Lemuria Bookstore Blog

‘”What about mamma?”  The woman psychiatrist asks her patient, another woman, who is lying on a divan in the early 1960s.  “What about mamma been doing to you, dear?  I know she’s given you the enemas,”  the psychiatrist continues.  “And filled your bladder up with cold water, and I know she used the flashlight on [...]

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Everyone has heard about John Wayne Gacy.  He’s the guy who killed thirty three young boys in the mid and late seventies in “Chicagoland”  and then buried them in the crawl space beneath his house.  Oh, and he was also a professional clown for hire named Pogo. I’ve read a couple of books about Gacy [...]

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* Doors will open at 5:30 at Hal & Mal’s (where the entire event will take place). * The one night only art show hosted by Fischer Galleries reception will start at 5:30. *Bloodbird goes on stage at 6:00 to accompany the art show. * SPACEWOLF starts their set on the patio at 7:00. * [...]

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It’s time to start showing your Chuck Palahniuk love with our custom event t-shirts.  You have a choice between a red shirt with metallic silver ink and a light gray shirt with red ink.  The design on the shirts was done by Justin Schultz at The Flying Chair.  If you have no idea what this [...]

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I’m here to tell you all about a happening that I am extremely excited about and feel pretty damn lucky and  thankful to be a part of. Chuck Palahniuk is coming to Jackson!  It’s true, he really is coming. Chuck Palahniuk has been one of my favorite authors for many years now so I intend [...]

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For whatever reason I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about circuses here lately.  A couple of weeks ago I finished reading Erin Morgenstern’s novel, The Night Circus*, (which comes out next month) and haven’t been able to shake the circus state of mind since. On the back cover of The Night Circus was a [...]

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Have you ever thought about how you would go about actually making Willy Wonka’s lickable wallpaper?  I have…quite often.  Meet Heston Blumenthal and his very fantastical cookbook with which you can learn how to make lickable wallpaper, an edible graveyard and all sorts of other crazy edible delights. “I wanted to create feasts that captured [...]

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You should know that Milkland (where the tale of this simple day is set) is a “mysterious place where adventures are had (real and pretend) every day,” and this particular day in Hedgie’s life was no different. On this day Hedgie met up with his best pals Ghostie and Onionhead in the forest of Milkland [...]

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Have a Dad?  Aware that Father’s Day is right around the corner?  Don’t want to get him another tie?  Need some gift ideas?  I’m here to help…sort of.  These are not your run of the mill Father’s Day present ideas but then again, I’m not your run of the mill gift giver. First up is [...]

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