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sale! Sale! Sale!
Mar. 13th, 2023 10:45 amThe nerd yard sale at the U of T went fine. Parking is terrible on campus, exacerbated by the giant construction project they have going on in what used to be the quad. We got set up about five minutes before opening, there was a giant line of nerds looking to buy nerd stuff, three "free" tables were sellers or anybody could drop off unwanted merch, and generally a good vibe. Met some AWO listeners who'd heard me on the podcast and a Twitter friend who'd clued me into a Space Battleship Yamato PS2 game at a Value Village last year.
Sales went OK. I think we sold one (1) comic book, all the Atari stuff, both anime DVDs, half the manga, and those silly Devilman figures got gone early. Took the remainder of the manga to the BMV after the show. I did sell three Souvenirs, which is nice.
Had the usual visitor of some guy who paws through all the merch and thinks loudly about wanting to buy the merch, says he's going to come back later to buy the merch, and never buys the merch. Of course.
There is nowhere open in the Hart House building to buy coffee on Sundays, and the nearest cafe is inside a library that is only open for U of T students. So I had to walk all the way down to College to get coffee. Ugh.
It was swell to get rid of a big chunk of junk. Dunno what we're going to do with those comics though. Tabling at shows is a pain in the butt, but shows are the only place I might ever get any sort of return on these books. Key issues they definitely are not, they are the kind of weirdo nonsense we pick up for Stupid Comics, old Superboys, coverless Archies, etc.
Used the profits to get lunch and groceries and kitty litter (a new kind that's basically wood pellets, and so far they haven't used it.) Then we watched the Oscars with the On Cinema Oscars Special on another monitor so we could see what shenanigans Heidecker and Turkington got up to. Seeing Ke Huy Quan and Harrison Ford hug each other on stage felt like the universe trying to get itself back on track after six or seven confused years, if that makes any sense.
YES we watch the Oscars every year, if only to watch highly paid performers screw up their lines on live TV. This year Elizabeth Banks came out with laryngitis and a guy in a bear suit.
Sales went OK. I think we sold one (1) comic book, all the Atari stuff, both anime DVDs, half the manga, and those silly Devilman figures got gone early. Took the remainder of the manga to the BMV after the show. I did sell three Souvenirs, which is nice.
Had the usual visitor of some guy who paws through all the merch and thinks loudly about wanting to buy the merch, says he's going to come back later to buy the merch, and never buys the merch. Of course.
There is nowhere open in the Hart House building to buy coffee on Sundays, and the nearest cafe is inside a library that is only open for U of T students. So I had to walk all the way down to College to get coffee. Ugh.
It was swell to get rid of a big chunk of junk. Dunno what we're going to do with those comics though. Tabling at shows is a pain in the butt, but shows are the only place I might ever get any sort of return on these books. Key issues they definitely are not, they are the kind of weirdo nonsense we pick up for Stupid Comics, old Superboys, coverless Archies, etc.
Used the profits to get lunch and groceries and kitty litter (a new kind that's basically wood pellets, and so far they haven't used it.) Then we watched the Oscars with the On Cinema Oscars Special on another monitor so we could see what shenanigans Heidecker and Turkington got up to. Seeing Ke Huy Quan and Harrison Ford hug each other on stage felt like the universe trying to get itself back on track after six or seven confused years, if that makes any sense.
YES we watch the Oscars every year, if only to watch highly paid performers screw up their lines on live TV. This year Elizabeth Banks came out with laryngitis and a guy in a bear suit.
