Looking for Mr. Cheap Bed

[cornerofmadness]

well not really but damn the ONE place that delivers around here only carries top of the line stuff. As much as I want temperpedic, i can NOT afford a nearly 3,000$ mattress. The one I want is still really out of my price range but they did have a nice bed that would fit in my room (and gorgeous wood stuff that didn't)

went to the farmer's market. Um...wow bluegrass gospel live was playing. Shudders but now I have blackberry butter and pumpkin goat milk fudge

Trundled even further north to Columbus, hung out in Dublin cemetery. I'll show you pictures later. The road goes OVER the graves. It's disconcerting. Went to Borders for my Manga run because what's a girl without manga (richer, that's what she is. Betting m3sektet is rueing the day she got led into this, and OH can I see why you picked up Let Dai, lovely cover)

So I go to Macys which had the bed I wanted and teh price I wanted but they do NOT deliver here. JCPenny's on the other hand has NO beds in the store, just online. Um how the hell would I know I wanted that bed without trying it out.

Trundled to dinner at Chilis since i was dying for fajitas. Now I remember why i don't eat them (Should have went to Rude Dog's just for the name and had pub food) in public. I had the tropical sunrise (too expensive and too much pineapple)

went over to Barnes and Nobles to let the alcohol pass before driving the 100 miles back home. I was shocked to see them have shonen-nai manga. B&N has been very slow to pick up manga with homosexual themes (unlike waldens/borders which has tons) at least in these parts. Nearly got Boy Princess then came to my senses...since i've read how much fanfic with the same plot, dress him up as a girl and try to pass him off...(not that I didn't stock up on the yaoi at Borders anyhow) I did pick up a sampler cd. I'll let you know what I think later.

word count for ficfrenzy

2,230 / 20,000 (11.2%)

ETA - my aunt just sent this 'poem' not sure where she got it from

We're here in the buckeye state....
It ain't really that great.....

They grow lots of corn...
And look mighty forlorn...

Because we were born
Next to the corn!

Six dollars a dozen...
Go remarry your cousin!

We're here in the buckeye state
It ain't really great....

Then why are we here.?
Let's all have a beer!!!!!

Comments

[lyricnonsense.livejournal.com]

I kind of wish they'd consider doing large omnibus style editions for the long series, so I would't have to move 15 volumes when I want to shift things on my shelves (compulsive alphabetizing? check).

Ooo, will have to look for the Spike story. You know I love that blondie.

And yes, very fucked up characters. Transgendered drag queen (I think that's the right term for it), emotionally stunted and manipulative male lead, emotionally immature and parentally hounded female lead, as well as the childhood friend turned rapist turned lover and his girl. Unfortunately, most of the bookstores I know seem to have stopped carrying it for some reason. *frown*

Also, just looking back on your post, I remember more than a year ago (actually, more like 3 years ago) being shocked that B&N was selling shrinkwrapped volumes of FAKE and Banana Fish. Did they just stall at that point?

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

You know I'd go for the big omnibus thing too but still, I'm just so thrilled that they have these now. I know that in florida in 2003 they did NOT. Then I lived a year in WI without a book store and when I got here in 2004 they still didn't have thembut a comic book store did and by 2005 they were everywhere. I've never seen Fake in B&N. And Pittsburgh not having it wasn't too surprising being a conservative town. Columbus, on the other hand was voted 3rd best place to live if you're 'alternative lifestyle' back in 96 and I doubt it's backsliding so B&N not carrying it was either over sight or them being conservative and 'protecting the children' which they got into trouble with on a few YA novels recently. But I did see a few yesterday, maybe they're realizing just how much money girls will spend to see boys kiss...

Paradise Kiss sounds interesting. Is there more of it to pick up? Sometimes stuff happens (Like I'm fairly sure Descedants of Darkness was not meant to end where it did and have to wonder if the magazine it was in folded or dropped it) That used to drive me insane in the 80's and 90's. You'd get into an anime but only half of it was ever translated into English. You used to be able to buy bootlegs at cons and send it to this company in Canada for a fan-translation

[lyricnonsense.livejournal.com]

No, Paradise Kiss is finished at five volumes (and the anime at 12 episodes). Nice short series, and it's very obvious that it's meant to end there.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

well that's a good thing then