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[kingtycoon]

Christmas was alright.  I got a rock.  

It's fun to be able to say cause of Charlie Brown and all, I got a pretty cool rock though, but still a rock.  Also a coffee maker.  

I continue to lead the pack in gift-giving in my family, but this year I lagged behind in that I didn't really feel like shopping too much over the weekend.  Monday xmas made it weird.  Anyhow-  I hooked young Agatha all the way up.  From her mom she got a new treasure — the wood ukulele which she has graduated to based upon skill & interest.  

From me:  Top Hat (kind of a nice one) and monocle because she loves the Penguin & especially the one on Gotham, it's her jam.

Junkrat pin & poster as she is a devoted Junkrat main.  

Grappling hook & tactical rope.  Because what the heck 14 year old doesn't want an effing grappling hook?  It's pretty great.

I got this novelty wood-hand that's a guide to palmistry — it'd put you to mind of one of those old phrenology model heads — and because of that I ended up with some books about how to do palmistry.  Just for laughs.

A bunch of sectioned agate stones — all polished & pretty.

A silly abundance of novelty socks

Three beanworld anthologies

A few different tarot decks.  This year she started to develop a little interest & was a bit embarrassed to realize that all the paintings in our house have something to do with it.  Anyhow I picked out nice-design ones.

The Ringer — Fancy Pens & Fancy Notebooks.  Even if everything else is a bust she goes bananas for those every time.

Mortar & pestle (for some reason)

Microscope (for some reason)

Himalayan singing bowl

This wacky Japanese 'instrument' that looks like a musical note but it's belly is a cartoon bear head & when you squeeze it it makes crazy noises and is hysterical to me.  I don't know what it's called all the labeling & instructions are in Japanese.  

Lapis Lazuli runestones (for some reason)

A cool toy raygun

Really I wonder what the internet store must think of me?  I'm shocked it can still make recommendations. 

It's not great, what with my poor dying father & my spreading out & away family.  Grace & her husband were in town (surprisingly to me) from Seattle where they've gone off to the promised land to live the promised life.  Andrew & Afifa were up from Columbus but my brother & his wife & baby couldn't come which was sad but at least we had a time not so long ago — actually we had brotherly goodness going to see the new Star Wars together.  I think it's my favorite star wars.  Gotta go see it again to check.  Then we put all our daughters together with my sister's daughter and so far it's all girl generation, that generation.  Maybe it'll be that only.  Sometimes I go crazy and want to figure out how to have a baby again because I love them.  

Man I don't know anything about anything — It's cold and I'm at work but nobody else really is so being at work is at least real easy.  

Comments

[fordmadoxfraud.livejournal.com]

What is "beanworld"?

[kingtycoon.livejournal.com]

Short answer Larry Marder's Tales of the Beanworld, classic of 80's independent comics.

Long answer - once, years ago I was at a really great comic shop in Buffalo where they were clearing out their unbagged & unsorted - big $.25 sales & I went deep, digging up the weird junk I always ended up getting drawn to - so along with some Puma Blues & Mr. Pumpy's World and probably way too many cerebus I found one issue of Beanworld and got it, and I read it and was pretty blown away by it, and it sat in a box that I'd tear open and read through every so often & I'd go all bananas thinking about how I should find some more - but never quite managed to in any comic shop thereafter. For a long time I figured it was probably some kind of weird regional thing - I have a bunch of comics that I don't think you could get in stores except in NE Ohio or NW Pa - weird direct mail stuff you know? But eventually of course- the internet got filled up & was able to put it all together. I guess the book isn't big in comic shops, cause I've not seen any omnibus collections there - but you run into it elementary school libraries a lot - which is one of those things that's both encouraging & surprising.