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foresthouse

The Things I Do For Free Comics

May 01, 2010 20:47

( My Hate for Buses, New Dresses, Caterpillars, and Comics. With Pictures! )

iron man, comics, clothes, picspam, wolverine, spider-man, x-men, rant, npc, reilly brown, terry pratchett, hilarity, matt fraction, deadpool

Comments 15

particle_person May 2 2010, 01:15:44 UTC

"is it REALLY this far from Bala Cynwyd to UPenn's main campus, REALLY?"

I can vouch for the fact that it IS. What were you doing over that way?

foresthouse May 2 2010, 01:26:39 UTC

It totally IS. This was back when my sister lived in Bala Cynwyd but worked on the UPenn campus and I was visiting her.

BUSES. I HATES THEM.

txvoodoo May 2 2010, 05:35:17 UTC

It is! It's like, MILES. BUT. If you're coming from Upper Darby (i.e. Delco burbs) on Market and time the lights JUST RIGHT it can take 15 mins :D

/trivia I still know though I haven't lived there since 1994

foresthouse May 2 2010, 06:08:47 UTC

IF YOU GO BY BUS IT APPARENTLY TAKES 3 YEARS. Hee.

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spectralbovine May 2 2010, 08:17:11 UTC

Nice summer dresses!

I hate buses too!!

My, that is quite a pull. Well done. I went to three different comic book stores and didn't even get that many. Well, I guess I could have if I had wanted more, but there weren't a lot I was interested in.

the group on the right are from past FCBDs(they still had them; why not?)
Hey, what the hell is that Daredevil comic?? I don't remember a DD FCBD!

Ex Machina and Transmetropolitan are both great!!

foresthouse May 5 2010, 08:23:44 UTC

Thanks!

BUSES. THEY R EVIL.

Yeah, I had two factors working for me: 1) My store is small and the owner knows me; and 2) THANKS TO THE BUS I didn't get there until less than 2 hrs before they closed, so they were all about getting rid of the stock by that point. Heh.

I'll check and see if the DD one actually *says* FCBD on it, but that's what the guy said - from another year. Maybe it wasn't last year? They had some older stuff.

Yay! Looking forward to reading them.

vwlphb May 2 2010, 15:46:47 UTC

My local comic shop would only let me take four comics. It made me wish I were back home :(

foresthouse May 5 2010, 08:24:25 UTC

Aw. :( Well at least you got a few! Which did you pick up? Oh, and I have 2 copies of the "Fractured Fables" one by accident, if you'd like one. :)

chocolate_frapp May 2 2010, 16:28:40 UTC

the buses around here are always full of wackos and rude people and bus drivers have lied to me about where stuff was too, one of them told me the wrong TOWN a place was in, not just the wrong street or something.

foresthouse May 5 2010, 08:25:13 UTC

Well now I don't feel quite so bad, like, "WHY DOES THIS ALWAYS HAPPEN TO ME? DOES EVERYONE ELSE JUST KNOW NOT TO LISTEN TO THEM??"

A different TOWN. Whoa.

ashcomp May 3 2010, 00:49:31 UTC

When Meridel went to Bryn Mawr, we learned that it was part of a co-op group with Swarthmore, Haverford, and the U of Penn. She took a number of courses at Haverford, just a short van ride down the road. But it struck me that to make it worth taking courses at Penn, you'd need to be able to schedule two or three on the same day. The trip down there and back would easily kill half a day.

foresthouse May 5 2010, 08:25:39 UTC

Yeah, another reason I hate buses - with the routes, it takes half a day to get anywhere.