🔗 “Vintage Classics launches new series of pocket-sized translations”
🔗 “Vintage Classics launches new series of pocket-sized translations”
Great little shop. Perfect name for a used book store. It was in Linden Hills, next door to the Dunn Brothers.
I think I must have found this tucked in a book I bought somewhere else, since I have no memory of ever visiting this bookstore.
(Also: apparently not dead!)
This post from the Hennepin County Library Tumblr caught my eye today, and I remembered that I posted a picture a while back of the Stone Arch Bridge, the Third Avenue Bridge, and the Hennepin Ave Bridge.
Well, that was fun: I flipped through a bunch of books and took a bunch of pictures. Buckle up. Three bookmarks down, fifty-nine to go.
City Lights is a great bookstore, of course, and I try to go every time I’m in the City. But if you told me I could go to only one San Francisco bookstore, I think I would choose Green Apple.
(And I checked their website. They’re still alive!)
📚 What I finished this week. (Bonus! Emo Phillips joke included at no extra charge!)
St Mark’s was small but mighty. A regular stop when I lived in the gravity well of NYC. But I’m 0 for 2 in the category of “Bookstores that still exist.” I’ll try to find a non-moribund bookmark for tomorrow so that it doesn’t seem like I’m taking pictures of headstones…
Two bookmarks that resurfaced in old books around the house. The Odegard’s at Victoria Crossing closed in January 1996. (The C*lhoun Square store stayed open a few more years, if memory serves.)
List #17
Criminal — an account of a dream, found in a notebook from 2013. (Recently, I’ve been going through old notebooks, looking for raw material for new poems, or blog posts, or whatever.)
📚 What I finished this week.
Your periodic reminder that yes, the TV show M∗A∗S∗H ran for eleven years when the Korean War itself only lasted three. But all 256 episodes only run 110 hours. The war lasted twenty-seven thousand hours.
After a few days with Dylan’s Rough & Rowdy Ways, this afternoon’s soundtrack is Xe by Zs.
One of life’s little ironies: if you stand up to a bully, he’ll call you a bully.
📚 What I finished last week.
📚 What I finished this week.
Last week, I finished the Random Walk through my home library. Let’s review what we’ve learned, explore some underlying ideas, and then I’ll open the floor to questions. (Ha! Me? Answer questions? Are you kidding?)
Chance Operations, Parts 2, 3, and 4
Attorney General Ellison will be elevating the charge against Chauvin to 2nd-degree murder, which will allow the other three ex-cops to be arrested and charged as accessories. (via MPR & Strib)
It is, perhaps, significant that the protesters marching from the Capitol building this afternoon took the I-94 roadbed westbound, shutting it down. The heart of the Rondo.
📚 What I finished this week.
Today was the last day of my Random Walk, and I thought I’d take a minute and describe my process. Randomness, after all, takes a lot of planning.
Chance Operations, Part 1: The Process
Also: starting in June, and for the rest of the summer, this will be a weekend thing.
We finally slept from midnight to 3 am. Up for a while. Still quiet on the street. Back to sleep.
We took an early morning drive around our neighborhood to see its condition. No new damage to any nearby businesses or residences. The few unboarded windows were intact.
42:12, 23:44