Wow Spring time fiction has just dropped! Plus Dishwasher Pete’s long overdue book and a new Walking Dead graphic novel collection! We got something for everybody
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An Open Letter to Young Hippies
No, I don’t want your organic chocolates. It’s probably that “acquired taste” chocolate that I hate. Here are some other things I do not want from hippies. I want hippies to not use so much patchouli that I can still smell it 24 hours later. I want hippies to not leave a floater in our toilet. Remember please: if it is brown you must flush it down. If it is yellow do not “let it mellow” for fucks’ sake. I want hippies to not befoul our nice new photobooth with nasty, sticky, mysterious juice. Leave the organic hippie juice boxes at home, please. Most of all, I want hippies to not spend five hours browsing Quimby’s, only to leave without purchasing a single thing. I recognize that, as hippies, the barter economy is preferred until the trust fund is at risk. So think of it this way, hippies: we offer a comfortable space to hang out. We have lots of groovy things to trip out on. We have an indoor bathroom with working plumbing and everything. And in exchange for this, as a token of appreciation, hippie, please buy something. Anything will do — it’s pretty hard to go wrong. Many items are “grown” locally (although I personally recommend Jack Chick tracts for the impressionable younger hippie). Is this really too much to ask?
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The first pictures our Photobooth took
Hi folks,
We thought it appropriate that the first trial run photos in our new booth would have Steven, the original owner of Quimby’s. I (Liz) posed with him here:
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Fish Fry Reading Series
Fish Fry Reading Series
Friday May 4th 7PMwith zine readings by:
Wesley Stokes (I Often Think of Them When It Snows)
Dave Fried (Black Carrot, Save Your Fork, There’s Pie!)
Daniel Gleason (all them books he writes…)
Ross Wolinsky (Hypocritical Mass)
Matt Guack (Next Stop Adventure!) -
We Got Mail
We get a lot of mail here, not just e-mail. I’m talking snail mail. So here is a nice sample of the kinda stuff that makes our day.
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Quimby's OG on the early days
Steven Syvembersky, Quimby’s founder and OG, discusses the start of Quimby’s, zine culture, and other juicy bits on Boom Chicago‘s weekly podcast, A Slice of The Shiny. Listen to it with iTunes or on the web.
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Last night we got Hustled’ and Screwed’
Wow, Last night was one hell of an event as Allan MacDonell and Josh Alan Friedman joined us to talk about their new books and their respective years spent at Hustler and Screw. Besides a surprise blues performance by Josh-who performed two songs live on acoustic guitar; the night was capped off by the most amazing story ever told in Quimby’s about a video sex tape featuring Ted Turner and Jane Fonda plus a friend, ….and a strap on!!! Pics and more after the jump!
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Last night we got Hustled' and Screwed'
Wow, Last night was one hell of an event as Allan MacDonell and Josh Alan Friedman joined us to talk about their new books and their respective years spent at Hustler and Screw. Besides a surprise blues performance by Josh-who performed two songs live on acoustic guitar; the night was capped off by the most amazing story ever told in Quimby’s about a video sex tape featuring Ted Turner and Jane Fonda plus a friend, ….and a strap on!!! Pics and more after the jump!
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Our Photobooth is here!
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:
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New Stuff 4/28/07
Holy Cow the shop is blowin up today, our founder Steven is up in the spot, dudes are setting up the new photo booth and the weather is so nice, people are just walking in all warm and smiley!!!!!
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