DISQUS

DW reader · 1 year 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!

Cyndie · 1 year 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?

2nd District Unrepresented · 1 year ago

No!Wenthal

Maybe we can adaptively reuse her wicked grin as the portal to Hell?

Fucking Bummed · 1 year 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.

Barricade Bob · 1 year 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.

Gunther · 1 year 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.

G Morgan · 1 year 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

John Bob Green · 1 year 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

Lovin' Long Beach · 1 year 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

I work at All American Burger · 1 year 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

bob snap · 1 year 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

Tardis · 1 year ago

Man.

Is the writing on the subway wall?

Kickin' rocks,

Take 183

bob snap · 1 year 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

Davros · 1 year ago

Yo Yo Yo.

What's with all this books and shit?

Keep it gangsta,
Carl Sagan

I'm moving to the end of your · 1 year ago

Clearly Derrida's position on post-reconstructionist capitalism means nothing. It is evident in Long Beach's city planning.

Gettin' Crunk

Isaac Asimov

Someone who loves you · 1 year 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

raundog · 1 year 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

Charlie · 1 year ago

Man. This shit is coming down. Like fast.

Warmest Regards,

Charles Manson

Bill O'Reilly · 1 year ago

I praise the destruction of Acres of Books. Bring on total corporate power!! Bring on the rapture!!

Seig Heil

Bill O'Reilly

Sharon · 1 year ago

Please!

Just let me keep my baby.

Sharon Tatertots

laughing crying · 1 year 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

Tattoo Me? · 1 year 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

Mummy Winter · 1 year 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

John Holmes · 1 year ago

I had sex in the fiction room...


Whateva,
John Holmes

John Bob Green · 1 year 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

Marc Ratner · 1 year ago

When I first heard of this plan, I was like "nah son".

Pope John Paul II

Albert · 1 year 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....

Das Orgone · 1 year ago

Hey this shit is, like totally, fucked up.

In the best of human wish,

Thic Nat Han

Crossed Lover · 1 year 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

G. Morgan · 1 year ago

Beauty.
Unity.
Togetherness.
Timeless.
Happiness.
Organization.
Laughing.
Evil.

Ken The All Night Rocker

Yes! You are a butthole.

Love,

Long Beach Redevolpment Association

Expressing Our Opinion · 1 year ago

I'm sad.
Mainly days and Mondays bring me down.

Satisfied.
Adamantly opposed.
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap.

(I'm sad),

Oprah.

City Citizen · 1 year ago

This is unbelievable.

Condos?

Cantos.

Quatrains.

Ezra Pound

Basil Tacklebatch · 1 year 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

Bertlebeck Tazzlewipe · 1 year 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

Bazzles · 1 year 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.

Jumbledink Heftybun (thanks, E · 1 year 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

Jandek · 1 year 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

Movie guy · 1 year ago

I haven't read "Flowers For Algernon" yet.

Jockin' yer grill.

Anne Frank

PS: Acres of Books? Huh? What?

Versatile Somnambulist · 1 year 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

Happy Man · 1 year 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

Happy Man · 1 year ago

WTF?

a caveman

John Bob Green · 1 year ago

btw: sometimes it's all a turd on a bumride

grunt

Lothar of the hillpeople

Perry's Pizza · 1 year ago

Long Beach.

Yer fuckin' this up.

Salutations,

George Plimpton

Perry's Pizza · 1 year ago

A wise man once said:

Fuck all's y'all.

Take it easy,

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Sexual Baseball · 1 year 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

JG Ballard · 1 year 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

Futon Torpedo · 1 year ago

"...Mozart, James Joyce, and sodomy." ---Alvy Singer

Another dumb dick · 1 year ago

Does anyone know where the love of God goes, when the waves turn the minutes to hours?

The Edmund Fitzgerald

Another dumb dick · 1 year ago

And you won't read that book again.

Because the ending's just too hard to take.

Big Ups,

Gordon Lightfoot

Urban Spaceman · 1 year ago

Long Beach!

You are destroying that which makes you YOU!

Love,
Reality

Urban Spaceman · 1 year 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)

Ta da! · 1 year ago

When you see one of us,

there are actually many.

Don't hate,

Cockroaches

Ta da! · 1 year ago

Listen!

You people need to come to the now.

Achieve Clear.

Contact us,

L. Ron Hubbard

(Scientology, homes)

Ta da! · 1 year ago

Without Acres of Books I never would have won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2012.

Culturally Cute,

Diablo Cody

Hey You Guys! · 1 year ago

insert Campbell's soup can here

Andy Warhol

Agent J · 1 year 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.

allan stewart konigsberg · 1 year ago

I tend to agree w/ Agent J

Rasta

Woody

Eerie Magazine Fan · 1 year ago

I'm screaming.

Don't mind me.

Humbly,
Guernica

4 reals gislebertus · 1 year ago

qwertyuiop

What,

Gutenberg

Eerie Magazine Fan · 1 year 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

I love Acres of Books · 1 year ago

This is so funny. You guys thinking you're so witty. It kinda makes me smile.

Shits and giggles,

Mona Lisa

Neil with the Deal · 1 year 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")

Adreana Langston · 1 year 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.

Ted · 1 year ago

Back up in your ass with the resurrection...

Preach it Long Beach it!!

"Clean" and "Straight"
Ted Haggard