I have preordered a box of the minifigs because I do not feel like fighting with other collectors and their iPhones scanning all the bar codes, bleh. Anyway, they're not exactly blind bags now so all the fun is gone and all I really want anyway is for series 2 to come out so I can get the black Count Dooku hair. Anyway ...

I haven't made anything in, like, forever, although I have all the little project materials set aside to get to when I get to them. And there they sit, mocking me. Assholes.

Now I have a series to buy but I don't want to buy from Borders because I'd rather throw my money away at an independent LCS but I don't like any of the ones around here. I did like the Comic Cellar but that's all the way in Monrovia. I went back there after the last meet since it also happened to be Free Comic Book Day. They'd changed locations since the last time I'd gone there but the same helpful fella was behind the counter. In the spirit of the holiday, he sold me four Blackest Night rings for a quarter and said he was sorry he didn't have all of them. Me too. They're huge, they're loose on my thumb, I guess I know what they expected their market to be.

I wonder if that store in Woodland Hills is still there? The one with the upstairs and downstairs next to that soul food place?