Well, Now I Have To Visit Portland

Update from the front lines. pic.twitter.com/xi17oMUxl7

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) October 6, 2025

I’m a bookstore fanatic. Worked in one in high school, again decades later here in Houston. When I took a trip to Europe that ended in London, I asked the tour guide for the best bookstore in town. I was not disappointed. I am nowhere so comfortable as in a bookstore.

I have favorite bookstores in almost every city I’ve visited or lived in, and I return to them when I’m back. My family knows this about me. They allow me my browsing time, and drag me out when they think it’s been long enough.

There’s no question bookstores are centers of insurrection and violence. All that reading. The same thing the fire chief preached to Montag in Fahrenheit 451.

But I doubt Trump’s read that one, either. So the irony would be lost on him.