Feelin' Gippy

[idlerat]

Yesterday after hanging out with cubby66 and mulberry_fields, I wandered up to Target, which is not what I want it to be. They have lots and lots of baby stuff and frozen foods, but a pitiful selection of cheap duvet covers and a complete dearth of cheap paint. It was full of people buying mass quantities of toilet paper and disposable diapers; it's a dirty world, but

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Kebabland

[cubby66]

OMG. Everytime I visit Target I pass that kicking kebab stand and lust after the kebab smells but have not yet sampled its wares. I shall make it a point to right this wrong.

Yes, Target is dumber about houseware/hardware/tool matters than they should be. It never even dawned on me to look for paint there. Are you painting your palazzo?

I have no ability to concentrate at work today whatsoever.

Re: Kebabland

[idlerat]

Yes, hardware is another topic on which they are totally retarded. Although there are some fine, small stores in the neighborhood where you can get a range of hardware items (e.g. Dick's for electrical and basic nails and screws and curtain rods and stuff--v. cheap--and there's a small hardware store on Vermilyea just south of 207; they don't speak English too well but they're nice and they have hardware.)

Painting the palazzo-hee. I want to paint the IKEA china hutch thing, and I want to paint the paintable parts of the bathroom, starting with the medicine chest/cupboard thingy. V. v. yugly.

And if you can ever think of anything else you might want at Target, you must totally eat kebab.

OK off to therapy.

[harpie84]

FYI - the LOTR allegory for graduate school is at LEAST a year old or more - this may be an issue for the original author...

[idlerat]

What? Ithiliana would never ever plagiarize--maybe she reposted it? Or maybe it was a quote and I didn't catch that?

Targetting Target

[amelia_eve]

I long for Target, any Target. Every time I come into Port Authority I am mocked by the giant billboard for TARGET (.com), when I know full well there is no Target in Manhattan.

This mythical Bronx Target, how do mere Manhattanites reach it? The one in Queens is a schlep. If I could just ride the 1/9 train to Target, I would be a happy girl.

BTW, if you ride the 1/9 in the other direction, KMart on 34th has a decent paint section.

Re: Targetting Target

[executrix]

To amelia_eve: there is a Target in Jersey City, which is easily reachable by car (...I don't HAVE a car and hence have never been there even though I live in JC).

To idlerat: ah, but small rooms require very little paint, so are affordable even at Janovic Plaza prices if you only need a pint.

Re: Targetting Target

[amelia_eve]

Yeah, it's that car thing. If I need to do the car thing, I get one of my Jersey friends to take me to one near them. (The one in Hackensack is gigantic.) But I have actually seen the Bronx one, and I think it is on the 1/9. I just don't know which stop.

Re: Targetting Target

[idlerat]

Yeah, Kmart is good.

The Riverdale Target is *right on* the 1/9. 225th St. The train is elevated--you can't miss it. There's one in Blyn also.

[noblerot]

I love me a good kebab.

The Democratic Party and its lameness are ruining my life.

Why don't I like Alias? Why, instead, am I now addicted to Law & Order: SVU?

Hi, Ratty.

[idlerat]

Hi sweetie--RUOK? Wanna catch up on IM some time?

Law and Order of any kind gives me hives, though I can certainly see not liking Alias.

There are some fine Grilled Central Asian Meats available in SF. I remember a little hole-in-the-wall Kashmiri (I think) place that the cab drivers went to, where they had a wood fire that they accessed through holes in the counter to char stuff--yummy.