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Eco Park Time Travel Mart: "Whenever You Are, We're Already Then"
Posted by Sean Fallon at 12:00 PM on March 1, 2008
David Eggers can now add time travel entrepreneur to his long list of literary and social accomplishments thanks to the Eco Park Time Travel Mart he recently opened in LA. Some of the humourous products available for purchase include: mammoth chunks, barbarian repellent, packets of shade and anti-robot fluid. More info after the break.
As with the other novelty stores in Eggers stable, the time travel mart will be used to support his non-profit 826 chain of tutoring and writing centers. If I lived in LA, I know that I would be a generous supporter. After all, how many places can you say "I want that yesterday" and get your wish? [Product Catalog and 826LA via io9 via Boing Boing Gadgets]
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Mandatory_Field
Posted 1:46 PM 1/3/08
Meh, been there, done that....
Mandatory_Field
eblingmis
Posted 1:46 PM 1/3/08
Do they have any Ding-Dong Mixed Nuts or some Cock Soup?
eblingmis
Jasontrainer
Posted 1:46 PM 1/3/08
Do they have Before Shave?
Jasontrainer
lws1984
Posted 1:46 PM 1/3/08
Did you know that if you put barbarian repellent in your gas tank, you get better gas mileage AND scare off anyone who wants to steal your car?
I found this out next week, it really works!
lws1984
nutbastard
Posted 1:46 PM 1/3/08
@strider_mt2k:
so that WAS you i saw in there next week! I will be sure, but now i'm done waiting to find out. All the gray hair should have cleared up by next monday, though.
nutbastard
cmarsh
Posted 1:46 PM 1/3/08
fuck it, why not.
cmarsh
strider_mt2k
Posted 1:46 PM 1/3/08
I went there a couple of tomorrows ago.
Each time they ordered a prestocked item for me the stupid thing arrived before I needed it!
They have to work on the shipping side is what I'm saying.
strider_mt2k
keyjey
Posted 1:46 PM 1/3/08
come back yesterday...
i did... but still out of order
keyjey
Hiphopopotamus
Posted 3:29 PM 1/3/08
Ok... I looked through the product photos. Now I kinda want everything.
Hope the Superhero Supply Store will carry some of these.
Hiphopopotamus
loganisamonkey
Posted 3:29 PM 1/3/08
Are they calling it Eco Park instead of Echo Park for a reason?
loganisamonkey
Mandatory_Field
Posted 3:29 PM 1/3/08
@Hiphopopotamus: This is how he spent his money... in the past....
Mandatory_Field
gadgetchic
Posted 3:29 PM 1/3/08
this is full of win LOL
gadgetchic
Hiphopopotamus
Posted 3:29 PM 1/3/08
Eggers, this is how you spend your money? Next time you send a heartfelt plea to McSweeney's subscribers about how bad things are at the company and you need us to buy things to stay afloat, just go ahead and kiss my ass.
Hiphopopotamus
Mandatory_Field
Posted 3:29 PM 1/3/08
Stay away from the tins of 10,000 year-old meat: You don't want to be blowing mammoth chunks, believe me....
Mandatory_Field
strider_mt2k
Posted 3:29 PM 1/3/08
@nutbastard: Give my regards to...me.
strider_mt2k
ideaman2020
Posted 4:28 PM 1/3/08
My android father used to have to get up every day at the crack of the millennium to go out to the maintenance barn and milk the robots...
ideaman2020
ideaman2020
Posted 4:28 PM 1/3/08
@Mandatory_Field: I will have been there last week and had done that a few days from now...
ideaman2020
Ghede
Posted 4:28 PM 1/3/08
What are you talking about "New"? It has always been there!
Just last week I went there for a can of Mammoth chunks. Gave me a good deal, no payments until 1987.
Ghede
tensenki
Posted 5:27 PM 1/3/08
Damn I hate nerds.
tensenki
craig
Posted 5:27 PM 1/3/08
Pfft...this was already posted on Digg next Tuesday.
craig
Set to evil
Posted 6:27 PM 1/3/08
I live in L.A. and I'm going there or,... is it, then.If I visit twice the same day will I cause a paradox? Also, don't step on a bug while you're in there. Who knows what might happen.
Set to evil
Xavoc
Posted 7:27 PM 1/3/08
What happens if you mix mammoth chunks with robot milk? Is that like crossing the streams?
Xavoc
Ghede
Posted 9:04 PM 1/3/08
@tensenki: We hate you too. XP.
Ghede
kzooguy
Posted 9:04 PM 1/3/08
No, I'm pretty sure that's just gross.
And definitely, robots > mammoths.
kzooguy
shadaik
Posted 10:12 PM 1/3/08
No thanks, I've been tomorrow yesterday, it was lame.
However, it was flooded with time-travel jokes, Even on Uranus they did time travel jokes tomorrow. I wonder, why that was.
shadaik
Nathan Drake
Posted 11:47 PM 1/3/08
I wish I lived in LA.
Nathan Drake
discounteggroll
Posted 11:47 PM 1/3/08
oh I wish I wish I hadn't killed that fish
discounteggroll
Yeebles
Posted 11:47 PM 1/3/08
My house was reposesed turns out i spent too much next week at this store.
Yeebles
maximumleo
Posted 2:38 AM 2/3/08
Hmmm, do they sell modified DeLorean's?
maximumleo
godwhacker
Posted 2:38 AM 2/3/08
no hyperslush, no deal
godwhacker
alejandrrroh
Posted 3:39 AM 2/3/08
@loganisamonkey:
I was thinking exactly the same thing. It really annoys me since I live in Echo Park. I need to go there like this weekend. I'm low on shade.
alejandrrroh
ry_ry
Posted 5:19 AM 2/3/08
Ugh, I could have used that Barbarian Repellent next week! Just when I thought we were SOL on pillaging prevention...
ry_ry
seattleweston
Posted 7:18 AM 2/3/08
The perfect complement to:
[www.greenwoodspacetravelsupply.com]
in north Seattle.
seattleweston
zolielo
Posted 4:30 PM 2/3/08
I will be going there yesterday.
zolielo
logruszed
Posted 8:13 PM 2/3/08
Ok, are the "Mammoth Chunks" chunks of actual mammoth or are they just really large chunks of something not mentioned on the label? I've been burned before.
logruszed
marcus_ivo
Posted 11:29 PM 2/3/08
looks like something out of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
marcus_ivo
SonOfMagicFact
Posted 3:37 AM 3/3/08
@strider_mt2k: Truly, there is nothing greater than Firesign Theater. I've found many of their bits to be honestly funnier than Monty Python. And I'm a man who loves his Monty Python.
SonOfMagicFact
strider_mt2k
Posted 3:37 AM 3/3/08
"The future is fun!"
"The future is fair!"
"You may have already won!"
"You may already BE THERE!"
-Firesign Theater
strider_mt2k
b-17
Posted 8:31 AM 5/3/08
yeah it's still not open i don't know why gizmodo thinks it is. there looking for a store manager beacuse whoever was suppose to be in charge left.
Gizmodo get you facts straight
b-17