Pandemonium: edited to please the populace

[amethystmoon.livejournal.com]

Pandemonium is a niche book store in Central Square in need of support because they're going through financially tough times. The whole story can be read here if you'd like.

This is relevant to Davis in that supporting local businesses seems to be something the Davis Square LJ community as a whole supports, and I think 3 T stops out counts as pretty local, and I know of at least a few people in the Davis area who care very much about this store.

If there are another few comments that this post sucks/isn't relevant/isn't informative enough, I'll go ahead and remove it. No need to be condescending or angry about it.

Comments

[c-m-i.livejournal.com]

I am still unsure why they thought it was a good idea to move to Central. Was it a rent issue from the Garage? I seem to recall a post/survey of horror where Tyler suddenly realized that the plan of building a "non-stop convention where fans can meet" was shown to be shakey as, according to a survey, fans didn't really want to meet after all.

I was in there weekly, if not more often, when the store was in Harvard. In it's new location, I think I've been there three times. To get there from Davis, I have to walk by or near Your Move, Comicazi, Porter Sq Books, the Coop, Newbury Comics, Million Year Picnic, New England Comics, Games Workshop, the Harvard Book Store, and Games People Play, all stores where I can likely find something to buy with my nerd-dollars. If there's a specific item I want, there's also that whole Internet for me.

It'll be sad to see Pandemonium go, but if (when?) it does, it won't impact my life much. I'm not sure "Buy T Shirts!" is a better business plan than "Meet other SciFi fans!"