Random image spammage, blather

[telophase]

At lunch today I went by Borders because the online inventory checker thingy said both Saiyuki Reload 1 and Fruits Basket 11 were in stock. Found Furuba, but SR wasn't anywhere. After approximately a metric buttload of employees who are normally happy and smiley and asking you if you need help brusquely walked by me while deliberately avoiding my gaze, I went over to Customer Service. Where the woman there who was - at least to start with - happy and smiley looked up SR and said that it had a street date of August 9th and they couldn't put it out before then, although failed to adequately explain why it was marked as being available in the online inventory.

And then I sort of gestured the Furuba I was holding at her and said "Strange. I thought this had the same street date as Saiyuki Reload." She said that I was probably mistaken and looked it up to discover that Furuba 11 did indeed have a street date of August 9th. She'd lost the happy smiley facade by this point and muttered that she was going to have to pull all of them, and stared hungrily at my copy and grudgingly admitted that since I'd picked it up she of course could't take it away, and I got distinct vibes that she was sort of hoping that I'd surrender it voluntarily. Tough luck, sister! You didn't respond to my vibes that I was sort of hoping you'd go get a copy of SR from the back, so you don't get to take Furuba back. XD

So if you had intended to go buy Furuba 11 from the Borders at Hulen and I-30 in Fort Worth this weekend: it's my fault. However the Barnes and Noble on University just south of I-30 has absolutely no problem with breaking street date on Saiyuki Reload, so I ahve a copy after all, but strangely they do not have any Furuba 11 out. (And both copies of volume 10 are shrink-wrapped. Why, I have no idea. Any thoughts?)

Downloaded some pics from my phone - kittyspam and Saiyuki toys.




This is my cat where she spent most of the evening Thursday: attempting to fit sideways into a box lid that can only hold her longways. She kept standing up, turning 180 degrees, and lying back down again. I don't think there's a future for my cat in advanced spatial analysis.




Getting a scritch.




This one was taken a couple of weeks ago, but I don't recognize the backgound, so I ahve no idea what she was lying on.




These are two random plastic figurines - the base is about the size of a large soda bottle cap - that I bought a couple of years ago at A-Kon, one of those things where you buy the box and don't get tos ee what's inside until you open it. It took me a long time to realize that the bunny was Nii Jienyi's bunny. XD The other one is supposed to be Gojyo.




Very blurry closeup of the bunny. Gojyo wans't cooperating, so I don't have one of him.




And here's some pics from alst Novermber, at a (very) small con here called Itzacon. This woman and her coat hung out for a little while in front of the table I was at, and I thought she had some really nice poses, whipped out the phone, and took a couple. I missed the one I *really* wanted, which had her legs farther apart and more stable, but at any rate I think I have finally found the character to go with those poses: for those of you who read Death Note, aren't these perfect Mello shots?

Comments

[tekenduis.livejournal.com]

*blink* They wouldn't get SR for you? I picked mine up at the comic shop today, along with Furuba 11. Odd.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I know that they're not supposed to break street date, but when they decide to observe it, it's usually not entered into the online inventory thingy to say it's in stock.

The shop I could count on to break street date for me is, alas, 45 minutes away now that I've moved.

[rilina.livejournal.com]

I had the same exact experience at Borders with SR1, except I didn't have the consolation of getting something else at the time. Grr.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I recommend trying Barnes & Noble, if there's one nearby. :D

small world

[meliscornelis.livejournal.com]

Ahh, its so crazy that I'm reading you describing where the Barnes & Noble is around Forth Worth and I know exactly where you're talking about. I used to live in Arlington and would wind up in Fort Worth pretty regularly.

Was Itzacon any good? I went to A-Kon 15, but I was busy the weekend of Itzacon. I would say, "Looks fun," but I can't really tell from the pictures.

Re: small world

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Hee. My apartment complex is just off Eastchase, near the Arlington city limits. :D

Itzacon ... well, it was veryveryveryveryveryveryvery small. That's about all I can really say. I made enough sales - i.e., one commission and one print sold - to pay for my $10 table and for lunch, so I didn't actually *lose* any money, and I got to sit with friends and play Fluxx most of the day.

Re: small world

[meliscornelis.livejournal.com]

Ok, that's mad scary!!! I lived right off Eastchase...well, the second apartment complex down, right before the long stretch of Easchase between Eastchase mall and Pioneer Parkway. I bet now there are a bunch more complexes. You're really close to the movie theatre and Eastchase mall, right?

Ya, from the info I had heard about Itzacon, it was going to be super tiny. Well, making money is better than losing it, any-day. And sounds like fun enough.

Re: small world

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I know where that complex is. :) I'm just north of the highway, right behind the Lowe's that's just gone in (as in: the grand opening was this weekend) in the enourmous vacant lot that used to stand there.

[jofpgallagher.livejournal.com]

Returning Fruits Basket #11??? Haha...that lady gotta be kidding! I don't understand why they are pulling then away from the shelves. Everyone else is selling FB already!!
I really really really really hate buying mangas at B&N. They rarely know a anything about it. The look at you as you are some sorta freak buyinh "childish comics"...poor ignorants.

[jofpgallagher.livejournal.com]

By the way...your cat is a copycat of my cat.

[coffeeandink.livejournal.com]

You know what I think? I think it was *us*. Saying too loudly we were getting stuff before street date where Tokyopop reps could read it and making them complain to stores.

I've learned my lesson. I'm never doing *that* again. I will hug my pre-streetdate manga to myself in silent glee.

Or it could just be Harry Potter fall-out, of course.

[mistressrenet.livejournal.com]

My Borders has both FB 11 and Reload 1 on an endcap. But my local shop didn't get Reload yet. The logic, it does not exist.

[fourthage.livejournal.com]

I've found the thing to do with the online inventory is to request a hold. The person who goes and looks for the book isn't going to double-check the street date, so if it's in the store, it'll end up behind the cash register with your name on it.