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  DW reader

  11 months ago

  I've heard complaints that no city official,including Suja Lowenthal, bothered to attend Ray Bradbury's send-off for Acres Of Books. Perhaps Suja wil be at the controls of the bulldozer that'll knock down the Acres building like she did for Jack's Liquor Store and ............her marriage!
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  Cyndie

  11 months ago

  Maybe is Suja wasn't so busy with her personal "affairs" she'd be paying attention to what her constituents want. WE NEED ACRES OF BOOKS, we don't need another lame retail space with overpriced housing. What's the problem, Long Beach doesn't have enough empty retail space downtown to suit our city council?
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  2nd District Unrepresented

  11 months ago

  No!Wenthal
  
  Maybe we can adaptively reuse her wicked grin as the portal to Hell?
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  Fucking Bummed

  11 months ago

  Hey Long Beach RDA!
  
  You sold part of our soul to pay Peter to fucking pick Paul's wallet.
  
  I hope your project fails, which given your track record is pretty much what is gonna happen.
  
  Disgusting. (even Ray Bradbury has my back)
  
  Like Bush building this imaginary new Middle East democracy. Your politics are just insensitive and insulting to what we as Long Beach residents hold dear.
  
  I would spit in your faces if I could.
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  Barricade Bob

  11 months ago

  The RDA scumbags don't give a damn about you or any other less than high rolling types. They WANT to get rid of anybody who can't afford the glitz they love. The poor disgust them (unless they're from Mexico or Guatemala) and the projects they promote are DESIGNED to get rid of you--it doesn't matter that you were born and raised in LB if you're not rich enough to fit into their tax bracket schemes. I hope their children die slow, painful, frightful deaths while they watch. Such scum should get what they perpetrate on their citizen victims.
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  Gunther

  11 months ago

  Congratulations Suja. You're destroying one legacy in order to create your own legacy of crappy developments for your district. And the RDA, great track record for certain. We can expect nothing but the best from those guys as they bulldoze what's left of our history and sell it to their lowest bidding developer buddies, all for the promise that it get developed into something spectacular, like the pike.
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  G Morgan

  11 months ago

  You guys can be so darn insensitive. Ms Lowenthal works very hard to see that this wonderful, Queen-size city maintains a reputation that behooves us as hard working, and hard playing citizens. And I want to touch her stuff.
  All the Best,
  Walt Whitman
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  John Bob Green

  11 months ago

  Yes, I wholeheartedly agree with Gloria Morgan, and so, too, I believe, would Agent J. Irrespective of the track record of Ms Lowenthal and the Tennesse Valley Authority, the assorted, and often quite smelly mob at Acres of Books are a bunch of wine swilling, tobacco snortin, sons ‘a guns with no vision for the future. Is this the culture to which we so dearly cling. Sure, they sit on their fat asses and complain about the way their city is headed, but then they get drunk on two-buck chuck and can’t distinguish good taste from their own crapulence. And I also want to touch her junk.
  Best Wishes,
  Mark Twain
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  Lovin' Long Beach

  11 months ago

  My love.
  
  Your beauty is beyond compare.
  
  The stars have nothing on you.
  
  When I am with you the hours seem like minutes.
  
  And!
  
  I want to touch your butthole.
  
  All the best,
  
  Harold Bloom
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  I work at All American Burger

  11 months ago

  Long Beach.
  
  Like a lover, you are to me.
  
  Sweet sweet lover.
  
  Looking into your eyes.
  
  I could waste infinity.
  
  I wanna rape ya.
  
  Sincerely,
  
  William Shakespeare
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  bob snap

  11 months ago

  alas, acres of books has swelled past the zenith.
  orchestrated by the meaty mind of baroness lowenthal
  her beefy right index finger pushed down hard on "the button"
  and one day, after the dust has settled, her insatiable appetite and blood lust will be close to being satiated, but that will not be realized until her real classy condominiums have been erected...if you know what the bard means. a dark cloud will blanket the firmament and baroness lowenthal will, assuredly, cast several more spells upon the good bibliophiles of long beach, but she will call for a book-burning in order to destroy stackable squid mechanics. If all goes well the swelling will end and the tyranny of the lowenthal regime will implode. coincidentally, I understand that she's got some tasty sauce and I want to taste her saucy sauce.
  wholeheartedly genuine and festively stackable salamanders of discerning tastes...
  William Butler Yeats
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  Tardis

  11 months ago

  Man.
  
  Is the writing on the subway wall?
  
  Kickin' rocks,
  
  Take 183
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  bob snap

  11 months ago

  "i am the platypus!!!!" those words were found in the great book of poetry: "Stacked upon the Fish mechanic back" by the great australian poet Simon Pumperknickle, which I found one day in the poetry section of acres of books in those wild wombat days when i had Tasmania on my breath and south western australia on my mind. thank you acres of books for taking me to the great australian outback to fend off the great platypus and the savage red-necked wallabies without having to leave long beach. i can taste the great australian vegemite sandwiches.
  Long live acres of books and long live the duck-billed platypus of my dreams!
  Earnestly,
  milan kundera
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  Davros

  11 months ago

  Yo Yo Yo.
  
  What's with all this books and shit?
  
  Keep it gangsta,
  Carl Sagan
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  I'm moving to the end of your

  11 months ago

  Clearly Derrida's position on post-reconstructionist capitalism means nothing. It is evident in Long Beach's city planning.
  
  Gettin' Crunk
  
  Isaac Asimov
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  Someone who loves you

  11 months ago

  In all of my work I have never seen such a desperate HUMAN situation. Truly heartbreaking. I grieve with you, Long Beach. I, as a human being, grieve.
  
  Late,
  
  Albert Schweitzer
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  raundog

  11 months ago

  I've seen the best books of my generation destroyed by
  long beach, starving hysterical naked,
  dragging themselves through the potholed streets at dawn
  looking for an angry fix,
  sujaheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly
  connection to the starry dynamo in the machin-
  ery of right.
  
  Keep it chronic,
  
  Allen Ginsberg
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  Charlie

  11 months ago

  Man. This shit is coming down. Like fast.
  
  Warmest Regards,
  
  Charles Manson
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  Bill O'Reilly

  11 months ago

  I praise the destruction of Acres of Books. Bring on total corporate power!! Bring on the rapture!!
  
  Seig Heil
  
  Bill O'Reilly
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  Sharon

  11 months ago

  Please!
  
  Just let me keep my baby.
  
  Sharon Tatertots
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  laughing crying

  11 months ago

  There is an aspect of the human dynamic that leads me to believe that all of our decisions are not necessarily benevolent.
  
  We Out,
  
  Bertrand Russell
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  Tattoo Me?

  11 months ago

  On Condominiums.
  
  "I remember some years ago being part of a panel discussion at which another panelist expressed her passionate contempt for the crass commercialism of the publishing industry, which had time and time again rejected her vampire novel. What set her vampire novel apart from all the others was that it featured a black, lesbian vampire who was also handicapped. The author believed that handicapped black lesbians would flip for her work, and so they might - at least the portion of them who like vampire novels to begin with."
  
  Thomas M. Disch
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  Mummy Winter

  11 months ago

  I have enjoyed the beauties of Ovid read under my breath in your aisles. At home I ponder his greatness.
  
  Ballin',
  
  George W. Bush
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  John Holmes

  11 months ago

  I had sex in the fiction room...
  
  
  Whateva,
  John Holmes
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  John Bob Green

  11 months ago

  Well, apparently we got that off our collective chest. And I promise not to pun on "chest" where it concerns Ms Lowenthal. We've had some laughs, some tears, some booze, and now we should probably just kick rocks. But first, tell me, which novel does the following paragraph conclude: "He [Acres of Books] sprang from the cabin window as he said this, upon the ice raft which lay close to to the vessel. He was soon borne away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance."
  
  Peace,
  MWShelley
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  Marc Ratner

  11 months ago

  When I first heard of this plan, I was like "nah son".
  
  Pope John Paul II
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  Albert

  11 months ago

  Is it too late? Let's not just complain on the internet. Really, we owe it to our younger brothers and sisters... our kids even. Honestly, lets do something.
  
  http://www.laconservancy.org/preservation/save....
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  Das Orgone

  11 months ago

  Hey this shit is, like totally, fucked up.
  
  In the best of human wish,
  
  Thic Nat Han
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  Crossed Lover

  11 months ago

  When I wrote the Seven Storey Mountain one thought kept biting at my intellect: Acres of Books don't mean dick.
  
  Keep it real,
  
  Thomas Merton
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  G. Morgan

  11 months ago

  Beauty.
  Unity.
  Togetherness.
  Timeless.
  Happiness.
  Organization.
  Laughing.
  Evil.
  
  Ken The All Night Rocker
  
  Yes! You are a butthole.
  
  Love,
  
  Long Beach Redevolpment Association
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  Expressing Our Opinion

  11 months ago

  I'm sad.
  Mainly days and Mondays bring me down.
  
  Satisfied.
  Adamantly opposed.
  Dirty deeds done dirt cheap.
  
  (I'm sad),
  
  Oprah.
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  City Citizen

  11 months ago

  This is unbelievable.
  
  Condos?
  
  Cantos.
  
  Quatrains.
  
  Ezra Pound
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  Basil Tacklebatch

  11 months ago

  Tasilbox Weaslemunch believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And one fine morning——
  
  So we beat on, buttholes against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the batch.
  
  Hugs,
  Pablo Neruda
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  Bertlebeck Tazzlewipe

  11 months ago

  To Albert (27):
  
  Do you have, like, several million dollars that I could borrow for a couple of days?
  
  If so, then meet at Fern's Bar and Tavern; bring singles for the jbox, Basils!
  
  Rainbow Dreams,
  
  Susan Sontag
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  Bazzles

  11 months ago

  Those things you give me.
  
  You don't know.
  
  Those things!
  
  It is what makes you special.
  
  It is what makes you loved.
  
  FUCK YOU!
  
  I love you,
  
  Long Beach.
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  Jumbledink Heftybun (thanks, E

  11 months ago

  The Pre-Raphaelites revived Blake, who had died unknown. Swinburn promoted Blake's demonic poetry, and Rossetti promoted his art. In 1847 Rossetti bought the notebook where Blake attacks chiaroscuro and praises "the hard and wirey line of rectitude", that Apollonian contour I traced from Egypt and Greece to Botticelli and Spenser. Ruskin too condemns Renaissance chiaroscuro. So Pre-Raphaelite sharpness of detail is polemically Apollonian. Pre-Raphaelite mummification is Apollonian objectification and fixation, which Rossetti makes his master principle of sexual personae. Rossetti, unlike the others, had trouble painting landscape from nature and sometimes had to recreate it imaginatively from the Decadent ritual solitude of a blackvelvet-draped chamber.
  
  Love and Jeers,
  
  C Paglia
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  Jandek

  11 months ago

  "Lowenthal dispute at City Hall investigated" 7/21
  
  Yo, what's up with the Lowenthal clan at City Hall? What's this old-timey, incestuous-cabal, unscrupulous-investment shit, huh. _Chinatown_!? More like _PorcelainTown_!
  
  Tears,
  Ozzy
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  Movie guy

  11 months ago

  I haven't read "Flowers For Algernon" yet.
  
  Jockin' yer grill.
  
  Anne Frank
  
  PS: Acres of Books? Huh? What?
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  Versatile Somnambulist

  11 months ago

  The Sibyl, with frenzied mouth uttering things not to be laughed at, unadorned and unperfumed, yet reaches to a thousand years with her voice by aid of the god.
  
  Chilaxin',
  Heraclitus
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  Happy Man

  11 months ago

  Reality dictates that we must destroy culturally important THINGS.
  
  This will be beneficial. We must hope.
  
  (yeah!, this project is doomed)
  
  Robert Anton Wilson
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  Happy Man

  11 months ago

  WTF?
  
  a caveman
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  John Bob Green

  11 months ago

  btw: sometimes it's all a turd on a bumride
  
  grunt
  
  Lothar of the hillpeople
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  Perry's Pizza

  11 months ago

  Long Beach.
  
  Yer fuckin' this up.
  
  Salutations,
  
  George Plimpton
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  Perry's Pizza

  11 months ago

  A wise man once said:
  
  Fuck all's y'all.
  
  Take it easy,
  
  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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  Sexual Baseball

  11 months ago

  Dude!
  Where am I gonna pick up lonely older bitches who can read now? I know, I know, the dollar store.
  
  Cripin'
  James Madison
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  JG Ballard

  11 months ago

  There was something about the interior of the car.
  
  Subtle. Sensual. Stimulating.
  
  I couldn't quite understand.
  
  Catch you on the flip-flop,
  
  JG Ballard
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  Futon Torpedo

  11 months ago

  "...Mozart, James Joyce, and sodomy." ---Alvy Singer
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  Another dumb dick

  11 months ago

  Does anyone know where the love of God goes, when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
  
  The Edmund Fitzgerald
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  Another dumb dick

  11 months ago

  And you won't read that book again.
  
  Because the ending's just too hard to take.
  
  Big Ups,
  
  Gordon Lightfoot
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  Urban Spaceman

  11 months ago

  Long Beach!
  
  You are destroying that which makes you YOU!
  
  Love,
  Reality
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  Urban Spaceman

  11 months ago

  Hey,
  
  The second district don't mean jack shizzle. What? Not represented? No way.
  
  Email me about my barbecue in the Hamptons,
  
  John Updike
  
  (don't contact me until a couple weeks. I'm busy writing the sequel to ET)
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  Ta da!

  11 months ago

  When you see one of us,
  
  there are actually many.
  
  Don't hate,
  
  Cockroaches
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  Ta da!

  11 months ago

  Listen!
  
  You people need to come to the now.
  
  Achieve Clear.
  
  Contact us,
  
  L. Ron Hubbard
  
  (Scientology, homes)
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  Ta da!

  11 months ago

  Without Acres of Books I never would have won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2012.
  
  Culturally Cute,
  
  Diablo Cody
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  Hey You Guys!

  11 months ago

  insert Campbell's soup can here
  
  Andy Warhol
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  Agent J

  11 months ago

  Yo!
  Gettin' chrunc,
  'n chilaxin, like tuna on a
  roll, like vurple cruci-
  ble, like read the manu-
  al, bull-dohzen like suja,
  y'all, like flowin like nature
  call, and ragin' like lowen-
  thal, and hoopin' like sam cas-
  sell, like swingin' like raun's big
  balls, and jammin' just like stevus,
  ya'll, critiquin' like jacques la-
  can; rock wit u like chaka
  khan; fuk wit u like kirk v.
  khan; luv me like george, paul, ringo, 'n
  john; blast me wit cobain's shot-
  gun; bump me like kennedy 'n
  son; kiss me like prince cherry
  sun, like hot mustard on a hot
  bun, like general custard pie 'n
  rum, and freakin' wit some crisco,
  son, and now it escapes: writin' 4
  fun.
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  allan stewart konigsberg

  11 months ago

  I tend to agree w/ Agent J
  
  Rasta
  
  Woody
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  Eerie Magazine Fan

  11 months ago

  I'm screaming.
  
  Don't mind me.
  
  Humbly,
  Guernica
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  4 reals gislebertus

  11 months ago

  qwertyuiop
  
  What,
  
  Gutenberg
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  Eerie Magazine Fan

  11 months ago

  Kitty cats and lollipops.
  
  Ice cream and sugar cookies.
  
  Soda pop and bubblegum.
  
  Little league and after school.
  
  Pensive hugs and first loves.
  
  All these things are special.
  
  It's what makes us, well, us.
  
  Enron
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  I love Acres of Books

  11 months ago

  This is so funny. You guys thinking you're so witty. It kinda makes me smile.
  
  Shits and giggles,
  
  Mona Lisa
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  Neil with the Deal

  11 months ago

  When I first rolled into "Acres" I was, like, this is rad-to-the-max. And then, I pondered. It seemed that this bookstore did not ultimately understand the cruel and quit indifference of nature.
  
  Werner Herzog
  
  (directors commentary for "Grizzly Man")
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  Adreana Langston

  11 months ago

  Do the Smiths own the entire building? I'm asking because Equality For All is looking for temporary office space to house their No On Proposition 8 headquarters here in the SouthBay. A property owner who is not expecting revenue from his/her property because it is slated for destruction may be a property owner who would be open to donating office space to the No On Proposition 8 campaign.
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  Ted

  11 months ago

  Back up in your ass with the resurrection...
  
  Preach it Long Beach it!!
  
  "Clean" and "Straight"
  Ted Haggard
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