A couple of weeks ago, I was having a bad day. Not the worst day ever, or a terrible no good very bad day, just a a day of annoyances. My new Zune refused to charge, work was chock full o weirdos, the bank closed before I had time to cash my check, the computer at the check cashing place across the street from work went down just as I walked into ( Read more... )

I just got a call from a coworker. Apparently, a third coworker has been mentally on vacation for a while now. And today, he decided to take a ten minute break, lock up the store,, and get lunch. Which is perfectly acceptable. Except

he locked a customer in the store.

The customer was a regular in all our locations, and used the phone to call another ( Read more... )

I am watching Justice League: New Frontier for, approximately, the three hundredth time. This is not an exaggeration. At the end of January, we got a preview screener of the movie, and watched it three or four times a day until the DVD came out. Since the release of the DVD it's been on pretty much non-stop in every store. I should really hate this ( Read more... )

Wednesdays are the busiest days of the week for me. Thursdays through Tuesdays, I tend to work alone in the various comic book stores throughout Boston & the suburbs. I sell comics, recommend titles, check my e-mail, and obsessively clean and rearrange the stores. But Wednesdays are New Release days, as well as being the night I wait tables at the ( Read more... )

Fuck the stars. Not the pretty ones on TV, but the big gaseous ones in space. The ones who turn hippies into Fortune Cookies. The ones who, long after their implosion kills off several planets' worth of life, still interfere with Earthers.

While I'm not a firm believer in astrology, I do believe that a bunch of people in the world went spaceshit ( Read more... )

Just back from another glorious weekend with Racist Grandma. After letting me sleep in all the way until six in the morning, she cooked me ham and eggs for breakfast, making sure to remind me that I had to share most of my ham with the dog, or else the dog would cry.

I made the dog cry.

"Do you like the eggs? I broke the yolk. Your father doesn't ( Read more... )

There a hundred things I could blame this on:

The other day, I had to go into work four hours early so that they could install a new heating system (aside: my boss told me I should bring a book with me while they work...Lord knows I wouldn't have been able to find one in the comic BOOK store), only to enter the alarm code for the wrong store. And ( Read more... )

Wednesday is the day the new comics come in. I get to work an hour and a half before the store opens and put out all the new issues, file away all the issues that the subscribers have ordered, and skim over the comics that I think people are going to ask about ( Read more... )

Every day is the worst day of your life, and I'm tired of hearing about it.

I remember discussing a mutual friend with JBob, and him saying "That person is like a black hole of negative energy. Every conversation sucks you into his despair."

And I remember thinking That's exactly right. Neither one of us knows a damn thing about how black holes ( Read more... )

It's an ice cream day. A gelato day. A shaved ice day with a side of sorbet and strawberries.

I'm in the comic book store, abusing my employee discount. If you listen real close, you can hear it moaning "Harder, papi, harder. Ohhhhhhhh yea."

I turn to my not quite boss and say, "I think I'm going to get some ice cream from Harrell's, or some gelato ( Read more... )