Normal Heights archive for October, 2009

Fare Thee Well, Sweet October, With Your Pumpkins, Brisk Days, And Costumed Ne'erdowells!

Cutting to the chase, how about a Runner-Up: Roor, Hvy, Zong, Custom glass, Mini (San Diego) Bong, anyone? A word ...

An Almost Existential Love And Valuing

Right to the Runner-Up: . (.) Any takers? Going once...going twice...sold to * for }!>' Big, bad voodoo working Best ...

Guaranteed To Still Be Around In 100 Years

Today's Runner-Up provides heavy doses of unintentional hilarity: 2 Bottles of Slim Xtreme, By Anabolic Xtreme - $40 (Lemon Grove) ...

Pursuit!

There's certainly a touch of deseperation to the Runner-Up for today: TRANSFORMERS MONOPOLY COLLECTOR'S EDITION - $40 (NORMAL HEIGHTS) How ...

Worst Feeling Imaginable

Almost won a bike race tonight! WooHoo! This ad... Metal rack/shelves - $28 (Normal Heights) ...gets a Runner-Up accolade for ...

A cause de SDaniels, I have finally Discovered the Object Cause of my Desire...And there It goes again.

I sit, enraged, and stare at the madness that stands before me! Why must this continue? Must I remain so ...

Is There Some Mistake?

Pre Runner-Up Disclaimer: Best Vampire Movie Based on a (Comic) Book Of All Time: Blade, hands down. That said, check ...

SDGQ

I call on everyone to do his or her service to the 'list and flag this post for "Best of ...

I love the smell of used books...

But as of the end of this month I will have to find myself another “secret spot” to indulge in ...

Wicked Costly

While I realize there's nothing particularly compelling about the following ad (which doesn't even fall in my neighborhood), I feel ...

FFP channels BTO, urges you to TCOB

Need to take care of a few things before getting down to business today. I still want to know just ...

In which Pike, in a stroke of Genius, attempts to reconcile Linguistics, Biology, History, and Math in one Swell Foop

Not quite righteous enough for the win, but still bringing the heavy PWNage for a Runner-Up position: Air conditioner - ...

Terror Twilight

And we're back! Let's cut to the chase and hook up a Runner-Up on the fly: Fisher-Price Fun To Learn ...

Wereswans of London

First off, a few unorthodox props to this guy for putting "hip, happening, cool, PBR, boobs" in his irritating little ...

Would you marry me?

Email from my main squeeze from before the apocalypse. He dumped me in a text the day my grand tour ...

True Freedom: A Political Blog

Happy Sunday! Worked all day and then got to craigin.' Found a pretty sweet Runner-Up right away: SWINE FLU Vaccine ...

The high is wearing off...

Dear friend, I’m so happy you wrote me and I’m glad everything is OK. I’m sure you will be home ...

"I KNOW you gonna dig this"

Took the day off yesterday and wrote some fiction. It had been too long. The plan had/has been/is to do ...

Too Sweet For a Price

Today's Runner-Up gets to be so for two reasons: 1: The use of graveyard industry lingo ("double-depth" burial, anyone?) 2: ...

No Amount of Candy in the World

Cooling off with a can of Fat Tire after a hard night's racing, I have identified the Runner-Up for the ...

Low-Res

Due to her ability to pull on my heart strings, "Giselle" gets a Runner-Up No-Prize for the day. This is ...

Good Stuff for Burning

All sorts of amazing things happen when I turn my back on the interwebs: this guy learned how to spell ...

Serial Blogger

Today's Runner-Up is most definitely a worthy contender. The double oven is something that you almost never really need, but ...

Shiver Me Timbers!

First off: Check it out! I suppose I sort of owe this tramp a holler for all the good she ...

I Like Lists

Anybody curious as to how I spent my day can take a look at the chess game I finally won ...

Such Gravity

Big night at the races for me tonight in that I did not come in last! I was actually fast(ish); ...

Deep Blue Sea

It's not in my neighborhood, so I can't really hand it the grand prix for the day, but here's a ...

Save the Date

There's only like eight new things for sale in Normal Heights since I last posted. The rest is stuff I've ...

Now I'm wicked hungry and it's 2:30 in the morning. Sweet!

Personal anecdote: attended the Tour de Fat today and had a super time! Lots of great bike stuff and great ...

The palindrome of Bolton would be notloB!

Today's Runner-Up is just plain super-sweet. Want. So. Badly. Throwing out the No-Prize today to the following: Beige Coach very ...

Golden Stalwart aka Shameless "Us" Promotion

On Fish's suggestion, We are for sale in San Diego Since I would never condescend to abuse craigslist, it's obvious ...

What a day!

So many wonderful advertisements, so much weirdness, savings, and unintentional humor! We've got that Imperial spy bot from Hoth, this ...