Buy a Shirt. Save a Store.

[lagilman]

From the Pandemonium livejournal:

"I realize that this sounds like sounds like the worst type of emotional blackmail: “Buy a shirt, or the store gets it!” But there is more to this than money. Note that I am asking for one thousand PEOPLE to buy at least one store shirt, not for a thousand shirts to be sold. I need a thousand people to take part in this.

The reason why is that I am now working 11-12 hours a day, six to seven days a week, for a salary that is not currently sufficient to meet my needs (stupid, stupid, student loans). I have fought to keep my little store alive for seventeen years, and I am prepared to fight for another seventeen years, as long as I know that Pandemonium is appreciated. I need, need! to know that at least one thousand people give a damn about the store."

http://community.livejournal.com/pandemonium_bks/78632.html
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Suri again. Because while you may not need another t-shirt, we need all the genre bookstores we can get. Order a shirt. Pass the word. Clap your hands and say you believe in independent bookstores...

(For those that don't know, Pandemonium is a genre-only bookstore in Cambridge (MA) that has always been extremely supportive of both readers and authors. It would be great if we could turn around and show our support, likewise...)

Comments

[boomuse.livejournal.com]

I won't have any funds to work with until net Friday, but I'll order one!
(Used to live in Boston and have a soft spot in my heart for all the indy bookstores out that way.)

[eeknight.livejournal.com]

Ordered one for me and one for Chats, ma'am.

[girasole.livejournal.com]

Buy a tee shirt. Save the world.

And I don't even watch Heroes. But I did order a tee shirt.

[marinarusalka.livejournal.com]

Pre-ordered mine. I used to practically live in Pandemonium when I was at MIT.

[wolfsilveroak.livejournal.com]

I've got it bookmarked, so if I have spare cash this payday, I can order a shirt}:)

[arouraleona.livejournal.com]

Awsome, my three favorite things! Books, clothes, and saving the world!

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

I bought a shirt. I remember Pandemonium very fondly from my years in Massachusetts; we always stopped there when we took the T in from Alewife to the Big City.

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

I'll check out the link.

But I mostly popped in to share this link (http://www.asthmahookworm.com/) with you, since I remember the story of your honeymoon. At the very least, it's interesting reading!

[greeneyedkzin.livejournal.com]

Got it. Thanks for the information -- and the T-shirt I'm buying.