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The Bookstore
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Now this, it was great. It's the bookstore of your dreams, filled with first editions, old books, oversized books - any of it's sections in itself bigger than most bookstores, a 16' high ceiling, shelves all the way to the top, great tottering stacks of books, overstuffed racks of books, books lining the floor roughly where they would fit on the shelf, if there was room.
Probably, not a word of a lie, a million books. Curated as well, customers coming in - at first glance there's no rhyme or reason - but everyone asks for their author and he steers them right to the section, knows if he has it in stock or not - books on Magic ("with a 'K'" I ask, and he reprimands me - "Tricks are in another section. There's many forms of magic...") and with just a few of the right questions puts the right book in their hand. Esoteric, Theosophical, there's no tripping him up, he knows it all.
I'd written about him-not-him, the ideal bookstore, proprietor, and now I've met him.
I am impressed.
Trails of '98 - Pierre Berton
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My first Pierre Berton. I thought - for some reason - that he was from Montreal. Nope, apparently born in Whitehorse, Yukon.
Anyways, a slender book (more a pamphlet) but filled with the larger than life characters, almost entirely peripheral, that made up the Yukon/Alaska Goldrush. Not first person, but he drew upon any number of sources, and it intrigues me to think that a great many of their skeletons and possessions still litter the trails North from Edmonton, Ashcroft, and of course amongst the mountains and glaciers of Alaska, Northern BC and the Yukon.
Hostile Architecture
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There are tons of articles out there about this - how the architecture of big cities is increasingly designed to discourage homelessness. Think of those "ornamental" triangular bumps that top windowsills, flat areas, or the dividers they put on benches.
But this - in front of a church, no less, this has to take the cake:
Now, I mean, really. If Jesus really did come back as a homeless person he's definitely not crashing on this bench, in front of this church. So I guess they'll be missing out.
It would be impossible to conceive a bigger irony, which I suspect is entirely lost upon them.
Oh, yeah - looking at the photos underlines the fact that I need a new phone/camera. Soon, but not today.
Roddy Ricch
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Or, why I'm so fucking poor. Because this mother-fucking-getting-rich.
Link: Roddy Rich
Weird I never heard of him before. Great name though.
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