What most strikes me is that I remembered the password after three years or so, and that this account is still active. Not to mention that the folks I find most interesting are, unlike me, still posting on a regular basis. Love that long tail, folks.

As in, "I'm not dead yet ( Read more... )

Mid-life crisis, ahoy!!!

After the cut, playing Lola Lola to my Professor Unrath, it's...

( that indie-obscure object of desire... )

On what was otherwise the slowest sales day in many months (welcome to the autumn doldrums, hurry up and bring on the foliage, yo) I sold a rare RM Stanley (predecessor to Capt Jeffrey Spaulding in the African colonialism biz) and the Big Barn sold a Mark Twain 1st edition, thus saving the day. Huzzah ( Read more... )

Either that, or I really have _no_ ambition/imagination ( Read more... )

For the record: still a bookstore guy, and still pinching myself at my luck. Still mostly happy.

( Yes, I got sucked into the ranked-interests thing, too... )

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Know how to get an ironist to shut up? Ask him what he really means. Know how to get a record shop guy to admit what he really obsesses about? Take him out of the shop for a year, let the snowglobe of his mind settle a little, and then have him work a by-no-means-complete-or ( Read more... )

Life imitates The Onion. Not the tearful, multilayered, greenglass translucence of life in these here Yoonighted Estancias, just the sheer yockfulness of how obvious it all is ( Read more... )

Livejournal must really really like me -- over a year without an update and my account is still active. Insert slightly stale Sally Field reference ( Read more... )