Chris Pitzer and Fred Chao thumbing through longboxes.

Big Apple Comic Con 2009

Warehouse Manager Seth Peagler was here at 7am (!) with Shelton--the two of them carried a few dozen longboxes worth of $2 books, as well as a second stock of dollar books! What a way to start the day! People love looking through those boxes though--we had a steady stream of back issues coming into the store all day long.

I love small town music stores. Places stuck so far back in time that it's the closest you can get to experiencing time travel in tactile form. So I did it. I bought this CD, which is one of my favorites from age 14. The store also had tons of cassettes.

Me, a piss poor beard, and the boy

See, they hold a lot!

400 yen each x6.