“Dishwasher Pete” Jordan enthralled a packed house here at Quimby’s with passages from his book Dishwasher: One Mans Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States. He was nice enough to get artsy and all cardinal direction-y in our photobooth. What we thought was super cool was that we were the only bookstore in Illinois that he read at on his tour (on purpose!), since he has a longstanding relationship with both Quimby’s and Steven, the original owner of Quimby’s. We are proud Dishwasher Pete did his fantastic event here, and we wish him luck on his way back home to Amsterdam, where he and his wife are in the process of buying a bike shop.
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Yesterday Paul Hornschmeier (of Forlorn Funnies, Mother Come Home, etc.) stopped in to say hello (see below) and tempted us with the news that his book The Three Paradoxes, after tantalizing delay, is almost out! 
Also visiting us was Andrew (see below) from Needles and Pens in San Francisco, a Quimby’s-ish type of place that looks way cool!
The long anticipated day is finally here! Our Photobooth is here, and it was quite a project.
It took a few hours for the booth techs to get the Photobooth all positioned and working. Check out its innards:
Also, Steven Svymbersky, the original owner of Quimby’s is here to visit! We put him to work:
We also like that Dan Kelly, one of Quimby’s longtime customers stopped by to coordinate plaid shirts:
Is it crowded in here? How did we become the hot spot this afternoon? It’s like the cool bus rolled up or something. JOE BIEL and SPARKY TAYLOR of Microcosm Publishing (below) 
visited to do zine-y business as well as participate in a zine panel tonight up at Loyola. Moments later, Punk Planet co-editor DAN SINKER (below) strolled in to do something that required a tape measure and paper.
Local artist CODY HUDSON (below)
and Hairstyles of the Damned Chicago author JOE MENO (above) were here too. This is the place to be today!
















