Buy my book 2: The Buy my Bookening
12 months ago
– Sun, Dec 03, 2023 at 06:17:07 AM
Hey you beautiful people,
As a small businessman who writes books that would make great gifts (particularly my Weird A-Coloring to Al coloring books) Christmas time is supposed to be the best and busiest time of the year.
That's why I wanted to get The Fractured Mirror done by November of this year.
I wasn't able to make that happen because I wanted to take my time and do the best possible job.
I told myself that I'd still manage to sell some books even without a new one out.
It has been a solid week, however, since I've sold so much as a single copy of a single one of the six or seven books in my store. I'm trying not to obsess about it but it doesn't feel good or give me faith that I'll be sell even an exceedingly modest amount in the future.
So if you would consider buying one of my books from my store it would be much appreciated. I need the money but more than that, it would mean a lot to me psychologically. That way I could answer the angry voice in my head that says, "Nobody will ever want anything you have to offer, ever, with, "At least one person wants at least one thing I have to offer."
I'm temporarily out of hardcover copies of The Joy of Trash, because I'm so pessimistic I didn't order enough copies but there should be more in in about a week. Otherwise, everything else is in stock and looking for a good home at https://www.nathanrabin.com/shop
I am excited to announce the official release of The Joy of Trash: Flaming Garbage Fire Extended Edition!
over 1 year ago
– Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 06:53:37 AM
Hey you beautiful people,
I know I usually rap at ya about preeminent pop parodist "Weird Al" Yankovic but today I am writing to you about something much different but equally awesome: a brand spanking new version of a book that is near and dear to my heart, and, like The Fractured Mirror, an ambitious literary spin-off of my website Nathan Rabin's Happy Place.
It's been a LONG time coming but I am pleased to report that I just put out an extended version of The Joy of Trash we're calling the Flaming Garbage Fire extended edition. It's got sixty pages of additional material on scoundrels like Bill Cosby (Fat Albert), Dustin Diamond (The Unauthorized Saved by the Bell Story), John Kricfalusi (Ren & Stimpy: "Adult Party Cartoon"), Joe Camel (A Camel Named Joe: An American Icon) and the James Belushi-led Blues Brothers, who figure prominently in an epic closing chapter that explores the blues, the prison-industrial complex, nostalgia and my complicated feelings about my home town of Chicago.
It also includes a new cover and a new illustration from my brilliant illustrator Felipe Sobreiro as well as brand new pieces on the notorious Easy Rider sequel Easy Rider: The Ride Back and the notorious Spike TV Kelsey Grammer vehicle Gary the Rat created specifically for the book.
AND I am pleased to report that one Mr. "Weird Al" Yankovic was kind enough to give The Joy of Trash: Flaming Garbage Fire a cover blurb. What a mensch!
There's a reason Al hand-chose me to write his 2012 coffee table book Weird Al: The Book, and then copy-edited, fact-checked and wrote the introduction for The Weird Accordion to Al in addition to blurbing The Joy of Trash: Flaming Garbage Fire Extended Edition and The Weird A-Coloring to Al and it's not because he thinks I'm a terrible writer and my books suck. On the contrary, I suspect it's because he thinks I'm an excellent writer and my books are good.
I would love it if you would buy a copy over at https://www.nathanrabin.com/shop
To sweeten the deal I'm throwing in a free signed copy of Felipe Sobreiro and my 120 page "Weird Al" Yankovic-themed coloring book The Weird A-Coloring to Al: Cynical Movie Cash-In Extended Edition with each purchase.
Since the book is about terrible people and terrible entertainment only a masochist like me should have to experience I want to do something positive as well so I'm offering a Joy of Positivity set of signed (by Felipe and myself) and numbered (to 100) hardcover books, all of which will feature a hand-written recommendation of a piece of entertainment as good as the stuff in the book is not just bad but abhorrent. PLUS you get a free coloring book with each purchase. What a bargain!
To make this more Al-friendly, if you choose this option, send me an email at [email protected] with the subject "Al sent me" or "I'm a Close Personal Friend of Al" and I will recommend something Al-related.
They're going fast so get in on this excellent deal before it's all gone!
I'm officially launching the book today so I would love, love, love it if you would help me get out the word via Twitter and Facebook and Instagram and Substack and every other form of human communication. I would love to feel a tidal wave of love and support on this very important day, when I introduce the second coming of what I feel is my best and most entertaining book I've ever written.
And I've written my share!
You're gonna love the book! It's like the original The Joy of Trash but longer and better and even more awesome!
I'm on Substack now!
almost 2 years ago
– Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 03:06:53 PM
Hey you beautiful people,
Like pretty much everyone, I now have a newsletter on Substack. I'm pleased to announce Nathan Rabin's Bad Ideas, a brand spanking new clearinghouse for some of my very worst ideas.
What kind of bad ideas? Well, I will be writing up ALL of the Ernest P. Worrell movies because it's about time that overlooked comic genius got his due.
I'll also be going to the theater every Friday and reviewing two movies a week for the first time since the late 1990s, when I was a freelancer for The A.V Club. You can determine what I write up. First up is this Friday, when I'll either be writing up some combination of the Gerard Butler movie Plane, the House Party reboot or Meg3an.
Later that night I'll be attending a Shrek-themed rave, which I will also be writing up for Nathan Rabin's Bad Ideas.
And in February I will begin writing up either the complete filmography of James Belushi or Gary Busey. YOU CAN DECIDE by getting a paid subscription (just 5 dollars a month, or the cost of an expensive coffee from Starbuck's) and casting your vote.
That's just the beginning! Nathan Rabin's Bad Ideas can be anything and I very much want you beautiful, supportive people to help shape and mold what it becomes.
This is an exciting new phase in my career. I invite y'all to join me.
I've really stepped up my freelancing as of late but man oh man would I love it if this Substack was a success.
Check it out here: https://nathanrabin.substack.com/
So if you would be kind enough to help me spread the word it would be much appreciated!
This is a supremely important day for me and my career. I would love for it to go well.
Today is the final day of the INSANE weeklong Black Friday sale at my site! Deals aplenty for books on Mr. Yankovic!
almost 2 years ago
– Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 09:51:45 AM
Hey you beautiful people,
Today marks the final day of the week-long Black Friday sale on my site. It's your last chances to get CRAZY deals like 12 dollars for a signed copy of the preposterously entertaining The Joy of Trash (just 22.50 for two books, a deal literally no one has taken me up on), 23 dollars for three signed copies of the 120 page extended version of me and Felipe Sobreiro's "Weird Al" Yankovic-themed coloring book, The Weird A-Coloring to Al, shipping and taxes included +free colored pencils and the signed (by Felipe and myself) and numbered (to 270 copies) full-color, hardcover The Weird A-Coloring to Al: Colored-In Special Edition, which comes with one of 10 cards signed by Felipe and myself, each numbered to 27, and a ten percent chance of getting an autographed card signed by "Weird Al" Yankovic.
And I'll throw in some random cool stuff into packages as well, as is my habit.
Oh, and there's also a brand spanking new version of The Weird Accordion to Al with a new chapter on Weird: The Al Yankovic Story that will set you back a mere 20 smackers despite running a hefty 516 pages. Shipping + taxes included, domestic only. Get in on the action over at
https://www.nathanrabin.com/shop
Christmas is less than a month away! Get all your shopping done today!
Surprise! The Cynical Movie Cash In Extended Edition of The Weird A-Coloring to Al is out and officially available for purchase!
about 2 years ago
– Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 01:57:40 PM
Hey y'all,
When Felipe and myself were working on The Weird A-Coloring to Al, I couldn't help but notice that, while our book covered a LOT of Al's career, there was still plenty left for us to cover should we ever choose to put out a longer version of the coloring book.
So when i saw that Al was putting out a much buzzed-about biopic (Weird: The Al Yankovic Story) AND a graphic novel featuring Felipe alongside giants like Peter Bagge, Drew Friedman, Bill Plympton and Michael Kupperman and that Al's drummer Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz was putting out another coffee table book of photographs of Al and his band I figured that the time was perfect for another edition of The Weird A-Coloring to Al.
Felipe agreed so I persuaded him to create twenty new illustrations for what we are calling The Weird A-Coloring to Al: Cynical Movie Cash-In Extended Edition.
Here's some of the work he's done for the 120 page extended version of the coloring book, with childish (but extremely enthusiastic!) coloring by me.
Pretty neat, huh? You can score a signed copy of this beauty from me directly at https://www.nathanrabin.com/shop for just 12 dollars, shipping, handling and taxes included. Like last time, I'm also offering 3 signed books from me for just twenty-seven dollars, shipping, taxes and handling included PLUS A PACK OF 12 COLORED PENCILS FREE! What a steal! I'm also having a flash sale on The Joy of Trash, a book about which no less than "Weird Al" Yankovic raved, "“Being somewhat of an expert on Nathan Rabin’s entire body of work, I can honestly say that The Joy of Trash is absolutely one of the best non-Weird Al-related books he’s ever written! A terrific book!”
For one week only you can buy one signed copy of The Joy of Trash for 14 dollars and two for 25 dollars, shipping, handling and taxes included.
I would like nothing more than to send you at least three books in one of those hand-addressed big yellow packages and I'd love to spread the word, since this is the book's all-important first day so please share word of this book's existence and its awesomeness.
I'll also try to throw some free stuff in every package I send out.
But if you want to buy from Amazon you can also do so here: https://www.amazon.com/Weird-Coloring-Al-Cash-Accordion/dp/B0BH1YZTJY/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?crid=1UKRKJBN7XMLS&keywords=%22the+weird+a-coloring+to+al%22&qid=1666015938&sprefix=the+weird+a-coloring+to+al+%2Caps%2C80&sr=8-1-fkmr0
