Tag Archives: Lion and Unicorn
Good men don’t need rules; today is not the day to find out why I have so many.
I have a few very important rules that I refuse to compromise. Most of them are moral in nature, and the kind of anger they tend to engender is a big reason I don’t talk about politics here. But there’s … Continue reading →
I got demons runnin’ all through me.
Living through the Satanic Panic was… a hell of a thing. I was an insanely prodigious reader as a kid. At some point, my mom plunked me down in front of Sesame Street and The Electric Company and apparently the … Continue reading →
196.
Back in the day, ordering comics was an extremely analog and inefficient process. Every month we’d get a catalogue of everything that was coming out about two months’ hence. We’d have to go through and place our orders and lock … Continue reading →
On employment.
In 48 hours, I will be unemployed. I wanted to be all cool and say “two days and a wake-up” but that’s not really the case. My tenure ends at 5:00PM Thursday, not the next morning. I won’t have to … Continue reading →
My favorite customer ever.
It was a busy Thursday afternoon, and I looked down to see an adorable little boy, maybe eight or nine years old, approaching the counter. His mom stood a ways behind him as he walked up to me; clearly he … Continue reading →
Maybe J. Jonah was right.
It was a slow Monday in the comic shop. One of my coworkers, Will, was busying himself making a list of the gamebooks we needed to reorder, and I was flipping through the Diamond catalog trying to figure out what … Continue reading →
The coolest cat ever, or…
My comic book shop was in the “eclectic” part of town, so I was used to odd characters. But that afternoon, one of the oddest I’d ever seen walked in. I was minding the store myself, while my employee Ian … Continue reading →