So, Fields Book Store, My Old Nemesis, We Meet Again
Fields Book Store on Polk Street in San Francisco, pound for pound the best occult bookstore in the English-speaking world, delivered unto me its ritual thrashing today. (Yes, I know I'm on Austerity. But mollpeartree said I could buy one book there as a Valentine's Day gift to myself, and if you take that book out of the equation, I've barely spent nine
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Part of me wants to go to San Francisco and drop oodles of cash at this store. No doubt I would drop a few hundred on books that I would happily have mailed home to me book freight. Hey, I have savings, I can buy more occult tomes!
The other part of me realizes that I have an entire bookshelf full of this stuff and always, slowly, growing. Once you have Pirate Templars, where do you go? Isn't Pirate Templars pretty much the ultimate point? Aren't you, at that point, done?
I know the first part would win, so my bank account is thankful for being on the other side of the country. Unless, of course, said bookstore has a website... which they do, but thankfully you can't buy anything from them online.
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With a monkey named Baphomet.
Done! Pencils down.
CU
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I don't what's scarier: that you thought of this, or that I'm thinking how well it fits. :)
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Blackadder the Merciless
A cross between the Future bit of BA's CHRISTMAS CAROL, the FLASH
GORDON movie, and seasons 1 and 2 of BLACKADDER.
Emperor Edmund Blackadder, Imperial Right-Bastard
General Percy of the Imperial Secret Police, Sadistic Toady
Bal-DR1K, Imperial Grooming Droid
Dr. Hogmany Melchett, imprisoned Earth scientist (mad)
Lizzy Queen, intrepid Earthling reporter
Hawkran, King of the Vulture People
Count Handsome, Prince of Chillia
Flashheart Gordon, nominal hero ("woof!")
CU
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