so what have I been up to
Nov. 20th, 2025 03:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
davemerrillwell, let's see. Today before work I got on the bike and rode to the Farm Boy on Bathurst just to get out of the house and get a little exercise. The plan was to get out before the sun went down but the sun is going down at 5pm these days, so nah. I didn't find anything I needed but it was good to get things moving.
Last Sunday we went out to the Freelton antique mall and gave it a good going over. There's a Godaikin Laserion there for $350 which is about $300 more than I'm willing to drop on a robot from a show I don't actually like all that much. Before that we went to the ReStore to see what they had in the way of repurposed pieces of plexiglas I can use to top the animation table I bought the previous weekend at a thrift store.
See, weekend before last was a zine show, Zine Dump, at the Cecil Community Centre in Chinatown on Spadina. So we met Donald and David over there and did a little zine shopping and some chit chatting with tablers about Grafficker Alley. We got a lot of contact info and we'll be sending these folks information when Grafficker Alley tables go on sale for next year's show. Which we should have a date nailed down for soon, it'll be around the same time in September.
Zine Dump was aimed at the more sociopolitical zine publishers and the vibe was different from a TCAF or even one of Broken Pencil's shows. Sunday was the first real snow of the year and I was suspecting that it would impact the turnout, but that room was full. Toronto really wants its zine shows. Of course the location is great, it's really easy to get to, close to everything downtown, pretty much ideal for a show. Of course the Cecil Center hall isn't a quarter of the size of the SAIB where we hold Grafficker Alley, but a space that size downtown is going to cost more than zine money.
After we zine'd we hit a couple of thrift stores on the east side of town, and that's where I found the animation table, a folding easel type table with a big circle in the middle and a fluorescent light on the back. The glass circle and peg board were gone, which is why the thing was only seven bucks, but I don't need the peg board, I am not going to be animating anything. If I can find a 24" by 29" sheet of plexi, it'll be terrific for my next illustration project, and will really save my back from bending over my light table inking, which is how I've been doing it for a while.
I finished the latest Lo-Fi Landfill show and it's up at the Mister Kitty dot Net website for everyone to listen to for free, that's one thing I did. https://misterkitty.net/extras/podcast/index
And of course I've been writing Stupid Comics over there every week.
Other than the AN Halloween Festival at the JCCC we didn't really do anything for Halloween, didn't even get to a haunt or anything. The overnight schedule means weeknights are out, I'm not out of the house before 5pm on Saturdays, and anyway that's when all the shopping and life type stuff has to get done. Like this last Saturday, we went out to the Vaughan Mills outlet mall and gawked at all the shops and shoppers and I bought some on-sale shoes and a shirt from Uniqlo with Peko-chan on it. The Saturday before that we did some thrifting, I mean other than the Sunday thrifting, and we wandered around the Dixie mall's basement flea market. I have been fully intending to go out into the hinterlands and get out in the trees for some actual woods walking, but the time change ganked an hour of daylight out from us and I do not have the gear for after-dark below-freezing woods walking, sorry.
This Sunday the RAID gallery on Queen West at Roncesvalles is having a vintage collectibles show, and even though right now the vintage collectibles cash isn't there for us, we might go down and give it a look anyway. Some city exercise, that's what's good.
Last Sunday we went out to the Freelton antique mall and gave it a good going over. There's a Godaikin Laserion there for $350 which is about $300 more than I'm willing to drop on a robot from a show I don't actually like all that much. Before that we went to the ReStore to see what they had in the way of repurposed pieces of plexiglas I can use to top the animation table I bought the previous weekend at a thrift store.
See, weekend before last was a zine show, Zine Dump, at the Cecil Community Centre in Chinatown on Spadina. So we met Donald and David over there and did a little zine shopping and some chit chatting with tablers about Grafficker Alley. We got a lot of contact info and we'll be sending these folks information when Grafficker Alley tables go on sale for next year's show. Which we should have a date nailed down for soon, it'll be around the same time in September.
Zine Dump was aimed at the more sociopolitical zine publishers and the vibe was different from a TCAF or even one of Broken Pencil's shows. Sunday was the first real snow of the year and I was suspecting that it would impact the turnout, but that room was full. Toronto really wants its zine shows. Of course the location is great, it's really easy to get to, close to everything downtown, pretty much ideal for a show. Of course the Cecil Center hall isn't a quarter of the size of the SAIB where we hold Grafficker Alley, but a space that size downtown is going to cost more than zine money.
After we zine'd we hit a couple of thrift stores on the east side of town, and that's where I found the animation table, a folding easel type table with a big circle in the middle and a fluorescent light on the back. The glass circle and peg board were gone, which is why the thing was only seven bucks, but I don't need the peg board, I am not going to be animating anything. If I can find a 24" by 29" sheet of plexi, it'll be terrific for my next illustration project, and will really save my back from bending over my light table inking, which is how I've been doing it for a while.
I finished the latest Lo-Fi Landfill show and it's up at the Mister Kitty dot Net website for everyone to listen to for free, that's one thing I did. https://misterkitty.net/extras/podcast/index
And of course I've been writing Stupid Comics over there every week.
Other than the AN Halloween Festival at the JCCC we didn't really do anything for Halloween, didn't even get to a haunt or anything. The overnight schedule means weeknights are out, I'm not out of the house before 5pm on Saturdays, and anyway that's when all the shopping and life type stuff has to get done. Like this last Saturday, we went out to the Vaughan Mills outlet mall and gawked at all the shops and shoppers and I bought some on-sale shoes and a shirt from Uniqlo with Peko-chan on it. The Saturday before that we did some thrifting, I mean other than the Sunday thrifting, and we wandered around the Dixie mall's basement flea market. I have been fully intending to go out into the hinterlands and get out in the trees for some actual woods walking, but the time change ganked an hour of daylight out from us and I do not have the gear for after-dark below-freezing woods walking, sorry.
This Sunday the RAID gallery on Queen West at Roncesvalles is having a vintage collectibles show, and even though right now the vintage collectibles cash isn't there for us, we might go down and give it a look anyway. Some city exercise, that's what's good.
