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Tag: news
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New Stuff 5/19/07
Dude, Brunetti compilation in the house and the first couple of Schizo’s are OP so this is your chance to catch up!
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Going Postal (shipping stuff is more expensive)
Well the times are a changing and the United States Post Office raised rates again this week. So unfortunately we have to follow suit ya’ll.
New Quimby’s Shipping rates after the jump!
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Michael Kupperman cartoon on SNL
Sitting at home alone on a Saturday night. Watching SNL and feeling sorry for myself. And then a lightening bolt of laffs crashed through the TV screen. No, it wasn’t the Musical Guests Linkin Park. Something else entirely…
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Butt Lovers This One Is For You!
Butt #19 just arrived fashionably late! Come Get it!
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Quimby discovers superstar status
“Astronomers reported that they had seen the most powerful stellar explosion ever recorded… [They’ve] have been following the star since last September, when it was discovered in a galaxy 240 million light years away in the constellation Perseus by ROBERT QUIMBY, a University of Texas graduate student, who was using a small robotic telescope at McDonald Observatory near Fort Davis, Tex., to troll for supernovas. The cataclysm — a monster more than a hundred times as energetic as the typical supernova in which the more massive stars end their lives — might be an example of a completely new type of explosion, astronomers said. Such a blast — proposed but never seen — would explain how the earliest and most massive stars in the universe ended their lives and strewed new elements across space to fertilize future stars and planets.” -NYTimes, 5/8/07
This is what they think this might have looked like:
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Gives a new meaning to catfish
Holy shit this is awesome! And real! This kitty takes the bus to the fish’n’chips shop!
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,,21538005-5002700,00.html
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New Stuff 5/5/07
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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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.