Friday, May 20, 2005
(11:59 PM) | Adam Kotsko:
Weiner: At Last
Despite my having no preconceived notions whatsoever about what Matt Weiner would be like, he blew all my expectations out of the water. Bitch PhD was everything I dreamed she would be and more. Ben Wolfson was the exact same as he's been every time I've hung out with him. I say this because I have just returned from an historic meeting with those three people. It was fun. I also got to check off on my mental score card that I went out this Friday night, so everybody wins.Plus, before I met with them, I went to Europa Books, where they were having a clearance sale on French books. I picked up S/Z by Roland Barthes and Leçon sur la leçon by Peirre Bourdieu, for $4.00 total. They also have three copies of Irigaray's Speculum de l'autre femme, which is huge, and another Bourdieu book that is also huge. I would have purchased them as well, bringing the grand total to $8.00, but my bag was already full to overflowing as it was. That's one advantage of the suburban lifestyle, being able to put stuff in your car and thus not having to worry about carrying around your purchaces for the next six hours.
If I go to Europa tomorrow with an empty satchel and see that you bastards have snatched up all the cheap Irigaray, I'm going to be extremely angry and may quit blogging entirely.
On another note, they also had copies of the exact same books that I purchased or considered purchasing on the normal-priced shelf, ranging from $12.50 to $45.00 -- apparently they were hoping that people would look at either the normal shelf or the clearance shelf, but not both. Is that technically legal?
