So there used to be, like, no fun or interesting books about grocery stores and grocery store… stuff. Then Julian Montague released his amazing and comprehensive “The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification” in 2006. A marvelous achievement! Have you seen it?
And in 2007 I submitted my own opus, [...]
I just wanted to let everyone who bought my book this year know that I donated a percentage of the royalties to a couple great causes:
The St. Louis Area Foodbank (feeding struggling single-parent families, the elderly and the working poor)
Mentor St. Louis (a school-based youth and literacy organization)
Thank you! I hope everyone has a great [...]
Hey, have I mentioned recently that I wrote a totally awesome book about found grocery lists? Well, I did.
“Milk Eggs Vodka: Grocery Lists Lost and Found” has been called hilarious, wonderful, a delight, amusing, addictive and genius. See for yourself:
“The Grocery List Collection is compulsive reading.” -The New York Times
“laugh-out-loud pleasure” -BookPage
“hilarious” -mental_floss
“jaw dropping, mercilessly [...]
Hey St. Louis and the rest of the Midwest — I’ll be interviewed on KMOX Radio (AM 1120) today, July 27, around 8:45 a.m. I’ll be on with Debbie Monterrey and Dan Grey on the Total Information AM Show, talking about Milk Eggs Vodka, of course.
On the radio: I’ll be on the radio here in St. Louis Wednesday, June 13 around 10:30 p.m. Central time talking with the two Johns on KMOX 1120. Listen in as I talk and joke about my “Milk Eggs Vodka” book, published by HOW Books.
In real life: If you can’t hear me on the radio [...]
A hearty and heartfelt congratulations to Laura (who needs bleach and eggs) and Amber (who shops for Cosmo, chocolate donuts and pads, but only “once a month”). Laura and Amber were the winners of the “Milk Eggs Vodka” book giveaway. Thanks to everyone who entered the contest (I’ll probably do another soon!). Take a look [...]
Jeff Houck of the Tampa Tribune wrote a great article about me and my new grocery lists book. Check it out: Making A List, Checking It Twice. Awesome.
You can see the actual front page of the food section here at my Milk Eggs Vodka blog.
Today is the day! “Milk Eggs Vodka: Grocery Lists Lost & Found” is now available.
I made a new site to promote it so I’m going to be more active over there for a month or so. Please check out www.milkeggsvodka.com and the new blog I set up to document the adventure: www.milkeggsvodka.com/blog.
“Milk Eggs Vodka: Grocery [...]
Hey everyone, I made a little web site to help promote the release of my new book, Milk Eggs Vodka: Grocery Lists Lost & Found. The book is basically the analog version of this site, featuring hundreds of hilarious discarded grocery lists (along with my even more hilarious commentary). Click here for more info.
Anyway, the [...]
“A crop of Web sites allows people to create and share lists on everything from a baby’s nap schedule to an action-figure collection. Following are five sites that aim to help people get organized.” This article also mentions a couple list-related books that are in the works, including mine!
The Kansas City Star writes about lists, and mentions my upcoming book: “A range of companies, including Amazon.com, book publishers, stationery makers and Internet sites, are pushing new products aimed at the growing appetite for list-making. In the next year publishing houses will roll out at least eight books of lists. One will feature images [...]
To celebrate the fact our awesome new book based on this site, MILK EGGS VODKA: Grocery Lists Lost and Found, is available for presale — we added another 100 lists.
One of them, #1301, is a gem. Note the item about 2/3 of the way down.
Yes, it says “coochie wash.” It was found in a Wal-Mart [...]
“Want to put together an insider’s rating for refrigerator magnets? It’s been done. Hope to assemble the all-time most intriguing items that ever appeared on a grocery list? That’s been done, too. In fact, it’s a 240-page book. ‘Milk Eggs Vodka,’ by Bill Keaggy will be published by HOW Books in a few months, based [...]
Hey, today’s Wall Street Journal has a great article about lists and mentions my upcoming book in the sidebar: “After finding a discarded grocery list outside a supermarket 10 years ago, St. Louis-based photographer Bill Keaggy began a collection, and he now has more than 1,000. His book is divided into chapters, like lists that [...]
Vermont! Idaho! Where are you? I just finished my book about this grocery list collection but there’s something missing: A list from Vermont and a list from Idaho.
Chapter 19 is supposed to include a list from all 50 U.S. states and I have 48 of them (plus D.C.) — but I still need these two. [...]
OK folks, I’m really close. I still need grocery lists from the following U.S. states: Idaho, Oklahoma, Vermont | Alaska, Delaware, Hawaii, Kentucky, Maine, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, Wyoming. Just 14 13 11 8 7 6 4 3 more!
I now have New Mexico then realized I’d prefer to use my Oklahoma [...]
Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Wisconsin, Wyoming.
If you’ve found (or find) one in a grocery store in any of these states, send them to me and they’ll probably end up in the book I’m working on. Or you [...]
Hey I still need lists (or scans of lists) from the states listed below. Send yours — or a found list — and you could end up in the book I’m working on. Even if I already have one from your state (or you’re from somewhere other than the U.S.), send one in anyway. Updated [...]
A big thanks to everyone who’s been linking us up and spreading the word about the grocery list book. Reciprocal link-love goes out to: Boing Boing, Consumerist, All Dumb, Transbuddha, Speak Up, Metroblogging Philadelphia and the many others. Thanks!
Thanks for stopping by … now send me your lists and you could end up in my new book! You can either email a scan or send them to my P.O. box. Have at it, or just browse the collection!
This is the world's largest online collection of found grocery lists. In fact, we wrote the book on found grocery lists. Why? Other peoples' grocery lists are fascinating. Plus, the internet is a great place to do stupid interesting things. So far 2,000 funny, crazy, weird, sad and/or mundane discarded scraps of paper have been posted. But it's not all useless stuff -- we also link to useful and interesting articles about food, shopping, lists and more, as well as provide a pretty awesome downloadable PDF grocery list for free. Subscribe via RSS ».
Is it real? Part of me is skeptical, and part of me is sympathetic. I mean, English is a pretty difficult language. Still. Holy crap.
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