More Bookstore Cat news, and Ryan Larkin

Welch's has a new bookstore cat. Her name is Khan, as in "Star Trek." At the moment she's in isolation, and is being de-fleaed, so she hasn't had an official "coming out" yet. I hope she fills the position as well as her predecessor, and doesn't hiss and scratch the customers.

There's a project brewing to do with Rosie. More about this later.

I learned about Rosie's demise through Rick Trembles' cartoon in this week's Montreal Mirror [link]. When I was visiting with Welch today, reminiscing about the cat, and other things (like my time there at the bookstore), he pointed out an interesting thing about the cartoon. Note similarity in angle of the drawing of the store facade there with the image from the store's web page above. That's research for you!

We also talked about Ryan Larkin, who was and is a habitue of the bookstore. While I was a clerk there, I knew him well. Don't know if I'll tell any stories, because they're not many of them happy. He's still drawing, and it would be cool if the attention he's getting from the film about him winning an academy award puts him back on the straight and narrow. I have my doubts, unfortunately.