Hollywood's Border's Shutters with Hundreds Nationwide

Ending what was a 1990s runaway success, quintessential of that era when big audacious (and unlikely) ventures were homerun hits with investors and consumers alike; Borders, is closing stores and filing Chapter 11.

Not even a high-volume landmark flagship store, such as the Borders at the glamorous, historic and lavishly renewed intersection of Sunset Blvd. and Vine Street in Hollywood is immune in.

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Green Irony

GOT GREEN?
I was walking back home from the gym on Sunset (Arclight 24-Hour Fitness). Across from Amoeba, there iT was: somebody's dead-tree flier advertising something in an apparently greenwashing manner (greenwashing, of course, means falsley coloring your ad campaign, corporate image, etc...in the colors of an enviornmentally friendly entity).

"OMG, Thom; give these folks a break! It's a friggin' flier...shit happens. The wind probably blew it off of a telephone pole or a bulletin board. Maybe some jerk tore it off and threw it on the ground. This is probably a flier from a cool non-profit, or a small business. Whoever it belongs to is just trying to make a living in the Great Recession!" you say.

Okay, but zoom in a little. See? It's masking-taped to the sidewalk, for crikey's sake."