20081113

The Music's Over

Damn, looks like the hard drive I'd been storing all my mp3 on died... 80 gigs of music disapeared... well maybe a quarter of them I can re-rip, but hmm gonna be a lot I'll miss. Especially since I don't have any list of what was there even.. gah. I'd be upset.. except I haven't listened to any of them in over a year since I started using pandora...

20080919

Customer #1 "You can find a lot of information about that on the web."
Customer #2 "The FBI surfs the web, don't they?"
Everyone just goes quiet and sort of eyes the guy sidelong.

20080906

Couple of stoned chicks wandering around the store bemoaning the fact that there were no books on turtles, because one of them just got a turtle and she needs a book on turtles, etc. Kinda creepy chicks too, very drug chic.

20080726

San Diego Comic-Con 2008

Thursday
Watchmen

Sci-Fi Channel
Kevin Eastman
Steve Rude
Colleen Doran
David Petersen
Bill Plympton
James A. Owen
Simon Bisley
Rick Geary

Eoin Colfer

www.ComicMix.com

The Con Mob
Mark Buckingham, Bill Willingham, Matthew Sturges - Fables.

hEcToR SeViLlA

Dalek

Dalek going after David




Friday
Max Brooks the Zombie guy

Bill Tucci - AIW

Bill Tucci - booth girl

Daniel Liester artitst on Zenescope's Beyond Wonderland


Steve Purcell - Sam & Max

Underworld chicks



Princess Lia's behind




On the way out.


Senor Donut!

20080720

Guy with a cane, and perhaps a slight English accent, comes in looking for Byron, finds a combo Byron Keats Shelley, and when purchasing says "I should go next door," (across the way is a BevMo) "and get some Absinthe for reading this."
"I wouldn't be surprized if they did have some there." I say.
"Oh, they do. Trust me, I know." he answers with a grin.

20080626

Fwd: Coraline

The stop-motion animated feature film based on Neil Gaiman's Coraline is set for a wide release on Feb.6
http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/12793.html
 

20080612

The creeps were out today, the 1st wanted to trade moldy, thrashed books for credit, and of course got annoyed when I declined. The 2nd was a couple having a spat, or getting a divorce, or something, I _tried_ not to listen to them, he put a book on the counter and wandered off, the she cursing under her breath) dropped a stack on the counter and left saying he would pay, least he owed her etc. He kept looking around, until long after she started to lean on the horn, and of course wouldn't get her stuff...

20080505

CBLDF wins!

At 4:30 on Friday afternoon, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund received word from its attorneys that all remaining charges against Rome, Georgia retailer Gordon Lee had been dropped:
http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/12417.html
 

20080413

Arrrggh! my back is killing me! and I can't figure out what the hell I did?!
Started Fri morning - and wasn't too bad, thought maybe slept bad or something, it was a bit worse on Saturday, and even worse today. I wasn't fencing - there was none thursday, and nothing big Tuesday, I guess could have been moving boxes or something - but you'd think I remember doing something! gah, hope it quits soon.

20080408

Best info booth question of the day - phone in - What's the name of that place across the way from you?

20080330

It's astounding how a pretty girl can get anything she wants. I'd never really seen it in action before. So A- and I were at the show, she's 20 has a pretty, though not striking face, and it fairly well endowed, but was wearing several layers of sweater & coat, so certainly wasn't dressed to thrill. Over the course of the day she was given several items just for expressing interest in them. Then while standing in line and being chatted up by some guy who she wasn't interested in and who she said was annoying - until he bought her lunch, then she was fine with him hanging around. And she wasn't even _trying_! I'd heard of this but really seeing it in action was amazing. Guys will do anything for a pretty face if it smiles at them... Not that I can claim dispassion or something, but it was interesting seeing it from the outside - as it were - for once.