Jim, my name is ...

Thanks to rook543 for the userpic and for uoggb for animating it!

Cue fighting music from "Amok Time" ...

book store blues

In the last week or so, two stores where I've shopped for years are going through closure/changes. Makes me sad, but that's business. Sigh ...

A Clean Well-Lighted Place for Books in San Francisco.

Cody's Books, the original store on Telegraph in Berkeley.


Both had wonderful author events. ACWLPB memories include: local boy who made good, B.D. (Brad) Wong, at his memoir-signing; David Foster Wallace; William Gibson; my third cousin (or something like that) Julie Otsuka; and the kid-book event for They Might Be Giants. Cody's: Colson Whitehead; Dan Simmons; Neil Gaiman; Margaret Cho.