Signs of the Impending Apocalypse: Death Note Stuffs at Hot Topic

[chomiji]

Step right this way for stuff the likes of which one formerly had to attend a con to get ... T shirts, key chains, necklaces, and wristbands, now coming to your favorite shopping mall courtesy of Hot Topic, the boutique beloved by wannabe Goth guys and gals.

To give Hot Topic credit, I do have to say that they were also the only place where you could get T shirts for Neil Gaiman's MirrorMask.

(What I can't figure out is the situation with the Death Note live-action movie itself, for which this Hot Topic deal is a tie-in/promo. There are special showings May 20-21, for which you have (had?) to enter and win a little contest, and the DVD is coming in September, but will the movie ever go into regular release? It sounds like it's going direct to DVD.)

Comments

[chomiji]

Eeee, Commander Salamander! Talk about a venerable institution - that was the ultra-cool place to shop when I was her age! No, we haven't been there in this generation! It used to be very black-leather-and-studs in my day. She isn't interested in the more extremely hard-edged gothy stuff, and in fact, it doesn't suit her, with that very English Rose complexion. She tends to go for the goth/folkloric-style stuff - like the Tripp brand brocade-and-black-lace things we can see at Torrid. But she won't dress up for school - jeans and Ts all the way, with maybe a sweater or a hoodie over them (she likes the Ts at Threadless, or movie or show Ts) - so there's a limit to how much of that dressier gothy stuff I'm going to buy for her!

[chomiji]

Well, she's all for the idea, although she's wondering whether they'll have things to fit her (she's like a size 22 on the bottom, but she can wear men's XL T-shirts, just like Mom). And she wants to drag Liz along. Goodness knows when we'll be able to do it, though. (The number of weekends before we go out of town is diminishing rapidly.)

[chomiji]

Thank!