{"id":3464,"date":"2010-04-20T19:30:48","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T03:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/?p=3464"},"modified":"2010-04-20T19:30:48","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T03:30:48","slug":"robber-baron-a-captain-of-industry-or-just-a-really-kick-ass-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/?p=3464","title":{"rendered":"Robber Baron, A Captain of Industry or Just a Really Kick-Ass Guy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/newlibrary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Marc-Jacobs-window-thumb-320x301.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3467\" title=\"Marc Jacobs window-thumb-320x301\" src=\"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Marc-Jacobs-window-thumb-320x301-300x282.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"282\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If Iceland and Goldman Sachs have not gotten you sufficiently pissed off this week, then this is for you: Tirelessly chic and sickeningly industrious clothing designer Marc Jacobs bought beloved West Village bookstore <em>Biography Book Shop<\/em> to open his own, better bookstore. A Marc Jacobs bookstore, called <em> Book Marc.<\/em> 400 Bleeker Street will be Jacob&#8217;s<em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marcjacobs.com\/#\/en-us\/topnav\/findastore\">seventh<\/a> <\/em> store in the area, and the first one to sidestep the standard protocol of rooting around in bins of $15 keychains, compacts and plastic jewelry to get to the adorable $200 anchor pattern, red and navy silk-blend nautical sweater or the $300 cherry blossom silk jacquard dress with puffy sleeves.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously seven stores in a 20 square block radius? Carnegie, Rockefeller, Starbucks and Trump have nothing on this guy! That means there are 4 more Marc Jacobs stores than there are even Starbucks in the same area! Why there isn&#8217;t a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/ig\/adde?moduleurl=www.starbucksmeetinggadget.com\/gadget.xml&amp;source=imag\">MarcJacobsiGoogle<\/a> gadget or iphone app to flag all the stores is a mystery. You could be in <em>one<\/em> Marc Jacobs store and your girlfriend could be waiting for you in <em>another<\/em> Marc Jacobs store and there is a good chance that <em>both<\/em> those stores could be on the same street and you would never even know!! \u00c2\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, a mysterious, gilded window decal appeared on Biography Bookstore&#8217;s window that read, coyly, <em> &#8220;A bookstore will be opening here Winter 2010.<\/em>&#8221; Could the mysteriousness surrounding the store be, in fact, part of a trend of &#8220;un-branding&#8221; &#8211; like Starbucks&#8217; sneaky attempt to build fake old fashioned coffee shops that are actually the global chain in disguise? Since it is rumored to be candidly called <em>Book Marc,<\/em> maybe there are no shenanigans afoot at all. Maybe it&#8217;s just good old fashioned sober pep and enterprise. I swear this guy was put on earth to make the rest of look bad. And by &#8220;bad&#8221; I mean fat, lazy, drunk, gluttonous and tacky. Oh and poor. I mean, the <em>old<\/em> Marc Jacobs, the real one, the scraggly pre-rehab Marc Jacobs with problems would <em>never<\/em> have had his shit together enough for all this stuff and side projects.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/newlibrary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/ele.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3490\" title=\"ele\" src=\"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/ele-300x118.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"118\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Iceland and Goldman Sachs have not gotten you sufficiently pissed off this week, then this is for you: Tirelessly chic and sickeningly industrious clothing designer Marc Jacobs bought beloved West Village bookstore Biography Book Shop to open his own, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/?p=3464\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[127,145,1104,502],"class_list":["post-3464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookstore-apocalypse","tag-biography-bookstore","tag-book-marc","tag-bookstores","tag-marc-jacobs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}