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There are no Sawzalls here

“Hello, Quimby’s.”

“Yeah, I got a question about this Sawzall you got on up your websi-”

“Sawzall? I think you have the wrong number.”

“This the Quimby’s on North Ave?”

“Yes, bookstore. No hardware.”

“I got the right Quimby’s. I want a Sawzall like the ones you got on your website.”

“You’re on the website now? What does the page say?

“It says Sex Machines on it I want one of those.”

“Yeah, see, it’s a book with pictures of sex machines. We sell the book with the pictures, not the machines.”

“‘Oh. You don’t sell the machines..? Then where do I get the Sawzalls at?”

“For a sex machine? I don’t know. Not here. Try Myopic.”

“You sell the attachments?”

R.I.P. Bettie Page, 1923-2008

Godspeed, Bettie. You will be missed.

Quimby’s Top Ten Best Sellers For the Week of November 30th – December 6th, 2008

1.    Slingshot Organizer 2009 Large Size $12.00
2.    Slingshot Organizer 2009 Small Size $6.00
3.    The Lagoon by Lilli Carre
4.    Memory Mind/ National Waste Calendar 2009 Calendar by Leif Goldman $24.00
5.    Journal of Aesthetics and Protest #6 $17.00
6.    Fight or Run #1 Shadow of the Chopper by Kevin Huizenga (Buenaventura Press) $3.95
7.    N Plus 1 #7 Fall 08 $11.95
8.    Acme Novelty Library #19 by Chris Ware (Drawn+Quarterly) $15.95
9.    Cometbus #51 by Aaron Cometbus $3.00
10.  Wire #297 Nov 08 $10.99

Question of the Day, A Penny Saved edition

Phone: Ring! Ring!
Me: Hello, Quimby’s.
Caller: Can you tell me if you have something in stock?
Me: Of course, what are you looking for.
Caller: I want a tin piggy bank that says, “I’m saving up for knitting lessons!”
Me: Ah, no, miss. I am afraid we don’t carry tin piggy banks that say things.
Caller: [Exhales] Guess I will have to keep looking. Thank you.
Me: Good luck!

Quimby’s Top Ten Best Sellers For the Week of November 23rd – November 29th, 2008

1.    Cometbus #51 by Aaron Cometbus $3.00
2.    Slingshot Organizer 2009 Large Size $12.00
3.    Believer #58 $8.00
4.    Butt Magazine #24 $9.90
5.    Maximumrocknroll #307 $4.00
6.    Venus #38 Win 08 $4.50
7.    Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia vol 3 (Fuel)
$32.95

8.    The Lagoon by Lilli Carre (Fantagraphics) $14.99
9.    Slingshot Organizer 2009 Small Size $6.00
10.  Chunklet #20 $9.99