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I admire Mr. Cosgwell for acknowledging how dull that blogging was. Thanks for the link to it, Brissey. No, really.

@1: You can't be displayed in a frame.

Oh wow, when I was in Mexico City I stayed about four blocks from there (a bit closer to Condesa). It's a nice area.

A gratuitous link to the Concrete Blond song 'Mexican Moon':

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbbBlmK-m…

When I lived in Mexico City, in the 80's, I lived across the road from an all-English used book store, and two blocks away from a new all-English book store, and five minutes drive from Libros, Libros, Libros a really big new English book store. Have things changed that much in the years since, or is this more of the shrewd thinking that produced that hideous Cthulhu film?

Libros Libros Libros is still there, extremely low-profile and sensibly accessible only by car, with multiple copies of about 500 new titles (not counting their splendid selection of children's books) at US cover prices above the range of the average Chilango. The others have been gone since I started coming here six years ago. Tell me about the English used place: where was it and what was it like?

I thought that movie sucked, too.

I'll be ther in about 3 weeks. See ya soon, grant.

When I shop for books in Mex I head to Donceles, to the Casa Lamm and to the Ghandi branch on the Alameda. If I've got another reason to be in Coyocan there's also the Sotano branch there. I guess if I were looking for medical books I'd think of that area, but otherwise it wouldn't dawn on me to look for a bookstore there. Is this another area for booksellers?

@9 This location appears to be 5 blocks from Casa Lamm.

There is some incredibly annoying scripting going on that causes focus to jump to this story whenever SLOG is loaded.

In a completely unrelated development, you actually have TWO men in Mexico City, because I'm here too. And of course I belong to Slog. I hope to get over to say hi to Grant one of these days; right now I'm just gasping for breath at 7500 feet and trying to comprehend the magnificence of the stack of tacos al pastor I just at at El Huequito. Seriously: I saw God for a second.

What a wonderful time to be there, Fnarf! It's been a long time since I was within shouting distance of Salón Tenampa. Keep us posted if you can.

Yo, Fnarf! Big day tomorrow but I'll kick you my cell on email. Hope you're here long enough to see us open. (March 1?)

Roma Norte is the key pedestrian neighborhood where intellectuals, creative people, expats, tourists, students, and the well-heeled mix. Yes, we're kind of charting new territory as far east as Cuauhtémoc (I love that street as-is already), but with the new Metrobus line going in this is widely considered to be a new Insurgentes - just blocks from the key Orizaba/Álvaro Obregón nexus - and it is well-identified to boom as Roma nudges into Doctores.

No offense to Casa Lamm, Gandhi, Sotano and the great stores on Donceles and Obregón, (those places are terrific for books in Spanish, and Conejo Blanco in Condesa is spectacular) but our selection is going to... no ten-year-old mass market mysteries, no garage sale bestsellers of the 1930s - it's not even worth talking about. Starting with 2000 titles and more to come very soon - not random, but selected - with backstock, option to order, and fresh inventory en masse every couple months and on a daily basis as we buy from customers.

seriously looking forward to helping you unpack dude! Or at least chugging a cheap bottle of bubbly while watching you lug boxes about!

and lots of teacher friends with hundreds of english students ready to point em in your direction!

Yes, we'll be here on the first. We're staying in el Centro now but will be shifting over to Condesa after six days.

Can you put these images behind a jump? Whenever I come to Slog the screen takes a bit of time to load and then jumps directly to the images.