Curse you Shopko, and your bargain DVD bin!

Cafe Society
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All I needed was toilet paper. Bad enough I bought a new winter coat (but for $10 marked down from $40 I couldn’t resist) but then on the way to the checkout I pass the bargain bin. $5.95 to $7.95 per DVD. Can’t hurt to look, maybe I’ll see something good…

I ended up buying:

Airplane! (The “Don’t Call Me Shirley!” edition)
Frailty
Go
Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle
The Italian Job (remake)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (with Kevin Kline and Rupert Everett)
Star Trek II two-disc collector edition
Star Trek VI two-disc collector edition

They also had the ST 5 collectors edition but even Shopko couldn’t price that one low enough. There were another half-dozen or so more that I could easily have picked up if I hadn’t been able to wrench myself away.

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I fell for King Kong – the original – from the bargain bin at the supermarket yesterday.

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Self: (internal monologue) “Look, these movies are only $7.95!”
Rational Self: “Yes, but you haven’t watched the other 300 movies you’ve bought.”
S: “But I’ll watch these!”
RS: “No you won’t.”
S: “You’re not the boss of me!”
RS: “Ooh, British comedy!”
Wallet: “Ouch.”

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A poor imitation of the original. If you want to return it, I’ll happily send you my copy (watched once).

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Sounds like you are with movies as I am with books. I have a dozen in the queue and still I browse and am tempted to buy. I have told myself that I will not buy until there are no more than 4 in the queue! We’ll see…

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But then you would know where I live and might show up expecting dinner.

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Yeah, I’m a sucker for the cut-rate DVD section, too. Hard to resist the siren call of Pumpkinhead for only $3.99. I try to avoid them altogether, unless my wife is with me to act as that all-important Voice of Wisdom, reminding me that I didn’t like The Scorpion King when we saw it at the theatre, or, worse yet, that I already own a copy of Shadow of the Vampire.

I always check the audio CD bargain section too, but it never quite measures up. I have a theory that the following three selections can be found in every drug store CD bin:

[ul]
[li]Eddie Rabbitt’s Greatest Hits[/li][li]Journey’s Escape[/li][li]At least one compilation of 70’s guitar rock. There are many such collections, but each one contains a copy of Ramblin’ Man [/li][/ul]

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Will there be pie?

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There will also be an 80s compilation that will include “Come On Eileen,” “867-5309 (Jenny)” or both. You have no idea how many copies of those songs I’ve accumulated in putting together an 80s music collection.

There will be, when you come back and bring it.

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I was at the Dollar Tree the other day and came across this, for fifty cents actually (it was on sale–imagine, the Dollar Tree has clearance sales. I thought they WERE a clearance sale.) Anyway, it says “HUGH GRANT” all over it in an enormous font, with “Oliver Reed Emma Samms” under it in much smaller type, although they’re the stars and he…isn’t.