Cody’s in Berkeley closes. I loved that store (the one on Telegraph). We used to spend hours in there and then go up the block to Moe’s and spend some more hours in there. Years ago, my partner-in-crime Casper was actually banned from ever using the Cody’s bathroom again because of an incident. Anyway, the article is kind of interesting because it puts some numbers to what’s been happening to independent booksellers over the past few decades. Guess I better not give up my day job, huh?
In football-related news: my nerves are going to be totally shot by the time Euro 2008 is over–that is, if I don’t stroke out before then.
Here are my predictions for the rest of the competition:
- Berlin will burn on Wednesday, no matter who wins, but that would be a sucker bet at this point (actually, during the Croatia : Turkey match, we were trying to convince everybody to root for Croatia purely in the interests of world peace…)
- And in keeping with the complete unpredictability of all matches so far and the elimination of favorites left, right, and center, I’ll go out on a limb and say the final’s going to be played between Turkey and Russia (because that would be really, really funny in a tragic sort of way)