{"id":1000,"date":"2008-06-25T10:17:16","date_gmt":"2008-06-25T17:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=1000"},"modified":"2008-06-25T10:17:16","modified_gmt":"2008-06-25T17:17:16","slug":"berkeley-ites-riches-await-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=1000","title":{"rendered":"Berkeley-ites: Riches Await You!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, do you live in Berkeley? Do you like comics? If so, you might want to toddle on over to Half Price Books (conveniently located next to the amazing Comic Relief on Shattuck), which currently has a small-but-pretty-neat selection of graphic novels available at a con-worthy discount. I spotted some Andi Watson <em>Love Fights<\/em>, a near-pristine copy of Lynda Barry&#8217;s wonderful <em>One Hundred Demons<\/em> and a couple of Ellis tomes.<\/p>\n<p>Most curiously, there was a copy of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/ait-planetlar.com\/cia.shtml\">Come in Alone<\/a><\/em> signed by the man himself &#8220;to Marti.&#8221; WTF, Marti?! Why are you giving up your autographed Warren Ellis stuff? I&#8217;ll try to give you the benefit of the doubt. Maybe you had TWO autographed copies and decided to be generous. Maybe you needed money for text books and Half Price cut you a deal. Maybe you just went through a bad break-up with an Ellis-loving SO and the memories were too painful. Maybe you&#8217;re moving somewhere where people are only allowed to have ONE BOOK AT A TIME and you chose something else. Whatever the case, someone else can now benefit from your stupidity\/generosity\/heartbreak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, do you live in Berkeley? Do you like comics? If so, you might want to toddle on over to Half Price Books (conveniently located next to the amazing Comic Relief on Shattuck), which currently has a small-but-pretty-neat selection of graphic novels available at a con-worthy discount. I spotted some Andi Watson Love Fights, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}