Edward Gorey & Barnes and Noble

For those of you who like Gorey, you might want to check out your local Barnes and Noble. When I was there earlier in the week I noticed a large stack of hardback Amphigorey Also's on sale for $9.98. Which was highly amusing as they still had the softcover for sale for the regular $19.98 price in the humour/cartoonist section. This imprint is one of B&N's own I believe, with a black-and-white cover and Gorey illustration on the front (naturellement).

Pity they only did Amphigorey Also, I couldn't see any similar hardbacks of Amphigorey and Amphigorey too, or I'd have been very pleased indeed.

Linky to BN page with picture of the cover. A quick look on BN's site seems to reveal that they only did a B&N hb version of the last of the three volumes, which is weird. Ah well.

Happy Birthday ippagoggy

So today is ippagoggy's birthday. She's invited us into the city to go to a swing dance club, which sounds interesting, even though I'll skip the dancing part... they have a restaurant built into the place, so food can be had as well.

Of course, life seems to invervene with the fun stuff. PreZ is stuck working on something because a Very Big Client (tm) wants something done a particular way, because the competitor to PreZ's company (who is also working for the Very Big Client) has convinced said VBC that it should be done a particular way because it's an industry standard. Which is a load of horseshit, because from what I understand there is no such thing as an industry standard for that industry.

And so here I sit at 6.15pm hoping he'll be done soon so we can actually go hang out with Cherie for her birthday.

*sigh*