World class whistler? Bet his mother is proud. Cue snare.

What’s happening now to the last of the big chain bookstores is similar to what happened to all the big chain music stores years ago.

Yeah, I can come close. Way back in 1991, shortly after I had moved to Los Angeles, I was driving south on the Pacific Coast Highway just entering Santa Monica, near the old Getty Museum and Chart House restaurant. I was slowing for a stop at a light, when I noticed a couple of cops standing at the crosswalk on my…