A Weekend Of Fictional Retail Destinations, Pt. 2

Waking up on Saturday morning to realize there were few ways of topping Friday’s year-in-the-making visit to Springfield, I decided it was time to pull out the big guns and take a trip to the Echo Park Time Travel Mart. More on that in a minute. First, a disclaimer. For reasons beyond my understanding and control, I have sort of an unhealthy obsession with time travel. Not because I want to...

A Weekend Of Fictional Retail Destinations, Pt. 1

Friday turned out to be a day of solar eclipse errands – the kind that are so rare and so beautiful to experience that you may be blinded in the attempt. It started at the post office, where I finally managed to get the Fellowship monkey off my back (like a regular monkey only he wears an adorable little graduation cap, smokes a pipe and hurls textbooks instead of feces) by getting my...