Dear Plist, a list of readers

[Mark Sacha]

Smugness and superiority are popular and so I'd assume successful
advertising techniques, not confined to snooty hyper-literates, as much as
it pains me to see it. Going around town (NY) I've become gradually
infuriated at those delivery service apps for the ultra-slothful - "You
don't lift your own pearlescent fingers to cook/clean/shop/etc, what are
you, some kind of peasant?" - invariably connecting this to some supposed
New Yorker ethos. I always just see the folks from uptown and the outer
boroughs who get paid scraps to shuffle the shit to princes and princesses.

But yeah, this is sad.

On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 1:32 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'll be less coy. I dislike the appropriation--the smug narrowing of "
> civilized" to mean shoppers for books in indie bookstores.
> Civilized should be assumed for all--and setting this against the few, the
> really few among millions who sometimes " fight" over goods is an US--THEM
> I don't buy.
>
> Related: ever see book dealers storm a used/rare book sale after waiting
> at the doors, sometimes impatiently?
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Nov 25, 2015, at 11:58 AM, Perry Noid <coolwithdoc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I think this is the one
>
> http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/nov/20/bookshops-launch-civilised-saturday-as-antidote-to-black-friday
>
> I just think it's funnee. I do cringe every year when news covers the
> barbaric hordes of shoppers as Black Friday makes its way across the pond
> and starts taking over Europe, but this "antidote" is doing the same thing,
> but with books, and gracefully gliding instead of running. It's a different
> degrees of evil type situation imo. But I guess selling more books in
> not-Amazon stores can't be a bad thing overall. I dunno, it's definitely
> not an antidote though.
>
> On Wednesday, November 25, 2015, kelber at mindspring.com <
> kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
>
>> Can you send a link, Mark?
>>
>>
>> Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Let's talk about this, maybe? Just a snippet
>> is enough for the notion but you can find it
>> all if you want. I will lead by saying I'm agin it:
>>
>> Bookshops launch Civilised Saturday.
>> www.theguardian.com › Arts › Books › Booksellers
>> The Guardian- Independent booksellers up and down the country are
>> preparing to host a “ Civilised Saturday” next week, as the “perfect
>> antidote” to the ...
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