The fine folks at Continuum Books, publishers of the popular 33 1/3 series (“the Little Golden Books of Rock,” as I like to call ‘em) - including Sean Nelson’s recent Joni Mitchell’s Court & Spark - posted a call for pitches for their 2008-2009 list a few weeks back. The deadline was Wednesday, Feb. 14, and the complete list of submitted titles is now up online… all 449 of them.* Make your own snarky comments about how obvious (Weezer, Pavement, AC/DC) or esoteric (William Shatner, Kim Fowley) you think they are. At least two of them came from inside The Stranger camp, and while I dearly want to write my proposed book on Soft Cell’s Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret, in a Celebrity Death Match I’d lay odds that Schmader’s pitch on Eminem’s The Marshall Mathers LP will whoop my butt.

* Someone else came up with that count in the comments field. I got tuckered out somewhere around The B-52’s “Whammy” and gave up tallying.