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Comic Books

When I was a kid, I loved comic books. I used to look up to my cousin Devin, who used to play action figures with me a lot. Even though Devin was 4 years older than me, we had a pretty tight friendship, I mostly went to his house to hang rather than at mine, mainly because his parents wouldn’t drive him to my place as much as mine would drive me to his. Anyways, we both loved comics and action figures – superheroes and supervillains, weapons, special powers, video games….all things that we had a common interest in, as most boys do. I didn’t really buy that many comic books myself, I remember Devin had a lot – but I didn’t really go anywhere that sold comics as a kid, come to think about it, I think the 1st time I was ever in a comic shop was when I was around 13 or 14. So I rarely bought any or received any as a gift to call my own. I might have had 15 by the time my mother’s girl friend Laura gave me her entire collection from when she was a kid. She had a lot of older ones…Incredible Hulk, Mighty Thor, Spider-Man, Batman, Superman, Super Friends, Wonder Woman, Thundercats, Green Lantern, etc. After going through them for a few days, I began to collect comics again for a period. It didn’t last long though, for whatever reason – without more than maybe a thought or two crossing my mind concerning comic books for a number of years, I lost my comic craving.

Now, lately…     I moved to a bigger city than I’ve lived in before, and with a bigger city comes better shops and stores to find cool things. As far as I know, there are 3 different comic book shops throughout this urban district, only two of which I have y et been in. One is called Strange Adventures – a quaint, small side-shop located on Sackville Street in downtown Halifax. This shop has a decent collection of back-issues, but nothing compared to the other shop (can’t remember the name, if I ever knew it) which has probably 10x the inventory of back-issues than Strange Adventures has. However, in many ways I enjoy shopping at Strange Adventures – for one, they have great decorations of an appropriate theme (comics, superheroes, etc)…a toy Tie-Fighter is suspended by a wire from the ceiling in one place; the walls are peppered here and there with neat-looking comic-related posters, t-shirts tacked up sleeves-out in presentation, and on top of the shelves and edges sit little comic ornaments and toys of all kinds. So, I suppose you could say that the ‘vibe’ in Strange Adventures is the most admirable thing about the joint, the most alluring aspect being the feeling of utmost nostalgia and of wanting to be a little kid all over again, to just leave your job, your responsibilities, your bitchy wife, your whiny kids, your diabetic dog – just leave them to fend for themselves while you traipse around this wonderfully hip comic book store feeling 11 years old all over again. I recommend this shop to anyone who likes to read or collect things, or both. You don’t have to like, or even READ comics, to collect them.

Well, Kaleb got me going to these 2 comic shops with him to look at/purchase comics. So, naturally, I saw a shitload of things I liked and wanted. I found that pretty much each time I returned to each store, I bought more comics. Now I’ve got a rather decent collection altogether: the likes of:

Spider-Man, The Punisher, Thundercats, Batman, Superman, The Super Friends, Web of SpiderMan, JLA (Justice League of America), Batboy, Batgirl, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, The Silver Surfer, The Mighty Thor, Heathcliff, Underdog, Archie comics (lol, they are not worth shit), Fantastic Four, The Flash, Punisher Max, Captain America, Spawn, X-Men, Wolverine, Gable, The Avengers, Aquaman, etc etc.

When I got back into comic books, I began researching websites to price them. I found this one website called www.ComicsPriceGuide.com that allowed you to select which comics are yours, so that you can virtually keep track of your entire collection in an organized fashion. However, when My Collection reached $575 in value, the website would no longer allow me to add comics to my collection until I ‘upgrade to Premium’ membership, which is like $10 for a month and $30 for 6 months. Either way, doesn’t quite seem worth it to me. I can keep track of them for FREE with my hands withOUT a PC or the Internet. Goddamn internet scams, nothing is what it seems, hardly.

So if you come across any comic books, let me know, and I will gladly take ‘em off your hands if you’re just gonna chuck ‘em anyway. Call my cell phone at 902.473.0327

Peace!                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

It's been much too long...

...since my last blog post. Well, to start with I've begun archiving countless movies and music albums. I fear I have become some twisted mad collector, a downright E-Hoarder for christs sake...but I suppose there are worse things one can shapeshift into. Apart from that, things have been rather well....Christmas is over, thank God above. I managed to get all my family gifts, and not only that but gifts that they even all ENJOYED receiving...no better feeling in the world! Especially for the kids, Alyssa LOVED her new doll house, plus I bought her about $30 worth of Moon Sand, this Play-Doh sorta stuff for molding things and making castles, its SAND essentially but it never dries out, and you can get refills of individual different colors (which I really dont get why they bother with the colors, because kids mix them all tgether anyways, and when all the Moon Sand colors get mixed together, they turn purple! Who knew.
I myself got some clothes my g'parents brought me back from NYC, plus some Oakley sunglasses Grampie picked up down there too. My moms bought me a new HP printer/scanner/photocopier 3-in-one dealie, its awesome BUT - it wont work on my Windows 7 OS. ARGH!!!
However, I happen 2 be blessed with a PC that has 3 separate Operating Systems on it, one of them being Windows XP - which this new printer/scanner/copier is compatible with, thank God. HOWEVER AGAIN - I have hit another snag, because my XP isn't exactly running top-notch these days - most of the time, the OS wont even boot up all the way onto the desktop screen, it just keeps loading and restarting over and over, most of the time. But, every now and again...I'll catch it on a good day and manage to get onto XP to do some printing or scanning - but, of course, on those days I never seem to actually NEED to do any of these things. Only when XP will not work for me no matter what, only then will there be something important I must do that I'm kept from thanks to this dilemma.

On a happier note, I ordered a new drum machine last week from axemusic.com....it hasnt arrived yet, but when it does I am going to spunk all OVER THE FUCKIN PLACE!!! I've always wanted a drum machine since I began beatmaking/producing hip-hop. However, this particular drum machine is a mini portable one, and I don't know the extent of its abilities - I sort of took a chance in buying it before tryin it out. I rarely take these sort of merch chances when it comes to buying musical instruments and/or equipment, but I wanted this fucker so bad, it was only $155 after taxes. Here it is: