When I was a kid I was very much into the Oz books, all fourteen of them
Imagine my surprise at age 9 when I went with my parents to a mall in New Jersey and saw a slew of new ones!
Unbeknownst to me, Ruth Plumly Thompson had been appointed Royal Historian of Oz after Baum and wrote 19 more in the series.
It was like pulling teeth from my dickhead father to get even two books. He assured me I could get more later and was completely indifferent to why this was such a big deal to me.
Sure enough, they went out of print soon after and became impossible for me, as a child, to find.
Of the 19, 8 were public domain and reprinted as hardcover. The remaining 11 I tracked down as an adult.
Recently I decided to upgrade them to the hardcovers with dustjacket, and now I have all of the so-called Famous Forty (yep there were more after Thompson).
Word to the wise in PC gaming and/or content creation, Best Buy has been having really good sales on OLED monitors. They're still a boutique purchase at usual msrp roughly 3x that of your average VA panel, but they offer some incredible advantages like perfect blacks and imperceptible motion blur at up to 240 hz. They give an accurate picture for video content creation purposes in at least the SDR space, and offer a really convincing rendition of HDR and wide color gamut for viewing purposes because of how their luminance/gamma tracks so well. In short, recent sales are bringing these into the 2x price range of the more common screens, what was $1300 is hitting $800-$900 routinely, making these panels a lot more doable for more people. They really are good screens
I bought the Alienware last week in this size for $800, roughly half the MSRP they got for it new at launch, and up-to-the-second kitted out so far as technology it can handle
The appearance of Mongo in Rock Ridge is imho one of the funniest visual gags ever put to film, to this day I hear the music and bust out laughing just seeing this image
