Der Comix Purge of 2006

From Friday night through Sunday evening, duosiceprincess (AKA: The ComiCutie(tm)) and I rummaged through 21 years of comix, most of which were mine, but several hundred of which have been given to me by the likes of Michael Hart whenever he or others find them at garage sales.

I've done a little purging before, but never like this. Sara mainly sat on the couch and read The Historian.

Movies Watched: Mr.Vampire, Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, Strange Days, and Enter the Dragon
Meals Eaten: Lai Lai Chinese (restaurant), El Toro Mexican (restaurant), Garcia's pizza (restaurant), cereal (home), pasta (home), Mirabelle pastries (home).
Total Glasses Bushmill's drunk: ~3
Total Raspberry Smirnoff Ices drunk: 12
Gross Longboxes Purged from My Collection: ~5 1/2
Total Longboxes "Gotten Rid of" (probably to be given to charity): ~4
Total Longboxes duosiceprincess took as payment: ~1 1/2

Ummm...I'm sure there are other stats, like how much sleep and how many times we went "Damn, is it really that late?!" but that's all I can think of just this second.

Bonus points for spotting / identifying / mocking comics seen in the pictures. There's some interesting stuff if you look closely. Go here if you want to be able to click the pics for bigger versions.

And now...

( Photographic Evidence. Lots of it. Seriously. )

Now all of my comics are sorted and alphabetized. Next step? Bagging and boarding all the ones that still need it. (Many comics I knew I would be keeping are already bagged and boarded in the longboxes by the fireplace. They will be transfered to shortboxes.).

ULTIMATE CONCLUSION: Sometimes...life is full of awesome.
benjamin

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Of course, as soon as My Superhappy Post is up:

"PIERRE, South Dakota (AP) -- South Dakota's governor on Monday signed into law a bill banning nearly all abortions, setting up a court fight aimed at challenging the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion in the United States.

The bill would make it a crime for doctors to perform an abortion unless it was necessary to save the woman's life. It would make no exception in cases of rape or incest."

. . .

"I feel so broke up, I wanna go home!" - John Bigboote channeling Brian Wilson channeling The Kingston Trio

b

Salt

        He tasted like licorice. When we kissed, the tip of my tongue would sting just a little because of it. I haven’t thought about him in years. The last time we spoke we were in a bar, one of those places where you just throw your peanut shells on the floor and they sweep ‘em up every night. Black Russians for both of us.
        He told me he couldn’t live here anymore, even for me. Central Illinois, he said, it's the same as every other empty place in this country. He said he had wings that needed to be spread somewhere bigger than here. Like a damn fool, I let him go.
        Last night, I came across an article he’d written in the latest issue of The New Yorker. I can’t remember what it was about. It’s like when you read those last few pages of a book before you fall asleep; when you wake up, they’re gone.
        I had a few beers and went to bed, where I dreamt of birds.

b

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