Saturday, November 12, 2005
2000ads looking for a good home
I've been watching the listings on ebay and it's not good: 2000ads of the prog 500-1040 era don't really want to go to new homes, and so rather than spend hours of my life on futile sales mission I figure that I'm just going to send all mine out into the ether to make their own way in the world. Now there's a big chunk of my being (the one that's stored these for the last 10 years) that says "NOOO you wouldn't put a book in the bin you can't put a comic there" but there's another part that says "look lady you ain't reread a single issue ever, even after they've been in your living room for the last 3 months, they are driving you nuts as they are clutter and really what's the biggy?" Of course I could chop out the stories that if they were in graphic novel maybe I'd keep and use the magic of ring binders to simulate this but the bit of my brain that goes "desecration alert" seems to have even more of an issue with that. So what should a girl do?
a. store them out of sight and leave them behind when I move house (note this event is about 10 years away and I want to de-clutter)
b. store them out of sight and take them to continue to do the same with when I move house (see note above)
c. chop them up and keep Slaine, bin the rest
d. ask everyone I know if they want any of them (and I insist on full consent of all the occupants of the household they are going to if I know you: if you are a stranger hell I owe your partners no loyalty take them!)
e. find someone whose hamster wants multicoloured bedding and shred them for them...
f. fill up the recycling bin
g. dump them outside a comic store at night and run away
h. dump them outside a charity store at night and run away (with a load of other charity store kind of stuff).
i. persue another course of action as suggested by the reader...
I know lots of you will be horrified at the idea of comics not being cherished but I feel by keeping them locked away I am preventing anyone ever having the opportunity of deriving joy from them again so I need to liberate them somehow. I also have a bunch of Crisis and JD Megazines that are just so 1990s...
a. store them out of sight and leave them behind when I move house (note this event is about 10 years away and I want to de-clutter)
b. store them out of sight and take them to continue to do the same with when I move house (see note above)
c. chop them up and keep Slaine, bin the rest
d. ask everyone I know if they want any of them (and I insist on full consent of all the occupants of the household they are going to if I know you: if you are a stranger hell I owe your partners no loyalty take them!)
e. find someone whose hamster wants multicoloured bedding and shred them for them...
f. fill up the recycling bin
g. dump them outside a comic store at night and run away
h. dump them outside a charity store at night and run away (with a load of other charity store kind of stuff).
i. persue another course of action as suggested by the reader...
I know lots of you will be horrified at the idea of comics not being cherished but I feel by keeping them locked away I am preventing anyone ever having the opportunity of deriving joy from them again so I need to liberate them somehow. I also have a bunch of Crisis and JD Megazines that are just so 1990s...