Comicses

Just been down post office to post a bunch I sold on ebay - Catwoman, Nightwing, 100 Bullets.

Was looking at the pile last night and wishing I'd done with the rest of them what I'd done with 100 Bullets all along, which was as soon as they got to 20-24 issues sitting there, sell the first ten. (mostly did this as I was buying the tpbs as soon as they came out) This would have made for a much easier life and storage space. Not to mention I wouldn't have the random missing issue in a run problem. Because it's not like you actually re-read the ones at the bottom of the pile on a regular basis.

Also, the post office down the road, you buy your envelopes from the newsagent attached. Which are a fucking rip-off. The medium sized ones, which normally cost in the region of 70p if they're the post office brand ones and can hold about 15 comics? They charge £1.59 for them. Yeah, you heard me. I calculate my p+p on ebay with the 70p ones in mind. Going to appeal to the mummy dearest to buy a bunch from the one near us. The newsagent is also shite for its junk food choice. The tiny ones near the office have more on their shelves.

Coloured shirts on men, USA

The 'what to wear at an interview' came up on the internet messenger bits. AOL gives you US, MSN gives you UK. Looked at the men's. The difference is... quite interesting. Especially for office jobs.

US? frighteningly conservative. Thou shalt wear white shirt, red or blue tie (no pattern), never, ever wear brown shoes or belt - they've even got rules about what to carry.

UK, they were saying 'don't wear a white shirt, wear a coloured one so they'll remember you and you won't look like you've come straight out of school. Ties should match your shirt, a discreet pattern is okay. No paisley and no cartoons.'

And then I remembered Smallville fandom, where Lex wearing purple/pink/light blue shirts was taken as proof positive of him being at the very least bisexual. This made me boggle a bit at the time, since wearing pink shirts is normal in the UK, *especially* in the City. Five blokes in my carriage on the Tube this evening, two in my carriage on the train.

Seriously. Is colour in men's shirts that odd in the US?

costume making time is here again...

Does anyone know where to get rivets? I'm making a leather skirt, which is basically a belt with overlapping strips hanging from it. (think gladiator/roman legionnary) Reckoned it would be easier to rivet it together rather than sew.

Of course, when I went into John Lewis, which *is* the god of habadashery supplies, there were plenty of eyelets, fasteners and so on, but no rivets. Looked on the Prym website, which is frankly shite - shows a tiny selection of their goods, no prices, and I can't see how to buy anything. The corset making websites only have eyelets. I need rivets. Even the type you use for jeans would be good. So, um, help? advice? have I been looking at the fasteners and discarding them by mistake?

:prods her pliers: hmmp. I may need to replace these, a bit of the plastic fit piece appears to have broken.