Free City

Interesting article found on today's online NY Times: Free City, an ecclectic store in LA that challenges traditional notions of retailing. Hmmmmm. I've never been there but it reminds me of a store I used to visit when I was a kid in Tokyo's Harajuku district called Octopus Army--it had tons of weird things, household goods, clothing, etc., not all of which made any sense together in any way but was a really neat grab-bag of goods. Or perhaps it's like the mega-trinket-knick-knack store Tokyu Hands?

Check out the link soon since the Times will put this sucker in the "archives" section in a week or so...and then it's not a free read.