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  1. I'm trying to get decent pics of them - partially because I want to be able to accurately portray their condition online. Some have pinholes or tape marks on the back. A few do not.

    I'm trying to find the best way to sell these things. It's definitely a niche market, but one in which buyers will spend a lot of money. I'm a little nervous, to be honest.

    I'll post some pics here (another time), but the ones I've taken so far aren't that good.

  2. I have a lot of prints and posters from the last 15+ years of going to shows. One of the regulars where I work knows I'm super into vinyl and Detroit music. One day he brought in a whole bunch of handbills he had collected from his childhood attending shows at the venerable Grande Ballroom, and told me he had some posters that his brother had left him. His brother was kind of a hippie who did light shows at the Grande and other venues and had pulled posters down to trade.

    One day he told me they were just taking up space and he should get rid of them. I asked him to please bring them by before he did so and I would make him offers.

    After about a year, and me telling him I may be transferred soon, he brought by a box of them. He asked me to take them home, see what they're worth, make him some offers, and we'll go from there. I knew they are valuable; there are 16 in the box and I just guessed that maybe the whole collection was roughly $1500 or so.

    So I'm digging through these things, taking pictures, noting conditions. A lot of them are psychedelic pieces by Gary Grimshaw, and most of them are for the Grande. Tons of MC5; a well known Big Brother and the Holding Company poster that I've seen elsewhere; a Vanilla Fudge piece that a lot of you might even recognize. Tim Buckley. One from a Flint venue advertising "the final Michigan appearance of the Jimi Hendrix Experience." One from a Doors show at Cobo Arena in 1968.

    I post the pictures online, and friends are asking me how much they could buy the Hendrix and Doors for, so I start looking online.

    There are probably $25000 worth of posters in this fucking thing. I was planning on picking out a few I really wanted and offering him $150-200 for them, and I now realize that is an incredibly insulting offer. I'm terrified to even have these in my possession any longer, much less take them to work and wait for him to come in.

    It was fun digging through them, but holy smokes. I'm finding auction prices approaching $7000, while I hold a nicer specimen in my hand.

  3. Jordan Nolan suspended for dirty hit on Darren Helm...two games because he's a repeat offender. He got two minutes for the hit. It doesn't seem like much if they're serious about ending this kind of crap. This is why people miss old school hockey justice, for better or worse.

  4. I don't know if this was common knowledge and I'm just really late to the party, but I just found out that Rashida Jones (Ann Perkins in Parks and Rec, Karen Filippeli in The Office) is Peggy Lipton's (Norma Jennings) daughter. Now my mind is blown because now that I look at them both, they really do look a like.

    rashida-jones-peggy-lipton-2009.jpg

    Also, my Twin Peaks tattoo is happening tomorrow. I'll be posting pictures as soon as I can!

    I did not know that. I knew her dad was Quincy Jones. Interesting!

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