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!
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:
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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New Stuff to Hit Our Shelves on the Week ending 4/21/07
This post is for the RSS challenged, but if you know about RSS Brian has some new Kung-Fu so you can keep up with items on our website as they are posted. Good for those of you out of Chicago that might see something on these weekly lists and wonder when it will be available on-line.
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Calling all geeks, nerds and “power users”, we’ve added an RSS feed of the last two weeks’ ten days worth of new stuff on quimbys.com. Check it out at https://www.quimbys.com/quimbys.xml
Thanks to Matt from Diamonds for forwarding this item.
Dear friend, relative, or acquaintance of Bob McChesney,
The news media are covering the tragic murders in Virginia this
morning, and as they do an extraordinarily significant story is
slipping through the cracks.
On very rare occasions I send a message to everyone in my email
address book on an issue that I find of staggering importance and
urgency. (My address book includes pretty much everyone who emails me
in one form or another, and I apologize if you get this message more
than once.) This is one of those times.
Early Warning!!!! Friday April 20th!!!!
An evening of epic nerdiness hits Chicago.
With live performances from E-Rock, PaperRad, Juiceboxxx and more.
This is Chris, our UPS delivery man, and we think he’s grand! He operates on a very exact airport-like schedule, typically delivering our day’s shipments between a 1:49pm and 1:59 window.
Phone is ringing off the hook? are you guys open today? YES, why would we be closed? Ohh Snap! the resurection, so thats why liquor park is quiet today! I wondered what was up. But yeah we are here till 6PM.
Wow, new stuff updates are gonna be on Saturdays now. We have done a little schedule rotation so I am not in on Fridays to post up the list, but alas while you will have to wait an extra day. It means for the first time in a long time I can go get drunk and see lame art with the rest of the normal Chicago lunatics! Crazy!
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