So anyway, what else went on this weekend? Well, we stopped by Bizarro Wuxtry, which as you might have heard, is America's finest comic shop. None better anywhere! I picked up Amor y Cohetes, the newest collection of classic Hernandez Brothers work, and volume one of Osamu Tezuka's Dororo and that newish collection of Harvey Comics' Hot Stuff. I also picked up issue # 26 of Blue Beetle, having accepted a fellow's offer to pick up the low-selling title of my choice in exchange for my buying his low-selling favorite. He agreed to start buying The Spirit and I have this on my pull list for a few months.

Anyway, downstairs is one of America's finest record stores. This time up, I ordered the final Mendoza Line album... they broke up and released a farewell album last year and I had no freaking idea. How annoying, but also how sad. I really love this group, and I'm sorry to hear they've split up. Also this trip, I picked up Rabbit Fur Coat by Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins. We listened to some of that while driving around and I really like it. Click the link in the picture to visit Wuxtry's website.



While at Wuxtry, Devlin - who was the first person to learn about our engagement - told us that "Final Markdown," a small chain of closeout stores, similar to Big Lots, was selling big ole glass bottles of Hosmer soda. These appear to be repurposed bottles from the Connecticut-based company's old home distribution network. If there is a Final Markdown store nearby, you can get a whole lot of really good soda for for only 59 cents a bottle. The root beer is almost as good as Frostie and Henry Weinhard's! The link below may not be working. I was looking over their company website yesterday, but it appears to be down tonight.



You know how I was saying that one of the State Botanical Gardens trails takes you along the banks of the Oconee? Perhaps the only positive element of Georgia's drought is that the river is so low that you and a loved one can wade right into the middle of the river and make out. And, provided there are no smirking jackasses on the shore whose camera sports a pretty darn good zoom, you can probably have the time of your life without worrying about your canoodlin' being captured for posterity. Smile, lovebirds!



Well, while we were gettin' engaged and spyin' on folk and buyin' stuff and hopefully showing off houses to the right people, the Hipster Kids' mother came into town for the first time since gettin' hitched herself. She brought her husband and the Hipster Nephew along and they went to Stone Mountain and went to see Speed Racer. The kids think this movie is COMPLETELY AWESOME, but Deb growled about losing almost three hours and ten bucks on it. But she didn't like The Godfather, Citizen Kane or Heavenly Creatures either, so she may not have had her "knows good movies" circuit installed at the factory. Anyway, here she is with all three of her kids. I'm incredibly pleased with this picture.



Well, it's about 9.43 and what sounds like a tornado siren (over at Dobbins?) has been going for about ten minutes. I've been looking at the news and weather sites but they're all reporting clear skies. I wonder if that's going to stop anytime soon. The kids are grousing that they'd like to go to sleep.

Okay, I think I'm going to add a few images to the previous post and then we're done with happy fun update stuff for now. More news on TV and comics you should be reading tomorrow, all right? Take care, everybody!