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		<title>Happy Birthday To Us!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 20:40:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>liz</dc:creator>
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We&#8217;re 20 years old today! Almost old enough to drink. Definitely old enough to cause some trouble.
Thanks to Original Quimby&#8217;s founder Steven Svymbersky, all the way overseas in Amsterdam, who sent us these flowers with the card that says &#8220;Congratulations On 20 Years of Weirdness and Depravity!&#8221; We are proud to carry on two decades [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Stuff This Week &amp; Old School Ephemera Quimby&#8217;s Business Card</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Nov 2010 23:33:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>liz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out this old Quimby&#8217;s business card! From the last century! How cool is that?

NEW STUFF THIS WEEK:

ZINES &#38; ZINE-RELATED BOOKS!
FAQNP #2 Computer Camp Fall 10 Queer Nerd Publication $7.00
JD Samson From the Life and Times of Butch Dykes vol 1 #2 2009 (B &#38; D Press) $6.00
Agggresssive School Book &#8211; Trash Garbage Rubbish Zine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quimby&#8217;s Makes the Top 10 Stores on Flavorwire!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Sep 2010 01:46:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>liz</dc:creator>
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Props to Flavorwire.com readers and staff for mentioning Quimby&#8217;s as one of their favorite indie shops around the country! And we didn&#8217;t even know they were taking this picture. Read about it here!
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		<title>A Letter From Ecuador</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 18:59:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ediefake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps you&#8217;ve been wondering what Quimby&#8217;s alumni Brian &#8220;International&#8221; $hapiro is up to these days. Well, here&#8217;s a peek into what his Exciting, Educational, Emotional, Enviable life in Exhillarating Ecuador is like:

Excellent!
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		<title>Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz Reads From Everything is Everything</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 01:57:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>liz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ March 1, 2010; 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] [caption id="attachment_2064" align="aligncenter" width="181" caption="Everything Is Everything"][/caption]

In a recent interior with lit blog Orange Alert, poet Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz describes her latest book, Everything is Everything, as “an odd, tender, spastic, claustrophobic and bizarre-fact-riddled book that is trying to appreciate the journey instead of obsessing about the destination.” But she was also sure to add [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quimby&#8217;s Founder Steven Svymbersky Says Hello!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 23:16:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>liz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ January 2, 2010; 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] 

In 1991 Steven Svymbersky, the founder of Quimby's, opened the store's in Chicago on 1328 N. Damen (at Evergreen) in Wicker Park, in a 1000 sq. ft. space. Since 1985 he had published over 50 zines with his friends, and had published Quimby Magazine for five years in Boston. Steven's philosophy of the store: "I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oink Oink Comics</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:13:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>liz</dc:creator>
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I&#8217;m not blogging about the late, lamented torrent tracker.   I&#8217;m blogging about something better – a new issue of Ethan Persoff&#8217;s Comics With Problems is loose on teh internets. This time, Persoff dusts off &#8220;Easy Does It&#8221;, a perverse, anthropomorphic slaughterhouse propaganda piece produced by Swift &#38; Company in the days when Back of [...]]]></description>
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