tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post2325486783641213825..comments2023-11-10T04:17:00.492-05:00Comments on View From The Porch: Nirvana.Tamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comBlogger48125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-67579396921713226502011-06-12T23:48:50.548-04:002011-06-12T23:48:50.548-04:00Nothing to be sorry for, Tam...the big-box model i...Nothing to be sorry for, Tam...the big-box model is successful with good reason; I'm as subject to its allure as anyone. May they live long and prosper.<br /><br />But given the choice, I'd rather help incubate the next dinky hole-in-the-wall. Thrill of the chase and all that jazz.<br /><br />As to your last reference...heh! :)<br /><br />ATAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-51850593596716679572011-06-12T22:58:05.734-04:002011-06-12T22:58:05.734-04:00Sorry, AT, but I've been going to McKay's ...Sorry, AT, but I've been going to McKay's since it was a dinky hole-in-the-wall in an old branch bank building on Kingston Pike ten years ago.<br /><br />I'm not gonna piss on 'em for the crime of being successful. I'll leave that to the Community Organizers. ;)Tamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-73958800272961092012011-06-12T21:21:19.945-04:002011-06-12T21:21:19.945-04:00Old Sam would have had one believe that Wally'...Old Sam would have had one believe that Wally's is just a smalltown boy made good...and I guess it is. I would be the last to argue against the "irresistible" equation of selection+price=success, and with multiple locations, warehouse layouts and necessary hirelings, McKay's has surely embraced the model; it ain't no Mom & Pop. <br /><br />And for me at least, with books as with guns as with old watches, etc...the "drilling" is half of the thing. You come up dry more often than not, but it doesn't really matter.<br /><br />Maybe I'm just a romantic - or more likely just old enough to remember the good in older things and ways but afflicted with enough Alzheimer's to forget the bad - but it seems less likely that one might find love, virtual or literal, in a cavernous megastore or at a keyboard than in a place where Mom and/or Pop love what they sell as much as you do.<br /><br />ATAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-17318319265211242822011-06-11T20:20:05.419-04:002011-06-11T20:20:05.419-04:00AT,
McKay's IS an independent business.
I li...AT,<br /><br />McKay's IS an independent business.<br /><br />I like a crowded little storefront as much as the next kid, but sometimes looking for what I want in one can feel like drilling for oil in a dixie cup...Tamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-15703607185869412232011-06-11T00:37:45.417-04:002011-06-11T00:37:45.417-04:00Always the contrarian...
As amazing as that place...Always the contrarian...<br /><br />As amazing as that place is - and like everyone else here I could and would kill a day and a week's pay in there - if I were in Knoxville and could only visit one bookstore, I'd prefer the one that lived and breathed in Marko's book to the megastore. <br /><br />Like pretty much every other independent business, the Walmartization and web-martization of the book biz, both new and used, is irresistible, irrefutable, and irreversible.<br /><br />But still sad.<br /><br />ATAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-74859743947149215362011-06-07T22:26:18.095-04:002011-06-07T22:26:18.095-04:00Just making sure. ;)Just making sure. ;)Tamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-27227199849381660952011-06-07T13:34:30.054-04:002011-06-07T13:34:30.054-04:00@Tam and @JennyS
I didn't mean to come across...@Tam and @JennyS<br /><br />I didn't mean to come across as thin skinned. I assumed she was joking and just took the opportunity to brag about how literate we are in the scruffy little town!Brick O'Lorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01169151187304356607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-24317898510045665052011-06-07T11:46:43.249-04:002011-06-07T11:46:43.249-04:00Brick,
Jenny was making a funny. She's a Vol-...Brick,<br /><br />Jenny was making a funny. She's a Vol-ey Girl herself. ;)Tamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-75833703132002533662011-06-06T22:49:03.173-04:002011-06-06T22:49:03.173-04:00Chamblin Book Mine, Jacksonville FL. Now with two ...Chamblin Book Mine, Jacksonville FL. Now with two locations. There are some things I really miss about Jacksonville, this is one of them.Larryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11308171394825291900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-3912089074831427022011-06-06T21:52:25.434-04:002011-06-06T21:52:25.434-04:00@Jenny S
Check out #11
Amazon.com Reveals the Mos...@Jenny S<br />Check out #11<br /><br /><a href="http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1568187&highlight=" rel="nofollow">Amazon.com Reveals the Most Well-Read Cities in America</a><br /><br />BazingaBrick O'Lorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01169151187304356607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-7271875389918526862011-06-05T22:58:45.333-04:002011-06-05T22:58:45.333-04:00I am very very jealous. Any chance you can browse...I am very very jealous. Any chance you can browse for a certain book for me? I loaned my copy of John Steakley's Armor out, and the person I loaned it to lost it. If you can find a decent one let me know and I'll send you the $$ to get it and mail it to me.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15796886431754694105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-18221798289992971532011-06-05T01:48:12.534-04:002011-06-05T01:48:12.534-04:00TBBoTFL --
http://www.two--four.net/weblog.php?id...TBBoTFL --<br /><br />http://www.two--four.net/weblog.php?id=P2348<br /><br />I just love this place. And Vladimir loves *me*, because I'm a kook, and he knows what's happening when he sees me coming.Billy Beckhttp://www.two--four.net/weblog.phpnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-76771756242778741012011-06-05T01:40:00.743-04:002011-06-05T01:40:00.743-04:00Larry: Powell's is where it's at. Never s...Larry: Powell's is where it's at. Never stop in Portland without checking in.<br /><br />Renaissance Books in Milwaukee: three huge floors downtown and an annex at the airport. Really good military history at the annex, and everything in the world at the main store. (I found not one, but *two* copies of Robert LeFevre's "This Bread Is Mine" there.)<br /><br />If any of y'all ever make it up to little ol' Dryden, The Book Barn of The Finger Lakes is in my top five in the whole country. It's amazing to me that it's only six miles away down the cow-path.Billy Beckhttp://www.two--four.net/weblog.phpnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-30338661401912286942011-06-05T01:35:25.585-04:002011-06-05T01:35:25.585-04:00Wow. I have lots of favorites around the country,...Wow. I have lots of favorites around the country, but never saw that before. I'll keep it in mind.Billy Beckhttp://www.two--four.net/weblog.phpnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-45497958979206686482011-06-04T23:20:52.271-04:002011-06-04T23:20:52.271-04:00I've been shopping the one in Chattanooga for ...I've been shopping the one in Chattanooga for many years. They'er in their third building; have about doubled the size of the store with each move, and could still use more room. I never go with the the BW without packing a lunch.TommyGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07967738272618742326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-8117208855464724552011-06-03T21:25:29.714-04:002011-06-03T21:25:29.714-04:00Between this and the Funshow, I may have make more...Between this and the Funshow, I may have make more pilgrimages to Knox-vegas. <br /><br />Hope the son, d-i-l and grandsons don't find out...rickn8orhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16911803300343351338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-68945872762027374502011-06-03T19:01:54.136-04:002011-06-03T19:01:54.136-04:00there are several in northern virginia, or were wh...there are several in northern virginia, or were when i left there in '94. none were quite that ... overwhelming ... but i miss them all the same, the local variations just don't quite measure updeadcenternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-88168890681005918152011-06-03T15:21:09.957-04:002011-06-03T15:21:09.957-04:00RobertSlaughter,
"Might be worth the trip fr...RobertSlaughter,<br /><br />"<i>Might be worth the trip from ATL.</i>"<br /><br />My folks claimed they drove up to visit me, but it was really an excuse for me and my dad to kill an hour or two in McKay's. :DTamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-80212957665084031952011-06-03T15:19:25.268-04:002011-06-03T15:19:25.268-04:00Breda,
"I know this is totally dorky, but ho...Breda,<br /><br />"<i>I know this is totally dorky, but how do they organize their stock?</i>"<br /><br />Professional interest isn't dorky. ;)<br /><br />Non-fiction is organized by subject in a Dewey-esque fashion, and then by author within the subject.<br /><br />Fiction is sorted by genre and author.Tamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-39587024599673540522011-06-03T13:45:33.802-04:002011-06-03T13:45:33.802-04:00but I thought everyone read on kindle's and e-...but I thought everyone read on kindle's and e-readers now. Dead trees are dead, right?Mike W.https://www.blogger.com/profile/03425962910696301026noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-52226231745340180572011-06-03T12:58:32.549-04:002011-06-03T12:58:32.549-04:00I'm just tingly looking at that. Might be wort...I'm just tingly looking at that. Might be worth the trip from ATL.RobertSlaughterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01642530076378579530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-46297992433169707692011-06-03T12:52:36.327-04:002011-06-03T12:52:36.327-04:00I love McKay's. I stop every time I'm in K...I love McKay's. I stop every time I'm in Knoxville (which is pretty much never, since the Honda Hoot is gone).<br />wv=nonfur. Obviously, it's never met me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-20286099548642781782011-06-03T12:48:37.345-04:002011-06-03T12:48:37.345-04:00Actuall, it's in the lot adjacent to a former ...Actuall, it's in the lot adjacent to a former Buick dealership, in a purpose built building. Campbell's Pools is in the old John Banks/Bill Rogers Buick building.Pepsodentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-90772860793389615422011-06-03T11:51:44.932-04:002011-06-03T11:51:44.932-04:00Obviously Photoshop.
Tennesseans can't read....Obviously Photoshop. <br /><br />Tennesseans can't read. ;)Jennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682072668997410668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-58227104333019722212011-06-03T10:28:15.359-04:002011-06-03T10:28:15.359-04:00I know this is totally dorky, but how do they orga...I know this is totally dorky, but how do they organize their stock?bredahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00216098318849287384noreply@blogger.com