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[noahgibbs]

Had a lovely weekend... ravenslost and I did a fair amount of talking, generally the good kind. We hit the Farmer's Market and a good bakery on Saturday, and then went into the city for the Chinese New Year Parade, which was pretty decent. We finished off with Ebisu for dinner. Mmm... Ebisu. Anybody that's tempted to go soon really should - they've got all the good specials right now. Not only the live scallop and the Kobe beef, but they've also got matsutake mushroom soup, which is absolutely wonderful and not in season for much of the year.

On Sunday, we again went into SF for a class in the morning (would have been a massive disappointment at full price, but at our approximately 95% discount, it was okay). We then hit a bookstore where I picked up a book by Will Eisner about how stuff works in comics, and then we went to an exhibition of vintage gay erotica that Raven had been interested in seeing.

Also, I've now finished my current bout of bed shopping. My new King-size mattress will arrive a week from Wednesday. While I didn't manage to find Select Sleep, I checked several other chains. Allow me to recommend that you never, never buy from Sleep Train unless you can haggle them down to something sane, which would be about 50% or less of marked price.

I wound up dropping about $1200 at Mancini, which included both a nice firm King-size mattress and a set of so-so 300 thread-count sheets. I discovered over the week-or-so of trying out mattresses that I care a lot less about coil count and a lot more about the coil gauge - that is, the thickness of the wire making up the coil. While I think of myself as liking really firm mattresses, I mainly just like any mattress that uses a 12-and-some gauge coil rather than the usual 15-and-some gauge.

The lovely xeyda located a place online that will sell me silk sheets - I shall have to determine whether they come in deep-pocket variety, because all the mattresses I really liked were very tall and required them.

If you're looking for Queen-size sheets and possibly a frame (Clyde, do you still want that one? Can you pick it up fairly soon?), I'll be looking to get rid of some, so stake your claim early. And now that I know my bed size, I shall have to begin looking for another set of 400-thread-count cotton sheets. Mmm....

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[plymouth.livejournal.com]

oooOOOooo... kobe beef... must take the boy there. I'm trying to convince him to like sushi and so far he really liked some kobe beef sushi we got in boston but I hadn't known where to get it out here. whee! suuuuuuushi!

[fyfer.livejournal.com]

Where was the vintage erotica, and is the exhibition still going?

[angelbob.livejournal.com]

The GLBT Historical Society. I think it was just a one-day thing, sadly.

[angelbob.livejournal.com]

I've only had it as Kushiyaki (grilled on a stick) at Ebisu, but they also have it as sushi and sashimi.

[lady-phoenixice.livejournal.com]

*volunteers to help break in the new bed*

[angelbob.livejournal.com]

It'll be here a week from Wednesday. Starting at that point I'll see about breaking it in :-)

[unseelie23.livejournal.com]

Yes, still interested... maybe we can move stuff out next weekend? I think your pickup will likely work better than my Element. I'll drop you a direct line and we can work out details.

[angelbob.livejournal.com]

That sounds good. Please do. I'll note in passing that next weekend may be *interesting* that way... Because I'm going to have my body pierced with large hooks on Saturday the 26th, which may leave me in questionable shape to help with moving on the 27th.

I expect to be able to drive, but I'm not sure how well I'll be able to help in the loading and unloading of the headboard and footboard. I can offer to make the attempt, at least.

[wordweaverlynn.livejournal.com]

I'm interested in the sheets!

Also in seeing you pierced with large hooks. God, that's hot!

[ravenslost.livejournal.com]

Bah, sorry about the deleted post. Bad HTML, no biscut.


Actually, the DuBek collection itself is available for review at the GLBT Historical Society (http://www.glbthistory.org). I'm not real sure when they're generally open, but the archives *are* available to the public.

Today's presentation was by Thomas Waugh, who has put together a book derived from the collection Lust Unearthed. (http://arsenalpulp.com/select_book.php?book=185) I was happy to have gone, as some of the images have been censored in the book, due to it being published by a Canadian publisher, the current social climate here and in Canada, and mainstream society's general desire to ignore that what they'd like to consider "youth" do, and have throughout history have engaged in sexual acts. You may not want to get me started on that. Nonetheless, some of those images were presented in the slide show and discussion.

[queen-elvis.livejournal.com]

Donations of queen-sized sheets to starving underpaid cheapass journalists are always appreciated.

[angelbob.livejournal.com]

Looks like the sheets are already spoken for, sadly :-(

[ailurodragon.livejournal.com]

Do the sheets come with good sex karma? Then again, how could they not?

;-) If more worthy applicants don't claim them all, I can always use more sheets. I currently have two sets for my bed.

[tongue-in-cheek]And if those more worthy applicants are attractive females, I want to go visit the sheets.[/tongue-in-cheek]

[ravenslost.livejournal.com]

::cough cough:: Do you have my number?

[ailurodragon.livejournal.com]

Ahem. Yes, I have it. Reckon that's a hint to use it, eh?
Forgetful boy, me - I was in the area on Saturday but didn't think of calling you. le sigh