I have to share this story (with permission). My ex, and still my good friend, Mike, the charming eccentric who collects bones and embalmed spiders and shrunken heads and vintage medical paraphernalia and such like, lives in NYC and was not long ago featured in Time Out New York's "Weird Apartments People Actually Live In" section. (That's not what it's really called.) Anyway, that's just the background. Here's the story.

"Apartment got robbed yesterday, they just took cash and medication from my bedroom, where they came in through the window with the AC in it. Police believe (and I must admit that I love this) that after they left the bedroom and turned the corner into the living room they got scared and left.

Best quote from the night from a policeman - "Sir, I'm here with the lights on, my partner, and a gun...and I'm freaked out by your apartment." "

Yes, it looked like that when I lived with him, too. Did I mention the life-size skeleton with the glass eyes? Good ol' Andrew was probably what sent the burglars running.

With the exception of the embalmed spiders, it sounds like the sort of decor I'd love.

My brain just exploded. I don't even know what those are. I think we edit with a user interface over xml? I don't know. I know it doesn't work all that well. I just spent two hours pulling back half a page.

What editor are you using?

Jilli, you would! I never minded it; my only annoyance was that he had so much stuff, there wasn't much room for mine!

See now, that needs to be a Castle episode.

I'm still looking for a Daredevil shirt with Maleev art

This is why a friend and I would collaborate on fakes in college. I could do hard lines and solid colours, and she was the subtle colours chick over my lines. Technically we shouldn't have sold shirts, but we kinda did. She could probably fake you up a good Maleev.

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"Sir, I'm here with the lights on, my partner, and a gun...and I'm freaked out by your apartment."

Oh, that's the ultimate in validation for any goth.

What editor are you using?

No idea. It was built for us by a company called Documentum. It might be proprietary. I think they try to keep the editors away from anything too computer-y.

Oh yes, Documentum. Sigh.

Makes me think of Rollie's place in F/X.