New to the Store, New to the List, Newly Back in Town

A big welcome to our new co-worker Jeremy. He’s a long-time customer, first time employee. You’ll be seeing his friendly face on the weekends, and he’s even got a few staff picks for yinz to consider on display in the east room already. He’s a local writer, reader, teacher, and Scrabble champion. So if you are up to the challenge, I think he’s always looking for new opponents. Personally, I’m going to stick to jacks and marbles because I’m sure he’d whip me in any word game.




New to our bestseller list is Max Brooks’ Zombie Survival Guide, which we’ve seemed to barely be able to keep on the shelves of late. Considering the direction the world is taking, it’d probably be a good idea to keep a copy with fresh water and canned goods in your basement bunker, no? There's a pretty cool website here that you should check out, and a sequel will be in the store tomorrow, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War.

In a former life I lived in Smoky City (Pittsburgh to yinz folk not in the know). While there, I was an employee of the Andy Warhol Museum. (No, it’s not in New York. And yes, there’s also one in Slovakia.) One of the worst things I had to do while I worked there was patrol the Silver Clouds. Now the Clouds themselves are pretty amazing. The problem is that when most people enter their space, their first reaction is to beat the hell out of them. I still have nightmares about the sound of pounding fists on Mylar balloons. With that said, I highly encourage you to check out the Silver Clouds at their grand return to MOCRA on SLU’s campus. But please be gentle with them.