A Clean Well Lighted Place

[Drunk Monk]

So I'm looking for a book, a specific title. I leave Friday for a martial arts festival in the Poconos and it's a long flight. http://www.taichifest.com/2006faculty.html#GeneChing The promoter always books some cheapo flight off expedia that sends there via Dallas. The best part is I have time to read a book. In fact, it's my favorite part of this trip, which probably doesn't speak to highly. Anyway, I want this specific book which comes highly recommended. Yeah, I can dial it up on Amazon and get a used version super cheap, but fuck that shit. I want to peruse in a bookstore, some place clean, and perhaps well lighted. There's a B&N right across the street from a Borders at a mall here in Fremont called the 'hub' (as if there was anything to circle around it in Fremont). So I check out both stores in quest of my book. The B&N has this outrageuosly nerdy clerk who's going ballistic in the graphic novels section because he's helping a real live girl. I balk. I search on my own and quickly discover that there isn't even an appropriate section, just travel, cookbooks, computer books and of course, comics. So it's off to B&N where the clerks direct me to the self-help computer, which just goes directly to the B&N website. WTF? I could have just done amazon if I wanted that. God I hate the megastores. Even if they stock our magazine...