There's a new bookstore in
There's a new bookstore in town: BMV Books, the overstock-and-used bookseller previously down the street from The World's Biggest Bookstore, have moved to an expanded location on Bloor Street near the Brunswick House - in fact, they're the lucky new tenants of the building that used to house the Hungarian Bakery, a wonderful deli that went out of business in the early 1980's and a crazy old bat who owned half the neighbourhood held on to it jealously until her death, after which it was finally sold a little over a year ago.
I went in to check out the location last night when I noticed it open last night around 11pm. Turned out it was their opening day and there was a lineup 20 people deep, even at 11pm! I always love checking out new bookstores 'cuz they always have the best stock... Takes about a month for the typical store to get picked clean by Toronto's bibliophiles and then it's back to the usual 'we can order it in for you' routine that drives me to amazon or indigo. Lots of treasures on the shelves (BMV's old location bought used books for good prices - I've sold to them many times - dunno if they'll still be doing that at the new location)... I picked up a collection of Japanese photography 1900-1970 for $12.99, and almost picked up a copy of the Toronto 150th special edition "Who's Who" for nine bucks but I'll come back for it later.. NO ONE BETTER BUY IT - I HID IT ANYWAY SO NYAH! Heh. Anyway, so get down there and check it out!
The Times Online is reporting that researchers have determined that the stones on the top levels of the Great Pyramids were made from concrete. Holy sh... that's so cool.