Setting: Hudson News stand, departures terminal, Vegas airport. I stopped into buy the Pepto Bismol I’d been seeking for about 24 hours.
Aside — you’d think they’d sell that stuff in vending machines on the casino floor, next to packets of Alka Seltzer, rehydrating drinks, and a hefty array of painkillers, but I was striking out everywhere. Ironic sidebar? In another section of the sprawling convention center, The National Association of Convenience Stores trade show.
I hand over a ten and the classic pink box.… continued…
- Sunset from my living room.
- Willie K show at the Triple Door
- Half B at Cafe Rozella in White Center
I’ve got a terrific new toy, the Olympus Stylus Tough-8000
Several years ago at a book sale in a small and pretty town in Austria, I bought a stack of Baedeker’s red guidebooks. I have four of these fragile, red cloth bound little volumes. I also bought a Flaxman Hand-Book of English and German Conversation. The Flaxman’s is from 1907, the Baedeker’s are also from the early 1900s. I think they all belonged to the same person, a Doktor Ernst Fuschig of Scharding am Inn, a town near the current border between Austria and Germany — the Doktor’s name is rubber stamped in slightly smeared ink inside the cover of each book save the phrase book — that appears to have spent a bit of time at an antique book store in Vienna, Franz Malota on the Wiednerhaupstrasse in the fourth district.… continued…
