March 2025 -- Bonus Episode (Independent Bookstore Crawl)

Send us Fan MailOn Saturday, February 22, 2025, Rodney and Aaron spent a rather brisk winter day wandering around the town of Rockford for an annual event called The Independent Bookstore Crawl. It's like a bar crawl with books. There was also comics, though. And vinyl. There was lunch at a local burger joint. We bought battered paperbacks of Robert Heinlein, fantasy novels written by a Rockford native, and a lot of coffee. They met a very interesting woman who seemed to live and breathe charity for her community. They talked with strangers about their favorite writers from Peoria. They saw a painting of a woman performing lewd acts on a rocket ship, an impressive collection of old-school typewriters, and a taxidermied crocodile. It was quite a day y'all!