Weirdness abounds
Jun. 17th, 2007 04:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lillian13So last night I'm at Barnes & Noble, picking up ltlj's Stargate: Atlantis novel Entanglement that I'd ordered last week. Wander over to the Young Adult section. There, on an endcap, are four copies of Fat White Vampire Blues. Excellent novel, just not what I'd consider "teen" fare. So, in order to keep the writer from being lynched by a bunch of outraged suburbanites, I let one of the employees know.
Me: Sir, I'm probably the last person who would normally be bringing this up...I mean, it's a great book, and I'm amazed you have four copies, but I just don't see Fat White Vampire Blues as a young adult novel.
B&N: (Spots cover from an aisle away. blanches.) Oh. (scans book, looks annoyed, takes them over to SF.) Thanks, ma'am!
...it's not a large store; one of the smaller B&N's I shop in. No one "noticed" anything until I pointed it out. Must be nice to be selectively blind. When I worked in bookstores, I never was. (I only rearranged one author by series last night. Tanya Huff, in case you were wondering.)
And today I heard the Pogues. On TV. Being used in a Cadillac commercial. It is truly the end times.
ltlj's Stargate: Atlantis novel Entanglement that I'd ordered last week. Wander over to the Young Adult section. There, on an endcap, are four copies of Fat White Vampire Blues. Excellent novel, just not what I'd consider "teen" fare. So, in order to keep the writer from being lynched by a bunch of outraged suburbanites, I let one of the employees know. Me: Sir, I'm probably the last person who would normally be bringing this up...I mean, it's a great book, and I'm amazed you have four copies, but I just don't see Fat White Vampire Blues as a young adult novel.
B&N: (Spots cover from an aisle away. blanches.) Oh. (scans book, looks annoyed, takes them over to SF.) Thanks, ma'am!
...it's not a large store; one of the smaller B&N's I shop in. No one "noticed" anything until I pointed it out. Must be nice to be selectively blind. When I worked in bookstores, I never was. (I only rearranged one author by series last night. Tanya Huff, in case you were wondering.)
And today I heard the Pogues. On TV. Being used in a Cadillac commercial. It is truly the end times.
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Date: 2007-06-16 10:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-06-16 10:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-06-16 10:39 pm (UTC)(though i suppose he might want cash for more gin.)
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Date: 2007-06-16 10:45 pm (UTC)That's nothing. In the UK we have Marilyn Manson on a Fiat Punto commercial (In case you don't have them in the US it's a small family hatchback).
The end is indeed nigh.