It's been about close to 6 months since I stopped subscription to Star Wars Insider on account of a disagreement with the woman at the comic specialty shop (what the fuck term is that? A comic shop is a comic shop).
She tried to make me pay for copies of magazines which I instinctively remembered I cancelled about 4 months prior. Reason being that orders need a cut off time of 3 months to take effect.
I would have been agreeable to that condition if she had made that clear to me when I made the cancellation. Of which she did not.
Resulting in me getting a surprise with 5 magazines awaiting my purchase. Of which I did not want at all.
Anyway, we had an, er, exchange of words, which resulted in me telling her to cancel all my subscriptions, Star Wars Insider included, as I didn't feel like patronising that store any more, after getting attitude from her.
I assumed I would be able to find it at the regular bookshops.
Little did I know I had discovered something else as well. That certain magazines are as regular as rain in the Sahara at Malaysian bookstores. Even at chains like Borders.
After a while, you realise that not reading this magazine didn't make any difference.
Unless of course you are an obssessed Star Wars fan. Which of there are countless ones. Of which I know of. Of which I find freakily scary. Which makes me very afraid of guys with the name Peter.
(And funny thing is, magazines like Guns and Ammo are aplenty and regular as clockwork on the bookshelves. In a country where fire-arm sales is illegal!)
How much more crap can you keep writing about a sci-fi franchise that has a farm boy, furry teddy bears, an old wizard and a gay robot, that hasn't been written about in the last 32 years?
Duh!
And I assume that woman at the comic shop still has scary make-up.
She still looks the same from 15 years ago! Yikes!
Just think of Zhang Ziyi at age 65 gone fat and podgy still with her birthday cake geisha make-up.
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