Ok so thanksgiving is upon us and what does a 34-year-émigré who has been invited out every year, do, when this year she is stuck at home with nowhere to go? She might plead vegetarianism or refuse to leave her bed all day and eat bon bons and read a trashy beach book. Except that this [...]

We’ll be closed this Thursday for Thanksgiving. As a bonus, though, we’ll have extended hours Friday and Saturday: FRIDAY 11/28 10AM-10PM SATURDAY 11/29 10AM-10PM

Fiction:             1. Abandoned Cars by Tim Lane 2. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz 3. On the Road, scroll edition by Jack Kerouac 4. Downtown Owl by Chuck Klosterman 5. Best American Short Stories 2008 ed by Salman Rushdie 6. The Watchmen by Alan Moore [...]

One of the very best things about the Subterranean life? The many tourists we get from around the country and the world who stop in to browse and buy. So I just rang out two nice ladies from Rotterdam in the Netherlands — such delightful people. Asked questions about our store, about the city, about [...]

that publishers who take 3 weeks to ship, can all of a sudden, ship in 5 days? So, all the $1000′s of books that were ordered to be here in time for post Thanksgiving, are freaking here.  With their attendant bills.  Ulcers I tell you.

Poll Results– Oct 2008 You’re appointed to a life term as Dictator of the World. What do you abolish first? –income tax on families making under $20,000 a year : 35% –Rush Limbaugh’s right to speak anywhere in public : 30% –driving while yakking on a cell phone : 14% –car stereos so loud they [...]

And that included the time it took to fill out the ballot.  9am is the magic time.  On our way to the polling place Brad & I passed Jenni walking back from it and she had to wait an hour and 1/2. They had, probably, 80 stations set up at a polling place where at [...]