{"id":32907,"date":"2024-07-20T16:42:08","date_gmt":"2024-07-20T21:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=32907"},"modified":"2024-07-20T16:42:08","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T21:42:08","slug":"good-book-hunting-saturday-july-20-2024-the-senior-center-garage-sale-and-rublecon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/20\/good-book-hunting-saturday-july-20-2024-the-senior-center-garage-sale-and-rublecon\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Book Hunting, Saturday, July 20, 2024: The Senior Center Garage Sale and Rublecon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d circled this day on my calendar.  Well, not really.  Although I do still have a wall calendar upon which very little is written, I didn&#8217;t circle this day.  But I had looked up when Rublecon was this year, and I remembered; and after celebrating my oldest son&#8217;s 18th birthday at the Red Lobster, I drove the back streets to see if the Senior Center up on Fremont was having its garage sale.  And it was also today, so I was able to remember both because I planned to go to both.  I can&#8217;t remember the last time I made it to the Senior Center&#8217;s garage sale&#8211;it might have only been once a decade or more ago&#8211;but I know I was at Rublecon <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/20\/a-little-con-but-a-con\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">in 2022<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So I did.  And I spent a lot of money, relatively.  Mostly at the con of course.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh07202024.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>At the garage sale, I got a couple DVDs for a buck:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The Alamo<\/em> with John Wayne<\/li>\n<li>Three Tarzan movies: <em>Tarzan the Fearless<\/em>, <em>Tarzan and the Trappers<\/em>, and <em>Tarzan and the Green Goddess<\/em>.  They&#8217;re actually serials from the 30s with Herman Brix as Tarzan.<\/li>\n<li><em>Hell On Wheels: The Complete First Season<\/em>.  I had no idea what it was, but apparently it&#8217;s a cable television series about the construction of the transcontinental railroad.<\/li>\n<li><em>Captain&#8217;s Courageous<\/em> with Spencer Tracy.  It&#8217;s been <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/25\/book-report-captains-courageous-by-rudyard-kipling-1897-1970\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">fourteen years<\/a> since I read the book.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Warlord<\/em> with Charlton Heston.  Because Heston.  And it has to be better than <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/01\/semibachelorhood-viewing-warlords-1988\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Warlords<\/em> with David Carradine<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Books were only a quarter each, but I only got a few.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Ethan Allen: The Treasury of American Traditional Interiors<\/em>, presumably a picture book of furniture.<\/li>\n<li><em>Sunset Basic Carpentry Illustrated<\/em>.  I might already own it, but I probably could use a refresher course.<\/li>\n<li><em>Mickey Mantle: Before the Glory<\/em> by John G. Hall.  Which will include some stories about his time in southwest Missouri, no doubt.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Tai Chi Directory<\/em> by Kim Davies.  Because I might as well have a book about tai chi which is not about walking.<\/li>\n<li><em>File, Don&#8217;t Pile: A Proven Filing System for Personal and Professional Use<\/em> by Pat Dorff.  Maybe I can find some pointers for keeping my desk clean, but it&#8217;s not filing that accumulates here.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Christmas Train<\/em> by David Baldacci.  Because the more I seed my to-read stacks with Christmas novels, the better chance I will have of actually finding one when I go looking in December.<\/li>\n<li><em>Cats and Dogs Unleashed<\/em>, a cutesy little book of photos which I will turn to when I am desperate to log books later in the year.  If I can find it.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Wisdom of Yo Meow Ma<\/em>, a humor book by Joanna Sandsmark.  I hope it&#8217;s humor.  One never knows these days.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The book selection was lousy with books about teaching home economics and about fashion design and the fashion business; in the old days, my Ebaying days, I would have bought the lot, but old textbooks really didn&#8217;t move well.  And I can&#8217;t buy them all.<\/p>\n<p>I bought a couple other things at the sale, including a double-boiler for fifty cents, a puzzle, and a backup videocassette player for five dollars.<\/p>\n<p>And at Rublecon, I bought a bunch even though only one author\/artist was there.<\/p>\n<p>It was Cody Walker (and his young son).  I recognized his <em>City Noir<\/em> comic and said I&#8217;d bought it last time, but it was at <a href=\"\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">LibraryCon 2017<\/a>.  Which falls in the Noggle definition of &#8220;just&#8221; and &#8220;recently.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I bought a couple of comics from him: <em>Everland<\/em> which is a malevolent take on <em>Peter Pan<\/em>, and one that was done by his young son called <em>Hunt Alone<\/em> which is a Kevin McCallister vs Predator.<\/p>\n<p>In the interim, though, Walker has been writing books.  I got:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Loot the Bodies<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><em>Popgun Chaos Mixtape<\/em> which is a sampler of the other books and a short story.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Lion, The Wizard, and the Eye<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><em>Lost Your Own Paradise<\/em>, a choose-your-own adventure where you&#8217;re the devil trying to tempt Adam and Eve.<\/li>\n<li><em>Hang Me If I Stay Here, Shoot Me If I Run<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><em>Down the Road and Back Again: Poems for the Golden Girls<\/em>.  Poems based on episodes of the television show.<\/li>\n<li><em>Songs for Sisu<\/em>, another collection of poetry.<\/li>\n<li><em>Everland Book 1: To Kill a God<\/em>.  Based on the comic.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The guy is prolific, no question.  I wish I were that disciplined.<\/p>\n<p>I will likely read the comics soon and probably try out one of the other books before long.  If I can find them.<\/p>\n<p>If I had gone to the book signing at ABC Books today, I would probably have spent less.  But it would likely have been spending only deferred until Walker had a signing there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d circled this day on my calendar. Well, not really. Although I do still have a wall calendar upon which very little is written, I didn&#8217;t circle this day. 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