Author Archives: Nik Bronder

Thrift Store Woes.

Today I swung by my favorite Thrift Store to see what I could find. As usual I came up with the Holy Grail of thrift shopping, some type of giant metal tool that resembled a wrench but at the same time was not a wrench. As with all great finds at the Thrift Store I come across there was no price.

The lack of a price tag is my Achilles heal when it comes to thrift shopping. For some reason company policy is to not allow the item to be sold until the all powerful Thrift Store Pricer comes in the next morning and then the item will be restocked. For the life of me I can’t understand why the manager on duty can’t make a call on an item that can’t be worth more than $5 but rules are rules.

The last time I found a Holy Grail, a High School Diploma, it also did not have a price on it. To solve this dilemma I attempted to find another price tag and I put it on the diploma; little did I know items such as diplomas only warrant a price tag created via Magic Marker. I was told I would have to return tomorrow after the day manager priced the item and restocked it. Of course when I returned the following day the item was back out on the floor without a price. Baffling, simply baffling.

Back to the present… today I once again attempted to use the swapping price tag technique which once again didn’t work. So I will be spending my lunch hour tomorrow finding who actually prices items at the Thrift Store and for that matter who actually decides on what shit is so ghetto it can’t be sold.

If I am successful there will be Photographs of my latest Holy Grail Thrift Store item.

Shatner: To be or not to be.

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I must recommend William Shatner’s new album Has Been, it’s a series of spoken word/songs with guest appearances by the likes of Henry Rollings. I first heard about the album, which was produced by Ben Folds, while I was at a Henry Rollins show last winter. Rollins went into a whole spiel on how weird it was putting down some tracks with Bill Shatner.

The album has some good tracks starting with Common People, where Shatner goes on on about how bad it is to be a common person. Also the title track Has Been is a look into how society views an former star. Shatner closes the song with insight:

Has Been implies failure, not so. Has Been’s history.
Has Been’s… was, Has Been… might again.

Gun Season: Deer 5 | Hunters 0.

A dispute over a tree stand ended in a shootout on opening day of Hunting Season yesterday in Wisconsin. Apparently a hunting party came upon their tree stand to find a rogue hunter not willing to give up the spot without a fight. The man in the stand began shooting at the party eventually killing 5 and wounding three more:

Bill Wagner, 72, of Oshkosh told reporters “When you’re hunting you don’t expect somebody to try to shoot you and murder you. You have no idea who is coming up to you. We’re all old, dyed-in-wool hunters we wouldn’t go home because of this but we will keep it in our minds.”

The lesson here is to never sit in another man’s tree stand. And to think people thought the Pacers/Pistons game got crazy.