At Long Last...

...Time Slip Island...is now available for purchase in fine bookstores everywhere...

Well, as long as you consider the Atomic Monster Cafe and Amazon.com to be fine bookstores...and reading this book will make you a better person...I guarantee it! *

* not a guarantee

Famed literary critic Biff Bifflemeyer was so overwhelmed by the sheer fictional genius of it all he wrote:

Biff's well-documented drinking problem notwithstanding, that kind of unqualified endorsement's gotta count for something.

In the mid century modern collectibles department, I recently bought this Ronson Scandia lighter from Bob Adams at Ronson Repair :

While these are fairly common, they do have the unique distinction of being a gift that Frank Sinatra liked to grace his friends with from time to time...and he often autographed them.

...this isn't one of those, mainly because I didn't want to drop $250+ on one that had his John Hancock on it.

Bob repaired it and cleaned it up and of course it works flawlessly...

He's mostly retired now and his son Russ handles much of the business, but this is one transaction Bob handled personally.

As always, thank you Bob!

When one of my dependents was younger and didn't know how to end a conversation, they used to start edging their way toward the door a little bit at a time...

...a little more...

                       ...a little more...
                                             ...a little more...

...until finally they would look at me and say...

later, mcm fans...