a couple of random treats

[ellen_datlow]

The Eerie, Bizarre Sounds of the Saturnian System

or what we've been listening to out there and for something completely different:

Attention shoppers. Here's the 2007 site and news for the deals that can be had at all kinds of stories around the US the day after Thanksgiving, the biggest shopping day of the year, aka Black Friday
Black Friday deals

Comments

[satyrblade.livejournal.com]

I worked in various bookstores from 1999 to 2006. (Yes, I worked every Harry Potter opening night during those years - heady times, for a fantasy writer!) Although the job has a lot to offer a writer who needs a day job, decent pay is not one of the job's better features!

[sclerotic-rings.livejournal.com]

"Hi! I was looking for a book that you had up front about a year ago - or maybe it was two - and I asked Bernie at the front counter if you still had a copy. He said that you were out, so I asked Cicely in the back, and she said you were out, so I asked Bill in the DVD section and he said you were out, so could you get me a copy 'cuz I have to do a report on it by tomorrow?"

I truly fear even the possibility of working in a bookstore. If working in a liquor store turned me into a completely unrepentant straightedge, working in a bookstore these days would probably make me take my eyes out with a grapefruit spoon and burn off the tips of my fingers so I couldn't learn Braille.