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Unrelated things of a Friday turning into Saturday—
1. While I just wanted to get out of the basement of the Harvard Book Store as fast as possible to get away from the man who took a book out of my hand in order to replace it on the shelf—without either speaking to me or making eye contact, while I was in the process of putting it back myself—I really appreciated my husband's offer to go back to the comics section and either smack wildly at the shelves with a large heavy paperback while shouting "IF ONLY SOMEONE COULD HELP ME PUT BOOK BACK!" or strike a coy pose and teasingly slide the book in and out, in and out between its fellows.
(I got out with a very cheap, very good copy of Iain Sinclair's Edge of the Orison (2005), however, so I won.)
2. So Breitbart is currently urging war on Kellogg's for pulling their advertising from the website and Penzeys is beautifully not backing down on their political talk. I foresee a lot of Ceylon cinnamon Rice Krispie treats in my future.
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3. Tonight Autolycus climbed the refrigerator and then threw up off the top of it. I feel he has struck a blow for cat undergraduates everywhere.
(Still better than the brief, tragic reign of Emperor Poopfoot IV.)
1. While I just wanted to get out of the basement of the Harvard Book Store as fast as possible to get away from the man who took a book out of my hand in order to replace it on the shelf—without either speaking to me or making eye contact, while I was in the process of putting it back myself—I really appreciated my husband's offer to go back to the comics section and either smack wildly at the shelves with a large heavy paperback while shouting "IF ONLY SOMEONE COULD HELP ME PUT BOOK BACK!" or strike a coy pose and teasingly slide the book in and out, in and out between its fellows.
(I got out with a very cheap, very good copy of Iain Sinclair's Edge of the Orison (2005), however, so I won.)
2. So Breitbart is currently urging war on Kellogg's for pulling their advertising from the website and Penzeys is beautifully not backing down on their political talk. I foresee a lot of Ceylon cinnamon Rice Krispie treats in my future.
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derspatchel: "Oh, and clove, and cardamom, and lemon extract . . .")3. Tonight Autolycus climbed the refrigerator and then threw up off the top of it. I feel he has struck a blow for cat undergraduates everywhere.
(Still better than the brief, tragic reign of Emperor Poopfoot IV.)
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Mazel tov.
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What the hell.
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For a wordless interaction which took about a second and a half, it was profoundly uncool!
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WHAT? Uggh, I'm sorry :-(
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Thank you. I realize that in hindsight the correct response would have been "Dude, what the fuck?" but it was one of those small gestures that suddenly make you realize all bets are off on normal social behavior and so I just left.
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Bill Penzey isn't a one off -- he's a local hero in these parts. (We even have a Penzeys store.)
http://www.jsonline.com/story/money/business/2016/11/19/penzeys-owner-slams-donald-trump-supporters/94127222
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Thank you. I will tell him so.
Bill Penzey isn't a one off -- he's a local hero in these parts.
I'm really glad to hear that. Penzeys have been my family's default spice store for years, but I hadn't realized the activism was part and parcel of the delicious cooking until now.
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You get to support a worthy cause and bake tasty things!
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Heh.
Part of what made the interaction so weird was, I had no idea what the guy thought he was doing. Like, you can argue about whether holding a door for someone is a helpful or a condescending gesture (I was brought up to hold a door for anyone older than myself, anyone with children, or anyone carrying things; I have no idea if this is American-normative, but I still try to observe it, or at least not drop doors in other people's faces as I enter or exit), but at least it's pretty clear what it's intended to convey. Here, I was returning a book to the spot on the shelf from which I had taken it. I was doing so one-handed, having a paperback by Iain Sinclair in the other. I hadn't dropped the book one or more times. I wasn't visibly disoriented. I hadn't put it back in the wrong place. And he didn't even say anything. The combination was so boundary-ignoring for such a small gesture that I just wanted out.
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No, he was another patron; he came up and started scanning the shelves alongside me, as people do in bookstores. I think he was looking for a particular title and didn't see it. It was a normal fellow-browser non-interaction until it wasn't. I have to assume he thought he was being courteous, but I don't know why.
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If I had not been so unnerved, I might have taken him up on it. It was just such a weird interaction that mostly I wanted to get away.
Good find!
I was delighted! Iain Sinclair does not often turn up in used book stores near me; I figure it's because people treasure their copies and hold on to them.
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That's cool.