03/02/13 05:16 - ID#57321

Cheap Junk Shop

While touring around south Buffalo we ended up at a junk shop. It was probably the junkiest junk shop I have ever seen and I'm pretty sure it was also located in a defunct funeral home. The products were like the outcasts from amvets. It made me actually think maybe the people on horders had a point when the try to save every last little piece of junk because it might have a value.

For real, there is a pack of 50/46 plastic cups. For the price I can't believe someone counted them.

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09/14/12 08:14 - ID#56764

kissing your own ass

I found some clothes at H&M. Every time I think its a bad idea and I still come back for some reason. Hopefully I can at least wear these clothes once unlike the last batch where I foolishly assumed all colors of the same exact design and size by tag, fit the same

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12/18/11 08:50 - ID#55765

Rolled Coins?

Really, people try and pay often enough with rolls of coins as the gourmet chef store at the mall that they need a sign?

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12/10/11 01:39 - ID#55681

A trip to china

(e:tinypliny) and (e:pmt) headed down to the Chinese grocer last night. She was blown away by the appropriation of the Indian Buddha into the Chinese Buddha. I was equally amazed at the appropriation of the virgin Mary. Check out her dragons.

The picture tiny posted had a lot of arms...

but check out the Mega arm one. The thousands of hands kind of look like HPV based tumors.

(e:tinypliny) also could not get over how fat they made the buddha. We discussed if he had diabetes or not.

They do have a lot of cool pottery although some of it is very expensive.

This bird was almost $2000 which is surprising the way they just have them layed out on cheap shelving.

I wanted this mug so bad, but it was $15.

metalpeter writes at 07:58:38 12/10/11 - Comment #66668: I have a Wood Dragon that I really need to replace so maybe......

paul writes at 07:21:24 12/10/11 - Comment #66662: Clearly, he ate a lot of dumplings when he got to china. I can see how it would happen.

I didn't see a lucky cat that I remember but I am sure they would have them. The place is huge. Its worth taking a trip out there something. It is on sheridan right past niagara falls blvd. In the summer you could prob ever walk there from South Campus station.

metalpeter writes at 05:45:12 12/10/11 - Comment #66654: Now in terms of the god with all the arms I don't really know any thing about that.... But like those dragons though.... Gotta ask though (maybe you just didn't photo it) where was Chinese Lucky cat not the same as Hello Kitty.....

metalpeter writes at 05:43:49 12/10/11 - Comment #66653: The Indian and Chinese Budha are both Budha but are different... The Chinese one is and from what I know has all ways been fat.... Now how different people or companies make him well that is a different story.... At least with the wood ones it is supposed to be good luck to rub its belly....

tinypliny writes at 05:15:06 12/10/11 - Comment #66640: I think the happy man personification is based on some Buddhist monk. He is some God among 12 others, called Hotei. Granted Buddha hung out under a tree quite a lot for a good part of his life, and that is probably an Ã¼ber-sedentary lifestyle but I am still hesitant to believe that they thought Buddha was that obese...

tinypliny writes at 05:11:01 12/10/11 - Comment #66639: I was thinking about why they would make the appendages and the level of fat so grotesque... Maybe the point is regular people can never hope to get those many arms and hands or even that fat. I guess they slipped a bit because they weren't factoring in super-sizing in the US.

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08/10/11 11:08 - ID#54920

Trip To Ikea

(e:libertad), (e:terry), (e:mike) and I went to IKEA on Saturday. I like the stainless steal microwave but the best part was the sweedish meatballs with currant sauce and elderflower juice. I am not sure I would ever buy any of their furniture, its really not my style.

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03/13/11 02:40 - ID#53820

Made in America Store

I headed down to the made in America store in Elma with (e:libertad) and (e:Mike). They had some interesting stuff including some nice outdoor grills and firepits. In the parking lot they had giantist snowman I ever saw.

I ended up buying raw honey and beef jerky.

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12/25/10 07:56 - ID#53335

Barnes And Nobles Continued

The other day I wrote about my bad experience having to wait 60 minutes for an online ebook to be delivered from barnes and nobles web site. I thought the point of buying eBooks online was that it was instant.

Today's experience was even worse. I wanted to get my brother an egift card but I didn't order it earlier because I didn't want it sent to his email until it was time for him to open gifts today.

So just before we opened gifts I ordered his egift online gift card on their site. It said they had instant delivery. It basically just sends an a link to the recipients email so that makes sense but right now it says it will not ship until Dec 30th. Although, it is instant delivery once it ships. That makes no freakin sense. How can it need to wait that long. I purchased it with a credit card I had on file so it really makes no sense.

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12/12/10 04:35 - ID#53248

Mike at his happiest

He gets so excited about anything glitter based.

We spent the whole day christmas shopping for my parents at best buy. I hope they like their gift.

Then we went to pick out a tree for my mom at Adams. My father is done with real trees but my mom still wants one so my father asked me to get one for my mom. (e:mike) and I are really useless at making decisions like which tree is the best one to buy.

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08/22/10 04:31 - ID#52521

The superflea on walden

We went to the superflee to get more 72" records. Last time they had a million but we only bought a few because we didn't have the grammophone yet.

When we came back they were all home and (e:matthew) asked what happend to them. Apparently they didn't sell so the salesguy glued them to the wall as decoration. Too bad we didn't come back before.

I also bought a screwdriver from this store where everything was painted red. The saleslady told me the Guy they bought all the stuff from was paranoid about people stealing his stuff so he painted it all red. Sometimes he went a little too far. Check out the knife with half the blade painted.

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It doesn't matter if it is fresh pressed organic flax seed oil if it expired in 2005. They tried to scratch off the expiration date, which is even more ridiculous.