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Bookstores Around the World (rec.arts.books) (FAQ) (IMPORTANTUPDATE)
On Sep 27, 12:26*am, Butch Malahide wrote:
On Sep 25, 12:48*pm, Stratum101 wrote: [. . .] Although Dallas is well served by the two large chains, namely B&N and Borders, which each has its 30,000-50,000 titles, there is only one used bookstore of importance. *That is Half Price which like Powell's in Portland sells a combo of used and new. *It is a chain in central and western states. *Its headquarters store is in Dallas and is quite a draw. * How is it such a draw, if Texans are non-readers? Because it is the only significant used bookstore in a large city, idiot. The minority of the population who do browse in bookstores all show up at the same place, which in the case of Dallas is *one* place. |
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Bookstores Around the World (rec.arts.books) (FAQ) (IMPORTANTUPDATE)
On Sep 27, 1:51*am, Stratum101 wrote:
On Sep 27, 12:26*am, Butch Malahide wrote: On Sep 25, 12:48*pm, Stratum101 wrote: [. . .] Although Dallas is well served by the two large chains, namely B&N and Borders, which each has its 30,000-50,000 titles, there is only one used bookstore of importance. *That is Half Price which like Powell's in Portland sells a combo of used and new. *It is a chain in central and western states. *Its headquarters store is in Dallas and is quite a draw. * How is it such a draw, if Texans are non-readers? Because it is the only significant used bookstore in a large city, idiot. * The minority of the population who do browse in bookstores all show up at the same place, which in the case of Dallas is *one* place. For other literalist idiots who don't understand the context of Irkutsk, make this last sentence "...show up at the same places, which in the case of Dallas is only one place". |
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Bookstores Around the World (rec.arts.books) (FAQ) (IMPORTANTUPDATE)
On Sep 25, 2:42*pm, Bill Snyder wrote:
On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:11:55 -0400, Lawrence Watt-Evans wrote: On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:48:22 -0700 (PDT), Stratum101 wrote: On Sep 25, 9:43*am, Evelyn Leeper wrote: UShttp://www.leepers.us/evelyn/bookshops/na-sw.htm** * Southwestern I'd move Texas from "southwestern" into "southern". It is culturally Southern and only a little over 100 miles from Louisiana. Not all of Texas is culturally Southern. *Not all of Texas is ANYTHING. *It's an absurdly huge place, and the line between Southern and Southwestern runs through it, not along its border. And what's 100 miles from Louisiana? *Texas adjoins Louisiana -- but San Antonio, for example, is hundreds of miles from that border. *Did you mean Dallas? To me, Dallas doesn't seem culturally Southern. As a long-time resident, I'd say putting "Dallas" and "culture" in the same sentence is highly questionable, unless maybe you're discussing microbiology. High standard of living, low level of introspection among natives is how I would characterize Dallas. I'm from San Francisco, and am spending a year or so in Dallas. I lived here 40 years ago for a couple of years. One trades high priced real estate there for abysmal weather here. Dallas has almost no graffiti in comparison with cities on both coasts. People are politer here. But in San Francisco, as an example of what I consider cultural cluelessness in Dallas, light skinned young people don't cover themselves with tattoos, nor are there many tanning salons. Interestingly, the coffee house culture exists in Dallas, especially North Dallas, where more of the city's population live. Every corner has its Starbucks. But again, Dallas, a city of chain businesses, lacks independent coffee houses which abound in West Coast cities. Your Dallas Starbucks is a place for closing deals. San Francisco is blessed with books. There is about one used bookstore for every business district and many independents operate alongside B&N and Borders which each has only a few stores in the City. There's even a decent Half Price Books over in Berkeley although that chain has consolidated three stores in the Bay Area into one. I don't think it has any stores in the Southland, that is, down around L.A. Rambling discussion... Is Texas a good place to live? Well, in a free society, you can thrive anywhere. Dallas is far more integrated among blacks and whites. But black people, comprising maybe 35% of the local population are the only significant minority. No ethnic group has a majority in large California cities. Maybe 40% of the Bay Area population is Asian with Chinese and Indians as the largest sub-groups. The most common surname in the San Francisco phone book is Lee (or was said to be years ago when Art Hoppe was alive.) I would guess that over half of Sunnyvale's population is Indian. (Sunnyvale is the second largest city in Santa Clara County which includes Silicon Valley.) Black people in the Bay Area and in California in general clearly have second-rate status. And down in Los Angeles, just eavesdrop any conversation among the boys in blue on break (at a Winchell's, say) if you want to hear statements that wouldn't be tolerated in present-day Big D. |
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Bookstores Around the World (rec.arts.books) (FAQ) (IMPORTANT UPDATE)
"Stratum101" wrote in message ... Is Texas a good place to live? Well, in a free society, you can thrive anywhere. Dallas is far more integrated among blacks and whites. But black people, comprising maybe 35% of the local population are the only significant minority. ====== There are no hispanics in Dallas? That seems odd. Or do you lump all the coloreds together for demographic purposes. Let's go to the video tape Dallas, Texas White 50.8% Hispanic / Latino 35.6% Black 25.9% http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/48/4819000.html So to recap: you're very observant and nearly everything you say is as if Moses brought it down the mountain personally. |
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Bookstores Around the World (rec.arts.books) (FAQ) (IMPORTANTUPDATE)
On Sep 27, 8:10*am, "foad" wrote:
"Stratum101" wrote in message ... Is Texas a good place to live? Well, in a free society, you can thrive anywhere. *Dallas is far more integrated among blacks and whites. *But black people, comprising maybe 35% of the local population are the only significant minority. ====== There are no hispanics in Dallas? That seems odd. Or do you lump all the coloreds together for demographic purposes. Let's go to the video tape Dallas, Texas White 50.8% Hispanic / Latino * 35.6% Black 25.9% http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/48/4819000.html So to recap: you're very observant and nearly everything you say is as if Moses brought it down the mountain personally. That's an interesting stat, and is repeated in the Wikipedia entry "Demographics of Dallas". I am surprised that Latinos outnumber blacks. That blacks are half the white population does seem about what I see. I being from California where Latinos are the largest minority would notice. (Converseley, when I was at the U. of Texas in the 1960s, I thought San Antonio, 75 miles away from Austin, looked just like a mini-Los Angeles.) I do not know where Dallas Latinos are hiding and I don't think they've assimilated. I did note that part of Walnut Hill where I lived at the end of the 1960s now looks predominantly Latino in the vicinity of Webb Chapel at Northwest Highway, but that's only a small part of North Dallas. Anyway, I welcome some yummy food (and non-chain places!) being added to the local cuisine by Latinos' inclusion. I look for places with "Baja" in their name which implies northwest Mexican cuisine, the kind which is everywhere in Los Angeles. The L.A. style quesadilla is one of the basic food groups, and helps to prevent under-employment among cardiologists and oncologists. Your native Dallas quesadilla is a pitiful imitation fit only for Weight Watchers. |
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Bookstores Around the World (rec.arts.books) (FAQ) (IMPORTANTUPDATE)
On Sep 26, 9:10*pm, Butch Malahide wrote:
On Sep 25, 5:34*pm, DouhetSukd wrote: Well, of course. If it's like most college bookstores, the only used books it carries are textbooks for classes. Obviously the wrong place to look for science fiction and fantasy; for that you want a used book store. Beg to differ. I would have gotten better grades in my EE courses had my college bookstore had a more modest SF selection at the time. |
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Bookstores Around the World (rec.arts.books) (FAQ) (IMPORTANTUPDATE)
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DouhetSukd wrote: On Sep 26, 9:10*pm, Butch Malahide wrote: On Sep 25, 5:34*pm, DouhetSukd wrote: Well, of course. If it's like most college bookstores, the only used books it carries are textbooks for classes. Obviously the wrong place to look for science fiction and fantasy; for that you want a used book store. Beg to differ. I would have gotten better grades in my EE courses had my college bookstore had a more modest SF selection at the time. Long, long ago, in the morning of the world when there was less noise and more green, I took a summer course at Stanford, which got me access to the library stacks. They had a complete run of F&SF (up to that time, which was about 1960). I had *such* a lovely time. I even got some coursework done too, 'cause they also had the complete works of Federico Garcia Lorca. -- Dorothy J. Heydt Vallejo, California djheydt at hotmail dot com Should you wish to email me, you'd better use the hotmail edress. Kithrup is getting too damn much spam, even with the sysop's filters. |
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Bookstores Around the World (rec.arts.books) (FAQ) (IMPORTANT UPDATE)
"Lawrence Watt-Evans" wrote in message al-september.org... On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:48:22 -0700 (PDT), Stratum101 wrote: On Sep 25, 9:43 am, Evelyn Leeper wrote: UShttp://www.leepers.us/evelyn/bookshops/na-sw.htm Southwestern I'd move Texas from "southwestern" into "southern". It is culturally Southern and only a little over 100 miles from Louisiana. Not all of Texas is culturally Southern. Not all of Texas is ANYTHING. It's an absurdly huge place, and the line between Southern and Southwestern runs through it, not along its border. And what's 100 miles from Louisiana? Texas adjoins Louisiana -- but San Antonio, for example, is hundreds of miles from that border. Did you mean Dallas? To me, Dallas doesn't seem culturally Southern. I agree that Dallas is culturally "Texan" G not Southern. We are big and diverse. Take care -- Stanley L. Moore "The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness." Joseph Conrad |
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Bookstores Around the World (rec.arts.books) (FAQ) (IMPORTANTUPDATE)
On Sep 28, 9:22*am, "Stanley Moore" wrote:
"Lawrence Watt-Evans" wrote in message al-september.org... On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:48:22 -0700 (PDT), Stratum101 wrote: On Sep 25, 9:43 am, Evelyn Leeper wrote: UShttp://www.leepers.us/evelyn/bookshops/na-sw.htmSouthwestern I'd move Texas from "southwestern" into "southern". It is culturally Southern and only a little over 100 miles from Louisiana. Not all of Texas is culturally Southern. *Not all of Texas is ANYTHING. *It's an absurdly huge place, and the line between Southern and Southwestern runs through it, not along its border. And what's 100 miles from Louisiana? *Texas adjoins Louisiana -- but San Antonio, for example, is hundreds of miles from that border. *Did you mean Dallas? To me, Dallas doesn't seem culturally Southern. I agree that Dallas is culturally "Texan" G not Southern. We are big and diverse. Take care This is the sort of silly boosterism that one commonly hears around Dallas and Fort Worth, that is, that they're "Western". In fact, the owner of one of the used bookstores in the big ol' Metroplex, a place in Handley over on the east side of Fort Worth, informed me that *California* isn't really the West. Texuss iz, y'all. I don't know how to argue with such unvarnished ignorance. I will say as a guy who has read just about all of Wallace Stegner and who has spent most of his life in the Far West that *we* know where the place is even if Texans are geographically naive. If you're in Dallas, pard, you're down in the South. |
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Bookstores Around the World (rec.arts.books) (FAQ) (IMPORTANTUPDATE)
On Sep 28, 9:20*am, "Stanley Moore" wrote:
Actually it is 0 miles from Louisiana as Texas borders that state G. Texas is a big state and is culturally diverse. I agree that Houston area is Southern in orientation but Laredo and the western parts are Western while Lubbock and the panhandle are more Midwestern and Brownsville near the Mexican border is different yet. Yes, and I understand your desire to keep Dallas out of the South, but even I can see the place has changed from the redneck, Jim Crow town where I lived in the late 1960s. |
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