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Finally Football, and then…

It’s baaaaaaa-aaaaack! Almost anyway… I admit now (after years of denial) that I am a fan of football, not just college football. Turned on the TV and BAM! Game on!

But, then something horrible happened… The camera switched to the sideline (during the middle of a play) and a reporter began interviewing a player whose day was already finished (pre-season game and all) or who wasn’t even going to get into the mix.

What do you think it will take this season to compete? she asked him, standing there in his pristine white uniform. We’ll have to put it together and win games, he answered.

In the meantime there was a pass and a catch and a first down and, and, and – none of it could be seen, because the camera was facing the wrong way, apparently because it is an exhibition game and it doesn’t matter what happens.

Can’t we watch it anyway?

Sports books at McHuston Booksellers – including a first edition autobio from Howard Cosell, the voice of Monday Night Football, for many years:

1603 South Main Street, Broken Arrow OK. Come visit!

But if you read it, then it’s all over…

Here it is! Part three of three, the final installment, the wrapping up of the trilogy, the concluding episode that readers of Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games have been waiting for.

The trouble is – while everyone has been nervously anticipating the arrival of the book, it appears a large percentage don’t want to read it right away. It’s like the last chocolate bar on the deserted island – your mouth waters at the thought of devouring it, but you know once it is devoured, it is gone forever.

One of my young customers expressed the sentiment, and I just read a column by a Wall Street Journal writer who not only admits to having been completely drawn in by the series intended for young adults, but goes so far as to compare the effect of the serialisation to Charles Dickens. (His titles were often publishsed in segments in the newspaper, drawing out the suspense, but also increasing the letdown when the story was finally ended.)

Mockingjay is already sold out here – but come on down and I’ll order you up a fresh copy!

Small Potatoes: B&N Part Two

On one hand, it is a reminder of just how small we truly are – today’s news? Barnes and Noble has posted a $62 million dollar loss IN THE FIRST QUARTER! Man, oh man. They could have sloughed off one percent of that in my direction and I could have shown them a profit!

How does one LOSE $62 million in three months?

Well, they claim it mostly went to legal expenses related to their proxy fight with billionaire Ron Burkle. In other words – they aren’t battling the bookselling competition, they’re fighting within themselves. There has to be a big-business lesson in there somewhere…

In the meantime, we small potatoes keep hunkering down here in the economic dirt, paying our bills, living frugally, and staying out of the offices of attorneys (no offense to our non-gratis legal friends).

On the bright side, Barnes and Noble saw revenues increase to $1.4 BILLION. Man, oh man, again! What a savvy seller couldn’t do with just a small percentage of that cash-flow!

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