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ellen_datlow ([personal profile] ellen_datlow) wrote2007-11-11 09:08 pm

Garage flea market pickings

Today I met Rick Bowes and Kaaron Warren and her family to check out The Garage fleamarket on 25th street. Kaaron and I barely made it through the top floor. There are two floors and we started with the top one--Rick was out and back again twice before we were done. K's family went to the children's museum and were to meet us later for lunch.
Ok, so what did I pick up?
A vintage Mickey Mouse watch (on time even now, several hours after it was wound at the fleamarket), a large (very heavy) vintage iron that's a strange shape--narrower and longer than those I've usually seen), and a couple of amber colored little bottles. I saw lots of lovely Chinese stuff I'll go back for when I start my serious Xmas shopping.

Kaaron brought me some cannibal forks.
Here's what they can look like --the ones she gave me are different but you can get the idea from this photo and article
cannibal fork

We met the family around 3:30 and ate a quick late lunch/early dinner at the Heartland Brewery on Union Square. We'd hoped to eat at Chat n Chew--I thought it would be fun for kids, but it was way too crowded and I didn't think we'd get served quickly enough for a non-nervewracking meal. They had to catch a train back to NJ.

[identity profile] ellen-datlow.livejournal.com 2007-11-12 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
Hey, Elizabeth....You know, you're right? And now I have three (unless I give away one as a gift)....watch outtttt!

[identity profile] matociquala.livejournal.com 2007-11-12 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
eee!

Your deadlines... really are.

Is that like sending somebody a revolver with one bullet?

[identity profile] ellen-datlow.livejournal.com 2007-11-12 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
Umm. I hadn't thought of that! What a great idea. If someone doesn't finish something on time, they get a cannibal fork as a threat. I like that.

[identity profile] matociquala.livejournal.com 2007-11-12 02:39 am (UTC)(link)
(Nobody misses a deadline for Datlow.

Twice.)

[identity profile] ellen-datlow.livejournal.com 2007-11-12 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
Heh heh heh.