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Post by Icctrombone on Jul 20, 2014 16:37:35 GMT -5
It's my aunt and cousin so I know my aunt will at least take the time to listen to my advice. I just want to put it tactfully without creating any hard feelings. Since you think she will listen, and since you plan to approach the subject politely and tactfully, it sounds like you have most of it already worked out. Just be kind in how you say it, and it should work out. This might be an unpopular opinion but I think you should stay out of it.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Jul 20, 2014 18:49:54 GMT -5
what lies beyond the pearly gates...? -M I would attempt to move into a store like that.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2014 20:38:59 GMT -5
Reminds me of a store I visited a few times in the French Quarter while I was living across Lake Pontchartrain from New Orleans. The proprietor was always sitting in an easy chair in the front room.
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Post by hondobrode on Jul 20, 2014 20:50:22 GMT -5
Reminds me of The Antiquarian in Omaha's Old Market.
I couldn't believe when they were closing.
Comics and records in the basement. It was just like you guys were saying.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2014 20:51:36 GMT -5
I used to work in an estate gallery downtown Palm Springs when I was a teen. It was two stories tall, right on Palm Canyon. The top floor was furniture, the bottom floor was nick nacks and collectibles. So I got to spend a spring break (back when Palm Springs had a spring break to speak of) in the second floor window in a seat much like that one for forty hours. Got paid for it too.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2014 20:54:16 GMT -5
I used to work in an estate gallery downtown Palm Springs when I was a teen. It was two stories tall, right on Palm Canyon. The top floor was furniture, the bottom floor was nick nacks and collectibles. So I got to spend a spring break (back when Palm Springs had a spring break to speak of) in the second floor window in a seat much like that one for forty hours. Got paid for it too. God, that's a long time. I hope they let you get up for refreshments & bathroom breaks.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2014 20:54:58 GMT -5
I used to work in an estate gallery downtown Palm Springs when I was a teen. It was two stories tall, right on Palm Canyon. The top floor was furniture, the bottom floor was nick nacks and collectibles. So I got to spend a spring break (back when Palm Springs had a spring break to speak of) in the second floor window in a seat much like that one for forty hours. Got paid for it too. God, that's a long time. I hope they let you get up for refreshments & bathroom breaks. Over the course of a week
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Post by zryson on Jul 20, 2014 22:45:20 GMT -5
I have been reading some of the posts about how people have lost (perhaps temporarily?) interest in reading comic books. I think its perfectly fine, and that interests/hobbies often go that way... that sometimes there are periods where one's interest concentrates and other times where one's interest wavers. Speaking for myself, I try to read comic books on a regular basis. I usually find the comic books published from the 1960s through to the 1980s being favorite eras.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2014 23:27:10 GMT -5
I have several half read trades on my nightstand. I don't like to put it back on the shelf once I've started, but I'll get bored with one and grab another, and do that again and again until the stack on the nightstand is too tall to tolerate anymore. I think I'm going to be putting some back on the shelf and picking out a new one. I know I enjoyed the first volume of Lone Wolf And Cub and the first volume of Fear Agent, more installments on my shelf sitting unread right now. I've also been getting Cowboy Bebop manga when I can find it. Haven't read any of it yet, but I liked the cartoon when it was on Cartoon Network and since I enjoyed Lone Wolf and Akira I thought I'd give it a try.
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Post by Jesse on Jul 21, 2014 9:22:12 GMT -5
Usually if I start to read something I like to finish but that always isn't the case. Recently I lost interest in Charles Dickens' Best Short Stories collection in the middle of The Cricket on the Hearth. Instead I started to reread Isaac Asimov's Pebble in the Sky. I haven't read any Plastic Man this month but I'm two thirds the way through the Green Lantern Green Arrow TPB. Before that I read the first issue in Alan Moore Saga of the Swamp Thing collection.
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Post by impulse on Jul 21, 2014 9:38:43 GMT -5
Sorry to take it back a couple days, but I wanted to address a tangential thought I had to an earlier post. Work is crazy this time of year so I haven't had much spare time, but re: wanted/unwanted attention over provocative dress.
First, I want to say I wholeheartedly agree that a woman or anyone else should absolutely be able to walk down the street without being touched, molested, stalked, catcalled, whistled at, pursued, creeped on, or any other such thing by anyone for any reason, period, end of story. There is never an excuse for "she was asking for it by wearing that," and any such assault or problem is always the fault of the person committing the action, never the victim. Period.
Having made that clear, it does kind of bring up another thought. If someone is going to do something outside of socially accepted norms for the location/context of where they are, they are going to draw attention to themselves. To Shax' example, yes, a woman should be able to walk down the street naked unmolested and unharassed. However, it would be incredibly naive to assume she would not draw the attention of onlookers if for no other reason that it would be really unusual to see a woman walking buck-naked down the street. Or a naked man strutting down Manhattan. Or a troupe of albino little people having a slap-boxing fight in the middle of an intersection. Sure, onlookers don't have any right to harass those people, but if you are going to do something the defies cultural norms to a sufficient point you will draw attention for that reason at least.
I am not in any way making excuses for people crossing the line, nor do I feel qualified to say where that line should or shouldn't be, but it's an interesting train of thought for me. No matter which side of these particular scenarios any person falls on, anyone who deviates too much from what is generally considered socially acceptable is going to draw attention.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2014 9:44:19 GMT -5
Needless to say, I love this.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jul 21, 2014 10:56:57 GMT -5
Sorry to take it back a couple days, but I wanted to address a tangential thought I had to an earlier post. Work is crazy this time of year so I haven't had much spare time, but re: wanted/unwanted attention over provocative dress. First, I want to say I wholeheartedly agree that a woman or anyone else should absolutely be able to walk down the street without being touched, molested, stalked, catcalled, whistled at, pursued, creeped on, or any other such thing by anyone for any reason, period, end of story. There is never an excuse for "she was asking for it by wearing that," and any such assault or problem is always the fault of the person committing the action, never the victim. Period. Having made that clear, it does kind of bring up another thought. If someone is going to do something outside of socially accepted norms for the location/context of where they are, they are going to draw attention to themselves. To Shax' example, yes, a woman should be able to walk down the street naked unmolested and unharassed. However, it would be incredibly naive to assume she would not draw the attention of onlookers if for no other reason that it would be really unusual to see a woman walking buck-naked down the street. Or a naked man strutting down Manhattan. Or a troupe of albino little people having a slap-boxing fight in the middle of an intersection. Sure, onlookers don't have any right to harass those people, but if you are going to do something the defies cultural norms to a sufficient point you will draw attention for that reason at least. I am not in any way making excuses for people crossing the line, nor do I feel qualified to say where that line should or shouldn't be, but it's an interesting train of thought for me. No matter which side of these particular scenarios any person falls on, anyone who deviates too much from what is generally considered socially acceptable is going to draw attention. And you'll hardly ever get anyone to admit or at least acknowledge that they expected this when doing something like that. It's always harassment even if it really isn't. We nurtured a society where the blame is always some where else. One needs not accept that humans will react the way then do. And that a human reaction is hate or harassment or bigotry or misogyny, it's just human. Didn't mean to side track your thought impulse but that's what came to mind as I read your comment.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jul 21, 2014 11:05:28 GMT -5
Needless to say, I love this. I'm no journalist, nor am I Superman but I've never found it easy to find another job when involuntarily loosing one. I will admit I never thought about being a vacuum salesman.
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Post by impulse on Jul 21, 2014 11:18:48 GMT -5
And you'll hardly ever get anyone to admit or at least acknowledge that they expected this when doing something like that. It's always harassment even if it really isn't. We nurtured a society where the blame is always some where else. One needs not accept that humans will react the way then do. And that a human reaction is hate or harassment or bigotry or misogyny, it's just human. Didn't mean to side track your thought impulse but that's what came to mind as I read your comment. Hey, it's all part of the same discussion. Sidetrack, fronttrack, backtrack, whatever you like. I agree some people will take advantage of things like that and hide behind the PC-police (all the faux outrage, pretending what they are doing is somehow perfectly normal and they could not have possibly predicted they might turn heads, etc). Maybe it's because I'm just older and..not quite cynical, but I've been around the block a few times by now, so when I see people acting that way it really gets on my nerves. A fairly common instance in the US is certain folks in the media getting offended on behalf of another group whether or not the group at large even cares. I just have no more energy to deal with that kind of large scale pretense. It's a dated example but the Janet Jackson Super Bowl nipple slip thing. Was it tacky? Yeah, sure, but people acted like it was a the collapse of morality and all that is right in the world. There's 14 billion human nipples on the planet. You saw one. Whoop-dee-doo.
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