New monster figure! (pics)
We were shopping in Little Tokyo at Anime Jungle and we saw this figure – Aviva freaked out, loved it, so we got it. I don’t know what it is – can anyone identify this monster for me?
January 29th, 2012 by alephnaught
Photos from downtown LA
Here are some pictures I took yesterday walking around downtown and Little Tokyo.
January 20th, 2012 by alephnaught
December 24th, 2011 by alephnaught
Catapult kit, assembled
My boss got me a (very cool) wooden catapult kit – as he said before I opened it, “Something he wished he had.” I love it! I wasn’t feeling well, getting over a bout of laryngitis, and spent about an hour assembling the kit. It’s over 6 inches long and can fire a clay ball […]
December 23rd, 2011 by alephnaught
Pictures of bottles of rockin’ wine
We went out to lunch this week and the restaurant had some really interesting bottles of wine – here are the pics!
December 11th, 2011 by alephnaught
December 7th, 2011 by alephnaught
Mindfire: Big Ideas for Curious Minds (review)
Title: Mindfire: Big Ideas for Curious Minds Author: Scott Berkun Paperback: 196 pages Publisher: Berkun Media (October 26, 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 0983873100 ISBN-13: 978-0983873105 I’ve read at least one book by Scott Berkun before, Confessions of a Public Speaker, and I liked it so much I decided to spring for his latest. Some other […]
November 27th, 2011 by alephnaught
Subwayland (book review)
Title: Subwayland: Adventures in the World Beneath New York Author: Randy Kennedy Paperback: 240 pages Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin (February 19, 2004) Language: English ISBN-10: 0312324340 ISBN-13: 978-0312324346 Walking around Distant Lands one day, I saw this book and wanted to read it – I have a great interest in subways after living in Chicago […]
November 12th, 2011 by alephnaught
Haunted: Dark Delicacies III (review)
Title: Haunted: Dark Delicacies III Author: Del Howison (Editor), Jeff Gelb (Editor) Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: Ace (March 29, 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 0441020194 ISBN-13: 978-0441020195 This is the third (and currently last) anthology from Dark Delicacies’s owner Del Howison; you can read my reviews of the other two books here and here. I loved […]
November 11th, 2011 by alephnaught
Dark Delicacies II: Fear; More Original Tales of Terror and the Macabre (review)
Title: Dark Delicacies II: Fear; More Original Tales of Terror and the Macabre by the World’s Greatest Horror Writers Author: Del Howison (Editor), Jeff Gelb (Editor), Ray Harryhausen (Foreword) Paperback: 256 pages Publisher: Running Press (November 2, 2007) Language: English ISBN-10: 0786719516 ISBN-13: 978-0786719518 I really enjoyed this book – this is the second of […]
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February 4th, 2012 by alephnaught
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