Just yesterday I saw a copy of Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life’s Greatest Lesson
So, what’s today’s book find? Live From New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live, as Told By Its Stars, Writers and Guests; Is America Breaking Apart?; and Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination. The last one will probably be the most interesting of the three, to me anyway. It covers interesting topics like “From Ashes to Cyborgs: The Era of Reconstruction (1945 – 1960)” and “”Gotta Catch ‘Em All”: The Pokemonization of America”. Is America breaking apart? is a discussion about American society and how it adapts to overcome social problems. That should be an interesting read.
Anyhow, that’s $67.75 worth of books (before taxes) that was just sitting on the street, heading for the city landfill if no one claimed them, and those are just the ones that we picked up. Thinking about it, I should’ve taken them all and put the rest on eBay. Not everything that’s sitting on the curb is really garbage, especially when it’s a book.
Of course, a book is about the only thing I’ll take from the curb. I’m not about to wear clothes from off the curb. That’s just gross. Now, let’s just hope these books didn’t have any bed bugs in them. If you haven’t heard, there’s a huge infestation of bed bugs in New York City right now, everywhere from private homes to public schools to 5 star hotels.
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Bradley Farless 
Ya. That book would have been better off if it had been donated to a library. I suppose they expected someone to pick it up, the way we did with the books in the picture, but then it rained.
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I love tuesdays with morrie. What a shame that such a lovely book had to suffer in the rain!
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The Eye was a pretty good movie, but I have a thing for Jessica Alba anyway, and a blind, damsel in distress, delicate Jessica Alba is hot too.If YouTube fails you, there are lots of sites on the Internet for streaming movies for free. Just gotta make sure your antivirus and antispyware stuff is up to date. Speaking of streaming, I keep wanting to resubscribe to Netflix now that I'm back in the US, but until I start school I'll be at my mom's place and her Internet connection isn't fast enough to make it worthwhile.
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No I didn't…maybe there's a freebie at youtube (just got finished watching The Eye with J. Alba…amazing what “infringements” that you can find on that site)
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A law was passed sometime last year that said that advertising, sponsored posts and links like that have to have a disclaimer. I forget the details, but basically you can be in legal trouble if you don't do it. I'm in the US now, so I'll follow the rule, just to be on the safe side, though I do think it's targeted more at commercial blogs.But ya… The 5 People You Meet in Heaven was a really good book too. Did you know there's a movie version?
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I did not read Tuesday's with Morrie but I do have a copy of Albom's “The 5 people you meet in heaven”. Great writer. Btw, enlighten me here but why the disclaimer? Is this mandatory now if you want to sell stuff on your site?
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