Saturday, March 30, 2013

A Shop Called Quest

A few weeks ago a comic book store opened in the village (Claremont). Since then, I have already been to the store at least five times. It is the greatest place ever! My common patronage means that I am getting to know the people that work there. They are all extremely friendly and love talking about comic books. I have been constantly referring other Mudders to the store, to make sure that they get enough business to stay open. It looks like it shouldn't be a problem. Mudd is an incredible place for a comic book store; everyone I mention it to is instantly dying to go there and have a look around.


When we asked for recommendations, they were more than happy to point out various interesting series. Both Carling and Jeb asked for recommendations, with extremely different tastes. Carling got a series called Chew while Jeb got a series called Preacher. Both of them are addicted. I introduced them both to the store on Thursday, and they have both already gone back for seconds.

I am currently working on The Walking Dead. It is an entertaining and extensive series.

One shelf of The Walking Dead
Unfortunately for me, they were entirely out of the second volume of The Walking Dead.  I was really upset because the first one had quite the ending and I needed to know what happens next. One of the people who works there mentioned that they were having a really hard time getting the second one in stock. When I said that I supposed I could buy the second one on Amazon and the rest in the store, the clerk Jason offered to lend me his personal copy of the hard cover vision and put the second one aside for me when it finally comes in stock. He brought the book in the next day for me to pick up (in the middle below). Their friendliness and dedication is wonderful and I love to give them my support!

Here is what I ended up picking up from the store today:

The third volume of The Walking Dead, the hardcover version of The Walking
Dead
 containing volume 2 (from Jason) , and Batman: Hush

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Early Easter

Today I got an adorable Easter basket from the Easter Bunny! Here is a look at some of the goodies inside:

A cute Easter bunny in the basket.
You can seem some of the delicious candy beneath the green!
There was a lot of nice Confectionery candy inside as well as this mystery egg!
This is the inside of the mystery egg!

Friday, March 22, 2013

Weird Lizard

When I was walking back from the library today, I saw this really weird lizard on the path. He is pretty different from what I normally see around here. He was not at all afraid of me, I was able to get up really close to take the picture of him.


I sent an email to the professor with whom I had Lizard Lab last year, Professor Stephen Adolph. He replied with the following:

"It's an alligator lizard (Elgaria multicarinata). They are the second most common lizard on campus (after the fence lizard). I had a pet alligator lizard for about 5 years and it loved to eat spiders. They are good biters."