At lunch today I was shuffling through the stack of 45s every thrift store still seems to have, and came away with two interesting items ( Read more... )

One of my best scores EVAR at Value Village, years ago, was a ThinkTank.


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(Of New Things)I saw some kind of goshwow mention the other day on some media outlet - tells you how much attention I was paying - about some people in California who had taken a vow of "nothing new" for the year: they would buy nothing new except food, gas, underwear and other fungibles and get everything else they needed at thrift stores, barter ( Read more... )

I. Prompted by a recent tussle online (no, it wasn't you ( Read more... )

Sunday, for the first time in my 28 years of living here (well, less a few years for good behaviour) I went to the Chinese New Year parade to see the dragon dance etc.. Aki really liked it, he liked the BBQ duck and wonton soup even better! After lunch we went to Value Village, where we scooped a bunch of Archie comic books (which he seems to like ( Read more... )

Today I am wearing my 11-inch, 12-hole, spit-shiny black leather Corcoran jump boots. They have very hard nailed soles and are so loud I have made two trips to the other wing of the building just so I could tromp across the wooden floor ( Read more... )

I admit I don't follow entertainment news, but this little piece of revisionism tickled my glands:

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Ha-hey, whining works! People were nice to me all day and I only had to grizzle a little bit about not grizzling. Quiet day at work, got some stuff done, lllpinkylll gave me a scrolling-marquee birthday wish on her LJ, went to coffee on Friday night with Goth friends, kiri_bean gave a Nanaimo Bar with a candle on it, and seaofrain gave me a book by BF Skinner on growing old ( Read more... )

A while back I was in the Vincent de Paul thrift store and picked up three CDs with odd titles: "Industry/ Leisure/ Pop"; "Street People"; and "Technovision". It wasn't until I got home and played some of them that I understood what I had bought: production music or, in a sense, corporate Muzak.
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Went to St. Vincent de Paul today at lunch with John. Minor scores all around: ( Read more... )