We Are What We Buy–July 2008

Let’s see what we collectively picked up from Amazon in July.

Most expensive item (sweet!): SVAT CV31 Hi-Res Outdoor CCD Security Camera w/Long Range Night Vision. But it *was* over half off (about $75), and then the free shipping, so cool. Also a security light, that I assume was part of the same order. Thanks, whoever.

Most purchased item: 2 copies of the Warriors on Blu-Ray.

Item that surprised me:

The Hello Kitty Mouse. Still, Chad, thanks!

Books: 2 volumes of Chester Gould’s Dick Tracy reprints. Another copy of the simply fabulous I Shall Destroy All Civilized Planets, which remains the greatest book ever. (That’s a cheat, actually, as it’s the one I bought for Sandy Petersen as a T-Fest thank you. He seemed properly enthused, however.) Hellboy and Popeye collections. Harry Turtledove’s Stars & Stripes alternative history trilogy. The Oxford History of the First World War, and The Thirty Year’s War.

Video Game: Sid Meier’s Civilization Revolution. I don’t buy games, does any here buy many?

Music: Albums by INXS, The Fall (2 albums), Rush, Death Cabs for Cutie, The Offspring, Blue Oyster Cult (yes, an album that *does* have Godzilla on it), Megadeth.

And, of course, the Movies: 30 Days of Night, Alien vs. Predator Requiem, Back to the Future Trilogy, Batman the Animated Series Vol 1/Vol 2, Black Vengeance (blaxploitation set), Buffy the Vampire Slayer Complete Series; Cloverfield, Doctor Who Beneath the Surface (three adventures with undersea menaces); Maneater Series Collection Vol 1/Vol 2 (thanks, Sandy—and sorry!); Nightmare Sisters; Outside the Wire, Samurai Cop (yay!); The Beast; The Mist. Blu-Ray: The Warriors (2 copies), Wall Street; Rocky; American Psycho.

  • Ericb

    You should put up a link for the MST3K 20th Anniversary set. It’s available for pre order … and it has Future War on it!

    Did you ever consider Future War as the T-Rex entry for T-fest?

  • Pilgrim

    I’m a gamer, but the Civ purchase didn’t come through me. My poor old compy is just too old for me to run many of the new games. But hey, Half-Life 2 runs great, and that’s all you need, right?

    Here’s hoping I can run Spore when it comes out…

  • roger h

    What can I say, one of the ferrets chewed up the scroll wheel on the old Hello Kitty mouse. This one is better, it is wireless.