We’ve been treating ourselves to some extraordinary croissants from the The Whole Grain Hearth Bakery at the Wednesday Old North Market at Locomotive Espresso. There’s other news to share of course, but this is really the most important piece of information. Jason will intentionally not eat lunch on Wednesdays so he has the proper stomach width to down one of those sinful Dreams of Bread. In the whole of the world’s peaks and valleys, the Whole Grain Hearth Bakery croissant stands like Noah’s Ark on Mt. Ararat, mysterious, impossible, and full of the earth’s bounty twice over.
Tania of Tania Floral gives Lenore a flower at the Locomotive Espresso Old North Market
There’s too much to share in a life, really, but rarely do we get a reduction of Life’s Beauty so capably handled as those buttery treats.
We’ve been cleaning up our website lately, as people do, again and again with their websites, and you’ll notice some changes. Loathing bureaucracy in all of its pointless forms, (Vanessa still doesn’t think money is real), we’ve jettisoned some duplicate features over the side like Noah did the unicorn. These features, like the unicorn, were beautiful, but completely unnecessary. Like the unicorn, they will live on only in myth and story, enchanting the youth of tomorrow with their promise of a more magical life.
Firstly our online credit system was a bloated, nearly broken gerry-rigged monster that worked less than it did. We can finally let go of the numerous low-wage tele-help departments we hired just to explain to people how the damned thing functioned. A good quarter of the Bell #letstalk support came straight from our frustrated selves and you, the customer, phoning Ma Bell in a rage just to complain. Now, if you have credit with us you can just send us a message and ask for the book to be set aside, it’s value taken from a small index card held at B&D HQ. “Please take it from my credit,” you can say, and, believe us, not only will this be less work than doing it on our funky website, you will feel like an a socialite ordering fine meats from a New York butcher.
Also, for you B&D members out there, your discount can now be applied simply by typing ‘MEMBER’ in the coupon field at check-out. This is entirely on the honour system, but we will be checking. We’re looking at you Larry. No member discount for you. Ya gotta get a membership first Larry! If any enterprising folks try and get that meaty discount WITHOUT being a member we will promptly egg your house and post pictures of it on the internet. You will be the shame of the neighbourhood. Here’s an instructional video explaining the consequences.
Thirdly, we’ve collapsed the megalith of New Arrivals pages down into just a single ALL BOOKS category on our site that can be ordered in a drop down menu to ‘Date, New to Old’. This revolution in simplicity has made searching our site even easier. If you feel the need to buck against all of these changes, just blame Noah, who jettisoned a unicorn from the side of an ark some 3000 years ago and began a tradition of thrift that can be traced to this email directly. Once you start tossing things over the side of a boat, you sort of get giddy. The thrill of it–the sheer thrill of it–is hard to stop. We’ll survey the damage at another time, but for now we’re too busy grabbing things to toss in a lake.
These are all sincere changes meant to keep all of our lives simpler. As always, below are some of the finer New Arrivals we bought this past week.
Much love,
Jason and Vanessa
