Thursday, March 6,
2025
Time: 12:25 PM
Song: Follow You Down
Artist: Gin Blossoms
Mode of Consumption: Music playing at BAM! Store in Ames.
Link to Song: https://open.spotify.com/track/6rqkwoZu5oX5hugeyiJCM8?si=55bde712e14343a7
During our lunch break from the SLSI show in Ames, I mention
stopping at the BAM! (formerly Books-A-Million) store to check out the
selection. My selling point was that they had previously had a large selection
of used DVDs. Ty is a collector of DVDS.
Well, that ended up being a false promise. Apparently, DVDs
are no longer part of the BAM business model. It’s lost its spot to complicated
board games, puzzles, toys and other miscellaneous memorabilia including new vinyl
records.
This will probably come as a shock, but I didn’t even look at
the vinyl much. I must be in the right mood to look at new vinyl, and that
usually means I am going to throw down thirty bucks for a single album. That
wasn’t in the cards for me today.
The thing is I didn’t really need any books either. We have
a pile of about forty books at home we are working through. I just finished “The
Catcher and the Rye” before leaving for Ames, and read the first few pages of
my next book last night.
Yet, I could have walked around that store for an hour. There’s
just something about being surrounded by all that literature that always
inspires me. First, it’s nice to walk around a brick-and-mortar book store, and
have the hope that in today’s internet economy, there’s still places like this.
Second, it’s nice that authors have this venue to sell their books. Third, it
makes me want to go home and start pounding on the keyboard.
I’d like to say that magic makes it all the way home every
time. It doesn’t, but I keep telling myself one of these days there will be a
little nook on one of those shelves with a book that has my name on the binding.
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