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gurdymonkeyPleasing things:
Finding parking two blocks off Telegraph despite the fact they had it closed off north of Dwight for some street fair.
Finding a used copy of Tales of Times Now Past at Moe's for $6.
Finding a used copy of The Hidden Fortress at Rasputin's for $15 (List price new is $29.95)
Spending most of the rest of the afternoon watching several hours of "Walter Cronkite Remembers" on Discovery Channel. Bonus points for chuckling at the "Boom Dee Yadda" promos. Bonus, bonus points for noticing that the footage of the "flying" great white is actually of an orca.
Discovering that "True Blood" vampire Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer) has a more-than-decent singing voice.
Cherry Garcia.
Irksome things:
Dear City of Berkeley. 1969 was forty years ago. Feel free to get over it any time now. 'Kay? Has to be the first time I've ever been panhandled (and aggressively at that) at something purporting to be a street fair. P.S. A street fair with 20 vendors selling the exact same things is pretty damn boring. Nobody needs THAT many tie dye tee shirts.
The copy of My Costumes by Emi Wada is still sitting on the same shelf. It's still $200. I still cannot afford it.
Monterey Bay Aquarium's annoying and sexist radio spots for their new "Secret Life of Seahorses" exhibit.
Finding parking two blocks off Telegraph despite the fact they had it closed off north of Dwight for some street fair.
Finding a used copy of Tales of Times Now Past at Moe's for $6.
Finding a used copy of The Hidden Fortress at Rasputin's for $15 (List price new is $29.95)
Spending most of the rest of the afternoon watching several hours of "Walter Cronkite Remembers" on Discovery Channel. Bonus points for chuckling at the "Boom Dee Yadda" promos. Bonus, bonus points for noticing that the footage of the "flying" great white is actually of an orca.
Discovering that "True Blood" vampire Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer) has a more-than-decent singing voice.
Cherry Garcia.
Irksome things:
Dear City of Berkeley. 1969 was forty years ago. Feel free to get over it any time now. 'Kay? Has to be the first time I've ever been panhandled (and aggressively at that) at something purporting to be a street fair. P.S. A street fair with 20 vendors selling the exact same things is pretty damn boring. Nobody needs THAT many tie dye tee shirts.
The copy of My Costumes by Emi Wada is still sitting on the same shelf. It's still $200. I still cannot afford it.
Monterey Bay Aquarium's annoying and sexist radio spots for their new "Secret Life of Seahorses" exhibit.
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Date: 2009-07-27 12:54 pm (UTC)The Discovery Channel "Boom Dee Yadda" commercials were awfully cute. The first time I saw the "great white" I thought it was an awfully chunky shark, third time I went, "Hey, your tail goes the wrong way," and fourth time, I was pretty sure it had to be an orca.
Congratulations on good book-finding fu.
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Date: 2009-07-28 04:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-28 04:47 pm (UTC)