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Jan. 30th, 2011 01:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
davemerrillWe threw caution to the wind and braved the cold and the traffic to go down to Hamilton and look at junk/antique stores. One in particular on Ottawa Street - Antique Avenue - is pretty awesome, being a basement filled with old comics, old books & magazines, old toys, and kitschy vintage this and that. I picked up a 'Humorama' magazine with Bill Ward & Dan Decarlo gag cartoons (& a cheesecake photo of Irish McCalla) and a Captain Future novel. They also had some kind of home stand designed to hold an Atari 2600, two controllers, and about a dozen carts - a professional piece of furniture I can't find a picture of online, sadly (no price). The other Ottawa Street shops were kinda just there. "Weird Stuff" on E. Main is worth a stop, though. Another shop on King St. has old LPs and movie posters and comics and a "Star Of The Giants" pachislot machine that I guess isn't for sale. I was very pleased with "Antique Avenue" though, that's the kind of mid-century kitsch, toy filled place that I love to shop in.
Got home, had coffee and dessert, watched our DVR of "Grizzly" which is a terrible film shot in Clayton GA (I called "Not the Rockies!" early in the picture), and had a lousy time getting to sleep because of the coffee, I think. I am mostly done with that Holly Hobbie book, and so far the resurrected ghost of Holly and her 13 year old modern-times pal have gone on a young teenage odyssey to Cambridge, New York City, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Mexico City (in the company of a punk rock band) and are about to use forged documents to enter Guatamala. It's the craziest book ever written about American Greetings characters, unless you count the book "Robotman & Charlie Manson Team Up To Fight Litter With Dinosaurs."
Today: I have to get the strip inked, and then we go see HOUSE tonight!!
Got home, had coffee and dessert, watched our DVR of "Grizzly" which is a terrible film shot in Clayton GA (I called "Not the Rockies!" early in the picture), and had a lousy time getting to sleep because of the coffee, I think. I am mostly done with that Holly Hobbie book, and so far the resurrected ghost of Holly and her 13 year old modern-times pal have gone on a young teenage odyssey to Cambridge, New York City, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Mexico City (in the company of a punk rock band) and are about to use forged documents to enter Guatamala. It's the craziest book ever written about American Greetings characters, unless you count the book "Robotman & Charlie Manson Team Up To Fight Litter With Dinosaurs."
Today: I have to get the strip inked, and then we go see HOUSE tonight!!
