Holiday Hours

We will be open from 10-3 on 12/24 and 12/31.

We will be closed on 12/25, 1/1 and 1/2 for store inventory.

Thanks, y'all.

M'er F'er snow.

Happy winter weather gods/goddesses.

Forgive the Amazon pic because it was the only image I could find of the cover of this amazing book. Vernon discusses his brother and how he only came to know him after his death while cleaning out his house. It is a sad book--oh, is it sad--but in a moving and important way rather than a sappy way. He also discusses the history of various things like the thermometer and various other objects he found in the house. The memoir genre is a mess right now because we want to read about how screwed up other families are. Plus, we want the "T" truth and so many of them are filled with lies.

This one, however, is a winner.

http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?isbn=1566891515

"Miniatures" is one of the more bizarre and effective novels I've read in the past five years. It tells, and retells, the same story over a three day period of time. Labiner is a master of wordplay and inventive trickery. The titles of the chapters have very little to do with what happens. They mostly sound good. All too often reviews give words like luminous, haunting and evocative to books that don't deserve it. This one does.

one more time

I guess I'm giving away some(or most) of my artistic heroes right off the bast. This time it's Jasper Johns and Banksy. Two very different men who end up making me feel the same way--happy.

Banksy is a UK adbuster and culterjammer who I have a great deal of respect for. He the real deal. Google his name and Paris Hilton and you'll see what I mean.

Next up--books and shit.

hgw

Just learnin'

This fine hand-writing was done by the one and only Jorge Luis Borges. I love him.

Be berry berry quiet!

This is my secret blog. I'll write about books and fonts and ink and other assorted things associated with book geeks.

I may eveentually even incorporate my own life and thoughts into this. Who knows what the future could bring to this illustrious web-journal.

The piece to the left was done by Jean-Michel Basquiat. Otherwise known in the art underwold as Samo. He was a grafitti artist/avant garde artiste noticed by Warhol and made muy famous before his young death.