Podcast appearances and mentions of russell books

LFLs: Community Hubs and Coral Reefs When is a Little Free Library like a coral reef? When Teale Phelps Bondaroff explains the role that libraries play in our local neighbourhoods, as they form hubs that attract the community. Teale is on the Board of the Greater Victoria Placemaking Network, is a Principal with The Idea Tree Consulting, and the current Lead on the Pocket Places Project. Started in 2017, the Project has overseen the mapping, building, promoting, and stocking of little libraries in our area. He sees LFLs as a form of placemaking and “placemaking is softening the hard edges of a city”. So much more than books, these pocket places of community have expanded to include puzzles, games, toys, seeds, poetry centres, bulletin boards, art supplies, mini art galleries, and plants! Factoid: To date, the Project has stocked 57,059 books to little libraries throughout the Capital Region, with 30,000 of those being delivered by bike trailer! Did you know that there's even a Bingo Card that you can play as you visit these creative and whimsical book boxes? Join us as we talk about that and no-risk blind dating, learn where the “Swiss Army knife” of little libraries is located, and which streets have 5 - count ‘em FIVE - libraries on them! If you're inspired to know more, or want to get involved in a little library in your neighbourhood, find info here. To further explore Happy City, the book that Teale references, check out @HappyCitiesTeam on Twitter and @happy.cities on Instagram. To pick up a copy, please consider supporting our local booksellers: Munro's Books, Bolen Books, Russell Books, and if you're listening in the Lower Mainland: Massy Books. Thanks for listening!

Welcome to Episode 23 of Nooks and Crannies! Dated and Used Critical Pedagogy and Israeli Electoral Playoff Runs Welcome back to the podcast folks and thanks for sticking around during this tragic hiatus. Next episode will be an in memoriam Tribute Episode to Evan’s biggest fan and Mamoo’s Mom, Sue Sanderson…Love you mom, as you knew. This week is the episode we had banked from a number of weeks ago, we kick things off with an impassioned trip that Matty took to the crème de la crème Used Book store in Victoria BC called Russell Books (ps. NERD ALERT!! You can order online eh...) (5:02) “What Just Happened?” - On this edition of WJH? Evan graciously informed Matty on the results and the context behind the recent (3 months ago) Israeli Elections and how the Ultra-Orthodox Jewish community is being used as a wedge issue to split the Right in that country. Fascinating as always, and here you thought I just keep Evan around for his incredibly dashing appearance?!? Here is a more recent article, not sure but it seems Israel just had another election..like yesterday or something! (19:30) Hey, folks did you know that Matty volunteers with a great group of Retired Folk down at his local forest pulling invasive species out and having just a grand ol’ time! Go volunteer with seniors, they will make you feel young and important!! _ Lil Nooks and Crannies PSA there eh… (22:55) No one asked for it, but here it is…the much anticipated CRITICAL PEDAGOGY segment!!! Mamoo is going to pedantically and egotistically teach you all how to “Think Proper”. What a dick eh?  (35:27) And to put a wrap on this thing, we, of course, give our predictions for the NHL and NBA finals. Hold onto your inflatable noisemakers folks, I think this might be our least informed sports segment of all time. GOOOOOOOO Grizzles!! Here is a Playlist that is all Broadway Musicals Especially the indelible Andrew Lloyd Webber :) :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: N&C Links Archive of Episodes Topics and Lighthearted Complaints Watch Matty Fight on Social Ponder Evan’s Blurry Pictures Find Nooks and Crannies on Spotify Graphics by Donna Hume ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Proud of you Lindsay The Foundation that we Chose, to Honour Mom’s Legacy

Kate came to the studio fresh out of Russell Books where she was shelving books in the animal section! Out of the frying pan and into the fire. Kate has fantastic, specific question and she even name dropped ungulates! So yes, this podcast episode is about a certain ungulate that we lovingly refer to as the Slutty Lewd Mineral Craver. We nerd out on books, talk Bitoin, give out hot chocolate tips, and sensationalize disappointing sex. Most egregious Error: Camels are ungulates. I claim they aren’t, but they are and I should know better because we did an entire episode on camels last year. Also, the Costco cheese doesn’t have salt in it, it’s calcium lactate crystals. And I forgot to give Kate some of that cheese after we stopped recording. Another error is that I should have debunked the tin can myth. Slutty Lewd Mineral Cravers do not crave tin cans.  Science level: So high! Kate has so much animal knowledge and we really get into it.

Jordan and Andrea Minter are the husband and wife team who run Russell Books, a bookshop in Victoria, British Columbia, that now employees 50 staff and offers thousands of new, used and rare books. We learn how the shop started in the 1960s in Montreal. We learn about the odds things that customers say. We learn about the strange things that are left behind in used books.

You used to call her on her cellphone, but you don’t anymore because she doesn’t have one. That’s right, the Russell Books series of the On Being Animals podcast continues with Savannah and she chose to learn about her spirit animal: the Onion Fast Love Horn. If your favourite part of this podcast is when we go on tangents and don’t talk about the animal, then this is the episode for you! You’ve been waiting 40+ episodes and we’ve finally delivered tangents on tangents. It may even be more icing than cake. This means we left a couple of Onion Fast Love Horn facts on the table, but luckily we figured out why you need to put a banana in your first aid kit. We also discover how much Savannah can eat in one sitting, what we should spend our tax return money on, and how to almost make it to the NHL. We also debate the merits of head banging. You name it, we covered it. Most Egregious errors: Savannah claims that cheetahs have 3000 spots, but they have 2000, I say gene when I should be saying chromosome, and we both fail miserably to solve the simplest of math problems. Oh, and to clarify, “Wild America” is comedy film starring Jonathan Taylor Thomas. It is based on the real life person Martin Luther Stouffer Jr. who has been fined hundreds of thousands of dollars for setting up illegal hunting camps. So, fuck that guy, right? Science level: surprisingly high, we talk about the how colour blindness is inherited and there is a sizzling fluid dynamics joke at some point. 

It’s time to start the Russell Books phase of the On Being Animals podcast. Russell Books is this used bookstore in Victoria where I work and it is the best bookstore I’ve ever been in. Am I saying this in order to get promoted? Maybe. You’ll just have to come and check out the bookstore in order to find out. Make sure you set aside a couple of hours. It is legit. It makes Chapters look like a heavy diaper covered expired foot cream.  So why is this podcast entering the Russell Books phase? Because I have met some wonderful humans there and many of them will be coming to the studio for the next couple of episodes. To start us off, Gabriel came by to help me discover the Curious Clever Handed Recluse. As we waded through the waters of the Curious Clever Handed Recluse, we discovered more about girlfriend potato chips, electric balls, gut feelings, and we got caught up on Haley Joel Osmond’s career. Most Egregious Error: I said that there is only one species of nautilus. I was so wrong. There are 6 species of nautiloids in 2 genera. Shame on me. Science level: So high! Gabe drop serious knowledge bombs in this episode. If I were to create a transcript of this episode, it would have a bunch scientific footnotes.