1854 W. North Ave · Chicago, IL 60622 · 773-342-0910
Are you ready for your closeup? We’re getting a Photobooth! B&w pictures in a classy black booth. Pictures will be $3.00 as opposed to the $2.00 in the picture here, but supposedly this is the booth we’ll be getting. We’re told it’ll be delivered in a week or two, so stay tuned!
| Mar ’07 |
| 29 |
| 12:00 am |
Marry SoderstromThursday, March 29th, 7:30 PM
Mary Soderstrom, a Montreal-based writer, whose new book Green City: People, Nature and Urban Places has recently been published by V?hicule Press of Montreal. With nine books to her credit, Soderstrom is well-known to Canadian readers. Her new book uses 11 cities–Chicago among them–as starting points for exploring the ways that people have brought nature into cities over history.
This reading will be co-sponsored by the Center for Neighborhood Technology, and someone from the center will introduce Soderstrom.
It’s often forgotten that the Man Dressed in Black was the first country singer to tackle taboo subject matter. Look no further than “Sunday Morning Coming Down” — Cash’s recounting of an acid trip that ends in a chainsaw murder. 1957’s “Ballad of a Teenage Queen” is, as far as I know, the first song documenting the everyday trials and tribulations of a lowly transvestite. I’m looking forward to hearing what this national treasure serves up next.
| Mar ’07 |
| 23 |
| 12:00 am |
Mitch O? ConnellFriday, March 23th, 7:00 PMFREE
Mitch O? Connell will be on hand to sign copies of his new book Mitch O’Connell Tattoos. It’s 264 pages of his best tattoo designs.
From the back of the book:
Are you the type that gets a kick from sin-streaked, steaming hot tattoo designs full of beauties, cuties and nudies?! Then you’ve just hit the jackpot!!
In your sweaty grip is the greatest collection of lewd, rude and crude, yet cute, cuddly and curvaceous tattoo art ever published ? all of it itching to be engraved on your flesh (or just drooled over beneath the covers late at night)!
Fill up on a bountiful buffet of salacious selections overflowing with high-heeled, hell-bound dames hoisting high-balls; pile on a side of tasteless and trashy; top it off with a pinch of the adorable and the deplorable, and you?ve got yourself one satisfying book ? THIS book!
What people are saying:
?It’s the highbrow of lowbrow where every hour is happy hour.???Bizarre Magazine
?Awesome tattoo flash art! Beautiful and brilliant???Club International Magazine
?He is one of the defining artists of his generation.???Tabu Tattoo Magazine
?Kitschy and wacky, pop cultureish and slick, full of pin up girls, retro americana, cute wide eyed babes and traditional tattoo images all incorporating a sense of humor that is exclusively Mitch O’Connell.???Tattoos Downunder Magazine
So I feel like I should be all “Is this thing on?”-“Are you home? Pick up the phone”-“How does this thing work, hello, hello? This is your mom! What button do I press, wait, how do I — hello? hello?” about blog technology, but actually, it seems pretty straightforward. What late breaking news do I have for you today? The long awaited release of Dirty FOUND #3? A new thing from Robin of Cinema Sewer called Sleazy Slice? No, I wanted everyone to know that the Button-O-Matic gumball machine of retired buttons has made its way to Quimby’s. These are where the buttons previously unsold from machines in other places go to die. We are the only place in the city where you can find them! And they’re only a quarter!
Quimby's Bookstore · 1854 W. North Ave · Chicago, IL 60622 · 773-342-0910 
