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Thursday, September 29, 2011

New Season Viewing

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I've tried a few of the season premieres, and I've already begun to weed out shows that (a) failed to click right away, or (b) no lo...
Friday, September 23, 2011

Trilegiant Scam

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So today I got a call from American Express wanting to verify some recent activity on my AmEx card. Charge from Games Workshop--check. Charg...
Wednesday, September 21, 2011

DC=Disappearing Comics!

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Another week dominated by DC sales; customers who were worried about missing out on the DC's started to use our preorder system to pay f...
Sunday, September 18, 2011

Neither a Borrower Nor a Lender Be...

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"Never loan anything you hope to get back." Those words of advice, given to me by my father and echoed by several friends during t...

This Problem Bugs Me...

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Last week we discovered evidence of termites in the basement storage room. You can imagine how unthrilled I was by that news. Now we have th...
Sunday, September 11, 2011

DC Domination

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We're now five days into DC's first full-week New 52 launch, and the sales results have been overwhelming. I don't have national...

A Life In Four Colors (Part Thirty-Four)

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While my interest in comics had begun with an emphasis on DC, Marvel moved into greater prominence throughout the early 1960s. As I've m...

Maybe It's Not a Mall World After All...

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Last Thursday, I had to go to Town Center Mall to pick up something for Susan. It was a Thursday evening, between 7:30 PM and 8:00 PM. I par...

Maybe I Think Too Much...

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The title comes from a Paul Simon song that has always struck a chord with me; while I've always seen the benefit of analysis, ruminatio...
Thursday, September 08, 2011

Overwhelming Success

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DC made comic book history at Dr. No's today. This was the first week that we received a full assortment of New 52 titles (13 books, inc...
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