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Cena looks like a CEO in the third act of a feel-good movie who just learned the power of love thanks to a gang of scrappy kids.
Three in and already I'm laughing out loud...
posted by evilmomlady at 11:44 AM on July 18 [1 favorite]
Three in and already I'm laughing out loud...
posted by evilmomlady at 11:44 AM on July 18 [1 favorite]
Steve Martin's needs to be ranked about twenty spots higher, HE IS READING METAMAGICAL THEMAS! Come on!
posted by lefty lucky cat at 11:46 AM on July 18 [8 favorites]
posted by lefty lucky cat at 11:46 AM on July 18 [8 favorites]
Dr. indexy has the Bowie and R.E.M. ones in her office.
posted by indexy at 11:48 AM on July 18 [2 favorites]
posted by indexy at 11:48 AM on July 18 [2 favorites]
My gosh that was fun. The Ali poster/snark is what made me laugh the hardest.
posted by JanetLand at 11:50 AM on July 18 [1 favorite]
posted by JanetLand at 11:50 AM on July 18 [1 favorite]
Some notes:
Billy Dee Williams - damn, that dude is sexy. Why is he not in everything?
Miss Piggy and Kermit - Miss Piggy got new legs!
Morgan Freeman - you do not interrupt Morgan Freeman while he is reading.
Nicholas Cage - always pose like everyone's watching
Levar Burton - every book he holds is the book you need to read.
Oprah Winfrey - that book probably sold 100,000 extra copies because she showed it.
Michael J Fox - if you don't like Michael J Fox, I do not want to hear about it. That is all.
Garfield - bullshit, bullshit, bullshit.
Renee Fleming - the inside of her head must be a straaaaange place.
Sean Connery - Two Sean Connery's? Whatever, there's also two Kermits.
George Lopez - gonna be in the bathroom long?
Jason Reynolds - I wish I had that much fun reading.
Alan Rickman - he's nice now, but he will use sarcasm if you keep interrupting him.
Cindy Crawford - yes, she reads. Why the hell does that surprise you?
Dolly Parton - should be ether #1 or #2 - tough call. I mean, Billy Dee Williams, man.
posted by JustSayNoDawg at 11:58 AM on July 18 [4 favorites]
Billy Dee Williams - damn, that dude is sexy. Why is he not in everything?
Miss Piggy and Kermit - Miss Piggy got new legs!
Morgan Freeman - you do not interrupt Morgan Freeman while he is reading.
Nicholas Cage - always pose like everyone's watching
Levar Burton - every book he holds is the book you need to read.
Oprah Winfrey - that book probably sold 100,000 extra copies because she showed it.
Michael J Fox - if you don't like Michael J Fox, I do not want to hear about it. That is all.
Garfield - bullshit, bullshit, bullshit.
Renee Fleming - the inside of her head must be a straaaaange place.
Sean Connery - Two Sean Connery's? Whatever, there's also two Kermits.
George Lopez - gonna be in the bathroom long?
Jason Reynolds - I wish I had that much fun reading.
Alan Rickman - he's nice now, but he will use sarcasm if you keep interrupting him.
Cindy Crawford - yes, she reads. Why the hell does that surprise you?
Dolly Parton - should be ether #1 or #2 - tough call. I mean, Billy Dee Williams, man.
posted by JustSayNoDawg at 11:58 AM on July 18 [4 favorites]
Cena looks like a CEO in the third act of a feel-good movie who just learned the power of love thanks to a gang of scrappy kids.
Side note: He's holding "The Story of Ferdinand" because he was Ferdinand.
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 12:06 PM on July 18 [2 favorites]
Side note: He's holding "The Story of Ferdinand" because he was Ferdinand.
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 12:06 PM on July 18 [2 favorites]
ROTFL RE: #26 : Baryshnikov: I’m struggling to imagine a situation where you’d need a towel and a copy of Crime and Punishment, but I guess I just don’t know enough about ballet
posted by I_Love_Bananas at 12:09 PM on July 18 [7 favorites]
posted by I_Love_Bananas at 12:09 PM on July 18 [7 favorites]
A little embarrassing to misspell Alan Rickman and Nicolas Cage's names ("Allen" and "Nicholas") when the author could just refer to their respective posters (whereas maybe I should be embarrassed to have noted that Dagobah was also misspelled).
posted by Strutter Cane - United Planets Stilt Patrol at 12:13 PM on July 18 [2 favorites]
posted by Strutter Cane - United Planets Stilt Patrol at 12:13 PM on July 18 [2 favorites]
Well that is a disappointing thing to learn about Christina Ricci today.
posted by Parasite Unseen at 12:14 PM on July 18 [13 favorites]
posted by Parasite Unseen at 12:14 PM on July 18 [13 favorites]
Noticed that they don't include the Neil Gaiman one. Although the ALA still has it in their store.
posted by indexy at 12:16 PM on July 18 [1 favorite]
posted by indexy at 12:16 PM on July 18 [1 favorite]
Phil Collins should be way higher because it was unexpectedly weird and fun!
posted by mazola at 12:21 PM on July 18 [5 favorites]
posted by mazola at 12:21 PM on July 18 [5 favorites]
Mike Mills is the member of REM who most looks like he spent a bunch of time in the library, but he only went to a library once to show a canary where the Canary Islands are, hence the globe.
posted by The_Vegetables at 12:23 PM on July 18 [2 favorites]
posted by The_Vegetables at 12:23 PM on July 18 [2 favorites]
Also the rat is showing an appropriate amount of leg, and if it hadn't said David Bowie on the poster, my celebrity guess would have been Cory Haim from The Lost Boys era.
posted by The_Vegetables at 12:27 PM on July 18 [1 favorite]
posted by The_Vegetables at 12:27 PM on July 18 [1 favorite]
God, Sting is a dick.
posted by Paul Slade at 12:28 PM on July 18 [1 favorite]
posted by Paul Slade at 12:28 PM on July 18 [1 favorite]
bowie's and both the miss piggy/kermit ones are _so_ great (and billy d williams just photographs so damn well)
posted by dismas at 12:47 PM on July 18 [2 favorites]
posted by dismas at 12:47 PM on July 18 [2 favorites]
I was disappointed there was no Sean Bean. I liked that Spike Lee looks like he was thinking "This Malcolm X autobiography is too basic for my Malcolm X knowledge needs".
posted by biffa at 1:00 PM on July 18 [2 favorites]
posted by biffa at 1:00 PM on July 18 [2 favorites]
This was hilarious. Weirdly, I feel like about half of these were in my school library when I was a child, which seems impossible as it was not large.
posted by potrzebie at 1:10 PM on July 18 [2 favorites]
posted by potrzebie at 1:10 PM on July 18 [2 favorites]
Thanks for posting this, chavenet. Nice to see this cross-section, though it's also funny to see how they have or haven't held up over time as the subjects have gone out of style, been accused of crimes or other wrongdoing.
posted by cupcakeninja at 1:26 PM on July 18 [1 favorite]
posted by cupcakeninja at 1:26 PM on July 18 [1 favorite]
Pill Collins at 66 with his Alamo book! Now I'm also reminded of his Alamo collection and obsession. Ha!
posted by of strange foe at 1:29 PM on July 18 [3 favorites]
posted by of strange foe at 1:29 PM on July 18 [3 favorites]
Nooo, my favorite got left out: the 1999 WWF Attitude era poster with Chyna, the Rock, and Mick Foley (as Cactus Jack).
posted by The demon that lives in the air at 1:50 PM on July 18 [5 favorites]
posted by The demon that lives in the air at 1:50 PM on July 18 [5 favorites]
Make it a hobbit !
posted by St. Peepsburg at 1:51 PM on July 18 [1 favorite]
posted by St. Peepsburg at 1:51 PM on July 18 [1 favorite]
characteristically cool here, even if this poster design reads a little too “steakhouse at the mall food court.”
Why is the copy so on point???
Here’s the hobbit one I mentioned , edit window closed
posted by St. Peepsburg at 2:00 PM on July 18 [1 favorite]
Why is the copy so on point???
Here’s the hobbit one I mentioned , edit window closed
posted by St. Peepsburg at 2:00 PM on July 18 [1 favorite]
God, Sting is a dick.
You may be right, but I also remember how any guy who looked like that circa 1984 was a magnet for the ladies. If you went to high school in the late 1980s, it was either "that one guy who looked like Sting" or "that one guy who looked like Michael Hutchence."
posted by jonp72 at 2:23 PM on July 18 [2 favorites]
You may be right, but I also remember how any guy who looked like that circa 1984 was a magnet for the ladies. If you went to high school in the late 1980s, it was either "that one guy who looked like Sting" or "that one guy who looked like Michael Hutchence."
posted by jonp72 at 2:23 PM on July 18 [2 favorites]
Billy Dee Williams - damn, that dude is sexy. Why is he not in everything?
Doesn't he just add a little bit of class to everything? He looks like, "Does reading Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison sound good right about now?" Why yes. Yes it does, Billy Dee Williams.
posted by jonp72 at 2:26 PM on July 18 [3 favorites]
Doesn't he just add a little bit of class to everything? He looks like, "Does reading Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison sound good right about now?" Why yes. Yes it does, Billy Dee Williams.
posted by jonp72 at 2:26 PM on July 18 [3 favorites]
I don't always have such decisive opinions on listicles, but: Jason Reynolds has the best poster, and the Britney Spears in an American flag shirt holding the first Harry Potter book captioned as "This poster looks like what it felt like to be in middle school in the early 2000s" bit was the best joke.
posted by the primroses were over at 2:31 PM on July 18 [4 favorites]
posted by the primroses were over at 2:31 PM on July 18 [4 favorites]
(I want to see the Buffy poster even if there are no books in it)
posted by mazola at 2:39 PM on July 18 [2 favorites]
posted by mazola at 2:39 PM on July 18 [2 favorites]
Once in a while my brain is riiiight on the edge of taking a cluster of neurons and saying "nah, I don't need this information anymore, let's use this for something else" and then there's a listicle and BAM it's 1985 and I'm staring at that fucking Yoda poster in the school library again
posted by phooky at 2:40 PM on July 18 [4 favorites]
posted by phooky at 2:40 PM on July 18 [4 favorites]
We have the Yoda one hanging in the Reference staff office where I work.
posted by maryellenreads at 2:46 PM on July 18 [1 favorite]
posted by maryellenreads at 2:46 PM on July 18 [1 favorite]
God, Sting is a dick.
O Sting, where is thy depth?
posted by kirkaracha at 2:50 PM on July 18 [6 favorites]
O Sting, where is thy depth?
posted by kirkaracha at 2:50 PM on July 18 [6 favorites]
The author seemed very perplexed by this, but Sting was in costume for the 1985 movie, The Bride.
posted by tangosnail at 3:23 PM on July 18 [6 favorites]
posted by tangosnail at 3:23 PM on July 18 [6 favorites]
It was pointed out to me that the interface in the Bill Gates poster is clearly from Mac OS-- right down to the Chicago typeface!
posted by May Kasahara at 3:23 PM on July 18 [2 favorites]
posted by May Kasahara at 3:23 PM on July 18 [2 favorites]
If you are going to soak in the tub and read, of course you need a towel and a book. I’m concerned that the author seems unaware of this. Can we really trust someone with this kind of knowledge gap to accurately rate library posters???
posted by bunderful at 3:26 PM on July 18 [1 favorite]
posted by bunderful at 3:26 PM on July 18 [1 favorite]
I used to work at a library that never threw anything away (tbh, that describes a lot of libraries), and we found the Michelle Kwan one, in a lovely frame, tucked away in a storage closet.
One of the children's programmers got a better job at another branch. She was (and is) a '90s kid, an amateur figure skater, and a big Danielle Steel fan.
Giving her that poster as a going-away gift was a really, really good day.
(Side note, here's ALA's current offerings.)
posted by box at 3:31 PM on July 18 [5 favorites]
One of the children's programmers got a better job at another branch. She was (and is) a '90s kid, an amateur figure skater, and a big Danielle Steel fan.
Giving her that poster as a going-away gift was a really, really good day.
(Side note, here's ALA's current offerings.)
posted by box at 3:31 PM on July 18 [5 favorites]
I’m struggling to imagine a situation where you’d need a towel and a copy of Crime and Punishment, but I guess I just don’t know enough about ballet
I'll acknowledge that Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy would have been a better choice for this one.
posted by Parasite Unseen at 3:53 PM on July 18 [2 favorites]
I'll acknowledge that Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy would have been a better choice for this one.
posted by Parasite Unseen at 3:53 PM on July 18 [2 favorites]
I have seen the Daveed Diggs poster in the wild and I am always happy to see it.
This is a fun list! I love Read posters. Thank you for posting this, chavenet!
posted by kristi at 4:59 PM on July 18 [1 favorite]
This is a fun list! I love Read posters. Thank you for posting this, chavenet!
posted by kristi at 4:59 PM on July 18 [1 favorite]
These are great.
Why do some of the posters feature the word LEA?
posted by Mitheral at 5:48 PM on July 18 [1 favorite]
Why do some of the posters feature the word LEA?
posted by Mitheral at 5:48 PM on July 18 [1 favorite]
It’s ‘READ’ en español.
posted by box at 6:14 PM on July 18 [2 favorites]
posted by box at 6:14 PM on July 18 [2 favorites]
GIVE A HOOT
READ A BOOK
-- (official) Krusty the Clown (merchandise)
posted by BiggerJ at 6:38 PM on July 18 [1 favorite]
READ A BOOK
-- (official) Krusty the Clown (merchandise)
posted by BiggerJ at 6:38 PM on July 18 [1 favorite]
If you'd asked me who would be the current celebrity available on two posters I wouldn't have picked Ethan Hawke.
posted by dismas at 7:55 PM on July 18 [1 favorite]
posted by dismas at 7:55 PM on July 18 [1 favorite]
"This whole poster is giving off too much of an assigned-reading vibe to really click for me," for Salma Hayek? Her book is Hayden Herrera's biography of Frida Kahlo, the basis for Hayek's 2002 film "Frida."
posted by Iris Gambol at 10:22 PM on July 18 [1 favorite]
posted by Iris Gambol at 10:22 PM on July 18 [1 favorite]
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