Bored at the bookstore, ask me anything!

[RetroLounge]

I dare you.

RL

[Guava Jelly]

1. I'm tired of begging

:mad:

[RetroLounge]

4. Then take a nap and try again later...

:9

RL

[Guava Jelly]

9. I only nap in meetings

So if you want to go over next weeks tooling schedule with me it would help :crazy:

[RetroLounge]

12. Into role playing games, huh?

:rofl:

RL

[Guava Jelly]

16. Oh I have a game in mind

But I can't tell you 'cause it's Pievate er..I mean Private :hide: :rofl:

[RetroLounge]

18. Well, if you're in Milwaukee next weekend...

You can see her.

:hi:

RL

[Guava Jelly]

19. I heard about that.

Lucky you!
:D

[RetroLounge]

31. Yes. Lucky me for sure...

I'll take pics.

Of course, I won't send you any.

:hide:

RL

[Guava Jelly]

66. Of course

@$$hole :mad: :P

[RetroLounge]

70. A Bus Driver with road rage?

:hi:

RL

[Guava Jelly]

71. Nah

I just like stalking your girlfriend that's all.:silly:
Can you blame me? hubba hubba. :rofl:

[RetroLounge]

72. Maybe we can stalk her together?

:crazy:

RL

[Guava Jelly]

73. Something tells me that she has already been caught.

:mad: :P.
I'll just stalk from afar..And dream of buses :D :evilgrin:

[LaurenG]

2. What is the best childhood memory you have?

:hi:

[RetroLounge]

7. Playing with friends in the old neighborhood

We had a ton of kids in all age groups, and we always had some game going in the summers. The street was only one block long, little traffic, so we claimed the street as our own. Softball, football, bikes, whatever. This was the early 60's thru the 70's.

We had a reunion of sorts a few years back as only one family is still there from childhood, and we had 50 people show up.

:hi:

RL

[Whisp]

23. I grew up rural so I didn't have that kind of thing.

but my daughter did!
the kids would gather in one big clump and run around the neighborhood like a huge noisy centipede. I just loved that sound of happy mayhem.

[RetroLounge]

28. We had lots of that noisy happy mayhem...

Then dad would whistle at dinner time and we'd scatter home.

:hi:

RL

[Whisp]

3. have you ever read Ullyses?

do you like the smell and weight of books?

do you like to marker up your non-fictions, dog ear them and make them look 'used' or does that bother you?

what's the most expensive book you ever bought?

[RetroLounge]

5. That would be four questions

1) No, I have never read it.

2) I love everything about books. Smell, weight, feel, the stories withing, the covers, the terror of writing, everything.

3) No, my non-fictions stay as clean as my fictions. But no bother.

4) Oh, I have no idea. I don't buy expensive books. Maybe $50 for a book of black & White railroad photographs by O. Winston Link taken in the 40's of steam locomotives on the Norfolk & Western Railway.

:hi:

RL

[Whisp]

24. if I may answer too. ;)

1. haven't read it either, but I have books on how to read it. ;) saving it like dessert for some day, hope my eyes hold out til then.

2. love books. even bibles - that onion skin makes me crazy. I don't read it, I just feel it. which reminds me of a crazy friend I had who took pleasure in shocking people. He'd do stuff like go to a christian book store and go up to the counter and say something like: give me the best fucking bible you have. and we'd giggle like juveniles at the reactions.

3. I like marking up my books. Noam Chomsky's get the most weathered and abused. I think he'd like that.

4. I once lost my husbands atlas that for some reason I had in my car (it was a big geezer) and someone ran oft with it. so I replaced it with a 200 bucker. this was many years ago. we still have it and use it. huge geezer too.

[RetroLounge]

29. I love big atlases!

and now so do my kids...

:D

RL

[Whisp]

32. McCane's atlas would have Pangea.

sorry, had to.

[RetroLounge]

33. hee hee

:9

RL

[The Straight Story]

6. What's your favorite pic on my photopucket album?

:)
http://s194.photobucket.com/albums/z302/TheStraightStory/

[RetroLounge]

11. This one

:hi:

RL

[The Straight Story]

15. I wrote a poem to go with it

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/The%20Straight%20Story/24

[RetroLounge]

17. That's nice...

thanks.

:hi:

RL

[Gormy Cuss]

8. What's the slimmest hardcover volume in your store?

That ought to keep you busy for a few minutes.:P

[RetroLounge]

14. Bah...

War and Peace.

:rofl:

RL

[otherlander]

10. Who's your favorite jazz musician?

:hi:

[RetroLounge]

13. Thelonius Monk

Coolest jazz name too...

:hi:

RL

[otherlander]

22. My favorite is Ornette Coleman.

But, yeah, Thelonius Monk is a cooler name.

[graywarrior]

20. Is Keith Ablow the most profound drunken/sober psychiatrist writer ever?

And he's from Lynn MA!

[RetroLounge]

30. Well, if he is from Lynn, then I better answer yes!!!

:9

RL

[graywarrior]

40. Ha!

Good answer!

[The Straight Story]

21. Asked before (long time ago) but

What civil war books do you have and do you have any on Hockey - the wife and I are moving back to Ohio soon and with the colder weather I want to get her some good stuff to read (and do you take money orders?).

Also any old hollywood star bio's, she loves those as well (especially Charlie Chaplin, Marilyn Monroe, and Greta Garbo).

[RetroLounge]

27. Got LOTS of nice Civil War stuff recently

but it's selling steadily. Some nice obscure hard cover stuff.

and tons of celebrity Bios. Tons.

Check out the website: http://www.xenithbooksellers.com

Then go to the Alibris link off that page and you can see the books by category.

Search there and make a list of annything you need, then PM it to me.

:hi:

RL

[mdmc]

25. How come you don't have any Charles Bukowski books?

:shrug:

[RetroLounge]

26. Because when I do, they sell right away?

:shrug:

Just had a copy of Post Office and it sold immediately.

RL

[mdmc]

60. I always look at your DU Marketplace threads

I check for Sedaris, Bukowski, and Hunter Thompson.

[zabet]

34. Looking for this book....

"Women Are Here To Stay" by Agnes Rogers

Do you have it? How much?

[RetroLounge]

41. Sorry, I don't have it...

So it's free to you... :D

:hi:

RL

[taterguy]

35. Did you know that you missed an awesome Pylon show last night?

:evilgrin:

[RetroLounge]

39. Bastid...

:applause:

RL

[taterguy]

48. I'll take that as a yes

[Tikki]

36. Do you ever get Canadian History books...

and if you do...do you sell them?


Tikki

[RetroLounge]

42. Didn't know anyone actually wrote Canadian History books...

:shrug:

RL

[Gonzo Gardener]

37. Corn Flake Crusted Chicken or...

this tasty dish from the restaurant we had lunch at today?

[RetroLounge]

43. OMG!

Corn Flake please...

RL

[Gonzo Gardener]

45. No one else at the table understood why I was nearly in tears...

trying to control my laughter while photographing the menu.

[Whisp]

38. what was the first book you read that had 'dirty words'

or sexual descriptions to make a youngsters eyes pop out?

Mine was Lady Chatterly's Lover.

[RetroLounge]

44. The Dictionary...

Went straight for the dirty words...

:hi:

RL

[rug]

46. How many commas are in Moby Dick?

And how bored are you?

[RetroLounge]

49. 3,157 not counting the Oxford Commas

very

RL

[likesmountains 52]

47. I need to downsize and would be willing to give you books that I would pay postage on

I have fiction and non fiction...paperback and hardback. I would even be willing to send you the titles and you could just get the ones you want. I am too lazy to have a garage sale. My question? Are you interested?

[RetroLounge]

50. Yes, very much so.

PM me the details.

Thanks!

RL

[Chan790]

51. Rare books

I collect them, I think they're neat. I've got a 1884 Davy and the Goblin by Charles E. Carryl with the hand-drawn illustrations, a college natural biology textbook from 1829 and a first edition of Charlie Brown and the Great Pumpkin

Do you enjoy rare books too?

[RetroLounge]

52. I appreciate them, but don't collect them

I like hardcover first editions of fiction from the 50's on up...

:hi:

RL

[cynatnite]

53. Do you have Pottery Making for Dummies?

Thinking of taking up a new hobby.

[RetroLounge]

55. Sorry, not that one

But I have this one...

http://www.alibris.com/booksearch.detail?invid=8948859784&quserid=XENITHBS&qtit=pottery&qsort=&page=1

:hi:

RL

[From The Ashes]

54. Have you gotten any new Trek in?

signed,
your crazy book orderin' friend.

[RetroLounge]

56. Yup.

Go here:

http://www.alibris.com/booksearch?quserid=XENITHBS

and search by title for 'star trek' and 2 pages of them come up...

:hi:

RL

[leeroysphitz]

57. How do I get people to look at my Dark Knight thread?

Located here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x8001279

Thanks for asking me to ask...

[RetroLounge]

58. Huh, I just looked at it...

I guess that worked...

:hi:

RL

[philosophie_en_rose]

59. Are you dealing "Twilight" to young people?

You know that's a gateway series.

[RetroLounge]

64. The first one is free...

:9

RL

[DarkTirade]

61. What's the best way to get enough DNA to try and clone a pterodactyl?

[RetroLounge]

62. They sell it at Sam's Club now...

You're welcome

RL

[DarkTirade]

63. Damn, I don't have a membership and I don't wanna support Wal-Mart.

Archaeopteryx it is then. I was hoping for something a little older, it would be more impressive. :(

[Lydia Leftcoast]

65. How could you be bored at a bookstore?

:-)

[RetroLounge]

67. It's a talent, that's for sure

:hi:

RL

[Callalily]

68. Do you have a copy of

Emily Post's 1922 edition of Etiquette? (for research purposes and just b/c I want it)

I'm too lazy to look on your site.

:hi:

[RetroLounge]

69. Not that one, no, but I have another one

By Amy Vanderbilt

http://www.alibris.com/booksearch.detail?invid=9076616772&qtopic=Etiquette&quserid=XENITHBS&qsort=&page=1

:hi:

RL