Of geeks and shelf drama.

So yesterday we met up with now out-of-towners and future parents Mr. and Mrs. B. for breakfast which was great.

I miss them. I hadn't realized I how much I enjoyed our conversations, especially since it is rare I can share geek shit with two PhDs. Because of our general academic natures, the conversations often go off on tangents that normally would not be pursued by the usual geek suspects.

Still not sure what sacrifices he's got in store for himself when the baby arrives. He'll no doubt have to cut back on all his bad crazy shit, especially the DCU stuff.

Out of all of the Cowlands geekae, I have to admit I'm extremely proud of the fact that my geek is pure. Extremely pure.

Transformers.

Transformers toys!

That's it!

I'd guess that over 90% of the other geeks I associate with such as Giga, Mr. and Mrs. JoAG, The Bs, Spectroscott, and even a those of you who shoot the shit here are collectors of much varied crap. Even Evebird crosses over into areas I don't, though I think he's become even more niche than he was even last year.)

It all seems to go hand-in-hand but I'm extremely happy it never effected me. (And I don't count my occasional purchase of rare and hard to find Micronauts toys really part of a cross-collection. More on that another day. Oh. And the Doctor Who stuff is Giga's!)

DC Direct, JLU Marvel, GI Joe, Star Wars, Doctor Who, Kubrick, Star Trek, this, that, Lego, and on and on.

And out of all of us, I'm pretty pure with only the Transformers geek-on directing my wasting of finances.

Anyway, what was I saying?

Bah! I barely remember!

Anyway, so after breakfast, we parted ways and while I'm still pretty much a mess, I was in an oxycodone soulless stupor and of course that means it was an ideal time to head out on Shelf Quest 2007!

I have been to so many places it is unbelievable how little quality and stylish shelving is out there. I've gone from places where the shelves/curios are in the $3000 range to frigg'n particle board shit laying around thrift stores and there is so little.

This one guy, surprisingly not too salesmanny and annoying, was a real help out at this place in Reynoldsburg and pretty much said that there's not a lot of that kind of stuff in stores, especially if contemporary was what I wanted. It is all ugly ass entertainment centers here or there or what I call "Busia shelves" that are hideously overly ornate and would be packed full of a grandma's collected old-school knick-knack geek crap!

I'm pretty sure I'm not going to be able to affordably do single whole wall shelf like I wanted to do to maximage what crackage I can.

World Market has these shelves in their "Tao" line that may work. They are not as tall but they've got a style that is consistent with my intended goal for the room. Here's the table version (no pic of the full shelf).

They are on sale this week too so I can snag 'em for $300 each and maybe a another more vertical shelf for office use.

At least these are solid wood too. They could be used elsewhere in the house if needed and wouldn't conflict too much with our now-brewing Arts and Crafts/Mission style redesign for the house.

I had Giga snag a cell pic but it sounds like he doesn't have the plan anymore to send the thing off the phone without insanely stupid cost. If he does, I'll post it and you can all chime in and bitch about it.

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Update:

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Here's the shelf.

Thoughts?