Here comes another one

Wheee!
Didn't you see this one coming... I stumbled on a Paypal/eBay coupon over at redflagdeals for 10% off a transaction not including shipping (it expires today).

http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5987093157&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWN%3AIT&rd=1

She's Kasumi from the Dead or Alive series of video games.
I'm pretty picky when it comes to these collectible statues - especially since Kasumi happens to be one of my favourite game characters - I hold her merchandise to a higher standard. This is the first time i've seen one that looks remotely like the image I have in my mind's eye for a cartoon version of her.

There've been other sculpts but they never looked quite right to me.

ZZ Top @ Bluesfest

It occurs to me that a lot of the time I make my life out to be fairly dull. But it's not entirely boring day to day. Take last night for instance. I live in Ottawa and there're plenty of live events to see in the summer: Bluesfest is one. I'm not a huge fan of blues music but I'll make an exception for hard rock laced with blues undertones.

The ZZ Top concert was fantastic. I learned that I really ought to expand my horizons. And that these guys have a repertoire of songs going back over 35 years. They played some stuff older than I am! ^_^;

But for the stuff I did know - wow: a pumping version of Viva Las Vegas followed by the classic "Eliminator" trilogy back-to-back was something else. And finally an encore performance where you could see who was a fan and who was just there because they had week-long event passes. After the "casuals" thinned out the crowd, the rest of us really got into their rendition of Jail House Rock and medley of Tush and La Grange - classics any fan worth their salt knows by heart.

Twenty-five bucks for a day-ticket? Heck, that was the bargain of the century.

...but first... about that deck

http://www.clarioncanada.com/en/products/source_units/DXZ755MC.html

Ah - that would be sweetness. Too bad it's so damn expensive. Just that I've lived on radio for so long it'd be really nice to have a working deck in my car again. And in the meantime, I already have a television set - primitive as it may be - that still works just fine.

But that sweetness is calling to me... if I were smart, I'd wait till it went on sale and used the money I save on one of those extended warranty plans. (*sigh*) I'm just a little peeved about being burned on that dead p.o.s. that I have right now. Considering the wear and tear I put on this stuff, maybe for once, one of those plans might actually be worth it for a change.

plasma-envy

Some people just had some very different priorities 5 years ago... I bought my first car.

My Singapore penpal sent me a JPG of her family room over the weekend ...I drooled at the sight of a 40-something inch plasma screen television. She told me it was a very old model: something her folks picked up years ago at a stunning $30'000SGD (that's just under $20'000 USD if I've done my math right). And in her own bed room is a 32" LCD television...

And to think I was gun-shy about firing off a few thousand bucks for a smaller LCD screen a little while back. If anything, this revelation about her television arrangement has gotten me thinking that I ought to be comfortable with spending money on a bit of luxury. Why confine my spending to a few comics a month or a few new gokin for my colletion every year?

Besides which, my car is about paid for (another two months, I believe)... *sigh*

If bored Friday, I've been dead since

What a wash-out... I just glanced at the clock and thought: wow - it's almost supper time. That's right, I never even made it out of my apartment today. Just as well, the temperature went up again.

Went into town as usual yesterday on foot. Wasn't nearly as hot as today. My haul:
The OMAC Project #3
DC Special: The Return of Donna Troy #2
Amazing Fantasy #10
Fathom #2

Wipeout Pure for PSP used - saved about $5.

And a novelty T-shirt featuring a print of the green 1-Up mushroom from the classic Super Mario Bros. game...

No comments to share on any of it. Except perhaps the OMAC story-line - freaky. Cool... can't wait to see what this all leads up to. I'm not nearly as hardcore when it comes to collecting comics as before, but I thoroughly enjoyed Identity Crisis last summer so I'm looking forward to this big event DC has been hyping up for the fall.

Oh, I've also discovered that I'm none too sure of how I look in green. Maybe I should've gone with the red mushroom shirt...