The Joy of Trash: Flaming Garbage Fire Extended EditioN 2: The New Batch

THE JOY OF TRASH JUST GOT LONGER AND TRASHIER!

The Joy of Trash is back, baby! Nathan Rabin’s Happy Place’s definitive literary guide to the very worst life and entertainment have to offer is back with a new cover, sixty new pages, a new illustration from Felipe Sobreiro and two pieces created specifically for the book about the disastrous Spike TV Kelsey Grammer animated vehicle Gary the Rat and the hilariously off-brand Easy Rider sequel, Easy Rider: The Ride Back.

The Flaming Garbage Fire Extended Edition adds a handful of new scoundrels to the original book’s overflowing rogue’s gallery of fascinating creeps, including Bill Cosby (Fat Albert), Ren & Stimpy degenerate John Kricfalusi (Ren & Stimpy “Adult Party Cartoon”), Joe Camel (A Camel Named Joe: The Illustrated Story of an American Pop Icon) Dustin Diamond (The Unauthorized Saved by the Bell Story) and the James Belushi-led iteration of the Blues Brothers, who figure prominently in an epic final piece on a 2022 Blues Brothers convention at Old Joliet Prison that also explores the blues, inter-generational depression and the author’s complicated feelings about his home town of Chicago. 

We sold out of the original group of books so we’re launching a sequel: Joy of Positivity 3: Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop

$25.00, Hardcover Joy of Positivity 3: Can’t Stop Won’t Stop Special Edition: hardcover copy signed by Nathan Rabin AND Felipe Sobreiro and numbered (to 50) + a FREE signed copy of the Cynical Movie Cash-In Extended Edition of The Weird A-Coloring to Al " “Weird Al” Yankovic-themed coloring book (12.99 value!) tax + USA domestic shipping inc. PLUS a brief, Hand-Written Recommendation from Rabin about something as good as the entertainment chronicled in the book is terrible in the book itself. Oh, and an additional podcast recommendation IN EVERY BOOK. What a deal!

DOMESTIC ONLY!

The Joy of Trash is a loving tribute to the objectively terrible so to make things brighter and more positive I’m offering a special set of 100 signed and numbered (by illustrator Felipe Sobreiro and myself) hardcover books that will each include a hand-written, personalized, unique and succinct recommendation of something I think you will enjoy! Share them with your friends! Post them on social media! Let me know if you took my suggestion and what you thought of it! It’s a fun way to make a very personal book even more personal! 

$18.75, paperback edition, signed copy

$6.99, downloadable pdf.

The Weird Accordion to Al: Sincere Movie Cash-In Edition

The Weird Accordion to Al just got longer and more exhaustive!

To celebrate “Weird Al” Yankovic’s award-winning, one hundred percent factual new biopic Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, veteran “Weird Al” Yankovic historian Nathan Rabin and illustrator Felipe Sobreiro have added a brand new 4500 word chapter on Al’s latest cinematic masterpiece Weird: The Al Yankovic Story to the extended version of 2020’s The Weird Accordion to Al. It’s the perfect gift for fans for whom a 500 page book about “Weird Al” Yankovic is simply not long enough!

$20.00, a signed copy, tax + USA domestic shipping inc.

The Weird A-Coloring to Al: Cynical Movie Cash-In Extended Edition

A coloring book "Weird Al" Yankovic called "unquestionably the greatest coloring book of all time"

"The perfect gift for hardcore "Weird Al" fans, and...you know, people who just like to randomly color in stuff" just got BIGGER and BETTER with the addition of twenty new original illustrations from Felipe (who Al personally chose to contribute to his graphic novel The Illustrated Al) on fan favorites like “Albuquerque" and "Good Old Days" along with hits like "Eat It" and "Like a Surgeon.”

This fan favorite now runs a lengthy, sturdy 120 pages and covers Al’s career in music, television AND film.

$12.00, a signed copy, tax + USA domestic shipping included

$20.00, 3 x signed copies + 12 pack of pencils, tax + USA domestic shipping inc.

The Weird A-Coloring to Al: Colored-In Special Edition

A Psychedelic Journey Through the Life and Career of Alfred Matthew Yankovic

The hardcover, full color edition of The Weird A-Coloring to Al is out and it is fabulous!

For a limited time, you can buy one of 270 signed and numbered copies of The Weird A-Coloring to Al: Colored-On Special Edition autographed by Nathan Rabin and illustrator Felipe Sobreiro, and get:

1 of 10 specially designed, limited edition 5” by 7” cards autographed by Nathan Rabin and either Felipe Sobreiro or “Weird Al:” Yankovic, who was nice enough to sign 40 or so cards to be randomly inserted into orders as well as a certificate of authenticity.

$27.00, a signed (by Rabin and Sobreiro) & numbered (to 270) copy, tax + USA domestic shipping included and one of ten signed and numbered cards,

THE WEIRD ACCORDION TO AL, Hardcover

RIDICULOUSLY SELF-INDULGENT, ILL-ADVISED VANITY EDITION

The Weird Accordion to Al just got fancy!

If you’re into the whole “hardcover” thing pick up a signed copy of this bad boy for a mere:

$25.00, signed copy, tax + USA domestic shipping included.

THE WEIRD ACCORDION TO AL, Paperback

Or you can you can “snag” a signed copy of my gorgeously illustrated paperback about Al’s life’s work in music, television, film and the live stage.

$18.00, signed copy, tax + USA domestic shipping inc.

The Weird A-Coloring to Al - trilogy

Buy The Weird A-Coloring to Al trilogy signed

That includes The Weird A-Coloring to Al (signed by Rabin), the hardcover, full-color The Weird A-Coloring to Al: Colored-In Special Edition (signed by Felipe and Rabin) and The Weird A-Coloring to Al: Cynical Movie Cash-In Edition (signed by Rabin).

$40.00, signed copies, tax + USA domestic shipping inc. Limited to one hundred signed and numbered sets.

You Don’t Know Me But You Don’t Like Me:

Phish, Insane Clown Posse, and My Misadventures with Two of Music's Most Maligned Tribes 

When memoirist and former head writer for The A.V. Club, Nathan Rabin first set out to write about obsessed music fans, he had no idea the journey would take him to the deepest recesses of both the pop culture universe and his own mind.

For two very curious years, Rabin, who Mindy Kaling called “smart and funny” in The New Yorker, hit the road with two of music’s most well-established fanbases: Phish’s hippie fans and Insane Clown Posse’s notorious “Juggalos.” Musically or style-wise, these two groups could not be more different from each other, and Rabin, admittedly, was a cynic about both bands. But once he gets deep below the surface, past the caricatures and into the essence of their collective cultures, he discovers that both groups have tapped into the human need for community. Rabin also grapples with his own mental well-being—he discovers that he is bipolar—and his journey is both a prism for cultural analysis and a deeply personal exploration, equal parts humor and heart.

From the dude behind EVERYTHING on this ridiculous site comes the book Rolling Stone gave 4 stars and deemed one of the 20 best music books of 2013, available for the first time directly from the author himself!

For a mere $22, tax and shipping included, I will send you a signed copy of my critically exploration of the surprising commonalities between fans of Insane Clown Posse and Phish and my own strange journey to super-fandom. Plus I’ll throw in a card or some sort just to be nice!

$22.00, signed copy, tax + USA domestic shipping inc.

Postal

by Brock Wilbur & Nathan Rabin

A new book about the notorious video game and movie Postal and their even more notorious creators, Vince Desi, in this wild new book from Nathan Rabin and co-author Brock Wilbur and Boss Fight Books.

For the first time you can buy Postal signed by both authors directly from Nathan himself!

$16.50, signed, tax + USA domestic shipping inc.