OF THE LAST 100 Amazon.com purchases from people who linked from the search box on my site, only 16 were items specifically mentioned anywhere on the site.

This means:

(1) many of you are choosing to help support MISCmedia by making your Amazon buys thru this site’s link, and

(2) I might not have the influence on your reading/viewing/listening habits I’ve liked to imagine having.

Nevertheless, few of these items were at all sucky, proving at least that many MISCmedia readers have quite good taste indeed.

Herewith, a few of the things you’re using this site to attain, in no particular order:

• Robert A.M. Stern, Houses
• James Allen (Editor), Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America
• Paul Henry Lang, Music in Western Civilization
• Hazel Martell, Imperial China, 221 B.C. to A.D. 1294
• Julian Rios, Kitaj: Pictures and Conversations
• The Cornel West Reader
• Bruce Wasserstein, Big Deal: 2000 and Beyond
• Simon Schama, The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age
• Jon Schueler, The Sound of Sleat
• Diane Mariechild and Marcelina Martin, Lesbian Sacred Sexuality
• Robert Friedman (Editor), Life Millennium: The 100 Most Important Events and People of the Past 1000 Years
• John Sutherland, Who Betrays Elizabeth Bennet?: Further Puzzles in Classic Fiction
• Donald J. Grout, The History of Western Music (Study Guide)
• Vladmir Nabokov, Laughter in the Dark
• Tom King, The Operator: David Geffen Builds, Buys, and Sells the New Hollywood
• Ana Suffredini (Editor), French Complete Course (Living Languge Complete Courses. Cassette Edition)
• David Crosby and David Bender, Stand and Be Counted: Making Music, Making History: The Dramatic Story of the Artists and Causes That Changed America
• David Guterson, East of the Mountains
• Jonathan Lethem, Motherless Brooklyn
• Jack Brehm and Pete Nelson, That Others May Live: The True Story of a Pj, a Member of America’s Most Daring Rescue Force
• Ray Kroc and Robert Anderson, Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald’s
• Susan Blu and Molly Ann Mullin, Word of Mouth: A Guide to Commercial and Animation Voice-Over Excellence
• David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day
• Joy Hakim, All the People (A History of Us, Book 10)
• Selected Poems of Max Jacob
• Shirley George Frazier, How to Start a Home-Based Gift Basket Business
• Dennis and Barbara Rainey, Parenting Today’s Adolescent: Helping Your Child Avoid the Traps of the Preteen and Early Teen Years
• Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, The Woman That Never Evolved
• Jay Silverman, Elaine Hughes, amd Diana Roberts Wienbroer, Rules of Thumb: A Guide for Writers
• Suzanne Williams, Made in China: Ideas and Inventions from Ancient China
• Isabel Allende, Daughter of Fortune
• Robert T. Kiyosaki and Sharon L. Lechter, Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor & Middle Class Do Not!
• Douglas, Naomi, and Doug Moseley, Making Your Second Marriage a First-Class Success
• James A. Warren, Cold War: The American Crusade Against the Soviet Union and World Communism, 1945-1990
• Ed Emberley, Great Thumbprint Drawing Book
• James R. Flowers, The Incredible Internet Guide for Trekkers: The Complete Guide to Everything Star Trek Online
• Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
• Eva Hoffman, Shtetl: The Life and Death of a Small Town and the World of Polish Jews
• Dean Young, First Course in Turbulence
• Allan Combs and Mark Holland, Synchronicity: Science, Myth, and the Trickster
• Barbara Kingsolver, Homeland and Other Stories
• Bernardo J. Carducci, The Pocket Guide to Making Successful Small Talk
• Nathan Englander, For the Relief of Unbearable Urges
• Tom Hart, Banks Eubanks’ New Hat Stories
• John M. Samson (Editor), Simon & Schuster Crossword Puzzle Book #211
• Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
• Elmore Leonard, The Big Bounce

TOMORROW: What you’re writing.

ELSEWHERE:

• The band Death Cab for Cutie fantasizes about starting an Indie-Rock Summer Camp….
• How hard is it, really, to have a Microsoft-free office? (found by Applelinks)….