My CollectionDo you have display cabinets full of stuff? With it all neatly labelled, cross-referenced and entered into a database. Have you been to a convention? Do other collectors look up to you in awe?
I thought I was above this one. I'm not that autistically geeky that I have a Collection with a capital C. But no, I remembered I'm hoarding away every version of "Inside Macintosh" ever published.
What do you collect? And why? I mean, what makes you do it?
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chthonic, Thu 11 Jan 2007, 16:52)
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Not me, but a friendHe had the entire Action Man paraphernalia and all the Action Men - and this was the first time around when Action Man came with a decapitated Viet Cong head rather than mincing around as the camp gym intructor he is today.
Anyway, he had helicopters, tanks, parachutes, cross bows ... and the full range of Action Men: the scarred one with the fuzzy red hair, the one who had the cord in his back and said, "I'm gonna blow your fuckin' head off", and the token ethnic one who might have been Latino, or just dirty.
But ... and this was the bizarre thing ... he never played with them. He just set them up in a dramatic tableau and looked at them. No-one was allowed to touch them, so they just sat there gathering dust. His mother dislodged an armoured troop carrier with the hoover once and he became apoplectic with rage. They had to give him a piece of wood to bite down on.
How I longed to play with those toys. I had a rip-off action man. When you pulled his cord, he said "Excuse me, meister - me want hurt you badly." Not the same thing at all. I crucified him on a dart board and threw darts at him. These things happen in war ...
(, Wed 17 Jan 2007, 14:20, Reply)
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