What with everyone reading the old comics and myself listening to the Thin Man while I drive I realized that we are seeing and hearing a lot of stuff that no one ever hears anymore. In the Thin Man people go to 'Speaks' and if someone is drunk they a
Read more…For those interested, Project Gutenberg has posted the very first issue of The Fantasy Fan, from September 1933 amongst its public domain offerings.
The debut fanzine (long before the term was coined) features contributions from: Julius Schwartz, Mor
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I was scheduled to lead the The Bi-Weekly TPB discussion on Good as Lily last week, but was hit with multiple computer issues -- Windows was slow to load, slow to act, crashing more often than the Indy 500, giving me the Blue Screen of Death
Read more…O Capn' , on occasion when I journey to your employer's page , I see reference to the Com'l Apel as being a " Mid-South " paper , that is the phrase it uses for the area it covers .
Just now , I noticed an ad for a chain of tanning -arlors on the C
Read more…A few friends and I filmed a new show for YouTube called Heroes & Hops. It's a monthly review show where I talk comics, beer and everything in between. The first episode turned out fairly well but we have ideas to fine t
Read more…To-day is the 55th anniversary of the Buddy Holly , and 3 others , -killing plane crash of 1959 .
In Yahoo! (I know . I know .) , entering " Buddy Holly plane crash " will put on the top , a rather dry listing in the Lubbock , TX paper of Holly-mem
Read more…Any Hall of Fame is bound to be at least partially subjective, especially one in the humanities. An athletic Hall of Fame can at least aspire to a veneer of objectivity based on statistics. But an artistic Hall of Fame falls within the province of
Read more…I spotted a flyer for it today in my LCS. www.collectiondx.comsrgm
Looks more like collectables than comics but I thought I'd mention it.
Read more…For someone who is ostensibly on spring break I'm doing a lot of school work. For a court paper for my law class I had to visit a court house and as part of the report I have to write down what I thought. I remembered from one of the Foundation b
Read more…I had to take the car in today and having to spend a day in Boston I went to the Museum of Fine Arts and walked around a bit. One of the paintings caught my eye and brought to mind a question that probably can't be answered but I know that there are
Read more…Just opened the main page to the new and improved header and logo - love it. Congratulations to whoever handled the design.
Read more…With Mom gone I've taken over a lot of the cooking, actually all of it. Dad had a partial plate removed for adjustment today so I was going to make him spaghetti, but I'm not sure how. It's been a while. As I recall Mom used to fill a pan with water,
Read more…Mom got moved to ICU this morning and it doesn't look good. Mark
Read more…I think I might have mentioned this before, but I spotted the book for free last night for the Amazon kindle so I thought I'd mention it. I spotted this years ago when I was doing library work. Haven't managed to read it yet but just the chapter lis
Read more…A STORY FOR HALLOWEEN 2
by Luke Blanchard
Springblossom the fairy went tripping down the fairy path that ran through the wild part of the garden, eager to begin her tasks for the day. There were the daisies to pollinate, and birthday gifts to be la
Read more…Anyone have advice on how to do this? Now that I can convert the albums I have to digital files I'd like to date them as well, and few of them have dates. Two I grabbed at random are "Ted Nash, the music of Frank Comstock from Starlite records" and "
Read more…Hello, new to the forum and just making sure my account is working properly. I look forward to meeting everyone. - Chris Benton Rochester New York
Read more…Just posted at the Jack Kirby Facebook group... this is IMPORTANT.
I wonder if anybody here knows what "Free Trade" agreements are? They're directly connected with what they call "out-sourcing". Which is SENDING AMERICAN JOBS OVERSEAS. Both "Free Trad
Introduction to criminology, one of the pre-requesites for my degree in digital forensics, I made an off hand reference to Dragnet and Adam-12 and she'd never heard of them. Nor did she get my reference to a 'man Friday' and none of my classmates kn
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