The Whole Sick Crew

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

Well, let me tell you a thing or two. . . .
Being a guy with a name like Robin can do a number 
on your head, particularly in a place like the East Bay. 

So you want a Xena action figure, eh?

http://www.leeanne.com/mamabears/

I mean to say, on top of the aforementioned I developed a 
fascination with Feminism [not the fuzzy, warm shot-
through Vaseline Lipstick Lesbians but Buzz-cut separatists
like Mary Daly] in a time and place where such happenings were 
happening. Such a place was Mama Bears and you never 
saw such a temple to Xena in your life, oh my Goddess.

Further up the street there was a "Collector's Shop" where 
the proprietor claimed [rather convincingly] that he in fact was
the "Comic Book" of Simpsons lore, said proprietor's claim
backed up by some background on Matt Groening's taste
in music and the near vicinity of Amoeba Records:
http://www.amoeba.com/

And then there's Serendipity Books: 
http://www.serendipitybooks.com/

University Press Books: http://www.universitypressbooks.com/
owned The Musical Offering: http://www.musicaloffering.com/
where I worked for nearly ten years. 

Mike Masley: http://magnatune.com/artists/masley
often could be heard on Telegraph Ave, and the
Explicit Players might be shocking someone's
sensibilities somewhere near People's Park
[do not open at work]:
 http://www.bodyfreedom.org/media_nma/nn0073.jpg

Somewhere in the Gourmet Ghetto, Witches are
assembling: http://pages.sbcglobal.net/bfuu/cuups.html

Meanwhile, I.G. Farben is setting up shop in my backyard:
http://www.founditatbayer.com/locations_berkeley.htm
http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2007-04-24/article/26895

...a-a-a-and, uh. . . .somehow, I have this "signed" copy of Gravity's Rainbow. . . .

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Dave Monroe" <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 6:06 AM,  <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> > Cody's on Telegraph, alas, is no more....
> 
> That's too bad.  I was there a couple/three times in the 90s.  I
> recall a place simply called Universityt Books or somesuch where I
> picked up a few things as well (inc. Joseph McElroy's Plus), and a
> used place which practically siren-called me in, where I found a copy
> of A.A. Attanasio's Beastmarks (having stupidly NOT picked up teh copy
> which sat @ my comic book shop of choice @ the time UNTIL I decided I
> could blow twenty-five bills on it [a LOT of money for a slender
> volume of SF shorts back in teh day]); also, a sued Xena:Warrior
> Princess, uh, "action figure," still in the box.  But when on the
> Third Coast ...
> 
> http://semcoop.booksense.com/NASApp/store/IndexJsp