Apart from books ....there's always beer!
Mishmash Bookshop
- Andrew MishMash
- MishMash Bookshop was, until recently, London’s smallest and friendliest remainder bookshop. We enjoyed five years of profitable fun selling books to the reading public. But, things being what they are, falling customer numbers in our St James’s Park locality, and the persistent greed of our landlord, made the shop non-viable. After a long struggle we closed in January of this year; and so London loses another quirky independent to the relentless march of philistinism. Over the past year this blog has evolved from being largely on a literary theme, to a more general commentary on modern culture, and thoughts about living as a circumspect and irritated Scottish exile in modern-day London. And that is what we'll continue to do for the time being. So drop in, have a read, leave a comment; and keep one eye cocked for our return to piratical bookselling! Manifesto futurismo!
8 comments:
Y'know, this will suit you, Drew, so congratulations! A suitable outlet for quirky humour. I expect lots of vivid and off-beat commentary on the various customers travelling through your domain, guess I'm seeing a modern-day Clerks meets Black Booksthing going here.
my friends I wish you all om manu naraya naya.
in this last week of august i note that i met each of you in the september of 85, 86, and 87.
And your prompt response volunteers you as informal tech advisors - especially you Mr W.
keep dropping in
AM
Hello Ilse
I have long suggested that at least one of the writers must have "gone dark" in a remainder or second hand bookshop prior to writing BB; and I suspect it can only have been Graham Linehan.
BTW look out for clerks2 which was shown at Cannes I think recently. Why has clerks never been released on DVD? Spinal Tap for shop assistants!
AM
Thankyou, sirrah, for the shared honour of being a techie-advisor!
have spent all day at Lucozade fortress in London, where the real techie geek doing the lecture about new kinds of blog-tastic marketing, including YouTube, scared the PANTS off the Lucozade brand managers by downloading home-made YouTube video adverts for Lucozade, made by disaffected Yankee media grads and Korean school children ( who, spookily, all have numbers after their names) .
Given that the Lucozade marketing manager who was assisting the lecture by working the laptop demonstrably *did not know how to type a search term into google* it seems that we in the digital arena have some educating to do.
Blog Tech is great, it just eats your lifespan. Have fun
The really visually acuitous amongst you will have noticed that both Mr W and I prefer to wear shirts of the orange hue.
This does not mean we are closet fans of Johann Cruyff's revolutionary 'total football' technique; nor [and the scots in the audience will know how easily misunderstood these things can be] are we brothers of the lodge.
But we both wish you all the blessings that Lord Krsna bestows...
Drew,
Finally found your blog. As an IT person I should have realised that I needed to go the Blog section of Google before doing my search as having waded through about 20 pages I still couldn't find anything - DOH!.
Maybe this does prove that I'm not a geek though - which has got to be good news.
I am currently at home with my leg in plaster as I have done something nasty to my tendons - but hopefully will be well soon.
Really liked the site - good pics etc. Bonne chance mi amigo.
Ah, the word of blogging. What should one say. I shoudl probably reveal a lot of inner truths about myself, but at the moment I feel hungover so I might leave it. Has anbody heard of a military school in scotland QVS - I think I might have been there...
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