BOOKCELLAR NOTES (3/14/03 FRI):

CDs played today:
- Public Enemy REVOLVERLUTION (Xgau: A minus)
- OBOE & GUITAR: French Sonatas of the 18th Century (MDG Scene)

BOOKCELLAR NOTES (3/13/03 THU):
---Noon Big 12 tournament basketball game between Iowa State and Kansas occupied my attention for a while, but Kansas’s domination gave me a chance to doze a little. I found my work wasn’t getting done all by itself. Morning was spent packaging book shipments and going out on 5.5 mile run. I barely managed to make it to the post office by noon.
---Received another invite from Polk County Bank to join their Entrepeneurs’ Roundtable. Topic for Mar 28: Determining Your Website Strategy. No doubt I should show up, but I do not do well in such settings. What is the agenda--to put me in the bank’s debt?

---Faxed an order to McFarland. This is what I am getting:
DOUBLE FEATURE CREATURE ATTACK / Weaver 30.00
HORROR FILM STARS / Pitts 39.95
HORROR FILMS OF THE 1970s / Muir 59.95
I WAS A MONSTER MOVIE MAKER / Weaver 38.50
KEEP WATCHING THE SKIES! / Warren 35.00
MODERN WEIRD TALE / Joshi 34.95
POVERTY ROW HORRORS / Weaver 25.00
SCIENCE FICTION CONFIDENTIAL / Weaver 38.50
SCIENCE FICTION OF CORDWAINER SMITH / Hellekson 28.50

---At the pb book sale last week I picked up a few digest magazines too. I have gone ahead and added them to the catalog. Here they are:
FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION, THE MAGAZINE OF…, 4/68, (Galouye cover story; Final War by K.M. O’Donnell aka Barry Malzberg), vg+ 1.50
GALAXY magazine, 3/70, (Ellison’s The Region Between), vg 2.50
IF, WORLDS OF… , 11/65, (Bulmer’s The Domsday Men; Saberhagen, Dickson, Laumer serial), vg 2.00
THE MOST THRILLING SCIENCE FICTION EVER TOLD, spr/68, (digest mag), vg $2
WORLDS OF TOMORROW, 11/64, (Chandler, McIntosh, MacApp, del Rey), vg 3.00

3/14/03 FRI (upstairs notes):
---Temps are supposed to rise to 60F today. I ran early, adding a half mile to my regular 5 miles. With the quarter-mile markers (some gone missing now, though), I can add a half mile by turning around at a further quarter-mile marker. I come it at the 21-mile mark and either run north or south depending on the wind and my mood. I prefer the north route but now that the pine trees along the stretch that parallels Mile Long Bridge Road have grown so that I am not exposed to the road as much, I run to the south as often as to the north. Also, the hills are not as steep running to the south--until you go past the Marina. Then there is a very steep hill down to where the trail runs across the bottom of the barrier dam. No flood this year so far, but the recent snow melt does have things kind of soggy. A sunshiny day like today to melt everything, then a couple more to dry them off, and spring will have sprung.

---In mail today:
- NY TIMES for Thurs
- THE NATION (Tony Kushner on Laura Bush and Evil)