A successful Friday
Mar. 3rd, 2006 09:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Another week went by and indeed another Friday, one of the coldest, but rather satisfying.
I finally got to the Yarn shop on Chestnut Hill (a very nice neighborhood near Mt. Airy, where I'm currently staying).
The shop was awesome, God so much variety... in everything!
They had balls of yarn, skeins and wraps (I think they're called), finally bought the circular needles I've been jonesing for the past month and began my HP scarf (Tami, it'll be done by next winter I promise :).
Got stitch markers and DPN's (double pointed needles, to make the booties) and the shop owner was no nice, one of those classic bald men with a car underfoot.
He was very sweet and helpful and was very interested in the (lack of) variety in Israel, since he caught the fact that I was Israeli and he himself was Jewish... knits his own כיפות for God's sake.
So it was good.
Went to Borders books and bought a DC comic book with Batman and Superman, oh how I love the Bats... Supes is okay... in a boy scout kind of way. I love the interaction and dichotomy in those two, it's amazing how different their approach is and still how successful they are as superheroes.
Batman in probably the only reason I prefer DC to Marvel (okay and Vertigo is better, but they're practically independent from DC anyway).
Oh to be a superhero... but being a Mutant is better.
Batman is human and he's better than all of them.
I finally got to the Yarn shop on Chestnut Hill (a very nice neighborhood near Mt. Airy, where I'm currently staying).
The shop was awesome, God so much variety... in everything!
They had balls of yarn, skeins and wraps (I think they're called), finally bought the circular needles I've been jonesing for the past month and began my HP scarf (Tami, it'll be done by next winter I promise :).
Got stitch markers and DPN's (double pointed needles, to make the booties) and the shop owner was no nice, one of those classic bald men with a car underfoot.
He was very sweet and helpful and was very interested in the (lack of) variety in Israel, since he caught the fact that I was Israeli and he himself was Jewish... knits his own כיפות for God's sake.
So it was good.
Went to Borders books and bought a DC comic book with Batman and Superman, oh how I love the Bats... Supes is okay... in a boy scout kind of way. I love the interaction and dichotomy in those two, it's amazing how different their approach is and still how successful they are as superheroes.
Batman in probably the only reason I prefer DC to Marvel (okay and Vertigo is better, but they're practically independent from DC anyway).
Oh to be a superhero... but being a Mutant is better.
Batman is human and he's better than all of them.
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Date: 2006-03-04 03:47 am (UTC)Marvel all the way. :p
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Date: 2006-03-04 05:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-04 05:25 am (UTC)I really, really hate heroes that're pretty much invincible.
And all's I know about Dark Horse and Vertigo is that the former is the imprint that publishes Whedon comics and the latter did Sandman.
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Date: 2006-03-04 05:33 am (UTC)Constantine is prett good too, though the movie rocked my socks... though that was probably a healthy mix of Keanu and Tilda Swinton... whom I both love and would shag without thinking twice ;)
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Date: 2006-03-04 05:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-04 05:40 am (UTC)I--Wh---I ca--... I'm speechless /snark.
Really? That's a shame, he's such a misfit, that's one of the reasons I like him and he's really not that invinsable... he's benn crippled a few times over the years.
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Date: 2006-03-04 05:48 am (UTC)Then, finally, there're his fans. I hate all of them except you. :p
For what it's worth, I feel the same way about Wolverine (minus the non-super part) in the Marvel Universe so it's not just your hero that I hate. :)
And in case you're wondering: the X-Men. Colossus and Nightcrawler in particular.
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Date: 2006-03-04 05:54 am (UTC)Why do you hate Batman fans? (I also dislike fannish displays of affection, I must say, it's all very well to discuss social criticism and philosophy through popular culture, but to be fannish, nah, not for me).
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Date: 2006-03-04 05:56 am (UTC)And I hate them because of their rabid and slavish fanaticism. I actually feel somewhat similarly about Whedon's fans (I sometimes regret liking Firefly because its fanbase annoys the hell out of me) but as I am included in the group and am probably considered fannish by others, I tend to give them a pass.
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Date: 2006-03-04 06:04 am (UTC)I'm prorbably one of the oldest Buffy fans in Israel having seen it since it began on network television, which most people missed here.
I hate those stupid teenage girls that are "Shiny" ugh, they annoy the hell out of me, the guys seem to be better, since they seem to be a little bit more rational when it comes to the inter-relationships with the characters.
I think Buffy, Angel and Spike should form a menage, it'll balance out so well, True Love and Great Sex!
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Date: 2006-03-04 08:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-04 12:42 pm (UTC)I hope I get to see you memorial Day weekend! :)
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Date: 2006-03-04 02:00 pm (UTC)I told my sister I had an on-line freind (you) who lives near Buffalo and she askied me yo pass along a few questions;
1) Do you know East Aurora? And if so what is it like? (one of the places we are considering staying at).
2) Is the Canadian side really better?
3) Do you know any good places in Buffalo we can stay in?
Thankee!
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Date: 2006-03-04 09:25 pm (UTC)2) The Canadian side is better, and there's more to do there. I'll fill you in more later about it.
3) In Buffalo, you can stay at any hotel on Niagara Falls Boulevard.
I'll fill you in more later. I"m going out to dinner now :)
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Date: 2006-03-05 06:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-05 07:17 pm (UTC)This one is in a very nice neighborhood very close to the one my sister lives in.
It's huge and so muvh variety, unfortinately the yarn is quite expensive, so were the needles, but they're supposed to be expensive so that's okay.
KnitPicks.com is a great website. Check it out!
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Date: 2006-03-05 08:09 pm (UTC)thanks for the suggestion. *goes to check it out*
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Date: 2006-03-05 11:54 pm (UTC)תורה!
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Date: 2006-03-05 11:55 pm (UTC)whoops!
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Date: 2006-03-06 12:17 am (UTC)I know! I was psyched, it really was pretty cheap, plus no charge on shipping (over $40)!
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Date: 2006-03-06 01:35 am (UTC)www.lionbrand.com has lots of free patterns. don't know if i told u about it already....