Comments on: From Bookstore Owner to Homeless: Another Terrible Tale from NW 23rd Ave.

By: Any bad experience can be a good one « Fabulously Broke in the City

Any bad experience can be a good one « Fabulously Broke in the City — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:22:29 +0000

[...] comes their way) to ask for money from strangers who may be facing similarly horrible problems, like this woman? (Pictured on [...]

By: Adele

Adele — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:52:08 +0000

I emailed Stephanie months before she closed her shop and offered to
buy the business If she ever considered selling, she returned my email saying she wasn’t really interested. Less than two months later she closed her doors-what a shame, I would have offered her at least what she had into it!

I wish her luck,
Adele

By: Tim Carter

Tim Carter — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 05:37:31 +0000

NW 23rd needs a shake-up. I live on 23rd and Hoyt. Anyone can see that the only businesses up there remaining steady are the one’s with corporate backing.. Starbucks, Subway, Gap, etc. What the recession has improved on 23rd is the customer service. I hope Escape from NY pizza takes a dive. Bad product, bad service, all scene, and no substance. People that go there aren’t into good food, they’re into scenes. Ooops…I’m posting this in Willamette Week.

By: Martina

Martina — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:27:09 +0000

My book shop will probably not make it through 2010. Thanks, Obama!

By: Shemp

Shemp — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:24:37 +0000

“Thanks, Bush.” HA! I love how it’s Bush’s fault.

By: Bonnie

Bonnie — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:09:48 +0000

No Sympathy should look around for a reality check. Look! The New World Order has an agenda in mind, and it is going to be fruitful. Ms. Stephanie Griffin doesn’t look like a lazy person. As a matter of fact, I purchased a few books in her cozy bookstore, and may I reiterate that she was working behind the counter! This sad event could happen to anyone these days, so please be kinder! Oh, by the way No Sympathy, why don’t you watch Life Stinks by and with Mel Brooks. In order to do that, you have to know how to think!
Good luck Stephanie. I miss your bookstore and your presence.

By: JC Tripp

JC Tripp — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 04:30:02 +0000

Books have become a commodity and are being displaced by pixels. Amazon is the Walmart of the book trade and have done more damage than B&N, Borders et al combined. Try selling your books or CDs on Amazon these days and you will be crushed by mega-sellers with auto-repricing software and cozy relationships with Amazon. Bush did a huge amount of damage to this country, we’ll never see the end of it. I has just opened a small CD and zine shop in Kingston, NY when 9-11 hit. I was out of business within 3 months: total desertion of the town and a paranoid mentality that lasted for years. Now we are dealing with the implosion of the bubble that he inflated with his war and his tax cuts as well as gutting financial regulations (Clinton started this so he’s not off the hook). This country is OVER, it will never get better. Best to accept this and become more attuned to your non-materialistic side. In the end, we will survive and hopefully the scum who put us in this bind will become the next wave of homeless. But I doubt that.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:09:15 +0000

jeeze – if anyone who has ever couch-surfed is considered “homeless,” then I guess I have been too (also why the numbers that get quoted are so inflated), although I didn’t go around crying about it, or sitting on the sidewalk blaming a politician – I made a new plan and got busy. She’s got skills, friends helping her out. She’s waaaay better off than 90% of the world population Sounds like a crazy little thing called, aaaaa…. “life” to me. IMO Stories like this are one of the reasons newspapers are dieing a slow and agonizing death.

By: Maggie

Maggie — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:42:20 +0000

Blaming others, especially government, is soooo easy. And what cheek to ask others for money when she could be earning it herself (even if it takes two minimum-wage jobs). I will NOT help such a person. She needs to stand up and do something for herself. That’s what I did when I had rough times. I didn’t ask for freebies from hard workers.

By: Jack Peek

Jack Peek — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:11:47 +0000

No Sympathy says:
July 11, 2009 at 6:45 am
Blaming Bush? What a liberal loser. I have no sympathy for people like her. None!

There is only one person who she can blame and that is herself. She ran the business and she made the decisions that ultimately drove her to failure.

There is no excuse today to not doing something that you absolutely love and make a lot of money doing it. Everyone has an equal chance at success, especially in this global, internet-driven economy.

Maybe if she would get off her fat butt and actually apply some of the remaining business skills she may still have left, she could bounce back. Meanwhile, she chooses to sit there, being lazy, crying the blues, pointing the blame at everyone but herself, and trying to make a liberal political situation out of it. That is sad.

DEAR NO: DEAD ON POST!