Bookseller, baker, ricotta-cheese maker. I'm a reader, a wannabe writer, have a mothballed J.D., and am little bit crazy. These are the days of my lives.
Posted in adventures in retail, book snob, nerd on Sep 20th, 2009
That’s what they call it, when a book is ordered in higher numbers (or ordered at all) than what the Inventory Gods of corporate decide should be sent to all stores in a given market. Now– we’re in the Boston area market, which is a Major Market to just about beat all besides New […]
Thanks to my friend L. for cluing me in to the You Tube Channel that is How It Should Have Ended. Because really, Lord of the Rings? Great movie– epic, even, to use an overused Internetism, but, well, after about the fifth ending at the end of Return of the King I was […]
Posted in Better Half, links, meta, music, nerd, sparkly on Sep 10th, 2009
The husband upgraded the version of Wordpress I use yesterday, which involved a fair amount of cussing at the site host server– #&*&%^&%$ timed logouts and non-intuitive layout and fucked up contradictory upload and ftp client server sections, GoDaddy can Yo Mama as far as the BH is concerned– and then a certain amount of […]
Posted in Better Half, just plain silly, links, nerd on Aug 20th, 2009
I was IMing with the BH today, letting him know that I had all the ingredients ready for a french-style salad with fried rounds of goat cheese for dinner (more on that later) and the phone rang. It was an unlisted number, but in the vein of doing things that aren’t actually brave but that […]
Posted in Better Half, nerd on Jun 15th, 2009
When Wii Boxing with your spouse, it will be less disturbing if you use the Mii icons that DON’T look like you. Because I just got KO’d, and I’m more annoyed than I should be.
Posted in Better Half, just plain silly, nerd, sparkly on Jun 7th, 2009
The Internet, besides being the source of all knowledge, porn and fanfiction (and, erm, we’ll get to that shameful new addiction of mine some other time, mmkay?) is also a source of new words, abbreviations and phrases, although sometimes it’s just responsible for making those words from music/tv/press go “viral.” (See, that’s a very Intarwebz […]
Posted in Better Half, crank, nerd on May 26th, 2009
Sunday night the Better Half and I went to the movies and realized that we are now those people we used to mock as we sat making out with our high school dates, snarfling popcorn and candy like calories were irrelevant and otherwise living adolescent, ego-centric lives. Not so now.
We got off the subway and came […]
Posted in books, chains, good things, nerd on Feb 8th, 2009
I was browsing at the shrine to the “Twilight” vampire series at one the downtown chain bookstore that has a decent sci-fi/fantasy and poetry section and observed the aftermath of the Harry Potter books. I’ve never read these books, but I see people of all different ages and social groups reading them on the train […]
Posted in Better Half, nerd on Jan 30th, 2009
The Better Half does many things at work, some in his job description, and many, many more not. One of the thing’s that’s actually in his job description is marketing, and he’s more than a bit of a nerd about it. And more than a bit of a nerd, generally– he’ll read me something about […]
Posted in Deep Thoughts, books, crank, links, nerd, writing on Jan 1st, 2009
There’s an interesting article in the New York Times about the effect of online book sales on small bookstores– especially the effect of resales on authors and stores.
I admit that I have bought my fair share of new books from Amazon, or gone to a box store like Borders or Barnes and Noble. I don’t […]