Reminder: Garage Sale is Today

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on August 16, 2008

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You can also consider this post a reminder that I still have no idea how to use a flash: These and other fine books, only a quarter each. (I should mention I’ve got a box full of old Comics Journals, and I’m letting those go for only fifty cents each.) I’m on Cortland Avenue between Andover and Moultrie, 94110 (although this isn’t the address use 515 Cortland to get a close enough fix on my location). We’re going to be near the rubble of the old library, and next to the storage containmnent cube. Yes, it’s a garage sale, Armagetto-style! And I hope you can turn out. We’ll be there from 9 to 4. See you there!  

Time for the Garage Sale: Jeff Talks Prep and Pleads

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Posted by: Jeff Lester on August 14, 2008

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As always, my timing sucks because I’m so happy Graeme’s got a post up that I hate the idea someone might miss it with all the following hoo-ha I’m about to throw your way. So please make sure to see Graeme’s post below! Thank you. So it’s time for the annual hillwide garage sale in Bernal Heights this Saturday: that means people all over the hill will be having sales in front of their homes and apartments. And it means that, once again, I will be out on Cortland Avenue with a table, a bunch of long boxes, and some embarrassingly low prices: after much consideration, I’ve decided to hold my prices to a quarter a book. Google maps is…  Read More…

What’s wrong with this picture?

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Posted by: Jeff Lester on August 16, 2007

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[Apart from the fact the only stuff I've posted on a comics review blog lately is this pictures, a movie review, and a shill about my garage sale?] I’d opine there’s something wrong with throwing these books in a quarter bin. Some of them are too recent, most of them are too expensive, and a few of them are just too good to get thrown into a big long box and let go for a quarter. This is exactly the kind of hopping-blind anxiety I go through for the annual garage sale: usually, I start out by worrying that nobody’s gonna show if I’m not making some outrageously good deals (except Joe Keatinge and Chris French, who then go on…  Read More…

Hooray for Pointless Shilling: Jeff Talks Garage Sale.

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Posted by: Jeff Lester on August 8, 2007

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My intention was to be back by now with a surly review, a sweeping overview, and some general sass talk, but one of the freelance jobs I’ve been doing since leaving CE keeps expanding and expanding, and blotting out all my free time. But! I did want to make those of you who follow the blog that my annual garage sale is coming up on SATURDAY, AUGUST 18th from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Cortland Avenue in Bernal Heights. Those of you who follow the blog or shop the store will probably remember previous years where I breathlessly blabbed about what I was selling, posted photos, and just generally begged people to show. I may actually be too busy…  Read More…

Memoirs of an Invisible Man: A Thank You and An Update

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Posted by: Jeff Lester on September 6, 2006

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Right. So last time you heard from me, it was several weeks ago and I was planning a garage sale. Although you might or might not care (particularly since Graeme and Hibbs have been so on top of things), I thought it’d be nice to let you know what’s been up since then. First, the garage sale. Honestly, it was great. I knew all would be well when the sale’s patron saints, Joe Keatinge and Chris French, showed up early and hit those longboxes like they wanted ‘em to bleed. (You can find a terrifying inventory of Joe’s purchases here and a more concise summation of Chris’ stuff here.) Joe and Chris were the first guys at my garage sale…  Read More…

Last Time ‘Round the Corner: My Final Garage Sale Update

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Posted by: Jeff Lester on August 19, 2006

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Okay. Last update. I’m kinda tired and brain-dead–running a comic book store on a slow day is infinitely more tiring than running one on a busy day. Not sure what law of thermodynamics is covered by that, but it’s true. Tomorrow from 9 to 4 is the garage sale and this is my very last chance to hector you about it. It’s on Cortland Avenue in Bernal Heights. For those travelling by Bart/Muni, get your butts to 24th Ave. and then take any Mission bus down to Cortland Avenue (the delightful Zante Pizza is on one corner of Cortland and Mission and the even-more-delightful Spicy Bite is on the opposite corner). From there, you can either walk up the hill…  Read More…

Third Time’s The Charm: Jeff’s Garage Sale Update.

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Posted by: Jeff Lester on August 18, 2006

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Stupid Picasa. I wrote two different versions of this post and both of ‘em disappeared into the ether. So now you get the super-short version. Dammit. I was a huge Hong Kong movie junkie back in the ’90s and I’d be loathe to tell you what I spent on all of these movies back in the day. But I’m not watching them and they’re slowly fading (and have faded) and do nobody any good sitting in a storage space. So they’re going to be at the garage sale too–a quarter a piece. I can’t exactly guarantee that they’ll play or be watchable or anything but I think a lot of ‘em will be, and a quarter isn’t exactly a lot…  Read More…

Garage Sale THIS Coming Saturday!! (Plus, Comic Book Reviews.)

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Posted by: Jeff Lester on August 15, 2006

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First, the big news: the garage sale is this upcoming Saturday, the 19th, and I’m not even remotely prepared. I’ve got eight longboxes of comics still to sort through so you’ll probably get an update on Thursday (and, God help you, Friday). But I can tell you this: it’s not going to be in a garage. Or near a garage. It’s being held on Cortland Avenue, the main strip of lovely Bernal Heights, on the block between Andover and Moultrie. (See here for a handy Google map.) Last year, nobody would’ve showed for my sale if it hadn’t been for the awesome people who heard about it through this blog or visiting CE. This year, average passerby will have no…  Read More…

Garage Sale Aftermath….

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on August 15, 2005

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Essentially, it was an awesome garage sale. Admittedly, you have to kind of stretch your definition of awesome to include “cold, drizzly, and underserved by foot traffic,” but if you can, then yeah, it was awesome. Blessed be to Hibbs for letting me advertise the sale here and at the store–the bulk of the people who showed up were CE customers and subs who totally bowled over Edi with how funny, polite and kind they were. Most of them seemed pretty pleased with their purchases, to the point of more or less apologizing for robbing me blind by buying so many comic books and stuff at such low prices, but I was really happy to move some stuff and see…  Read More…

Last Freakin’ Garage Sale Update…

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on August 13, 2005

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Because tomorrow is the big sale, and at the moment I’m trying to figure out if I should put prices on some of these odds and ends, like memory cards and stuff, or if that’s just dumb. I’m really, really glad there are people like Hibbs who can do what they do, because if I was running a comic book store? It’d make it maybe a year, tops. I mean, I was glad to spend three bucks on the seventh issue of Shanna so I can now bag it with the other issues and sell the whole set tomorrow for six bucks. That’s a hard thing to type knowing Brian is going to fall off his chair laughing when he…  Read More…

Another Garage Sale Update….

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on August 11, 2005

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Yes, another one. Don’t worry. By Saturday night, this will all be over. So more cling-wrapping for sets, but I also decided to follow Hibbs’ advice. He said if I wanted to guarantee that the stuff moves I should mark it ten for a buck. I kinda didn’t want to do that considering the money I’ve spent on this stuff over time but then again, I want to sell it on Ebay even less. So I do hope some of you are planning on stopping by, because the post office’s loss is your gain. I’ve got over seven long boxes of comics that are a dime apiece, and I think it’s a pleasing mix of good, bad and indescribable. Those…  Read More…

In Which Jeff Advertises His Upcoming Garage Sale…

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on August 10, 2005

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The battle with cling wrap continues…or will be, shortly. It’s already past two and I’ve pissed most of the day away watching G.I. Samurai (an old fave I just discovered was on DVD last night) and The Wicker Man, an old copy of which I discovered digging through my stuff. A great double-feature, but it doesn’t bind up the ol’ JLA/Avengers miniseries in cling wrap, unfortunately…. Anyway, what follows is the text that I posted to the garage sale section of Craigslist just now. Fortunately I can do stuff here that I couldn’t or wouldn’t on Craigslist and can give you both a tinyURL for the googlemaps location of the sale, and an email address in case you have any…  Read More…

Short, Cranky and Mildly Panderous: Jeff’s Reviews of 08/03/05 Books.

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on August 8, 2005

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First, let’s be clear on one thing: I freakin’ hate cling wrap and I hope the sonuvabitch who invented it is burning in a sizeable fiery pit right now. The only thing cling wrap is good for is sticking to cling wrap, and it’s only good for that when you don’t want it to do so (when you first tear it off the roll, for example). Otherwise, you can crease it against another piece of wrap all you want and have nothing to show for it except heightened blood pressure and a newly found compulsion to throw oneself out a window. I’m having a garage sale on Saturday the 13th, and I’m trying to make sets for it—like the sets…  Read More…