Comments for the Hobbit Hole

Comment on BBQ Fritos….. (found!) by Jody

Jody — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 04:39:54 +0000

“I did find a few online vendors that would sell me a case at an “OK” price.”

Could you list the vendors that sell them. I’ll buy a case, they aren’t in calif.at all.

Comment on BBQ Fritos….. (found!) by David Lowell

David Lowell — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 20:42:03 +0000

I found them in a vending machine in the D.C. area two weeks ago. So they are in small bags too. They don’t seem to be available anywhere in California.

Comment on Facebook sucks by VanetaRogers

VanetaRogers — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 17:59:29 +0000

I see it as a necessary evil. My kids do their chatting and interacting on there, so I go on there to communicate with them — and to just be aware of what their doing… to be part of that world with them.

I also don’t get spam (?) – maybe it’s a guy thing. I know it was on MySpace.

The site does kind of suck though, because it’s gotten to big and out of hand. Twitter went through the same thing – it used to be pretty cool, but now it’s just massive and stupid.

Comment on a Tale of Two Conans by Bobb

Bobb — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:25:53 +0000

In the LCS where I help out on Comics Day, a few months ago we had two customers bring in a comic each to be CGC graded. One was a person who bought Amazing Fantays #15 from Mile High, which they told him was in 2.5 condition. The other was a copy of Green Lantern (2nd series) #76, in poor-good condition at best. We told him the condition, but he insisted he wanted CGC’d as well. When they both came back, 9the guy with the Green Lantern kept calling us and getting angry when it was not back in 4 weeks.) When the Amazing Fantasy as 2.5 the customer was happy. He told us he will open it the next time he wants to reread it. He only wanted to be sure he was not ripped off.

The guy with the Green Lantern was upset, he said he wanted to make some money off the book, and the Slabbed Grade ruined the amount he was going to ask for the book.

I’ve been readin comics for over 40 years, and when in my teens & early twenties I was a dealer at comic conventions. Overstreet was, and still is my comics bible. And i pegged the condition of both books. The arrival of CGC as the whole source of condition of comics, and the practice of slabbing In My Not So Humble Opinion will be the point that will kill the back issue buisness in the coming years.

The advent of bags in the 70′s helped bring down the value of most of the comic value, and market in the days that followed.

I now look at those days, as a golden age, better then how I feel CGC will kill the mid-grade market in the future.

Your Mileage may vary.

Comment on a Tale of Two Conans by HSOSA

HSOSA — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 02:00:32 +0000

HELL YEAH ! Ive been collecting comics since i was a kid and collecting comics back then was for nerds and geeks . Back in the day when the San Diego Comic Con wasnt Hollywood and shit. It s good to see someonce Crack the Slab and read their shite. Good show !

Comment on Facebook sucks by joe canzano

joe canzano — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:50:37 +0000

Now Larry, who “openly hates” a nice guy like you? You should go shoot that bastard, ha-ha.

I can really relate to this post. I have a Facebook page that I never use (except for the last few days, where I decided to shamelessly plug my new web site, happyjoe.net). And I look at some of my “friends” and I say, uh, who the hell are these people?

Just the fact that it’s so hard to delete should tell us all something.

Comment on Shogun Warriors by inujo

inujo — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 00:20:26 +0000

*cough* Macross (robotech)
*cough* Gundam
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8529504.stm

Yeah, girls can be giant robot nerds too.

Comment on Deal or No Deal – Marvel by bandsxbands

bandsxbands — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:23:25 +0000

Memory sure is becoming cheaper and cheaper and cheaper. I'm curious as to when we will finally hit the rate of 1 cent to 1 Gig.I await the day when I will finally be able to afford a 20 terabyte harddrive, haha. But for now I guess I will be satisfied with having a 32 gigabyte Micro SD Card in my R4i.(Submitted from NePof for R4i Nintendo DS.)

Comment on Shogun Warriors by WebHobbit

WebHobbit — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 02:10:07 +0000

No I hadn’t. That’s pretty wild.

Comment on Shogun Warriors by Al

Al — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:07:30 +0000

Have you seen this story yet?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8529504.stm