I have remained silent on this subject long enough!
Yeah, it has a crafts section. But here are some things you can't get there:
Non-cheapo paints
High quality brushes to ink with. Mostly they have crappy packs, though the larger ones sell single brushes.
A hunt 107 crow-quill that is not packaged with a ton of calligraphy brushes I will never use
More than one brand of waterproof drawing ink
Superlance wrote:
The South clearly rocks then; we have the SEC, originated NASCAR, and have Super WalMarts with 3 isles soley devoted to pens.
For quills, and ink bottle pens, though; don't go to the school-office supplies area- those things are back in the arts and crafts section, next to the automotive supplies and materiel.
When I drove through the east coast states of the US I noticed that there aren't little towns the way there are here in Europe. Here the towns tend to have an easily recognisable centre with, say, a church, a pub, a few shops, while the ones I saw in the US were a series of malls and motels on the highway, and if you drove out of it, suburban houses surrounded by private land without any landmark that would make you think, oh here's the town centre.
I think that it may have to do with culture. Europe's urban development for small centres may still be influenced by the middle ages where communities tended to cluster around a castle or a monastery, while maybe in the US the big influence is from the pioneer era, when people went to the new land and wanted to have plenty of room around their houses, they looked more for space and isolation than for tight communities. This is just me talking out of my arse, I don't really know the first thing about these topics, but it's the impression that I had back then.
America is so big that you can find just about anything here if you look hard enough. And you can't generalize about the country after having visited only one part of it. (It's hard to believe that North Dakota and Florida are part of the same world, much less the same country..)
Stephen Henderson-Grady wrote:Non-cheapo paints
High quality brushes to ink with. Mostly they have crappy packs, though the larger ones sell single brushes.
A hunt 107 crow-quill that is not packaged with a ton of calligraphy brushes I will never use
More than one brand of waterproof drawing ink
Seems like what I assumed: cheap stuff.
Well, not the cheapest, but kind of things that you'll get in Serbia if you look really hard. Like I did.
So I had to go to Sw to get something better than that.
Well, anyway; I don't buy hardly anything at a store (with the exception of HobbyTown, USA for certain art supplies, mainly enamel paints for my models).
You see, there is this relatively unknown thing called the internet; and if you know where to look, you can get anything.
Just like the Twin Malls in Mobile.
Except with the internet, you don't have to pay for 35 gallons of gas at $1.98 per gallon to fill up your truck just to go buy a couple of pens.
ASMS: The school for the criminally insane.
They put us here to keep up away from the normal people.
You feared Algebra in high school? Integral Calculus is a required class here.
Superlance wrote:Except with the internet, you don't have to pay for 35 gallons of gas at $1.98 per gallon to fill up your truck just to go buy a couple of pens.
My car only holds about 14 gallons. 35 gallons is what you get for driving a school bus everywhere you go.
Superlance wrote:Except with the internet, you don't have to pay for 35 gallons of gas at $1.98 per gallon to fill up your truck just to go buy a couple of pens.
My car only holds about 14 gallons. 35 gallons is what you get for driving a school bus everywhere you go.
*runs over Warren's house in her very Land Rover-like 'school bus'*
MWAHAHAHAHAHAA!!! Fear my 35 gallon-filled 5500lbs 4x4 of wrath!!!
And if that fails, I can always just set fire to your house with the 15 extra gallons in the tank.
ASMS: The school for the criminally insane.
They put us here to keep up away from the normal people.
You feared Algebra in high school? Integral Calculus is a required class here.
Superlance wrote:Except with the internet, you don't have to pay for 35 gallons of gas at $1.98 per gallon to fill up your truck just to go buy a couple of pens.
My car only holds about 14 gallons. 35 gallons is what you get for driving a school bus everywhere you go.
*runs over Warren's house in her very Land Rover-like 'school bus'*
MWAHAHAHAHAHAA!!! Fear my 35 gallon-filled 5500lbs 4x4 of wrath!!!
And if that fails, I can always just set fire to your house with the 15 extra gallons in the tank.
Yeah... 15 gallons should be quite adequate to totally reduce my house to cinders. To bad you won't be able to drive home.
Um...Nebraska made Kool-aid, Runzas (yummy), Valentino's (ass-kicking pizza buffet), Car-henge, the Henry Doorly Zoo (home to the world's largest indoor desert and indoor jungle), tons of tiny towns/villages, Willa Cather, a man whose name really WAS Willy Wonka (BEFORE the book was written), the world's largest manmade forest, (endangered) Salt Creek tiger beetles which live in a creek near a town with LESS THAN 500 people, a HELL of a lotta the US's beef, and my high-school, which is in the middle of a corn-field.
