Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for October 18, 2023

You’re not doing at a bookstore. You’re doing it at the Atlanta Central Library, One Margaret Mitchell Square

This is the pits. [rimshot]

Just peachy Pig! Although, (sadly) how many bookstores are left in any town?

Ask Ty Cobb. He’ll know.

I remember staying at the Peachtree Plaza Hotel when I went to Atlanta for a conference back in 1981. It was just peachy (sorry couldn’t help myself).

We recently adopted a rescue Dobe from a horrible puppy mill/abuse/hoarder case in Georgia (NOT indicative of the people in Georgia!.) The rescue we adopted him from named all the Dobes after peaches. There were 51 Dobes rescued and the rescue we went to took in 29. I did not know there are over 2,000 varieties of peaches!

Google “Clermont Lounge.”

Pig’s penmanship is the pits.

Yeah, we know where Steph’s been hanging – from his T-shirt.

Pig makes a lousy secretary!

I can help. It’s ‘Peachtree’ something. That’ll narrow down the possible list.

They ran out of Pearls books when I got the signing, so I bought the Looking Up book.

They must love their peaches down in the ATL.

Always an optimist, though everyone knows that Pig is destined to become a ham sandwich.

Peach fuzz lane. Off of freestone ave.

fun fact: apparently he purchased his clothes while at the strip club in ATL

aint that true y’all?

Now, if Steph was doing his book signing at the Clermont Lounge, he’d get a lot more guys buying his books!

Great shoutout to one of Atlanta’s famous landmarks.

The Peaches and Cream Cafe. You won’t be able to miss it. It has a rainbow flag outside.

I’ve got a friend who runs a small science-fiction specialty bookstore. He’s been doing it for about half a century now. He used to lament the competition from the mall chains, B. Dalton and WaldenBooks. But then they got wiped out by the stand-alone big-box stores, Borders and Barnes & Noble. They they got undercut by Amazon. The good news is that this left the field wide open for the little guys in the boutique and specialty biz, like used books, comics, collectables, foreign-language, etc.

 The 6 greatest bargains in America:

 1) sunshine

 2) fresh air

 3) clean water

 4) public libraries

 5) public schools

 6) US Postal Service

This is no exaggeration. Half the streets in Atlanta are called “Peach” or “Peachtree” or “Peach Something Else.” A friend of mine once chit hopelessly lost among all the Peach streets.

I love the Clermont Lounge shirt. That place is a classic.

Here we go again. The book tour thing will never end.

I’m guessing he got the t-shirt after leaving jail, in the lost-and-found bin.

So why does Stephan have a tee shirt advertising Clemont Lounge? There ain’t no books there! :-)

According to sources, there are 71 streets in Atlanta with “peachtree” in the name.

Statewide, Peachtree isn’t even in the top 10 of street names.

1. Dogwood2. Oak3. Pine4. Park5. Williams6. Magnolia7. Lake 8. Lakeview9. Church10. Cedar

One oddity about Atlanta—at the Atlanta Hilton,there’s a famous rooftop Russian restaurant—-and it opened when t he Cold War wasstill on and everything probably had to be imported a high cost.

And don’t forget Mary Mac’s.

“Eat A Peach” is my favorite Allman Brothers album.

He is correct. I think I was at the crossroads of Peach and Peach once when I was visiting.

Now a days more books are probably sold in supermarkets than bookstores, especially the type of books Steph writes. So maybe he better start doing supermarket signings.

That baloney got me and my rental car good and lost on my first meeting there. Fortunately, the Disaster Recovery Institute changed their conferences from Atlanta in August to San Diego and Orlando in winter.

Oh My God, I can’t unsee the dancers at Claremont Lounge!!!!!

Well he found his way to the Clermont Lounge (see his t-shirt)….it is Atlanta’s first and longest continually operating strip club, opened in 1965 and boasts a completely female ownership (wikipedia). :)

Isn’t that peachy. Murphy’s Law at work.

Steph – Yellow Pages Phone Book. Bookstores on “Peach-something” St.

What, what’s the yellow pages? Okay, Store locator. Yelp. Something like that.

This whole “book tour” storyline, in which Pastis has included himself as a character, is very self-indulgent.

“If I make Atlanta with no place to goJust make me one pallet on your floor.”Atlanta Blues by W. C. Handy

A more narrow list. I’m guessing there is a “Peachtree Books” in town !

If it is a) a bookstore and b) on street that starts with “Peach”, there is only one: Barnes and Noble, 2900 Peachtree Rd NE, Unit 310

Steph is short for Stephanie. Steve is short for Stephen.

Oof

At least Stephan is smart enough not to wear a Phillies T-shirt in Atlanta!

Pig is ever the Optimist. Cartoon-Boy, maybe not so much, as he is more of a worrier….

the better part is.. once you leave the city boundaries, the peach names are all reused.

The comment section need downvotes enabled. It is childish to think there are no trolling or off-topic replies.

My son explained the Cleremont Lounge to me. Wasn’t surprised I hadn’t been there LOL.