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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: Emily on June 16, 2008, 02:04:12 PM
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Hey people,
I feel a tad dim about having been in the dark about this section of The Strand, but in the basement there's a Reviews section where new books are located - they're copies that were sold to The Strand at a reduced rate by newspapers and magazines who received them from the publisher for reviews.
I got this book "My Stroke of Insight" brandy new hard cover for $13 - the cover price is $25.
Isn't that awesome?!
(I know they're free at the library but city libraries kinda creep me out, sorry to say)
anyway, just wanted to share.
i just thought it was cool that literally blocks away the same book was selling for $25 at Barnes & Noble.
V-I-C-T-O-R-Y!
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I love that place.
And yeah, public libraries around here tend to have a dude in a trench coat facing every wall.
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This girl I know works at a public library in a bad part of L.A. Recently they had a problem with homeless guys fucking each other outside on the side of the building while using mayonnaise as lube in broad daylight. That's right: Midday Mayo-Fucking.
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This girl I know works at a public library in a bad part of L.A. Recently they had a problem with homeless guys fucking each other outside on the side of the building while using mayonnaise as lube in broad daylight. That's right: Midday Mayo-Fucking.
Is there a word, in English or another language that describes something as being terrible and tragic, yet completely hilarious at the same time?
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My mother works at the library in Westport, CT. Even in that somewhat upper-crust town, the library has homeless-fucking problems. If mayo's involved, my mom chose not to tell me.
As for the Strand, I have to admit, I don't like the place. I find it overwhelming. I totally understand why people love...it is more a problem with me than the store. I have been in there probably 20 times, and I have never bought anything! I freak out! I like my book stores tiny...like my men.
My favorite? Mercer Street Books:
http://www.mercerstreetbooks.com/ (http://www.mercerstreetbooks.com/)
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My mother works at the library in Westport, CT. Even in that somewhat upper-crust town, the library has homeless-fucking problems. If mayo's involved, my mom chose not to tell me.
As for the Strand, I have to admit, I don't like the place. I find it overwhelming. I totally understand why people love...it is more a problem with me than the store. I have been in there probably 20 times, and I have never bought anything! I freak out! I like my book stores tiny...like my men.
My favorite? Mercer Street Books:
http://www.mercerstreetbooks.com/ (http://www.mercerstreetbooks.com/)
That's a great place too.
And I totally agree with being overwhelmed in there. I have to spend five minutes just drifting around and getting my bearings. It's cramped and it's not the cleanest "drift" but by then I've thought of something I'd like to look for or I've seen something that's interesting.
I also experience a similar Record Store Amnesia. I'll walk in some record store, see the endless cd spines, and suddenly forget what kind of music I like.
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My mother works at the library in Westport, CT. Even in that somewhat upper-crust town, the library has homeless-fucking problems. If mayo's involved, my mom chose not to tell me.
As for the Strand, I have to admit, I don't like the place. I find it overwhelming. I totally understand why people love...it is more a problem with me than the store. I have been in there probably 20 times, and I have never bought anything! I freak out! I like my book stores tiny...like my men.
My favorite? Mercer Street Books:
http://www.mercerstreetbooks.com/ (http://www.mercerstreetbooks.com/)
That's a great place too.
And I totally agree with being overwhelmed in there. I have to spend five minutes just drifting around and getting my bearings. It's cramped and it's not the cleanest "drift" but by then I've thought of something I'd like to look for or I've seen something that's interesting.
I also experience a similar Record Store Amnesia. I'll walk in some record store, see the endless cd spines, and suddenly forget what kind of music I like.
i know what you mean, JFM and Spoony. every time im in LA (no homeless "midday mayo-fucking" sightings yet), i venture into AMOEBA and walk out empty-handed or with LPs i immediately regret purchasing (because i think of what i originally walked in there for, but left without).
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This is the best place out there pretty much all paperbacks a dollar no matter what, most oversized or hard covers 4 - 6.
http://www.bookbarnniantic.com/default.htm
plus they have goats and tons of cats
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nothing says "indie" like goats.
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This girl I know works at a public library in a bad part of L.A. Recently they had a problem with homeless guys fucking each other outside on the side of the building while using mayonnaise as lube in broad daylight. That's right: Midday Mayo-Fucking.
L.A. is full of showoffs.
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Boy, all this talk of urban U.S. libraries makes me regret my strident suggestion in another thread that iAmBaronVonTito should just go to his local library to read a book he can't afford to buy. Sorry, Baron! If my local library were full of condiment-fucking homeless men, I'd avoid it too. As it is, it's merely occupied by your garden variety heroin and meth-addicted homeless men. That's OK by me - everyone needs a place to hang out, right? Just leave your mayo somewhere else!
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Boy, all this talk of urban U.S. libraries makes me regret my strident suggestion in another thread that iAmBaronVonTito should just go to his local library to read a book he can't afford to buy. Sorry, Baron! If my local library were full of condiment-fucking homeless men, I'd avoid it too. As it is, it's merely occupied by your garden variety heroin and meth-addicted homeless men. That's OK by me - everyone needs a place to hang out, right? Just leave your mayo somewhere else!
no worries, Bryanvontito.
i bring the mustard.
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This girl I know works at a public library in a bad part of L.A. Recently they had a problem with homeless guys fucking each other outside on the side of the building while using mayonnaise as lube in broad daylight. That's right: Midday Mayo-Fucking.
Does that make them hobosexuals? Also, surely it's Midday Bum Fucking.
I'M SORRY. SOMEONE HAD TO SAY IT.
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This girl I know works at a public library in a bad part of L.A. Recently they had a problem with homeless guys fucking each other outside on the side of the building while using mayonnaise as lube in broad daylight. That's right: Midday Mayo-Fucking.
Does that make them hobosexuals? Also, surely it's Midday Bum Fucking.
Although your pun is clever and funny, I still think the mayonnaise element is indispensable when speaking of this action.
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I went to the Strand last year and wasn't too blown away. Mostly because it was super crowded and smelled like BO. I did pick up a few awesome books, so maybe I'm just being a naysayer.
I went to a famous DC bookstore (Politics and Prose) the other day, and it was almost as good as the average Border's. Almost. Like it's just famous for being famous.
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i'm not talking about the hype or the smell or the people, people. i'm talking about the D-I-S-C-O-U-N-T! woohooo! saved meself $12 to put towards more ink squid pasta (yum yum in the tum).
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This girl I know works at a public library in a bad part of L.A. Recently they had a problem with homeless guys fucking each other outside on the side of the building while using mayonnaise as lube in broad daylight. That's right: Midday Mayo-Fucking.
That's just crazy. Everyone knows that mayo gets really disgusting when its out in the midday sun.
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Gets? More like is! There are few things more disgusting than mayo. Yes, mayo bum-fucking is one of those things.
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but it does wonders for the hair!
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I hear you, yesno.... as good a bookstore as that is, it has BO.
(Book Oder?)
Not as bad a a used, yellowed mayo jar with little hairs stuck on it, but enough to make me avoid it on 90+ degree days.
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OH BARF! I'm trying to eat a grilled cheese sandwich here, you douchebag.
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...yellowed mayo jar with little hairs stuck on it...
There is no way anyone could have predicted that a thread about the Strand would end up including a gem like that.
Poor Laurie and her lunch.
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Are you going to eat that? That looks like swiss...
Man, Oh Man, has this ever spun out of control. I'm almost proud.
I'm sorry about the grilled cheese. It was probably delicious.
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You've got to wonder about the logistics of that act. Did they find the mayo and figure that was the best use they could make of it without cold cuts? Or did one of them carry it around just in case he got lucky?
There's lots of unanswered questions here!
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I guess that's just something a hobo carries around in that polk-dotted hankerchief as part of the Homeless Go-Bag.
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OH BARF! I'm trying to eat a grilled cheese sandwich here, you douchebag.
Then I'm sorry I couldn't get here in time to remind you of this:
(http://movies.apple.com/trailers/lions_gate/religulous/images/main.jpg)
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Miracle Whip or Hellmann's?
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I was just catching up on the show from a few weeks ago.
Laurie, you cracked me up with:
"I didn't realize hard hat guys were into Werner Herzog."
Nicely done.
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That was funny. Laurie always busts me up.
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i think all the FOTS should hang out one time and walk around NYC going to good bookstores and record stores.
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that would be fun.
one can wish.
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i think all the FOTS should hang out one time and walk around NYC going to good bookstores and record stores.
That would be fun. I'm in.