see I agree with you in that businesses must come and go and that one person's story ending means that another person's dream can be realized. God closes doors, opens windows, keeps the cat doors half-open... I think... I'm really not sure where I was going with that malaprop.
at any rate, the stationery store? never saw a single soul in it. then again, I've never seen that travel agency near Comicazi's new place open, either, but every time I go by, there's that crazy half-cracked hula statue waving in eternal aloha. for all the good they do they might as well be just empty storefronts except then we wouldn't have the hula entertainment.
There are just so many places that just keep running, again, due to inertia of some sort. And at some point, the proprietor finally decides it's time to close up shop, and there it goes. You can't blame someone for that. you can't chain them to the store and go NO YOU KEEP ON RUNNING THIS, MISTER, FOR THE GOOD OF THE COMMUNITY.
What's good is when some entrepreneur takes ahold of that space and breathes new life into it. something that is their own dream, their own business, their own little chunk of storefront with merchandise. hooray for comicazi, hooray for magpie, hooray for your move games, hooray for cd spins.
What's bad is when some corporation takes ahold of that space and puts a $CHAIN in it. HOORAY! say the people. Now we don't have to go alllll the way to the other square to buy the same kind of food or the same kind of coffee or the same kind of smoothie drink or the same kind of shoes!
sure people do. ON PLANET CRACKPIPE.
There are a few exceptions to this, of course: pharmacies, as those are necessary for health and sometimes it's not such a good idea to go allll the way to the other square when you need a prescription refilled NOW. oh, and dunkin donuts, because everybody needs a bit of hypocrisy in their views to balance out the eternal truths, and there's mine for the evening.
but if someone were to find a bit of capital underneath a rock, say, or under the sofa cushions, and decided to put in their own fresh-made donut place with twenty-seven varieties and a window so you could see the donuts being made and maybe a bit of fresh coffee too that doesn't taste like the T, well now then, goodbye to dunkies and hello to Abbie's Donuts.
er, not that I have ever thought of such a thing.
the someday closing was an aberration and bad form all around. it was bad that the owner forgot his lease was up, and it was bad for the landlord to not say anything. but what's done is done, and people blaming mr crepe or hating mr crepe or saying nasty things about mr crepe like replacing the first e with an a and then dropping the second e off are people who are completely tilting at a windmill which isn't even there. besides I cannot speak ill of mr crepe as they will let me order crepes off the menu and I don't have to justify my order at all and the people who have given the place snooty bad reviews are the people who are never satisfied with a restaurant experience unless they get a foot bath along with their goddamn hash browns.
and the people who are working to bring the someday back in a new fashion are people who love the place and more power to them.
this post has been powered by an especially tasty 16-year single malt which has been drunk out of a particularly nice and perfectly-weighted five-sided glass which I acquired through nefarious means. I am sure tomorrow I will feel very very silly about the whole thing but on the other hand, I just wrote an abbie post and my brain is still in the cat mindset. hi.
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Date: 2007-04-23 03:11 am (UTC)at any rate, the stationery store? never saw a single soul in it. then again, I've never seen that travel agency near Comicazi's new place open, either, but every time I go by, there's that crazy half-cracked hula statue waving in eternal aloha. for all the good they do they might as well be just empty storefronts except then we wouldn't have the hula entertainment.
There are just so many places that just keep running, again, due to inertia of some sort. And at some point, the proprietor finally decides it's time to close up shop, and there it goes. You can't blame someone for that. you can't chain them to the store and go NO YOU KEEP ON RUNNING THIS, MISTER, FOR THE GOOD OF THE COMMUNITY.
What's good is when some entrepreneur takes ahold of that space and breathes new life into it. something that is their own dream, their own business, their own little chunk of storefront with merchandise. hooray for comicazi, hooray for magpie, hooray for your move games, hooray for cd spins.
What's bad is when some corporation takes ahold of that space and puts a $CHAIN in it. HOORAY! say the people. Now we don't have to go alllll the way to the other square to buy the same kind of food or the same kind of coffee or the same kind of smoothie drink or the same kind of shoes!
sure people do. ON PLANET CRACKPIPE.
There are a few exceptions to this, of course: pharmacies, as those are necessary for health and sometimes it's not such a good idea to go allll the way to the other square when you need a prescription refilled NOW. oh, and dunkin donuts, because everybody needs a bit of hypocrisy in their views to balance out the eternal truths, and there's mine for the evening.
but if someone were to find a bit of capital underneath a rock, say, or under the sofa cushions, and decided to put in their own fresh-made donut place with twenty-seven varieties and a window so you could see the donuts being made and maybe a bit of fresh coffee too that doesn't taste like the T, well now then, goodbye to dunkies and hello to Abbie's Donuts.
er, not that I have ever thought of such a thing.
the someday closing was an aberration and bad form all around. it was bad that the owner forgot his lease was up, and it was bad for the landlord to not say anything. but what's done is done, and people blaming mr crepe or hating mr crepe or saying nasty things about mr crepe like replacing the first e with an a and then dropping the second e off are people who are completely tilting at a windmill which isn't even there. besides I cannot speak ill of mr crepe as they will let me order crepes off the menu and I don't have to justify my order at all and the people who have given the place snooty bad reviews are the people who are never satisfied with a restaurant experience unless they get a foot bath along with their goddamn hash browns.
and the people who are working to bring the someday back in a new fashion are people who love the place and more power to them.
this post has been powered by an especially tasty 16-year single malt which has been drunk out of a particularly nice and perfectly-weighted five-sided glass which I acquired through nefarious means. I am sure tomorrow I will feel very very silly about the whole thing but on the other hand, I just wrote an abbie post and my brain is still in the cat mindset. hi.