First, this made us feel good. But then we felt bad.
Now we don’t know how to feel.
Oh, my God, I think I’m going to cry.
When I lived just 4 blocks north of here, I used to go with my friend to read Calving & Hobbes, drink Starbucks and take a break from the grind of our acting school schedule.
I skipped a music theory class to meet Carol Burnett here.
The Upper West Side is changing so much….
A book, being a physical object, engenders a certain respect that zipping electrons cannot. Because you cannot turn a book off, because you have to hold it in your hands, because a book sits there, waiting for you, whether you think you want it or not, because of all these things, a book is a friend. It’s not just the content, but the physical being of a book that is there for you always and unconditionally.
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| — | Mo Willems (via libraryland) (via austinkleon) |
“Rock stars are popping-up all over the city. A week after the Brooklyn-based band the National opened a temporary retail outlet on East 3rd Street to promote its new album, Ohio rockers the Black Keys have followed suit with a merchandise outpost in the Housing Works Bookstore Café on Crosby Street.
The duo—guitarist-singer Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney—will also perform an intimate concert Wednesday night at the café as part of the venue’s Live From Home concert series to help raise money for the nonprofit as well as support its new album, “Brothers,” out this week. The store will be open through Thursday.” (via Rock ‘n’ Roll Is in the House - WSJ.com)
Also, I’m pretty sure I didn’t say “average home library.” Maybe I said “somebody’s home library?”
Now I feel the need to remind the general public that I grew up in a one-bedroom apartment and was in college before I knew people had their own washing machines they didn’t have to hoard quarters for.
Tiff and Nate - IDEAS!
