Spring is the time of year for love and when many of your friends announce their engagement. So if you're looking for a cool shower gift or a wedding planner for yourself, check out this book. Pretty useful and pretty cool looking and fun, especially if you're looking for something more than the sappy, boring, expected, and traditional wedding (not that there's anything wrong with that). But if you want that, then subscribe to Modern Bride or all that other stuff. This book is different, just like you are.

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And if you need any more inspiration to succeed, then look no further than this, Dr. Seuss' last book. It still moves me and makes me feel good about the future. It also makes a great graduation gift.

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Whether writing about politics, war (as a journalist), or about the joy of driving Italian sports cars while drunk and having sex, there's no funnier humorist than P.J. O'Rourke. In this book writes about his liberal, druggie, hippie youth and about the wisdom that comes with the years. Oh he still get's high and will drop acid once in a great while, but he's a conservative Republican druggie. You got to admire that kind of integrity.

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Also by O'Rourke:

All the Trouble in the World
Give War a Chance
Parliament of Whores
Holidays in Hell
Republican Party Reptile
The Enemies List

Consider all the jokes, quotes, and anecdotes you get by e-mail. Well it's possible that some of them got their start from Gary W. Tooze, who's collected them and published a book of quotes that he's sent to over 3000 friends and friends of friends and total strangers. And just think, if you buy this book you'll have more than a year's worth of material to send to your friends yourself...unless they beat you to it.

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Thinking about Pandora's box and lab monkeys, I couldn't help remembering my favorite chimp of all time: Curious George. Still cute after all these years, I can't help but smile. I'd say, get this for kid as a gift, but why not get it for yourself and bring back a happy childhood.

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You might recognize Tom Bodett as the voice of those charming "Motel 6" commercials or from his pieces on NPR. But if you didn't know, he's a wonderfully wry and funny writer, who created a series of stories about a town in Alaska and it's charming and eclectic inhabitants (no doubt inspiring the TV show "Northern Exposure" and possibly even "Twin Peaks"). He's one of my favorite humorists. Also by Bodett:

Better Part Of The End Of The Road
As Far As You Can Go Without a Passport

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My all time favorite cartoon. I lament Bill Watterson's decision to end it, but what can you do. Since there won't be more, you can at least read all that ever were. So here are all of the Calvin and Hobbes books. Just click on the title to order:

• Calvin and Hobbes,
  
• Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons
  
• The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes
  
• The Calvin and Hobbes Lazy Sunday Book
  
• The Days Are Just Packed
  
• The Essential Calvin and Hobbes
  
• Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat
  
• It's a Magical World
  
• Revenge of the Baby-Sat
  
• Scientific Progress Goes 'Boink'
  
• There's Treasure Everywhere

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The complete scripts to John (Basil) Cleese and Connie (Polly) Booth's brilliant comedy show about the outrageous misadventures of Basil Faulty and his rural country Inn.

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Nothing's as funny as the videos on VHS:
Fawlty Towers:Basil the Rat
Fawlty Towers:Builders
Fawlty Towers:Communications Problem Fawlty Towers:Germans
Fawlty Towers:Gourmet Night
Fawlty Towers:Hotel Inspector
Fawlty Towers:Kipper & the Corpse
Fawlty Towers:Psychiatrist

My friend Lena highly recommends this "inspirational" book. She said she laughed and she cried and laughed some more. Sounds good to me, though maybe I'm a tad too cynical because I found it to be maudlin, like reading "Family Circle". Oh well, your mom would love it.

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Spam. Eggs and Spam. Spam, Eggs and Spam. Spam, Spam, and Spam...etc. I can't think of a better place to steal dialogue, er, I mean, to get inspired by or from or whatever.

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One of the best figure drawing teachers at Art Center, nay one of the finest teachers, period. In this book, Burne Hogarth, one of the founders of the School of Visual Arts in New York, introduces his own revolutionary system of figure drawing, which makes it possible to visualize and accurately render the forms of the human body from every conceivable point of view. I only wish I could still draw as well as I did in school. (sigh)

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