Reads

We went to NYC yesterday.  We ended up spending most of the time in the L.E.S. going to a couple of our favourite places to go.  We usually get off the Path at Christopher Street and cut through SoHo. That will be the last time.  I guess I keep forgetting that SoHo is not what it was in the 90's.  If I want to go to a crowded shopping mall, I will go to a crowded shopping mall.  Ugh... the lost shoppers, people stuck in their iPhone worlds, stopping on the sidewalk looking for that perfect mass-produced, over-priced item.  Alas, we survived and made it to Bluestockings.  Soooo many good zines, the new issue of Worn, and they now carry the small books on doing it yourself at home.  I bought the one on healthy herbal remedies for your cat when I went to Wellsweep Farm a few years ago.  Yesterday I purchased one on making incense.  They have so many fabulous titles.  I looked at the one on breaking your cat's bad habits.  This proud mama can say that Millie has none of them.  I proudly spent over $30 on a bunch of independently published reading material at an independent bookstore.  Who need Barnes & Noble?

We found a little shop with imported food from various Asian and European countries.  They had Fentiman's Dandelion & Burdock soda (had that at a cafe outside St. Paul's in London) but is wasn't refrigerated.  BUT, they did have another brand in a can and cold!  Hot damn!  Nothing better than walking the streets of the L.E.S. with a bag of zines, warm, sunshiny weather and a sipping a can of dandelion & burdock soda.

A fine Saturday all around...  and the last week of school until summer vacation.  Hooooraayyy!