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Maybe this belongs in books (mods, move it if you wanna), but here goes:
I don't know if you guys get McSweeney's in the UK, but I've been really puzzled by it's growing popularity. Recently, one of the writers for McSweeney's opened up a pirate supply store in San Fransisco as a "front" for the 826 Valencia writing lab Quote:
April 11
The store at 826 Valencia has been open for about three days now, and it's been a lot of fun seeing people react to the Mission finally getting something every neighborhood deserves -- a convenient and clean place where customers can buy pirate supplies at reasonable prices.
We welcome visitors, especially those with young kids. Kids like drawers, hatches containing rubber snakes, and vats full of sand and red water, and we have all of these things. We hope all will enjoy the store itself, will purchase what they need, and will also visit our large saltwater fishtank‹housed within a small fish-viewing room with three movie theater seats‹featuring Karl, a porcupine pufferfish who must be seen to be understood.
And though we're happy with the store, we are still improving it, and will soon be able to start work on a new mural for the facade, designed by Chris Ware. That should be finished sometime in the next month.
Our hours for the time being are: Tuesday through Saturday, 12-7, and Sunday, 12-6.
April 9
The building is finally open, more or less. The storefront, offering goods for those in the pirate trade, is very much open, and has been visited by many passersby, young and old. Please be sure to check out our new pufferfish, who was eyes of vermillion and a face very human and even shifty--he seems to be plotting something sinister.
Maybe I'm just jealous that I don't have shitloads of money to piss away on a fake store, but this (as well as McSweeney's) strikes me as really fucking bizarre. I mean, you read their upcoming schedule and you find this:
Sunday, June 23
Skull soap sale: one for the price of two. All skull-shaped soap must go.
Karl feeding: 4 & 6:30
Friday, June 28
A man named Sharkey, and his beautiful assistant Heather, will give us demonstration of knots. 4pm.
Karl feeding: 4 & 6:30
Sunday, June 30
Demonstration: How to care for your new empty eye socket. 4pm. |
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