I’m doing a Secret Santa deal with a forum I hang out on, and I ended up with a Cajun from Louisiana as my recipient. Great! I figure on a whim, I’ll send a copy of Evangeline along with their t-shirt and dorky souvenir postcards. Those are like 5 bucks a copy and it’s right down from the post office. Can I buy a copy of Evangeline at the book store?
Not the one in Scotia Square. Why? Head office in Ontario won’t let them keep it in stock outside of cruise ship season and gets pissed if they try to retain copies to have on hand instead of special ordering for the multiple requests they get.
I’M IN FUCKING NOVA SCOTIA. NOT BEING ABLE TO BUY EVANGELINE IS LIKE NOT BEING ABLE TO BUY FISH, FFS. —Je M’apelle Swampy
This article appears in Dec 8-14, 2011.
Giving a Louisiana Cajun a copy of Evangeline is like taking a Chinese exchange student to Manchu Wok for his birthday.
>: (
P.S. – There are more bookstores downtown than the one in S.S.. Just Sayin’
That’s the unfortunate reality of chain retail stores, OP. Try some of the local shops, like the one just down the road from SS.
eBay OB. Although if you’ve been to Louisiana, most don’t care about the deportation anymore.
I would imagine there would be some in Historic Properties, if there are any stores left there, been awhile since I was there
The place with the grotesque wooden trudeau would be almost certain to have it.In English or french.
That was quite funny Seb.
I imagine you might get lucky in the Wolfville/Grand Pre area OP. Concerning a copy of Evangeline I mean.
However, if all else fails, send some chocolate oranges.
You probably wouldn’t find anything in ‘vegas this time of year. All the touristy places are closed for the season.
Well, maybe try the bookstore on Main Street… they MAY have a copy there.
But do you REALLY want to go all the way down there to get something for a secret santa thing?
Bookstores, what pray tell are they? I understand they were quite a passing fad before the introduction of Kindle, Kobo iPad etc.
Does anyone know if you can e-gift a book?
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cayrRZmxUJ8/SPzF…
Check out the used book stores OP, I once found a copy at JWD 🙂
Good Luck! 😀
nice op… get them a book about their descendant’s troubled past….
why don’t you set aside time for a speech at the party narrating their journal entry the day their mother died while you’re at it?
Yeaaah, they’re ancestors, zZz, which I happen to share with them. I figured it would make a nice gag gift.
Didn’t bother getting it since it was a last-minute thing and busy as hell downtown, but you guys are right about the other stores you suggested! Thanks 🙂
Simple! A bag of shrimp! they’ll love it – like being home for the holidays!
Dey’s uh, shrimp-kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There’s pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich….
and who goes to another area to make food they eat back home?
I would think they’d appreciate something more local… like lobster or scallops.
Meaty… your idea makes about as much sense as getting them a bottle of louisiana hot sauce.
bubba^^
i think the scary clown was being sarcastic
Glad I’m not the only one creeped out by that Trudeau statue.
It looks like it could inspire a good 1500 pages from Stephen King. Does that fella still have the model of the Nautilus in his window. That was amazing >: )
um WTF is evangeline?
A tale about the expulsion of the Acadians from the point of view of a young woman.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangeline
it’s so shoved down my throat growing up….
blech.
and you know it’s bad when they have pageants to see who gets to be ‘the’ gabriel et evangeline every year…
Evengeline was known as “La Bicyclette de L’Acadie” She once rendered an entire British unit (The 44th SissyMary Fusiliers” hors de combatte with the syph, the clap, the drip, the crabs and a general piss-poor attitude towards the female of the species in general and Acadians in particular. The “real” reason for the expulsion.
True Story.