsey (Alterna Comics) $7.95

Tragic Relief by Colleen Frakes $7.00

Popeye vol 4 Plunder Island HC by EC Segar (Fantagraphics) $29.99

Fir Tree by Hans Christian Andersen, illustrated by Lilli Carre (Harper) $14.99

Kidnapped Santa Claus by Frank Baum, illustrated by Alex Robinson (Harper) $14.99

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep vol 1 HC by Philip Dick and various (Boom) $24.99

Nylon Road by Parsua Bashi (St. Martins) $16.99

DIY

Stick It To Your Ticket The Unofficial Guide to Beating Your Parking Ticket In Chicago by JD Sheldon Zeiger $12.95

Arrest Proof Yourself: An Ex Cop Reveals How It Is Easy For Anyone to Get Arrested, What To Do If the Police Get In Your Face, and How Even a Single Arrest Could Ruin Your Life by Dale Carson (Chicago Review Press) $14.95

Cook Food: A Manualfesto for Easy Healthy Local Eating by Lisa Jervis (PM Press) $10.00

Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction Build Implements of Spitball Warfare by John Austin (Chicago Review Press) $16.95

Cookin with Coolio The Ghetto Gourmet 5 Star Meals at a 1 Star Price (Atria) $16.00

Mags

Believer #67 Nov 09 The Art Issue $10.00

Scootering #281 $7.99

High Times Jan 10 $5.99

Adbusters #87 $8.95

Tabu Tattoo #40 $7.99

Make vol 20 $14.99

Parkett #86: Baldessari $32.00

Sexy Stuff

Nude Visions (Kehrer) $50.00

Fiction or Fiction-Related

Robert Bolano the Last Interview and other Conversations by Marcela Valdes (Random House) $14.95

Happy Man: The Contemporary Art of the Novella by Hansjorg Schertenleib (Melville) $13.00

Best European Fiction 2010, ed. by Aleksander Hemon, preface by Zadie Smith (Dalkey Archive) $15.95

Interfictions vol 2 by Sherman and Barzak (Interstitial Arts Foundation) $16.00

G33K Mafia Black Hat Blues by Rick Dakan (PM Press) $17.95

Punk Fiction An Anthology of Short Stories Inspired by Punk, edited by Janine Bullman (Portico) $15.95 – With contributions from Billy Bragg, Alison Mosshart, Billy Childish, Kele Okereke, John Niven, Kate Jackson, John Robb, Paul Smith, Lydia Lynch, Kate Pullinger, and Will Hodgkinson!

Arty Books (Lowbrow, Highbrow, Eyebrow, StreetBrow)

Insects of Surinam by Maria Sibylla Merian (Taschen) $39.99

0086 Beijing Cool: From The Pages of Chinas Coolest Magazine (Timezone 8) $19.95

For The Blind Man In The Dark Room Looking For The Black Cat That Isnt There Curated, essay by Anthony Huberman, exhibit edited, arranged and designed by Will Holder (Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis) $40.00 – Group exhibition and catalogue arranged around the premise that the world — and art — is not a code that needs cracking, the works in the exhibition center on the fruitfulness of not-knowing, un-learning, and productive confusion.

Darkside vol 2 (Fotomuseum Winterthur) $58.00. Photographic power an violence, disease and death. Just some light weekend reading.

Beautiful Pigs by Andy Case (St Martins) $19.99

Street Artists: The Complete Guide by various (Graffito) $19.95

Outer Limits, Mayhem, and Consciousness Expansion. And Oh, Um, Drugs

Extraterrestrial Friends and Foes by George C Andrews, Terence McKenna and Ralph Abraham (IllumiNet Press) $14.95

Chaos Creativity and Cosmic Consciousness by Rupert Sheldrake and various (Park Street Press) $14.95

Mushroom Wisdom: How Shamans Cultivate Spiritual Consciousness by Martin W. Ball (Ronin) $12.95

Opium for the Masses by Jim Hogshire (Feral) $16.95

Believer Beware: First Person Dispatches From the Margins of Faith, Contributors to Killing the Buddha (Beacon) $16.00

Real Vampires Night Stalkers and Creatures from the Darkness by Brad Steiger (Visible Ink) $24.95

Humor (Sort of)

More Information Than You Require by John Hodgman (Gotham) $15.00

Essentially Odd: A Catalog of Products Created For and Sold At the 826 National Stores (826 National) $16.00

Dear Andy Kaufman I Hate Your Guts by Lynne Margulies and Bob Zmuda (Process) $19.95

Politcs and Revolution

Women of Color and Feminism by Rojas Maythee (Seal) $14.95

For All The People: Uncovering the Hidden History of Cooperation Cooperative Move by John Curl (PM Press) $28.95

Music Books

Story of Crass by George Berger (PM Press) $20.00 – As in the story of the band. Now in soft cover.

On The Road With The Ramones Updated Edition by Melnick and Meyer (Bobcat Books) $24.95

Country Music Fun Time Activity Book by Aye Jay (ECW) $9.95

Little Black Book of Setlists by Malcolm Croft (Portico) $9.95

Lies My Music Teacher Told Me Second Edition by Gerald Eskelin (Stage 3 Publishing) $16.95

Rudolph Frosty and Captain Kangaroo: The Musical Life of Hecky Krasnow by Judy Gail Krasnow (Santa Monica Press) $24.95

Tour Smart and Break the Band: The First Real Book About the Business of Touring, 2nd printing by Martin Atkins (Smart Book) $29.95

Classical Musics Strangest Concerts and Characters: Extraordinary but True Stories by Levinson and Farrer (Robson) $15.95

Hardest Working Man: How James Brown Saved the Soul of America (Gotham) $15.00

Dirty Little Secrets of the Record Business Why so Much Music you Hear Sucks by Hank Bordowitz (Chicago Review Press) $24.95

Crap Lyrics: a Celebration of the Very Worst Pop Lyrics of all Time Ever by Johnny Sharp (Portico) $12.95

Touch Me Im Sick: The 52 Creepiest Love Songs Youve Ever Heard by Tom Reynolds (Chicago Review Press) $12.95

Heavy Metal In Baghdad: The Story of Acrassicauda by Capper and Sifre (Vice) $15.00

Cartoon Music: Interviews, Writings, Drawings, edited by Daniel Goldmark (Acappella) $18.95 – With Mark Mothersbaugh, Irwin Chusid, Chris Ware and more

Other New Stuff

Revive Nikki McClure 2010 Calendar $16.00

A whole variety of Jay Ryan posters. Between $20 and $30 each, but ya gotta come into the store to see ’em! And check out his new book Animals And Objects In And Out Of Water here too!

Handmade Nation: The Rise of DIY Art Craft and Design DVD $19.95

Nine Ways Print by Lilli Carre $8.00 – Suitable for framing!

Flow: The Cultural Story of Menstruation by Elisa Stein and Susan Kim (St. Martins) $27.99

And more Little Otsu stationary and planners!

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Quimby’s Top 10 for the First Full Week of November

Published on November 11, 2009 0 Comments

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1. Big Questions #13 A House That Floats By Anders Nilsen (Drawn & Quarterly) $9.95

2. Cabinet #35 Dust $12

3. Animals and Objects In and Out of Water Posters 2005-2008 by Jay Ryan (Akashic Books) $22.95

4. List #13 Summer 2009 Moving On $3.00

5. Heeb #22 Fall Winter 2009 $5.99

6. Stay Away From Other People by Lisa Hanawalt (Buenaventura Press) $5.00

7. Slingshot 2010 Large Organizer $12.00

8. Granta #108 The Special Chicago Issue $16.99

9. Book of Genesis Illustrated By R.Crumb (WW Norton) $24.95

10. Cry Yourself to Sleep by Jeremy Tinder (Top Shelf Productions) $7.00

Chock Full of Chick

Published on November 11, 2009 0 Comments

Hallelujah! We got new tracts by Jack T. Chick in today. If those tiny nuggets of salvation are too light a meal for your heavenly appetite, consider the Crusader’s Comics series; we have all 18 volumes! Amen!

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Missing Person Alert

Published on November 9, 2009 0 Comments

UPDATE: C.T. Ballentine has been found. At 2:30 PM family members said a “disoriented and tired” Ballentine had turned up in an area hospital. They thank everyone for their help and support. Additional updates will be posted on the Facebook page. Tonight’s event at the Whistler has been canceled.

CT Ballentine is an important part of the Chicago literary and zinester community, and has been selling his zines for the last five years (at least). Please — if you have any information, or could pass this information on to you and yours, it will be enormously appreciated.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Lumpen/C-PS/Version/ETC..
Date: Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 11:35 PM
Subject: Missing person
To: concerned.people@everywhere.com

WE ARE FORWARDING THIS TO EVERYONE WE KNOW>
PLEASE FORWARD AND PASS THIS MESSAGE ON

To Whom It May Concern:

We are asking people all over Chicago to help find a missing friend.

You may know C.T. Ballentine, a very talented artist who lives in the McKinley Park neighborhood of Chicago. He has been missing since Friday, and all of his friends are worried about him.

He’s been going through some difficult times, and has recently shaved his head. As you can read in the attached email, he is a writer, sound engineer, performer and active member of the Chicago’s young artist community.

We would appreciate it if you could read this, and help us put it into as many hands as possible.

If you have any questions, please feel free to call Eric Graf. His number is at the top of the flyer.

Thank you in advance for your help.

Sincerely,

Friends of C.T. Ballentine

PLEASE READ THIS AND KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR C.T. BALLENTINE OF CHICAGO. HE IS MISSING, AND WE ARE WORRIED ABOUT HIM.

He was last seeing wearing dark cut off pants over sweatpants and a jean jacket. He has recently shaved his head.

There is a Missing Persons Report with the Chicago Police. If you have any information on his location please call 9-1-1 immediately. You can ask for confidentiality, if you want.

PLEASE SPREAD THIS MAILING FAR AND WIDE.

IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS CALL ERIC GRAF AT 773-934-6519

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MISSING PERSONS REPORT: Christian “C.T.” Ballentine of the McKinley Park neighborhood of Chicago.

Christian “C.T.” Ballentine was last seen at his apartment in McKinley Park on Chicago’s South Side Friday, Nov. 6, at 3 p.m.

BIO:

Ballentine was born in Kentucky in 1982, but came to Chicago in 1993 when his father became pastor at St. Philittus Church of Christ in the McKinley Park neighborhood of Chicago. He went on to graduate from Schaumburg High School in 2001, subsequently attending Elmhurt College and Northeast Illinois University. Ballentine has most recently been an active member of the Chicago literary community, coediting THE2NDHAND literary broadsheet and online magazine and publishing his work there and in a host of other venues. Recently, the Orange Alert reading series featured a piece of Ballentine’s that may be found here: http://www.orangealert.net/node/411

In addition to his literary work, Ballentine is also considered a very knowledgable member of the Chicago music scene and has been working as a sound engineer, producer, and music critic for many years. He worked as a sound engineer at the music venue Ronnie’s in Logan Square and most recently at the Whistler and elsewhere. He was interviewed for a presentation on underground music and the strong community that builds up around basement shows given by Tobias Caroll at the esteemed Experience Music Project’s annual Pop Conference in Seattle, and the paper presented can be found here: http://www.yourbestguess.com/scowl/from-a-basement-show-on-a-hill/

Ballentine has likewise reviewed and profiled numerous bands from across the musical spectrum and written feature articles on a broad assortment of topics. Ballentine is an editor for THE2NDHAND, a national literary concern founded in Chicago whose website can be found at www.THE2NDHAND.com. Several literary journals have published Ballentine’s fictional work. Ballentine was the founder and publisher of now defunct Aftercrossword Special, a literary zine hilighting both fiction and art.

He was last seen at his apartment in McKinley Park on Chicago’s South Side Friday, Nov. 6, around 3 p.m. He was preparing for the launch of a new performance series to be held at The Whistler entitled “So You Think You’ve Got Nerves of Steel” to launch this Monday, November 9th at 8 p.m. and to occur on the second Monday of every month. The series will feature some of Chicago’s best writers and performers. All proceeds from the series will go to benefit a budding music program for underpriveleged south-side youth. Event release can be found here: http://www.the2ndhand.com/events/events.html The Facebook page for the series is here: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=91560755721&ref=nf

Further Information:

Ballentine has organized and hosted many events, including a handful of THE2NDHAND readings. Images from one of those events in 2007 can be seen here:

http://chicago.going.com/event-144809;THE2NDHAND_MIXTAPE_Stories_About_Songs

Balentine also recently finished production on an album by the band ‘Plan B’ and was very happy about the results of these recording and production sessions. The band’s MySpace page contains some of their older work and can be found here: http://www.myspace.com/planband

Ballentine occasionally worked organizing for a series at Hungry Brain curated by Brandon Weatherby.

Musician with:

Cup & String (http://www.myspace.com/cupnstring) and 1997 among many others.

Ballentine plays guitar, banjo, harmonica and can be seen performing here with 1997 at Ronny’s in Logan Square: http://www.youtube.com/user/calebpepp#p/u/1/EwHtaL04e3w

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New Stuff This Week

Published on November 7, 2009 0 Comments

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This is new stuff for the week between 10/31/09-11/5/09:

Big Questions #13: A House That Floats by Anders Nilsen (D+Q) $9.95

Part One The Death Squad – On the Run (From Here to Fame) $14.95

Sento: The Fantastic Partners – On the Run (From Here to Fame) $19.95

Mai Jonone 36 Chambers by Mai Lucas and Jonone (Drago) $29.00

Papercutter #11 (Tugboat) $4.00 – Comics anthology.

Art of the Nasty by Nigel Wingrove and Marc Morris (Fab) $34.95

Spectrum 16: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art by Cathy Fenner etc. (Underwood) $29.95

Cabinet #35 Dust $12.00

Generation A by Douglas Coupland (Scribern) $24.95

Fortean Times #255 Dec 09 $11.99

Zine Machines #1 by The Glen Ellyn Childrens Resource  Center $2.50

Light On The South Side: Photographs by Michael L. Abramson Chicago 1975 – 1977 (Numero) $60.00

Blood and Thunder #13 $5.99

Heeb #22 Fall Win 09 $5.99

Screwball Assess by Guy Hocquenghem (Semiotexte) $12.95

Violence of Financial Capitalism by Christian Marazzi (Semiotexte) $12.95

Skrwl Triptych Journal Collection by James Jean (Chronicle) $14.95

Vatican Hustle Jive Turkey by Greg Houston (NBM) $11.95

Like a Dog Recidivist #1 and #2 and Assorted Garbage by Zak Sally (Fantagraphics) $22.99

Not Your Mothers Meatloaf A Sex Education Comic Book $3.25

Between Resistance and Community DVD: A Documentary About Long Island Punk $13.00

Unemployment by by Aaron Lake Smith $3.00 – May or may not be Big Hands #8. You’re welcome!

Cambodian Grrrl Self-Publishing In Phnom Penh by Anne Elizabeth Moore $10.00

Phase 7 #007: Basewood Chapter 3 by Alec Longstreth $5.00

Shock Cinema #37 $5.00

Italian Anarchism 1864 – 1892 by Nunzio Pernicone (AK Press) $21.95

Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar by Isa Chandra Moskowitz etc. (Da Capo) $17.95

Sound Kapital Beijings Music Underground by Matthew Niederhauser (PowerHouse) $24.95

Street Level New York Photographs 1987 – 2007 by Sue Kwon (Testify) $45.00

Neo Avant Gardes Postmodern and Global Art: Art of the Twentieth Century (Skira) $60.00

Rosario Dawson Loves Me #2 Or I Want to Die Right Now Please $2.00

Whoosh #2: Zine for Whale Lovers $3.00

Street Artists: The Complete Guide by Elanor Mathieson (Graffito) $19.95

Wuvable Oaf #2 by Ed Luce $3.95

Titus and the Cyber Sun by Lale Westvind etc. $9.00

Myriad Issue #2 by Stephanie Richardson etc. $2.00

Marauders #1 $3.00

Not My Small Diary #15, vol 1 and 2 Set $6.00 – Beautiful stars of mini-comics anthological thing edited  and published by Delaine Derry Green.

Deep City vol 1 by Mark Ehling $5.00

The Benefactor Sum 09 $15.00

Are You There God It’s Me Whitney Houston (Hell Yes Press) $5.00 – Highly philosophical poetry. Owning this would be the greatest love of all.

Rise of Disaster Capitalism Naomi Klein DVD (PM Press) $19.95 – Documentary about the writer of No Logo.

Strange Maps An Atlas of Cartographic Curiosities by Frank Jacobs (Viking) $30.00

Risky Living: Interviews With the Brave Men and Women Who Work the Worlds Most Dangerous Jobs by Tom Jones (SkyHorse) $24.95 – Of course Tom Jones has the most dangerous job. Women throw their underwear at him all the time. Ha ha ha ha, we’re hilarious!

Street Gang: Complete History of Sesame Street by Michael Davis (Penguin) $16.00

Wake Up: A Life Of The Buddha by Jack Kerouac (Penguin) $15.00

Class Struggle #64 Nov Dec 09 $3.00

Wayne White: Maybe Now I’ll Get the Respect I So Richly Deserve by Todd Oldham (Ammo) $65.00

Herotica 7 by Marcy Sheiner etc. (Down There Press) $14.95 – Erotic fiction.

Tattoo Mystique: The Art and World of Angelique Houtkamp (Outre) $19.95

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