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nonelvis ([personal profile] nonelvis) wrote2009-10-28 07:19 pm
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APAD(ish) #28: Bookshelves

You can tell I'm getting desperate for photos now, because I've been reduced to photographing the geekiest bookshelves in the house. (In my defense, it's been pouring outside all day, so I couldn't go shoot what I'd planned to.)

Not like anyone who knows me or [livejournal.com profile] columbina needs further proof of this household's geek cred, but here it is anyway:

The geek bookshelves

Included on these shelves:

  • a ridiculous number of Marvel and DC comics collections, including an entire shelf of virtually nothing but X-Men books
  • a ridiculous number of other graphic novels: all the Sandman books, a whole bunch of Kyle Baker, the complete run of Cerebus (I KNOW, I KNOW, Dave Sim is a sexist pig and a monumental asshole, but at some point I do want to see how the story ends), Keith Knight collections, more Dykes to Watch Out For books than I can count ...
  • just out of camera range, all our Tintin, Lucky Luke, and Asterix books, many in French
  • ... and of course, the plush 20-sided die.
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[identity profile] elliptic-eye.livejournal.com 2009-10-29 12:23 am (UTC)(link)
That it's plush makes it that extra little bit better.

[identity profile] sanders268.livejournal.com 2009-10-29 01:44 am (UTC)(link)
Jealous of all the books (I don't have room in my teensy apartment for all of the ones I would like to have) and thrilled by the stuffed Bumble because that is how my Bumble kitty got her name.

[identity profile] ljhformigny.livejournal.com 2009-10-29 02:41 pm (UTC)(link)
I want a Bumble too! Preferably with a lot of dogs on its back.

[identity profile] columbina.livejournal.com 2009-10-29 03:30 pm (UTC)(link)
I would like to note that all the Marvel comics and all the Dave Sim are hers, and if we put them to the torch, we would have at least two more shelves of book space!

Also, bonus points to people who find the plush armadillo peeking its head out on one of the shelves.

The Abominable Snow Monster was one of a set of several low-cost plush toys from that show - you could also get Yukon Cornelius, Hermey, Rudoph, Burl IvesSam the Snowman, and Santa Claus - but I am damned if I remember what five-and-dime or gas station endcap or some such where I got it.

[identity profile] nipernaadi.livejournal.com 2009-10-31 05:23 am (UTC)(link)
So nice to see you remembering the
50th birthday of Asterix (http://www.asterix.com/birthday/) by posting the picture of where your copies live!

While I would question the statements of some history-minded fans who insist that Asterix was the biggest ally de Gaulle had in his wish to restore the self respect of the Frensh people after the upheavals of nineteen forties and -fifties, I sure have soft spot for them.

And for my youngest son the Asterix comics were the chicken soup for times being sick! For him the connection between being sick, needing solace and Asterix comics was even so strong that, when I asked to borrow his Asterix comics, he became concerned: "Are you sick?"
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