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Shelves To Go!
So, I have a long list of things I have been meaning to do. Some of the items on this list go back years. Yikes. (I blame books. They are so distracting.) Anyway, I finally got around to number seven on the list. Shelves on casters. Cooking, Travel, Biography, Politics, Sociology, History, Science, Nature, Technology, Business and New Arrivals are now portable!   FREE BROWNIES!!!!!!!! (while supplies last, which is probably only tonight, so hurry up!!!!) Mmmmmm...brownies and books.
Birthday Authors through July 22
As many of you know we have an on-going display of Birthday Authors. It occurred to me that someone might like to know who the authors are. The present astrological sign is Cancer and the winners are.....
13 Days in July
Our Friday the 13th Sale was so much fun we decided to keep in going a bit longer. July 13 - July 25 everything is 13% off. Also, we are putting tons of $1.00 Sale books out everyday. I am sure there is something for everyone. AC is Back!!! I know the store has been rather warm lately, but we have AC again. Yay! Now there is no excuse not to come visit!!! Thanks to those who were able to tough it out with us. We appreciate it. OUR BOOKS ARE HOT! At Lorem Ipsum, our books just keep getting HOTTER and HOTTER thanks to a temporarily broken store air conditioning unit. Stop by to FEEL THE WARMTH for yourself! Each book is a heating stone in the steambath of literacy. Sample some Black Ice by Lorraine Cary. Take a gander at The Air-Conditioned Nightmare by Henry Miller and secretly wish that such horrors would befall you. Trek to our Pulp section and quench your id with Gore Vidal's A Thirsty Evil. There is no telling how long this SCORCHER of an opportunity will last! If you can't beat the heat, join it! At Lorem Ipsum! Now! But, seriously we are getting the AC fixed soon.
Free Music tonight!!!!!!!
Impossible Hair, around 6:30 or 7:00 If you miss them here, check them out at P. A. 's tonight!!!! http://www.myspace.com/impossiblehair http://www.impossiblehair.com/pages/00.html
More on the Man-Who v. She-Wolf Showdown:
The score is now 4-2 (She-Wolves are still in the lead, of course). For your shopping pleasure, a sampling of Man-Who titles (May they entice you to come in and purchase one--give those lonely Man-Who's some much needed confidence!): *The Man Who Sees Tomorrow* *The Man Who Cooked for Himself* *The Man Who Dreamt of Lobsters* *The Man Who Tried to Buy the World* *The Man Who Turned Into Himself* Really, though, it's the She-Wolves you should be thinking about: In *Teen Temptress* our protagonist likes it rough: "She had the experience of an older woman, the morals of a she-wolf--and a whole high school for her wanton playgound!" But it's *That Girl From Boston* that's bound to bring in the masses: "Take a puritanical egghead and an amorous sexpot, mix well and you've got That Girl From Boston in a ribald romp from Boston's Back Bay to its back bedrooms." Meeeeeeeeow.
Man Who v. She Wolf
She Wolf: 3 Man Who: 1 Take that suckers!
The Employee Hold Shelf: A Spatio-Statistical Presentation
An anonymous employee of Lorem Ipsum Books decided to conduct unbiased field research that explores employee hold shelf trends. Here is some surprising data (followed by a few awards): 1. The employee hold shelf can accommodate 22 1/8 inches of books, but currently contains *30 inches* of books-on-hold. 2. A breakdown of items on hold in inches/employee: Jane: 1 book, 3/4 inches Joanna: 2 books, 1 1/4 inches Roger: 3 books, 2 1/2 inches Chris: 3 books, 3 3/4 inches Sara: 8 books, 3 1/2 inches Aaron: 17 books, 13 1/4 inches 3. Thinnest book on the hold shelf: *For Lizzie and Harriet* by Robert Lowell at 1/8 inch (on hold by Aaron). 4. Thickest book on the hold shelf: *Walt Whitman's Poetry and Prose* at 2 inches thick (on hold by Aaron). ****AWARDS**** MOST BOOKS ON HOLD: Aaron !!!!!!!!!!!!! FEWEST BOOKS ON HOLD: Jane MOST PRETENTIOUS BOOK ON HOLD: It's a tie between Aaron and Chris (vote for the winner)-- Chris: *The Continental Philosophy Reader* Aaron: *Slavoj Zizek Presents Robespierre: Virtue and Terror* Congratulations everyone (and especially to Sara, who came in a close second in many of these categories)!!
HEALTH ALERT: NURSE PULP MAY INDUCE LUSTINESS
Just a few words about the dangers of NURSE PULP: It's nursy...The Young Nurses, by Harry Whittington, promises "fear, lust, twisted passions--an explosive story of life in a big-city hospital...." It's lusty. I quote from page 25 of Mr. Whittington's opus: "She was walking too fast, but dreaded the chance of meeting him here in the hospital. She needed some time to forget his probing and inspecting her body. It was a routine matter; it was just that it was not routine to her." It's pulpy. And by pulpy, I mean bookish. In this riveting description from Chapter 3, Liz is menaced by her nursing books: "Liz lay across her bed in room 404. There were books beside her, opened, marked, silently screaming at her to study....She felt the uncomfortable corners of her books pressing against her." To avoid feeling nursy, lusty, or pulpy, do not examine, probe, or otherwise encounter the Nurse Pulp display at Lorem Ipsum Books. Warily, Dr. Jane. Coming soon: 'A Showdown: The Nurse Pulp Takes on the Westerns.' Who will be victorious?
Books Beat Snow.
We here at Lorem Ipsum are proud to announce that the sidewalks immediately in front of the store are now entirely frost-free. Just doing our part to ensure that Cantabrigians can shop for useful books without fear of dislocating something. Eggs Beat Snow Also: as of today, the Chicken Machine is once again chock full of Grade-A Hand-Stuffed Mystery Eggs. You never know what you'll get. We don't know what you'll get. Only that, whatever it is, it'll probably leave you giddy, euphoric, and/or slightly confused. But we'd like to stress that they're legal. Completely legal, people.
Lorem Ipsum is Three Years Old Today!
Come visit us for some pie.
Princeton Might Lose Micawber
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/03/books/03mica.html Was just in there last month. Would be great if we could help.
Hello, Grisham -- So Long, Hemingway
Hello, Grisham -- So Long, Hemingway? With Shelf Space Prized, Fairfax Libraries Cull Collections By Lisa Rein Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, January 2, 2007; A01 You can't find "Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings" at the Pohick Regional Library anymore. Or "The Education of Henry Adams" at Sherwood Regional. Want Emily Dickinson's "Final Harvest"? Don't look to the Kingstowne branch. It's not that the books are checked out. They're just gone. No one was reading them, so librarians took them off the shelves and dumped them. Along with those classics, thousands of novels and nonfiction works have been eliminated from the Fairfax County collection after a new computer software program showed that no one had checked them out in at least 24 months. (snip)
Argentina Says Hello
Did I ever tell you that I was walking down the streets of San Telmo some Sunday in January of this year, and someone says outloud in an unmistakably American accent, "Hey! You're from Cambridge." "Hey! You're right."  I was just wandering about, going in and out of various buildings filled with antiques, searching for a Borges manuscript, and just like that I'm back in America talking with a Lorem Ipsum customer about the bookstore. Isn't that fun? We had a nice chat, and then she disappeared into the chaos of the marketplace, never to be seen from again. That day I bought a wonderful first edition of Breakfast at Tiffany's that I ended up reading. Speaking of which, Chris wants to have a section of books in the store of books the Lorem Ipsum staff has actually read. As in, that physical book was read by someone on the staff. We know how to one-up employee picks, I say. While I didn't end up with a million dollar manuscript that day, I know that if I did, I'd try real hard not to lose it. Perhaps we can get Lucky Duck Books in Harvard Square to use Ka-Zam.
Save The Bookstore Save The World
 Includes our used book club as well as our $2175 t-shirt. Enjoy.
Custom Built Library Anyone?
Richard just sent me a note about an article in Forbes about Custom Built Libraries. We haven't had the opportunity to do this, but wouldn't mind the chance. Carson Poe Plays Tonight
Free Live Music Lorem Ipsum Tonight, 8pm Special acoustic performance by Carson Poe of local band Miles From Land. www.milesfromland.com  The Lorem Ipsum collaborative novel (tentatively titled "The Compere of Scollay Square") has topped 7 pages... It's all here: Heidegger, Nigerian insurance scams, taxidermy, and much typographic weirdness.  168 to go, everybody!  (nifty cover art courtesy of CKD)
Last Thursday we had DJ Night
 Books and electronics, they go better together than you might expect. Phoebe took some pictures of the night. As if books and DJs weren't enough, we're also typewritered up this month as we write a novel. Please come in and help us...  Oh, and see behind the typewriter? Joanna and Jane arranged the new arrivals section by color!
Lorem Pictures
Abby stopped by the other night and took this fun set of pictures of the bookstore. Does anyone else have some? 
Talk Like A Pirate Tomorrow OK?
 Today we switched over to a new version of the website software, so until we get it fully css-tricked out, things might look a little funny in that not so good sense of the word "funny". The software is the fabulous new website-o-matic that is part of the Ka-Zam project, to be released .... soon! In other news, it's talk like a pirate day tomorrow, so here is all of our pirate books, for you to practice. In honor of this wonderous day, we will give you 15% off of your purchase if you talk like a pirate and mention this ad (tlapd only). Wow!
Marshmallow Fluff Festival Seeks Participants
 This space needed more fluff: Our sister square, Union Square, has a fantastic need for Fluff-enthusiasts, can you help? We're organizing a festival honoring Archibald Query, inventor of Marshmallow Fluff. He lived in Somerville and on September 30 the event titled "What the Fluff? A Tribute to Union Square Invention" hopes to bring together artists, scientists, humorists and performers to pay homage to the inventor and this great American foodstuff. We've got a great prize for the contributors to our madcap science fair - a tour of the Fluff factory, year's supply of Fluff and more. Mimi Graney Executive Director, Union Square Main Streets http://www.unionsquaremain.org
Just Added: New Arrivals RSS Feed
Someone awhile back asked for a feed of our inventory in RSS format. This morning I finally got around to implementing that feature. So now you should see this icon in your URL bar. (At least in Firefox)  Click on it, and you should be able to see our latest arrivals! Or you can use this button to go directly to your Google:  Please let me know if you have troubles/know of a better way to do this.
LibreDigital: New Book Search Service
HarperCollins and LibreDigital seem to have joined forces to provide consumers with a service that provides previews of pages they are interested in, similar to Amazon's Search Inside This Book feature. More!
RSS Feeds Added To Blog
I just added a feature to syndicate our blog via RSS. Let me know if you see anything funny with how it works.
Ka-Zam, meet the world.
 It's been almost three years since we started Lorem Ipsum. Hard to believe, but true. Since that time we've built a wonderful bookstore in Inman Square, which hopefully you know about and frequent any chance you get. What you might not be aware of is that during this time we've been creating a web application to help others in the situation we found ourselves in: we had books and a store, but little help from software to manage it. So we created a web application that we now call Ka-Zam to help with all of the day-to-day challenges of running a store. We've had a few beta testers that we've worked closely with during the past few years. We're now ready to open the software up to a few more testers. After we're confident everything is working as planned, we'll open it up to everyone. Until then, here's the website with more information about Ka-Zam.
The Sabbatical is Over
After a few months of web-break, we're back and our bits are fresher than ever. What this entry needs is some dummy text: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Lorem Ipsum Books is the best bookstore in the world, you heard it here first. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum. |