This Week at Aqua Books reader Marjory Szurko, librarian at Oriel College, Oxford, cuts a tart at her Edible Exhibition. All of the dishes were made by Marjory from Sixteenth Century recipes. The ingredients themselves were more recent.
I'd like to return this book...
Lady: I’d like to return this book and get another one to read.
Me: Okay, we don’t do trade. We just buy books. [I look at book] Okay, it would be this much for that book.
Lady: Oh, I paid more for this book. See? [She points at our original price.]
Me: Um, yeah, we’re not the library. Why would I pay you what you paid for the book? We need to make money here…
Lady: Oh.
(The day is still early. I’ll keep you posted on further idiots…)
Writers EAT! after the THIN AIR 2009 workshop, Writing for Kids, by Governor General’s Award-winner Tim Wynne-Jones (left). Next to Tim (l-r) are, mystery author Terry Griggs, teen writer Perry Grosshans (his writing is teen, not him - although he looks it), former Aqua Books W-i-R Anita Daher, and writer Simone Hebert Allard.
Hugo-winning SF writer Robert Charles Wilson and his wife Sharry just walked into Aqua Books. Bob’s here for THIN AIR 2009, and Sharry is researching an article on Winnipeg son Neil Young.
GPOYW: The Hard Rock Version
(American hard rockers Rev Theory waiting for some taco salads at EAT! before a show at the Pyramid 9.22.09)
Saturday, September 5/09 11am-6pm Parking Lot/EAT! bistro
September Long BBQ/Garage Sale
Burgers, fries, and 3500 books at 3/$1
![GPOYW: This Isn’t Me Edition
(This is a picture of poet Colin Smith, who hangs out here at Aqua and will be really mad when he sees that I’ve put him online. Also, he’s kind of craggy [one of his poems contains the line “my body is the colour of old towels”] and doesn’t normally lurk in the flowers, so this is pretty funny.)](http://15.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kpdiy387jf1qzptlvo1_500.jpg)
GPOYW: This Isn’t Me Edition
(This is a picture of poet Colin Smith, who hangs out here at Aqua and will be really mad when he sees that I’ve put him online. Also, he’s kind of craggy [one of his poems contains the line “my body is the colour of old towels”] and doesn’t normally lurk in the flowers, so this is pretty funny.)
"Hey....
this place is full of women!”
- A new customer who came into EAT! lunch yesterday for the first time. I explained to her that, while men are often a little too thick to figure out our menu, chicks dig it. Since it was lunchtime, she had to wait ten or fifteen minutes for a table, and, being a woman, she loved what she had. (We also accept male customers.)
Overheard at Aqua Books...
“I brought Dad to their restaurant a couple of months ago. He asked me where the burgers and sandwiches and stuff were. I told him, This ain’t that kind of place Dad. They serve arty food here.”
- a guy of about fifty-ish, talking about EAT!
Winnipegger Diana Thorneycroft’s exhibition, Canada, Myth and History runs at Ontario’s famed McMichael Canadian Art Collection through November 2009. Thorneycroft is an artist (and EAT! customer) who created the controversial installation Monstrance in 1999.
GPOYW: The Wedded Bliss Edition
Newlyweds Eric and Rebekah had their pics taken at Aqua/EAT! in June. Here’s a nice one in the restaurant.
Someone (Cynara Geisler’s mom?) showing off a real onion ring from EAT! (before heading back to get her geek on at KeyCon 2009).
Brent Neil and his Mom, celebrating an early Mother’s Day. (The table was set up for the anniversary of customers Howard R. Engel & Esther G. Juce, but Howard has the swine flu or something.)
