Re Gone Girl trailer: See with that tag line they already ruined the book.

Hey, Paul, we all know you hate Amazon, so there's really no need to use this otherwise-heartening story to tell us how you feel about Amazon. You spent about 50% of the space talking about their Amazon transgression. Why not just send them a polite note suggesting they consider using a non-Amazon source? That would have the effect of possibly still advancing your viewpoint without making it seem like you're shitting on them.

The Poe statue is bad. Not as horrible as the crap that the brutalists pooped all over Charles/MGH and Government center, but still pretty bad.

I cannot wait to see what Nissley does with that store. Dude is one well-read motherfucker and a kickass writer.

Five and dime stores were not big by today's Wal-mart standards but they were never small stores.They were typically the size of a good-sized drugstore, and carried much of the same merchandise as a drugstore of today (minus the drugs, of course). Some of them were much larger -- Woolworths was a five and dime. Two that you might remember here in Seattle are Higo's in the ID (an unusual Japanese version, now a art-gift shop) and Meredith's 10 Cent Store in the West Seattle Junction, which shut in the 90s. If you're even older, you might remember Kress or Kresge's (the latter of which morphed into the gigantic K-Mart stores that actually did most of the damage that Wal-mart is typically accused of thirty years earlier).

Santoro's shop is much smaller than any of these.

I was amazed at how small and packed stores can be in Manhattan. It's possible at least that Santoros' shop is the size of a Manhattan 5&dime.....assuming such a thing exists at all.

But I don't really know.

"She" is not an Elvis Costello song, but rather it was written by Charles Aznavour for the 70's British TV show "Seven Faces of Woman", and became a #1 hit on its own. The version of the song in the Gone Girl trailer was apparently recorded by Richard Butler of the Psychedelic Furs.