Terrific Cody's Deal: Our Bodies, Ourselves for $7.98. This is the anniversary edition, updated for the nineties, a terrific resource on women's health. Hundreds of pages of useful and entertaining information. The stack on the …
Best way to learn what we stock: standing at the checkout and watching what people buy. Every day I sell things that I had no idea we stocked. The other day I sold an amazing …
Annoying customer habit: approaching a staff member with a request phrased as a single word. "Chess." "Gardening." (At least one staffer regularly replies to such unmannerly requests in kind, with arbitrary words, e.g., "bingo.") Leonard …
Last night I dreamt that His Fraudulency was consulting with Leo from The West Wing. (Leonard's comment, in Leo's voice: "What is this, a satire? This guy is just a thinly disguised Ritchie!") I worry …
The New Yorker article about Condi Rice makes her sound like T'Pol from Enterprise, only not as sexy. (Nicholas Lemann discusses his article in an interview.) My "Certainty! Righteousness!" sirens go off when I hear …
Recently I have come across a few titles that remind me of song titles. I find myself singing The Autograph Man (Zadie Smith) to the tune of "The Candyman [Can]" from the film Willy Wonka …
I only realized recently that the abbreviation for "Disturbing Search Request" competes with my ex for the initials "DSR." Hmmm.
Someone's Got to Mind the Store: Zed recently bought our last marked-down copy of the Neil Gaiman collection Smoke and Mirrors, and thanked me for the pointer. First documented instance of someone actually using my …
My parents are moving back to India. I wish them well, and have actually helped them do moving-related things over these past few days, such as putting lots of their belongings into a shipping container …
Neil Gaiman's short story collection, Smoke and Mirrors, is still on the remaindered table at Cody's. Only $3.98. I'm thinking of getting it myself. The other day a fella asked, "Where do you keep your …
