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Bloging about being Bloged?

Over the weekend Brian from The Daily Cross Hatch blog came though the store. We had a short chat and he did a nice feature about us on his blog. For those of you who have never set foot in the store there are some good pics and some well edited quotes from me waxing about the store and the hood. Looks good, so thanks Brian.

Check it out!

Quimby’s Top Ten Best Sellers For the Week of August 17th, 2008 – August 23rd, 2008

1.    Cometbus #51: Loneliness of the Electra Menorah by Aaron Cometbus $3.00
2.    Doris #26 $2.00
3.    Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (Vertigo) $19.99
4.    Mostly True by Bill Daniel $8.00
5.    Tales Designed to Thrizzle #4 by Michael Kupperman (Fantagraphics) $4.50
6.    N Plus 1 Pamphlet Series #2: What We Should Have Known Two Discussions $9.00
7.    Adbusters #79 $8.95
8.    Wax Poetics #30 $9.99
9.    Save My Life by Cody Hudson (Upper Playground) $19.95
10.  Proximity #1 Chicago Issue $10.00

Quimby’s Top Ten Best Sellers For the Week of August 10th, 2008 – August 16th, 2008

1.    Bust Aug/Sep 08 $4.99
2.    Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (Vertigo) $19.99
3.    Doris #26 $2.00
4.    Handbook vol 2 #3 2008 $6.00
5.    Adbusters #79 $8.95
6.    Bizarre #139 Aug 08 $9.50
7.    Mojo Sep 08 $9.99
8.    No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July (Scribner) $14.00
9.    Burn Collector Collected Stories 1-9 by Al Burian $13.00
10.  Dishwasher: One Mans Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States by Pete Jordan (Harper Collins) $13.95

Check out the Printer’s Ball!

That’s Friday, Aug 22nd from 5:30pm-10pm, for free at the Museum of Contemporary Art, 220 E. Chicago Ave, but you gotta be 21 or over. There’s 100+ literary organizations!  Check out the info: www.printersball.org

Bend Matrix Live at Quimby’s

Dan Layne stopped by the store today and gave a short demonstration on the Bend Matrix. It is some kind of crazy sequencer that sends audio signals out to different speakers. So armed with an array of eight little speakers, a circuit bent drum machine and hand built tonal generator Dan proceeded to rock out the back of the store with crazy tones and cycling beats! Excellent!

Check out videos of similar Bend Matrix action