This is the best news I’ve seen all week! The St Giles Oxfam bookshop is genuinely the greatest used bookstore in Oxford if not the entire UK. For years, it has become a go-to donation spot for retired academics cleaning out their personal libraries so you can always find delightfully niche material.
30 years ago today, Troy McClure starred in the musical “Stop the Planet of the Apes (I Want to Get Off)”.
#TheSimpsons episode “A Fish Called Selma” first aired March 24, 1996.
My dear friend & incomparable author Dan Simmons died Saturday from a stroke at age 77. He defied literary norms, exploring historical fiction, horror, crime & other genres. His must-read titles include THE SONG OF KALI & HYPERION. He was one of a kind.
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HAPPY FESTIVUS!
SEINFELD
“The Strike” (NBC, 1997)
starring Jerry Seinfeld,
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Michael Richards,
Jason Alexander and Jerry Stiller
Created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld
Rob Reiner, director of “The Princess Bride,” “When Harry Met Sally…,” and “This Is Spinal Tap,” was found dead Sunday afternoon in his Brentwood home alongside his wife, Michele Singer. He was 78.
The deaths are being investigated as a homicide.
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