Weekend report - San Francisco edition!
Mon, Apr. 10th, 2006 01:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oyceterI got to go to an industry conference in the city for work, so it felt a lot like getting Friday off. I mean, it could have been tedious, but the conference was incredibly fun and reminded me of why I love my job in the first place and want to keep doing what I'm doing. Sadly, that feeling has been lacking a little in the past couple of weeks, so this was perfectly timed.
And since I was in the city already, as was![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-syndicated.gif)
rilina, we extended the dinner+night of hanging out to two nights!
I spent most of the day sitting in Borders (cream cheese and herb pretzels are very tasty) reading manga (Furuba 13, Godchild 1), and got so flustered by Godchild that I couldn't read any more manga and had to head up to the knitting section.
On the other hand, I found out that Debbie Stoller of Stitch 'N Bitch fame has written a crochet book called Happy Hookers! Must get! And I keep being tempted by knitting magazines, even though I only like three patterns out of the forty featured. When on earth is Knitty coming out with a new issue anyway?
(ETA: of course I post this and find that Knitty has in fact come out with a new issue just now, even though it was still the old one a few days ago!)
That night, we went to the lovely SF/fantasy/horror bookstore with the hairless cat, though sadly the cat was not there.
I also just found out that saying "sci-fi" is apparently Not Done and Rude and Derogative, which I was completely unaware of before, and will now try to switch to "SF" but will probably forget ten times over.
Anyhow! I got Scott Westerfeld's The Killing of Worlds, which I've already read, but seems to be rather hard to find.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rachelmanija, let me know if you've already found a copy, or if you want to borrow this one as well; it's the second half of the book I lent you. I was only going to get that, but then I succumbed and got His Majesty's Dragon as well, because... fantasy set in non-medieval Europe with dragons and war and Regency EEEEEEE!!! I continue to love that bookstore beyond words.
The newest featured grotesque stuffie was a plushie cockroach that was disturbingly cute. Past stuffies have been a centaur teddy bear and, of course, plushie Cthulu!
Then we had kitfo and some eggplant thing, which was extremely tasty, except I discovered that the thing that looked remarkably like a bell pepper was in fact not when I nearly burned the roof of my mouth off eating it.
The night was going to be topped off with a visit to Kinokuniya, except we got there way after it closed. However, we got crepes, so all was not lost!
And then we proceeded back to watch Samurai Champloo and laugh like maniacs.
The next day, I wandered over to Borders again (truly, I am predictable) and did the whole tachiyomi thing and read Fushigi Yugi: Genbu Kaiden 1-3, briefly toyed with the thought of reading Death Note but decided my brain was too dead, and very briefly contemplated reading Angel Sanctuary 12 and 13 before realizing that the prior dosage of Yuki Kaori brand Special Crack was still in my system.
I also bought Saiyuki 5 because a) I sadly do not have it and really need it, no really! b) I felt bad for reading so much at Borders and c) do I really need an excuse to buy Saiyuki?
I am so sad. I went back to the hotel and promptly sat down to reread Saiyuki 5 and noticed even more things! I adore Minekura. I love that she's got the ongoing thing with Goku and hair -- wee!Goku pulling Konzen's hair and comparing it to the sun, and of course Sanzo's very brief hairpat of Goku in vol. 6. But there's also Kenren yanking wee!Goku's hair to stop him the first time they bump into each other, and when Goku first meets Gojyo, he pulls Gojyo's hair as well and comments that it doesn't burn though it looks like fire. That remark actually reminds me of Goku's off-hand, completely casual remark on Hakkai's lifeline and the subsequent magic markered new lifeline. It's random and casual and seemingly thoughtless, but perfectly encapsulates the idea that things don't always have to be what they are, that things change, that nothing is permanent, because even if your hair is red, it doesn't need to embody sin.
I love Goku.
Anyway, after that, we headed over to Kinokuniya! Oh, the dangers of going there with a fellow fan!
rilina got Salty Dog 3 and 4 and the absolute cutest chibi FMA phone strap thing ever! It's got little grumpy Ed and extremely embarrassed Al, and OMG SO CUTE! Words cannot express the cuteness. Even all-caps internet speak cannot express the cuteness.
And I, uh, totally blew my budget for the next few weeks and succumbed to the lure of pretty pictures. In other words, I got Salty Dog 1, 3 AND 4, along with Yazawa Ai's Tenshi Nanka Ja Nai artbook. Lalala.
I would feel horribly guilty about spending so much money, except every time I do, I think about having all three Yazawa Ai artbooks and how lovely her art is and having Minekura artwork in hardcover and how even though I have all the scans, they're just so much prettier on paper and then I squee and my brain stops dead at the pretty!
I pet my new artbooks.
And since I was in the city already, as was
rilina, we extended the dinner+night of hanging out to two nights! I spent most of the day sitting in Borders (cream cheese and herb pretzels are very tasty) reading manga (Furuba 13, Godchild 1), and got so flustered by Godchild that I couldn't read any more manga and had to head up to the knitting section.
On the other hand, I found out that Debbie Stoller of Stitch 'N Bitch fame has written a crochet book called Happy Hookers! Must get! And I keep being tempted by knitting magazines, even though I only like three patterns out of the forty featured. When on earth is Knitty coming out with a new issue anyway?
(ETA: of course I post this and find that Knitty has in fact come out with a new issue just now, even though it was still the old one a few days ago!)
That night, we went to the lovely SF/fantasy/horror bookstore with the hairless cat, though sadly the cat was not there.
I also just found out that saying "sci-fi" is apparently Not Done and Rude and Derogative, which I was completely unaware of before, and will now try to switch to "SF" but will probably forget ten times over.
Anyhow! I got Scott Westerfeld's The Killing of Worlds, which I've already read, but seems to be rather hard to find.
rachelmanija, let me know if you've already found a copy, or if you want to borrow this one as well; it's the second half of the book I lent you. I was only going to get that, but then I succumbed and got His Majesty's Dragon as well, because... fantasy set in non-medieval Europe with dragons and war and Regency EEEEEEE!!! I continue to love that bookstore beyond words.The newest featured grotesque stuffie was a plushie cockroach that was disturbingly cute. Past stuffies have been a centaur teddy bear and, of course, plushie Cthulu!
Then we had kitfo and some eggplant thing, which was extremely tasty, except I discovered that the thing that looked remarkably like a bell pepper was in fact not when I nearly burned the roof of my mouth off eating it.
The night was going to be topped off with a visit to Kinokuniya, except we got there way after it closed. However, we got crepes, so all was not lost!
And then we proceeded back to watch Samurai Champloo and laugh like maniacs.
The next day, I wandered over to Borders again (truly, I am predictable) and did the whole tachiyomi thing and read Fushigi Yugi: Genbu Kaiden 1-3, briefly toyed with the thought of reading Death Note but decided my brain was too dead, and very briefly contemplated reading Angel Sanctuary 12 and 13 before realizing that the prior dosage of Yuki Kaori brand Special Crack was still in my system.
I also bought Saiyuki 5 because a) I sadly do not have it and really need it, no really! b) I felt bad for reading so much at Borders and c) do I really need an excuse to buy Saiyuki?
I am so sad. I went back to the hotel and promptly sat down to reread Saiyuki 5 and noticed even more things! I adore Minekura. I love that she's got the ongoing thing with Goku and hair -- wee!Goku pulling Konzen's hair and comparing it to the sun, and of course Sanzo's very brief hairpat of Goku in vol. 6. But there's also Kenren yanking wee!Goku's hair to stop him the first time they bump into each other, and when Goku first meets Gojyo, he pulls Gojyo's hair as well and comments that it doesn't burn though it looks like fire. That remark actually reminds me of Goku's off-hand, completely casual remark on Hakkai's lifeline and the subsequent magic markered new lifeline. It's random and casual and seemingly thoughtless, but perfectly encapsulates the idea that things don't always have to be what they are, that things change, that nothing is permanent, because even if your hair is red, it doesn't need to embody sin.
I love Goku.
Anyway, after that, we headed over to Kinokuniya! Oh, the dangers of going there with a fellow fan!
rilina got Salty Dog 3 and 4 and the absolute cutest chibi FMA phone strap thing ever! It's got little grumpy Ed and extremely embarrassed Al, and OMG SO CUTE! Words cannot express the cuteness. Even all-caps internet speak cannot express the cuteness.And I, uh, totally blew my budget for the next few weeks and succumbed to the lure of pretty pictures. In other words, I got Salty Dog 1, 3 AND 4, along with Yazawa Ai's Tenshi Nanka Ja Nai artbook. Lalala.
I would feel horribly guilty about spending so much money, except every time I do, I think about having all three Yazawa Ai artbooks and how lovely her art is and having Minekura artwork in hardcover and how even though I have all the scans, they're just so much prettier on paper and then I squee and my brain stops dead at the pretty!
I pet my new artbooks.
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