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Now that’s a REAL motorcycle

Administrator — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:57:00 +0000

This is thing is sorta hot:

Royal Enfield 500 Motorcycle

Yes, I’m an Eames whore

Administrator — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 23:02:00 +0000

My newest acquisition:

Dan is gonna hate me

Administrator — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 07:00:00 +0000

So, my new red line stop is right next to a shop called Loehmann’s on Lake and State in downtown Chicago. On the way home tonight, I thought I’d stop in and see what kind of more professional looking jackets they may have. Generally, I wear my North Face jacket, which, though sporty, is not as upscale in “professional wear” as the rest of the folks in this new office.

My previous company, EA, well, it was acceptable to show up to work in a stained t-shirt and torn shorts. Yes, I’ve seen that there.

At any rate, I stopped by Loehmann’s to look at jackets and dress shirts (and maybe a cashmere v-neck if they had any for cheap, though that’s usually unlikely). Well, I found me a gorgeous Michael Kors navy blue peacoat, original retail $395.

I paid $95 for it.

So, yeah, now I have a really beautiful jacket that I can wear to work and not look like the new X-Treme Sportz dood interning from the local junior college.

Baby steps to looking more upscale every day. Next step is finding a nice pair of work shoes. I love my Kenneth Coles, but they hurt my feet something fierce. :-/

Thanks folks!

Administrator — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 01:14:00 +0000

Thanks to everyone for the advice for work clothes. I actually stopped by a TJ Maxx, not expecting to find anything, and found DESIGNER brands! FOR CHEAP!

I was able to get a couple pair of Calvin Klein slacks (one a pair a sharp charcoal with pinstripes that I love), and a pair of Perry Ellis (haven’t bought anything from them in a long time…hmmm.) Also, found a hot CK dress shirt and a great looking Michael Kors paisley print shirt. I’m super-stylin now!

Next I’m off to Filenes Basement to find a more comfortable pair of dress shoes. I have a pair of Kenneth Coles that I absolutely love in patent leather, but they’re incredibly uncomfortable over time. That’s fine for interviews and such, but not for working in every day.

So thanks again everyone, I really appreciate it. I’m actually going to run over to Brown Elephant to see if I can find some cool vintage stuff, thanks for the advice!

More Toys

Administrator — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 05:29:00 +0000

Eyerolls from various friends aside, I've just finished putting up the other detolf shelf I purchased at Ikea and displayed all the toys I've accumulated over the years, including my Takara Japanese import reissues Transformers.

Takara, the original manufacturer in Japan, decided a couple years back to reissue a bunch of the more popular Transformers with the same materials and set ups they had back in the day. So they're all die-cast metal and very handsomely created.

I've always loved the Transformer toys growing up, but I couldn't ever really afford many of them (I think I had one little one), as they were SO expensive. And getting the originals these days is insanely expensive (they're major collectors items now), so I've been purchasing these imports. They're on the pricey side as well, and I probably ruined all collector value for them by pulling them out of their boxes, but who cares. They look fucking cool in my cabinets:

Both cabinets in the spare room.

2nd shelf with some of my faves, Optimus Prime, Megatron, and others

3rd shelf down, with various smaller figures

Bottom shelf, with the big one actually consisting of 5 smaller Transformers that connect to make one huge one.

Of course, here are some of the newer additions in the other cabinet:

I found this cool, urban vinyl bomb figure at A.Okay Official by Chicago Comics. It's a rad shop, and they have all kinds of great imaginative figures there

Marvel Zombies figures! GRRRR!!!

I TOLD you they were cute

Administrator — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 03:26:00 +0000

Finally put up the other class bookcase and pulled these out of their boxes for display:

Here’s the hi res pic

Sick…and tiiiiiiired

Administrator — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 01:20:00 +0000

tiiiiired of playinnnnng zeeee GAAAAME!

So yah, I’m sick. I feel crappy…my throat’s sore, my sinuses are a mess and I have this fatigue setting in that makes it all even worse.

What does one do while they’re sick? Well, one goes internet window shopping, of course. I found this statue series I just now fell in love with: The Dark Phoenix Saga (Click here for high res version:

It appears these came out about two years ago…but the set has some of my favorite characters, mainly Nightcrawler and Colossus. Hmmm..Colossus…I think I might know what my Halloween costume next year might be

At any rate, I really do dig these but they’re very expensive, so I guess I’m gonna just have to go for the cheaper stuff, mainly the Super Hero Squad figures. I’ve found most of the ones I want, but still am missing Nightcrawler/Juggernaut and Beast/Iceman. I’ll probably eventually get the Fantastic Four ones as well, though I’m not as big a fan of that team. Anyway, these are so cute…with the smiling faces and big feet and hands. I’ve got a bunch of them now and the next wave comes in November with Storm, and Logan with a Motorcycle. These are the coolest little figures to come around in a very long time

Ikea Run

Administrator — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 05:33:00 +0000

This weekend I took and headed over to Ikea to pick up some glass cases for my toys that I want to preserve. In addition, I picked up a new shelf for my rubber duckies since the previous one got badly dented.

Here’s some pix of the results:

I have a bunch of Takara manufactured transformers from Japan that I’m probably going to pull out of their boxes and put on display in the 2nd glass case that I haven’t built yet. Those with some of my urban vinyl and my Super Hero Squad Marvel Action figures and it’ll look really fun

Yes, yes, I know I’m a HUGE nerd. This has long been acknowledged, analyzed, and categorized. At least I’m a cute nerd.