Beer, Goosebumps, giant Guiness Book of World Records no one can afford and crazy pencil toppers? Hell yeah they underestimated the demand.
Reportedly this is where some kids found gems like Roller Coaster Tycoon in just a CD jewel case, too. :D
Man…kid me got fucked over… weren’t no games at the ones I went to! In fact some Karen complained about Goosebumps books so much after the one when I was in 4th grade that in 5th grade there weren’t any. There WAS a letter handed out to every kid full naming the person who killed Goosebumps for everyone…
What does “adult scholastic book fair” mean?
Is it a book fair for adult shoppers?
Or a fair of adult content books?Yeah, I think I would misunderstand it too
Yes.
I’m upvoting this simply because it’s the first time this month, possibly this year, that I’ve seen someone correctly use and spell “queue.”
I guess it was your cue to upvote something.
Que?
Sera?
Don’t forget “lo”, people always forget it. 😅
“Lo que será, será.”
They forget it because that’s not the words of the song.
The song uses an Italian phrase from a fictional gravestone and spells it the Spanish way to appeal to American Spanish speakers.
Ohh, it’s a song! I thought people just liked the saying in Spanish but kept saying it all wrong
Oh damn, you’re right
I don’t have cheese.
I learned this word from Roller Coaster Tycoon as a kid lol.
So is this like a place where you can buy Animorphs and Goosebumps, and there’s also beer on tap?
Never let anybody tell you books are dead.
Ok…books are goth.
So you’re telling me the trees are still alive after we make them into books? That’s pretty cool
You need to read more Terry Pratchett.
Of course, everyone does.
Sure, sure… but it all seems to be an interconnected web.
I could read in release order, but that can get rather disconnected… There doesn’t seem to be a good starting point.
So, that is what has stopped me.
Like knowing you need to clean up a disaster, but you just look at it and have no idea where to even begin approaching it. Throw in some executive dysfunction issues, and it seems the only time I can “find” to read for pleasure is when I have something else more important to do that I’m unable to start on.
- The Colour of Magic
- The Light Fantastic
- Everything else
Libro.fm has them in DRM free audiobooks for fairly inexpensive. Start with The Colour of Magic, then I guess, pick one?
Do you use toilet paper?
How did you know I ran out of toilet paper, I feel targeted. I do, but just to dry after. Got a cheap bidet a couple years ago, and now I don’t pay enough attention to having toilet paper back stock. But you definitely want it, because no one wants to walk around with a wet bum
Weird tangent on the main post but I just got one of those “bum guns” off one of those unsold merchandise auctions and it’s been life-changing. Ridiculously simple to install. Literally like one of those kitchen sink sprayers just T-jointed onto your toilet water supply. Why isn’t this standard?!
I now no longer fear the bizarre crisis reaction of the masses that is "Make a mad rush to hoard all the TP."
And I’m hoping being nicer to myself will avoid unnecessary embarrassing future doctor’s visits…
I always worried about having a small toilet and it being a pain to get underneath myself so mine is just one of those connect under the seat thing. 5 min install, plugged into the toilet water just the same, no power. Simple, and a small lever to adjust front back in the side. It was less than $30 at Walmart at the time. I never really went to doctors but I know I got hemroids around 18 from stress/riding a motorcycle long distances I think at the time. I used to get flair ups quite often. Hardly ever get any of those now if that’s what you mean
I’m just mentioning it because I think that toilet paper as a single use item billions of people use at least daily is a much bigger issue of wasting trees than books - which last for decades and are very useful
There are modern toilets with integrated automated bidets and dryers. But they are unfortunately a bit expensive.
Oh, nah I wasn’t saying they were a waste of life or something, I was just acknowledging it sounded strange in my head to say something never dies that is already dead.
Trees are renewable though, so they’ll hopefully always be more. The dryer thing sounds nice for a bidet.
This was in Minneapolis earlier this year and the demand was through the roof.
I mean if all the small bookstores came together at a brewery/pub in my town I would be intrigued too.
Weird how every town used to have a small bookstore, and they all went out of business because Borders and Barnes and Noble and Fox Books put all the little guys out of business, and then they all disappeared because Amazon put them out of business, and now people are clamoring for more small shops in their local towns.
That was my favourite thing to do, go to Borders on Cheshire Oaks, grab a book go to the cafe and read, then it went under. I really miss those days. I love my local library but it just doesn’t have up to date books. Occasionally when I go on holiday I’ll visit a local bookshop in the village.
Back when Amazon first came out they were only doing books. They often had books other bookstores didn’t have or carry and they were packaged with care. Nowadays any book you get from Amazon is usually printed crappily, with pages stuck together, cut off, or not even cut. Then they throw it in a box without packing where it bounces around and gets bent up. Regular bookstores now have good online platforms and if they don’t have a book in store they can almost always order it. I know I’ll get a quality print that isn’t bent to crap. The only downside is occasionally they’ll stick stickers somewhere that you’re pretty sure the gods themselves super glued onto it.
Barnes and Noble is on a hard upswing recently, and are expanding., mainly by allowing local stores to stock what sells in their areas.
Still, buy from bookshop.org if you can. Its a coalition of thousands of small bookshops where the vast majority of profits from purchases flow right back to them instead of megacorps.
Funny, but not like haha funny.
I really miss our used book store. It was tiny but packed, and it had that smell.
I used to spend several thousand every year buying books. Usually from small independent bookstore. I was also always in the library checking out books but the local libraries collection was very small and limited.
Next I got one of the early generation kindles keyboard when I was traveling all the time before I had a smart phone. I of course found all the free books and downloaded several thousand of those. Amazon made almost nothing off of me for that one. I still hit the library regularly for books I could not get for free or stuff for my kids.
Then my local library started offering digital books via Libby and Hoopla. I have pretty much completely stopped using kindle completely in favor of those two apps. I vote every chance I get for the library to get more funding as its back to being my go-to place. I physically have only gone to the library once in the past 5 years however.
Honestly, I would rather see a massive extension of library services than more private bookstores.
Meanwhile in my town the local bookstore died because a real estate developer bought the building and jacked up the rent 400% in order to force him out, then cancelled leases on the smaller businesses and made plans to destroy the building as part of a big vapid project. Local residents couldn’t stop it happening but blocked demolition and it’s been sitting empty and neglected so long the developer died. At this point it probably can’t be restored either. A fucking shame.
My local brewpub keeps organizing events around a climbing wall. I don’t see how that combination is ever a good idea
Honestly? You’d be surprised at how helpful it can be. I’ve sent routes with a slight buzz that I never could have done completely sober. It helps take the edge off the fear, and it helps you stay loose and keeps you from sapping all your strength from tensing too much. Every advantage helps when you’re pressing your limits.
Climbing while excessively drunk is of course a terrible idea.
That is very surprising, except of course the last sentence
What a great idea. I remember being super excited for book fairs in elementary school. Add beer? So there.
In fairness, I saw this and immediately thought about going before the brain kicked in and said probably not near me 😂
Given snow in the picture and it’s late spring in the northern hemisphere, it’s “ A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…"
Time travel is a small price to pay for a book fair in a brewery! Though apparently distance is a whole other matter…
Lol I know I’m an exception but we’re getting snowed on right now 😭
Cool (winter is the best season), both literally and figuratively. Are you high up? Much further north than most of us? Much further south than most of us? Speaking from the past?
Hahaha I live just north of 60°, so definitely not unheard of up here
How is this a meme?
It’s a self replicating unit of cultural information
I see images with a caption above.
Memes look like this
And sometimes like this!
It literal says bluesky
It is just a screenshot of so random guys post
There was a similar thing local to me last year and apparently it was a huge hit. I’m hoping they do it again.
https://www.ksby.com/san-luis-obispo/boozy-book-fair-where-books-brews-and-nostalgia-collides
Do they have Animorphs?
Yes, but only in the 18+ section.
Rightly so, those books are traumatic.
They were kinda dark for kid’s books, weren’t they?
Applegate outright said she wanted to hammer home the message that war is hell and changes you in ways you can’t heal. She did it effectively.
Edit:typo
The children yearn for stories of body horror
Scholastic has been publishing a series of Animorphs graphic novels recently and the art for the morphs is grotesque. Well drawn, just horrifying.
This is what we’ve always wanted since we left grade school.
With a food truck selling personal pan pizzas.
Jesus Christ, YES.
That is a long line just to get some beer and smut
when you say it like that, it’s not long enough
That’s what she said
It covers 2 of the epic Bs of my life. Beer and books. I can see why this is a hit.
What’s the total number of epic Bs?
So far five.
Beer Books Boobs Butt Bed
If I got all five, I couldn’t be a happier man.
Beer and Books joins with Butts, Boobs, and Babies to make the epic B pentafecta.
