Okay, folks. Black Friday has come and gone without a peep from Ten Pound Island Book Co. No super-duper Black Friday Bargains, no Cyber Monday!!!, no trendy “Must-Buy These!” ads, and most of all, no “Holiday Gift Suggestions.” (I dislike those the most. All greedy holiday advertising is annoying, but these “suggestions” are invasive. How […] More >>
Archives for November 2021
My Morons
I’ll keep this short. In this morning’s paper, I read about a seventeen-year-old boy with an obviously still-developing brain, at least as far as impulse control was concerned, who illegally took possession of a military-grade killing machine, and murdered two people. The dead ones happened to be white, but make no mistake. He was there, […] More >>
“We were all making money on it!”
True to my word, I hit the road last Thursday. Three calls along the Maine coast, then across the top of the state to Vermont, then down. Fresh, sparkling snow in the early Sunday morning sun all the way from the Canadian border to the White Mountains. Spent a few grand and had a hell […] More >>
Thanks be to God for this good, hard life
Spent this weekend in one of those periodical cleaning/reorganizing frenzies. Down in the basement this time – didn’t I just clean that pigpen up? Yeah, 2 years ago… Anyway, while I was down there organizing my tax records, I came across a box full of bookselling notes and memorabilia from decades ago. On the very […] More >>