Summer in the Library...

books in the library baby!

it was hot in the summer in Yountville...it rose to 90 early in the summer morning and if I didn't go swimming at the Veterans Home pool, I'd likely head down the street to the dark cool library at the Post Office building.

It was a cold shock to open the heavy door and walk in. Dark stacks of books, flat carpet and a small window......and all those words on paper.

This is where I discovered Robert Louis Stevenson, Jessamyn West and books about death. All of us kids read RLS and Miss West since they lived in the Napa Valley and were therefore, "our own". Whatever was on the "grown-ups" recommended shelf, was what I wanted to read.

I'd lay on the floor on my back, roll over on my tummy, or lean against a corner out of the way. Hours would pass. I traveled to worlds far away from my tiny farm town.

When I tired of that, or bored, or ready to check out and take a book to read,  it actually hurt a bit to step into the hot bright California sunshine after being entombed in the cave of the library. Then I'd find a shady oak to climb up and sit with the birds and bugs.

I just listed collections of trashy fun reads....these books were never in the library...these were the kind of books I found in my parents bedroom, though.

Classic trash like Erskine Caldwell's Tobacco Road, Helen Gurley Brown's Sex and the Single Girl....lots of sex! A bit of murder, some double crossing...perfect for reading in a hammock or late at night when it cools.....

Best movie with a Library theme.....

It's Party Girl of course! 

Books, food carts, love, parties, great clothes, vintage clothes, hard-hearted vintage clothes dealers, the Gays, and safe sex and sweet love!

Whilst waiting for my nail polish to dry...

I find that a Tacoma escort was interviewed to find out if The Sex Trade is suffering in the Bush Hangover Economy............& whilst I was surfing the Web....not like the Economy serfs the worker.....and in a discussion titled:

Why Men Are Losing Their Jobs, and Women Are Keeping Them

on a NY Mag blog titled: Daily Intel............ in a comment, is this comment with a link:

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While a few sex workers who advertise their services on craigslist.org hung up when contacted by a reporter, one Tacoma escort said business is still good.

"I don't think our business really gets affected," the 27-year-old woman said. "Even when people are broke, they always seem to find the money to indulge in this kind of entertainment."

Zdork, the psychologist and sex therapist, said people do tend to have more sex in times of economic uncertainty. Sex is an inexpensive way to relieve stress, she said, explaining that oxytocin and other feel-good endorphins are released by the brain during sexual activity.

"The sex industry, I don't believe, will be affected quite as much as other industries," Zdork said. "In times of stress, people would rather have sex than shop."
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http://tinyurl.com/beweuf

So, following this tinyurl link I arrive at NOLA.com, the New Orleans newspaper online edition (which I subscribe to via email since I love NO....)

As a side note...NOLA.com published this article in their Entertainment section...not in the CrimeBlog, or BusinessBlog.....no, booze, ass, and drugs according to the New Orleans paper of record is Entertainment !

Anyhoo, it seems NOLA.com republished a Seattle Times article titled:

Tough times or not, 'sin industries' prosper

from January 13, 2009 9:55AM

that is referenced up there in purple, which I found in a NY Mag blog.........

But the POINT is that a Tacoma escort says "Bidness is Good".......
A Tacoma escort....
Because I'm sure, that only a Tacoma escort who advertises on Craigslist would go on record about all the SEX in Washington State.....man, I smell a set-up by a Seattle Times reporter .....

Tacoma and Sex....goes together like Peanuts and Poison..........

so even tho Zdork the psychologist and sex therapist said ...

"In times of stress, people would rather have sex than shop."

I'd beg of you....forgo some sex, and come and shop with me !
Please.