So much to blog about, not enough time!! Today I read this terrible piece of news about Cody's Books on Telegraph closing down. I can't imagine Berkeley without Cody's. I have spent so much time there, not to mention money. Cody's always has what I'm looking for, and often several things I wasn't looking for. Their art books...their YA section...their sci-fi and fantasy section...everything. The place is a treasure trove. Magazines I've never seen anywhere else. The official Book Lust book journal, which I bought for a librarian friend. (We also bought her the librarian action figure.) Now I'll never get to do a reading there--one of the little literary pipe dreams in the back of my mind has gone up in smoke, as it were. Farewell old friend.
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The term "aqua fortis" was the alchemical nomenclature for nitric acid, a necessary component in etching onto zinc plates for intaglio printmaking. I now use copper plates and ferric chloride almost exclusively, as they are much less toxic, but I still like the sound of "aqua fortis."
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I write. I create. I put some of that here. Read at your own risk. If there were an ampersand code for a little skull-and-crossbones, I'd totally be using it right now.
The term "aqua fortis" was the alchemical nomenclature for nitric acid, a necessary component in etching onto zinc plates for intaglio printmaking. I now use copper plates and ferric chloride almost exclusively, as they are much less toxic, but I still like the sound of "aqua fortis."
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WHAT?!? I had to immediately Google to find out if the other stores are staying open (the one on 4th and the one in SF, just freakin' opened) -- and they are. Phew, but also outrage! Why spend all that capital opening new stores, just to close the flagship?This is so heart-breaking!
I think I haven't said anything about this because I keep feeling like maybe if we don't pay attention to this, it'll go away... Leah Garchik's column this morning mentioned that Salman Rushdie read part of Satanic Verses at Cody's and there are still charred bookshelves and a hole from the bombs. History, people.
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