Buffybot ,'Dirty Girls'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
but it's not nearly as nice as rummaging through a used book store.
It really is excellent for rummaging. Particularly with all the vintage movie magazines from 1916 through the fifties.
Plus they've got all these odd little bits and pieces stashed away on the shelves. Old pulp mags. Zines. Vintage photographs and postcards. Pretty much everything collectable on paper.
Why are they closing?
Why are they closing?
The owner's retiring after 25 years of running the bookstore, and longer than that in the business.
It really is excellent for rummaging. Particularly with all the vintage movie magazines from 1916 through the fifties.
Hey Taunty McTauntpants, that's going over the line. You can stop now.
Maybe I should retaliate by going to the Stax Museum or Sun Studio to look at music memorabillia this weekend?
Maybe I should retaliate by going to the Stax Museum or Sun Studio to look at music memorabillia this weekend?
ooh, and then Juliana and Emily and I can describe our Commanders Palace meal in excrutiating detail.
And then I can...
I can...
I can...
Rats. I need to move to a city with some life in it.
I managed to spend $60+ without rummaging. Dunsany! Lafferty! Authors not ending in "Y"!
J. K. Rowling's manuscript almost confiscated by airport security: [link]
J. K. Rowling's manuscript almost confiscated by airport security
Spoilers are a national threat? Or the screener was a fan and just wanted to get a look at the new book? Or lame?
Seriously, when we were headed home from London, they confiscated a ziplock bag that had about 2 dozen goldfish crackers from my 10 y.o son's carry on. Reason? "It was opened" I told them it was fine, they could have them, they were probably stale as we'd had them with us for over a week. She picked them up like they were a stinky diaper (2 finger grab) and tossed them in the trash. It was very, very strange. They also held up the line to look at some of the pictures stored on my camera (they were of Fountains Abby, no bombs or anything).
EtA: To bring this back on topic, while we were on the trip I bought and read The Time Travelers Wife because you all (especially Nilly) had had such great things to say about it. It's not usually a genre I would pick up, but MAN it was good! Thank you, thank you, thank you.