You've been here for 3 hours and you're asking me now whats on sale?

Yesterday I saw a nice 25-inch tv in Quincy and obviously didn't think anything of it. When I got home I found out our living room tv kicked the bucket, so of course I go there today and its gone. Saw a great 20-inch for 35 dollars today in Davis but thats too small for our living room. I'm sure I'll come up with something soon.

Davis Square
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I don't know what they are doing here but they keep changing this place around. This place used to be the book mecca, but they changed that months ago, and it also used to have tons of cds, but they just moved them downstairs and the racks were mostly empty. I hope this is just temporary. It still has the largest collection of vinyl anywhere and I did manage to pick up vol. 2 ( I already have vol. 1) of Gregorian Chant:


Central Square
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This place always seems to come through. If you looked in here you'd never think you would ever find anything.

Guinness glass:


Book on Pearl Harbor:


3 cd's; Smashing Pumpkins Gish, Tool Undertow, and Marilyn Manson Smells Like Children in the case for Portrait of an American Family:


Awesome record, awful condition ( the sleeve). Rolling Stones Hot Rocks 1964-1971:


Wishing everyone a Happy New Year is so trite, so good luck and god speed I guess.

I'm suing you

Quincy
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Classic soundtrack, Chariots of Fire record:


Brockton
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My third "Spuds Mackenzie" glass, I already have the pilsner and the beer mug, now I can add the 1-liter glass stein to the mix:



T2: The Arcade Game for Genesis, surprisingly still in the box:


A funny incident of a woman trying to steal a $1.00 pair of pants put me in a good mood, how pathetic.

Those games never start on time

Quincy
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Probably the best definitive book on Hitler and a great book with tons of color photos of ancient Egyptian artifacts:

It's better without them anyway

Quincy
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1976 Sony ICF-9550W Transistor Radio, excellent condition too and a nice warm sound:

She likes rugs

After coming off a 17-hr shift, the last thing I'd probably want to do is go out on a Sunday afternoon....wrong! I'm a mess, so here it is:

Quincy
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Dark Cavern for Atari 2600/7800:


Sporting News Official 1971 Baseball Guide:


In the 1970s, Disney put out a collection of Book & Record sets for children, here's one still in the shrink wrap:


A couple of Patriots souvenir cups from Gillette Stadium:


A 1-Liter Ceramarte Heineken Stein, which goes for about $25. Info provided at this great site. And a St. Pauli Girl pilsner glass:

She can't sing songs I can't understand

Quincy
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First Led Zeppelin LP, in much better condition than the other one I have:


An interesting book on science, philosophy and religion in the Matrix movie:

social workers don't like to see that

Quincy
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What an odd item; a miniature bike fully functional. Says Zimbalast Smith on it:


Who would have known; busiest time of year and I'm getting out to Boston.

Harrison Ave.
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For some ungodly reason, finding a parking spot here is like winning the lottery. I would have had a spot almost immediately if it wasn't for some ignorant asshole. I'm waiting for him to pull out of the spot with my blinker on while he sits in his running car and simultaneously eats a banana, talks on the phone, drinks water and jots things on paper, totally ignoring my beeping. Somehow, someway I get a spot.

I was psyched to find this record, Gustav Holst's The Planets is one of my favorites:


Harrison Ave Outlet
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More vinyl. From left: Rolling Stones Out of Our Heads, Jimi Hendrix The Cry of Love, Jimi Hendrix Axis: Bold as Love (with the plastic still on the cover), and these two weird ones: Sound effects vol. 5 and vol. 2. Vol 5 consists of industrial and household sounds and vol. 2 contains sounds from animals/ insects/ birds:

Happy Holiday! Happy Holiday! ( sang by a crazy man with a broken English accent)

Brockton
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Amazing ( well amazing to me at least) find today. See it looks like a duck:


But the top half comes off and it's really a phone! Behold: Duck Phone!!!:


Thats not even the best part. So I stop by work on my way back to see if it works ( and on a hunch hoping it quacks). Then the phone rang, its eyes glowed red and it began quacking! Sweet deal.

A nice pint glass:


And a Reutter Porzellan Heidelberg ashtray:

You have a brilliant mind

*** To the few people who actually read this: Because of the holiday rush at work, there has been little chance of me getting out. Fear not, for this will be updated on a regular basis again after x-mas, stay tuned for a few posts here and there until then. ***

Quincy
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With a little help from the manager, I got all 7 volumes of the Chronicles of Narnia out of the bin; sweet find. Plus George Orwell's Animal Farm:


These records; Pac-Man Fever, which is amazing. It came out in the early 80s and it mixes 80s rock with the classic arcade sound effects and cheesy lyrics about the games, in other words: AMAZING, songs about Frogger, Pac-Man and Donkey Kong, come on now. The other is Beethoven's Fifth Symphony mixed with different house beats:

You've done this before kid, haven't you?

Quincy
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A 1/4 L Stein. On the left side of the figures it says "Darm Gelobt" and on the right " Erlt Geprobt":

Ever listen to a book on audio tape?

Quincy
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This great Civil War songs record:


2005 Red Sox media guide:


Southern Comfort shot glass:


Brockton
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Victory At Sea Vol 2 record:


Duck Hunt for NES:

Here's some leather pants for ya

100th Post!!! many many more to come.
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Went to Quincy for a quick stop and got these records, the German folk and drinking song's record was still sealed ( listening to it now):


These instant hand warmers will come in handy when I'm walking around in freezing cold Boston this winter:


Pink Floyd's 2-disc Ummagumma missing the studio album (boo!):

I can't wear them, I'm too fat.

Only had time to stop in Roxbury today. At Harrison ave I got these glasses, I now have 3 of those nice Chimay ones


This awesome pin:


I now have 13 of the 39 volumes of this WWII set that Time-Life put out in the early 80s, thanks to these six: The Battle of the Atlantic, Blitzkrieg, Prelude to War, Russia Besieged, The Rising Sun and The Battle of Britain:


I then headed over to the outlet, where I found this particularly intersting book, hand-bound of various magazine and newspaper clippings from the mid 19th century, lots of weird facts and observations:


I particularly enjoy the comics, which are unfunny, but funny in the sense that the humor is so dry:


More books; there's another WWII set thats growing, i now have 3 in this series. A Popular Science magazine from 1959, I like looking at the vintage car and cigarette ads from this era:



and this Monkees record:

How can I change the prices when I don't even make them?

Finally got into town for the first time in weeks. Hit up Davis square. Got these records; the JFK one has a bunch of speeches and comments on it, very nice. The other one has the LSO doing classical covers of Beatles and Rolling Stones songs, plus others:


This book on Holocaust survivor stories:


and this long out of print Miltown cd:


It's x-mas time at Goodwill's everywhere, the one armed nut crackers, broken x-mas tree ornaments and cheesy department store decorations are out in full force.

Went over to Central Sq. but found nothing of interest. I did however have an interesting conversation with an old man on his collection of Nazi propaganda pre-WWII. We were sorting through the books in the carts and found a lot of old National Geographic's (20s-40s) that were rebound into hardcover. I should note that the books were in carts due to the fact that x-mas items were put up on the bookshelves, totally makes sense.

Stopped over in Quincy, and found nothing either, way too late in the day to find anything new.

May I ask you a suggestion?

After a few days away from the stores I find that I haven't missed much. A vintage Columbia child's bike was in the corner, and a bunch of records in another, but nothing I liked. I settled on these books:


and this Heineken glass:


After a two-week hiatus I will make a brief trip into town tomorrow. Cheers.

I told the lady 10 times to get out of the bins

People are not taking well to the new Goodwill policy of letting the workers put things on the shelves before you can claim it. It used to be a free-for-all, but it looks like those days are over, at least in Quincy. Doesn't really bother me, if anything this will make some of these people not come anymore which means more for me.

Another Namco PS1/Ps2 lightgun:


A tea cup with a picture of a 1904 Cadillac on it:


Happy Thanksgiving, be back on Sunday.

Why do you need my license, you know I'm 65

The upcoming month as always is a busy time at work, so if this thing doesn't get updated its because I'm not getting out there as much. With x-mas shopping, extra hours at work, crappy weather, I just don't have as much free time as I would like.

This being a holiday week, I didn't get out to my usual places. Haven't been in Boston in 2 weeks, nor Brockton this past week. Things may be back to normal next Monday, maybe.

Anyways, went to Quincy and got some glasses: