Dire Straits, Moody Blues, and The Zombies are up for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this year!

Of course, so are lots of other great groups. The complete roster is: Bon Jovi, Kate Bush, The Cars, Depeche Mode, Dire Straits, Eurythmics, J. Geils Band, Judas Priest, LL Cool Jay, MC 5, The Meters, Moody Blues, Radio Head, Rage Against The Machine, Rufus featuring Chaka Khan, Nina Simone, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Link Wray, and The Zombies. Of these, I've only gotten to see The Cars and Moody Blues live, though I have many of them in my collection.

You can vote once per day, and you have to provide an email address: I'm not sure if they're counting 'once per day' via IP address or email address (hint: turn off the WiFi on your phone and vote via a different email address!). Currently Bon Jovi is kicking butt: almost 36,000 votes, Dire Straits is second at 24k, leading The Cars at 21k, Moody Blues at 20k and Eurythmics rounding out the top 5 at 16k.

Voting continues until December 5.

https://www.rockhall.com/fan-vote/2018-fan-vote

I never posted the reply that I got from Barnes & Noble

My original post of an email that I sent to their customer service address, complaining about them eliminating their new title section from science fiction and other areas.

Thank you for your email.

As a highly valued Barnes & Noble Member, we appreciate you feedback regarding the removal of the new releases. We understand and appreciate that some of our members have become accustomed to having New Releases faced out in certain subjects such as Fiction. We believe this is an enhanced shopping experience by integrating the New Releases into the bookcases creating a home for all of an author’s works. We think this is an improvement as discovery of titles that a customer may not have been familiar with.

We will continue to carry a dynamic selection of New Releases merchandised in the bookcases, on tables and other features throughout the store for the browsing experience.

Sincerely,


Well, good for them. I'm glad they believe it, because I believe that I won't bother stepping foot in their stores solo again to be forced to search through their stacks, looking for something that may or may not be there. I guess I'll confine my searching to online, which may or may not be via BN.com. I don't buy a lot of new books in physical format, most of the ebooks that I buy I get from Apple's store since most of the reading that I do is on my iPad. I hate not supporting my closest physical book store, but if they're going to make my shopping experience more difficult, so be it. And by more difficult, I mean that I have three fused vertebra in my neck and from having had cataract surgery I have prismatic distortion when trying to view titles sideways, so it's not easy for me to squat down to read lower rows.

So screw 'em. If my wife wants to go, I'll accompany her and peruse magazines and maybe get something to drink, but that'll be about the limit of my purchases.