...and apparently Kim was going to donate the whole collection of videos to somebody on the condition that old Kim's members still be able to rent them, but then he ended up donating the shit to someone in Sicily...?
That's neither here nor there.* A friend pointed out that going to video stores is often a miserable experience, but there's still something sad about the fact that they're going extinct. Kim's, like Vulcan in Austin, was one of those places where you could find stuff you can't find anywhere else—not even on the internet—and it was...well, you know, I think my friend was wrong: what's miserable is poking around a Blockbuster trying to figure out what to rent; Kim's was the kind of place where you might even enjoy browsing for browsing's sake. And it was the kind of place you were glad existed even when you weren't going there.
It would be one thing if it were going to be replaced by something similar—or even part of the same universe. But it'll probably be a Chase bank.
* It's there: it's Sicily. –ed.
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