While the skies above Boston's northwestern suburbs indulged in a pageant worthy of Wagner, the wife and I chanced the torrential rains and thunderbolts in order to indulge in some nerdspicuous consumption at the comic/used book shop two towns over.
I was specifically searching for copies of Twilight Zone Magazine from the early 1980's and the frustratingly elusive issues of Date With Debbi and Debbi's Dates I need to fill out my collection. Though I came up empty-handed on those fronts, I still scored a respectable trove of items of retrological importance -- the Burning Sensations' mini-LP, The Brains' eponymous 1980 album, a vinyl copy of the Xanadu OST in its gatefold cover glory, and a small stack of Dynamite and Pizzazz magazines from the 1970's.
Total price: Just a shade over twenty bucks.
When we got home from our shopping trip, BBC America was playing a block of episodes from the second season of Spaced.
This is what vacations are supposed to be like.
Mint Royale - Space Farm (from On the Ropes, 1999)
Electric Light Orchestra - I'm Alive (from the Xanadu OST, 1980)
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Vacation 2008: Day 2 - The world shines for me today
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My family moved away in '77 so I have to ask: Which direction is Hull in?
Hull is to the southeast of Boston. It's a lovely place, even though I get a weird sense of dislocation every time I travel south of the Dorchester natural gas tank.
oh my lord, i remember Pizzazz and Dynamite magazines! I think you use to get em from the scholastic book club.
i am sooooo old.
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