Buffy ,'Lessons'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
(soapbox) Support your locally-owned bookseller! There are still plenty of independent bookstores in Chicago, for example, plus there's always online. (gettin' off it)
Also I like to call stores "the [whatever]'s" myself, and I'm all northeast.
I do too! Although I'm all mid-atlantic-y.
Here's info on Hubbard's Cave.
The Hubbard Cave is downtown--it's the tunnel you go through on the Kennedy southbound on your way into the Loop before you meet up with the Dan Ryan and the Eisenhower.
Oh, okay. I think they just skip that and say to the Loop these days.
I don't think I put "the" in front of store names or possessives that weren't already there (except Penney's, but as Sophia says, not with the JC). When I lived on St. Mary St. I always called it St. Mary's, though.
I hope that all the Border's don't go. My local Borders actually does events for local authors and community outreach stuff - where the B&N does not.
I did just buy one of the two copies of Barb's book at the State St. Borders today.
Not only are there no locally-owned bookstores in my town (or the next town over which is practically my town), people come here from Vallejo to go to B&N (I think that's it) because there are no bookstores at all there. None!
We do have a comic book shop, though, and I patronise the hell out of that place.
The only reason I know those stores apart is that Borders lets you do your own computer searches while B&N makes you actually search out and talk to a human.
Not true! At least, the Barnes and Noble('s) I go to most often lets you search yourself.
On reflection, I think I add "the" more than the possessive.
Support your locally-owned bookseller!
Find me one! Seriously, in LA, it's so much easier to find an independent cinema than a bookstore.
I hate writing cheques. I want to switch to fully online bill-paying but my mother objects and I have no backbone.
Additionally, in today's 7th grade history class, a bunch of students knocked a framed newspaper article from 1964 off the wall and shattered the frame everywhere. I wanted to cry.