Hello all,
The high octane world of arts and culture retail has limited our ability to send out these publishable missives each week. We know this breaks your heart. You’ve been so supportive of our silly emails. Some of you have even said we should seek a publisher for these ephemeral classics. Like, you’d ACTUALLY READ A BOOK OF THEM. This makes us question the taste of our email recipients. But we love you still, and please do know that every Friday the clock hollers at us to send one out, our heads full of hilarious ideas, our schedules more jammed than our neglected fridge vegetable drawer. God there’s so much in there that we wasted. Let’s buy a watermelon! It will take up half of our fridge and we’ll never eat it!
How did we manage it before? How did we ever eat watermelons? Where did we keep them? The garage? (we don’t have a garage, just a weedy laneway where our vehicle deteriorates). How did we manage emails weekly before? Were we high? Well, we were high but not at work. Not always, at least. We wrote and pitched and sold and hustled like a freshly minted carnie at a local fair. CARNIES FO LIFE! Despite all that, these will likely come more in the MONTHLY range now. They will have a few weeks worth of the best New Arrivals (the others sneaking onto our irl — that is, in real life — location). It’s simply too busy irl to live online. As a matter of fact, let’s make that our MO for the next few years. If you’re busier online than irl you’re facing the wrong way.
For example, our book bus is now oot and aboot again. We’re back at Locomotive Espresso north on Wednesday afternoons. We will be frequenting Variety Cafe again Saturday mornings. We’ll even be up at the Western University Farmers Market come August! WHAT ARE WE DOING?!? Perhaps real life is too busy after all. Perhaps Jason should get back to his excellent zoo-sim video game Planet Zoo. He has a virtual orangutan, giraffe and bison. He’s made an African Lion Safari that’s INTENTIONALLY BAD to see how long the game will let him run his sketchy zoo before bankrupting him. The virtual guests cry and cry because there’s nothing to do. They weep on broken benches. Only the animals are happy, breaking through the rotten fences and eating the families.
Perhaps we’ve said too much.
As always here’s a new batch of new arrivals for you to enjoy. Many of these come from the collection of a late, published rabbi from Toronto, a seeker, a mystic, a shit-disturber. Our kind of guy. There’s much in the way of occult, Judaica, philosophy and classic lit. This is just a selection too. We’re currently expanding the religion, occult and philosophy section in our irl shop to accommodate the VANLOAD of amazing books we received. We have his autobiography at home too and are eager to read it, as his books sure are fascinating.
Do take a look.
Much love,
Jason and Vanessa
