Current Ramblings
Sunday, May 16, 2004
Yard sales have treated me well this weekend. I went to them almost religiously when I was in high school, strapping on my skates or getting on my bike every Saturday morning and riding around the local subdivisions looking for old Transformers. I found a lot of really awesome stuff this way, stuff that would have cost me a good chunk of money to buy from collectors. I didn't even know the Time Warrior watch I got for a quarter was worth anything until I wore it to BotCon '95 and people kept asking how much I wanted for it. But after a while the toys dried up and even before I left DC I stopped going to them. Here in Columbus yard sales seem to be a less structured affair. People have them on Fridays, they have them on Sundays, they last the whole weekend, they go until 5 or 6 or it gets dark outside. This Friday and Saturday there was a charity yard sale by my store using one of the empty spaces in the shopping center. It wasn't much, but I did score a fairly new Polaroid One-Step camera for a dollar. Sure, the film's $12 for a cartridge of ten, but the camera was $1! It's purely an experiemental art camera for me, though I'll probably snap off some shots of friends to give them. And in another instance of old technology, today I picked up an NES system and a big pile of games at another yard sale. Highlights include: Ninja Gaiden, Super Mario 3, Metroid, Goonies 2, and some stuff Graham assures me is wonderfull awful, like Kabuki Quantum Fighter and Low G Man. I'm forcing myself to finish Pokemon Colosseum first, though, because I need to breed Mon some Pokemon before we head to Wizard World East this weekend. But then it'll just be me, Ninja Gaiden, my Polaroid camera, and The Police's "Ghost in the Machine" on vinyl.
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