The following is our second Chicago-Style Drunksaling post to the old Drunkgamers.com forums. If you're unfamiliar with Drunkgamers.com, occasionally they would go out drinking and go garage saling for video games and then post about it. Unitdaisy and I were inspired to do the same and posted the bulk of our first year finds in their forums, and in fact if it weren't for drunksaling you probably wouldn't be reading this site right now.

We'll be posting one from the archives every other week or until the weather turns spring-like in Chicago which means that yes, we have quite a few of them. Even a few that I lost and recently recovered on an old hard drive. Some of the early posts were pretty technically inept - this one features tiny images for some reason which eludes me at the moment. All I know is that I can't find any higher resolution images so ... sucks to be us. The below article is from June 2nd, 2002.

Sit Ubu, sit! Good dog.

peccaui: Our second drunksaling and we still aren't drunk. And thanks to unitdaisy's lazy ass, we didn't get going until around noon. On a Sunday. We still retained high hopes, but knew things weren't looking good when the closest thing we found to a video game at the first place was a cheap aibo knock-off.

unitdaisy: lazy ass, my ass! i had to wake peccaui up, and even then it took him and hour and a half post consciousness to walk out the door, what were you doing, perfuming your toenails?

Arr - golf. The devil's sport.

peccaui: A little discouraged, we continued on down our pre-planned list. The next sale was a couple that was heading to London and getting rid of a lot of nice stuff. Unfortunately, this was the only thing resembling a video game that they had.

KRAZY kat! Damn you London-going woman. DAMN YOU!

peccaui: But they had some other good geek stuff. Like comics! Good ones!

peccaui: The only problem with the comics I found was that as soon as the woman running the sale found out I was going to buy them, she wanted Krazy Kat back. This is after they told me I could have it for $2. So I relinquished it in what must be one of my gravest defeats ever. They did give me the Blab for free (mmmm Chris Ware) but that still doesn't fill the void.

peccaui: Oh, and they had a mess load of sound equipment stuff. I was peering at the mixer and some guy snapped right from under my nose. Practically gave me a nose bleed! Yeah, I know - I probably don't need a third mixer, but still ...

peccaui: I did end up getting one of the noise gate pedals though. That should come in handy. unitdaisy got a doctor's handbag so she can recreate a scene in From Hell. I want to be very far away when that happens.

unitdaisy: yea! old doctor's bag!

I miss you mixer.

peccaui: The next garage sale was a complete bust. When we got there, the lady pointed at two people and said 'They just bought everything. You're welcome to look at whatever is left.' So, we scoured the place like vultures. Well, unitdaisy did. While see oggled and fondled cups, I entertained myself with their cat.

Bad cup. Very bad cup.

unitdaisy: peccaui simply don't know the joy of cute mugs... i will have happiness now! and you will have, well, more cat hair on your clothes (if possible)...

The perils of drunksaling with your girlfriend.

peccaui: So far, not only had we not found anything of any video game nature (except for Links Pro - and it'll be a cold day in hell before I consider that a game,) but we were also duped by lazy ass garage sale organizers! They're getting something extra special in the mail soon!

And they can't even be bothered to tear their own signs down.

peccaui: It started raining shortly after that, and it was pretty late so we called it a day. To make the day complete, we decided to further punish ourselves by eating at this saftey-code violation.

unitdaisy: damn fine french toast, probably made out of babies, yum, babies...
peccaui: French babies!

Ready for a hearty breakfast of dirt and toenails?

Lesson o' the Week: even if you just think you want it, hold it in your grubby litttle hand before someone else hears you raving and snatches it away...

Find o' the Week: Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. It happened to be playing at the aforementioned diner. That's about as close to a video game as we got. Yes, it sucks. Otherwise, my find of the week would be Blab.

The Find of the Week. How sad.

I will not forget you London-going woman! I will have my revenge!