I sold my phone on eBay. Kid buys it Wednesday night. I pack and hand it off to the mailroom early Thursday morning for shipping. They wind up not sending it out until Monday. Fine. Whatever. THE VERY NEXT DAY, the kid opens an "Item not received" incident with eBay, putting my account into a negative $200 freeze (I had already withdrawn the money ( Read more... )

Watched Biutiful today. Holy shit. People talk about how scary it must be to live in Stephen King's mind. That must be a Sunday picnic compared to the depressing shit that lives in Iñárritu's.

Anyone else not getting any LJ emails at all ever?

A few of you may have seen me railing on Twitter lately about Amazon woes. If you're curious what that's been about, here it is in a nutshell.

Amazon is holding $1200 of my money hostage because my seller account doesn't have buyer feedback.A few days ago I finally sold a lens I'd had listed on there for weeks (yay!). Mere seconds after the item ( Read more... )

I found a use for that pebble in my shoe*

*p.s. a much better analogy than the vomit one

and kinda messed with my head because a) I was still half-asleep at the time, and b) read it as coming from Guy.


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So tonight I found out about this lesser-known warehouse sale firm, Soiffer Haskins. When a brand like, say, Ralph Lauren or Perry Ellis need to unload stock and can't run a SALE because it seems desperate, they sell it to SH on consignment. SH sells the merch and the store gets a percentage. The result is getting things like an $825 pair of Bally ( Read more... )

I has a beard now


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I knew there was a reason I kept coming back to this show.


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