We heart Matt Kindt.  The greater comics world apparently does, too.  He just received his FOURTH Eisner Nomination. This one is  for designing (with Brett Warnock) the controversial and kind of creepy Lost Girls by Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie. If you, too, are a fan of Matt and his SuperSecret Spy, here’s a head’s [...]

I forgot to post the bestsellers of March! –List Master Jason 1.   Eric Brende : Better Off 2.   Banksy : Wall and Piece 3.   Elizabeth Gilbert : Eat, Pray, Love 4.   Kate Atkinson : Case Histories 5.   SkyMaul: Happy Crap You Can Buy from a Plane 6.   Missy Suicide : SuicideGirls 7.   George Orwell : [...]

Major League Baseball reverentially celebrated Jackie Robinson this past weekend. Robinson broke the color barrier in baseball 60 years ago on April 15, 1947, at a time before the Civil Rights Movement was even a blip on Middle America’s radar screen. Robinson was helped in his crusade by an innovator in baseball with a St. [...]

 Just arrived, complete with distressingly easy to thieve  CD.  If I don’t have an ulcer before I turn 40 it’ll be a miracle. Another St. Louis note: Patrick at Meshuggah had this truly great Tshirt on today, Brave enough to live in  America’s Most Dangerous City –or something like that. –Kelly, who never used to [...]

April is National Poetry Month.  There are others who can write far more eloquently on why poetry is beautiful and what writers you really ought to have read.  I’m just going to post some pictures.  For all of our readers who live out of town (and, surprisingly, there are a ton of you), here’s our front window [...]

There’s an editorial in the SF Chronicle that is 2 parts depressing, 1 part whimsical, 1 part genius and 4 parts right-on.  Here’s the truth that I find absolutely the most irritating and have to restrain myself from inflicting bodily harm when I watch people do it in our store: People eyeball the books in stores before [...]

I woke yesterday to news I’d been dreading, but expecting, for fifteen years. Kurt Vonnegut is dead. Vonnegut had been telling friends for at least that long that he smoked to commit a slow, dignified suicide. In his last book, Man Without a Country, he even claimed he wanted to sue cigarette makers for false advertising. It [...]

Kurt Vonnegut     .        –Kelly

We will be open this Sunday (Easter) from 12-6 and Jason and I will be accepting donations of chocolate bunnies–both hollow and solid.   We will not, however, under any circumstances, be accepting any Peeps, no matter the color. —Kelly

We have an art opening this Friday (April 6, 7-9pm) and it’s an all-robot show.  Jeffrey Sass is presenting My Robot’s Vacation wherein he displays large-format painted photographs documenting the travels of a small toy robot.  Said robot found itself in many vacation shots that bare a striking resemblance to those our parents have stashed [...]