lydelle BLEAAAH!ster

watching friends line up to make dunks on a 3' fisher-price basket

watching friends unload a mateba autorevolver into a barrel full of live carp, discarding the empty gun, being handed another from offscreen, repeating until the barrel contains more bullet than fish pulp

closing my eyes and psychically reverberating across the town for gas stations to all start selling those vials of honey ginseng again

feels like everyone (myself included) started going for drinks with the ginseng already in there, but it's getting real fuckin expensive wanna be able to dump one a those into a dirt cheap fountain tea- i could keep a bunch in the car, but, it's not the same

the way you can always tell the rock is japanese by the pedals

military flyovers for basketball games are pretty common- couple of jets for practice i don't know that i've ever seen a couple V-22 Ospreys thrown in, flying over a residential area, though,

that's a new element. that's upsetting for a lot of reasons

after a while of seeming to have a lock on valuing expensive items correctly, thrift stores now don't seem to know what 70s/80s electronics should cost- picked up an olivetti logos 43pd calculator for $7, goes for $40-$120 on ebay! otoh, a cheap 70s electronic makeup mirror- $30? ~$12 online

a mid century portable radio is "we are still figuring out what a transistor radio should be like. we still don't know. but people want one" a late century portable radio is a box in any shape from "fun" to "dark grey slab" with a standard set of features and controls that were all p much the same

after a while of seeming to have a lock on valuing expensive items correctly, thrift stores now don't seem to know what 70s/80s electronics should cost- picked up an olivetti logos 43pd calculator for $7, goes for $40-$120 on ebay! otoh, a cheap 70s electronic makeup mirror- $30? ~$12 online

remember when there was more inscrutable 60s tech at the thrift store? what looked to 2010 eyes to be the cheapest electric razor on earth, but enveloped in the fanciest leather carrying case i had ever seen for anything little metal cubes, also wrapped in leather, that were AM radios hair curlers

after a while of seeming to have a lock on valuing expensive items correctly, thrift stores now don't seem to know what 70s/80s electronics should cost- picked up an olivetti logos 43pd calculator for $7, goes for $40-$120 on ebay! otoh, a cheap 70s electronic makeup mirror- $30? ~$12 online

ok apple 2 might be too much to ask for- but a crappy-looking 8088 garage rig with a bunch of weird, maybe custom or homemade, cards inside? i can see those going for way cheap- keeping my eyes peeled

after a while of seeming to have a lock on valuing expensive items correctly, thrift stores now don't seem to know what 70s/80s electronics should cost- picked up an olivetti logos 43pd calculator for $7, goes for $40-$120 on ebay! otoh, a cheap 70s electronic makeup mirror- $30? ~$12 online