Oh, yeah, one more thing:

[xiphias]

In Leicester Square is the most . . . wrongly named sex shop I've ever seen.

Lis says she'll blog a photo of it to prove that we're not making this up.

I guess someone wanted to express the idea that, y'know, they helped people with the craft of making love.

Nonetheless, I will NEVER have the guts to go into a sex shop called "Lovecraft".

Oh, yeah, and I blew up our UK-->US power converter. I tried to charge up my PalmPilot, and the magic smoke fell out of the square transformer. The PalmPilot is fine, and I suspect the cradle is also fine, but the thing that I plug into the cradle to send power to it to charge the PalmPilot is toasty.

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[wordweaverlynn.livejournal.com]

Sounds like the perfect place to buy Japanese tentacle porn.

[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Been there. It's pretty tourist, and I felt sad about walking in and saying to myself, "have that, have that, don't want that, made that, could make better one of that. Dear crikey how silly. Yawn"

[phantom_wolfboy]

There is at least one Lovecraft in Toronto. It seems likely to be a chain.

I've never been in there. I can't picture the Old Gentleman approving.

[wednesday]

It's okay. You can go to Ann Summers instead and be put off by the hen night stuff.

[mattblum.livejournal.com]

There's a picture of it here.

[hotpoint.livejournal.com]

You could instead say that ol' Howard Phillips L. was the most wrongly named author of his time, and that the sex shop, if tawdry, is still a better use of the compound word.

[papersky.livejournal.com]

For a computer -- and I guess a Palm counts -- you can't have just a plug converter, you need an actual transformer.

I learned this in the other direction.

[mightydoll.livejournal.com]

It's a chain, we have a couple here in Toronto, too.

What's wrong about it? *curious*

[(Anonymous)]

For some reason, I find myself thinking of this woodcut.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dream_of_the_Fisherman%27s_Wife

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

H P Lovecraft was an early 20th century horror writer who came up with the ideas of cosmic horrors so bad that the human mind couldn't handle them, and so that if you encountered them, you'd go insane. Like Cthulhu.

[mightydoll.livejournal.com]

d'oh!

You know for some bizarre reason, I never made that connection before. Probably since the Lovecraft in Toronto has been around since I was a small child, well before I had discovered the true wierdness of the Elder Ones ;)

[ailbhe]

We ave a local branc 'ere in Reading. Used to want to resond to "Web designer wanted" ad in window.