July 2007
14 posts
My Personal Comics History Pt.2
The 80s were heaven. I had a paper route to supplement my allowance and nothing but comics to spend it on. Well that and the snack bar at my baseball games. I was all about Marvel Comics then except for one small title. A friend had let me read his Legion of Super-Heroes issues and I had gotten hooked. It stood outside the regular DC Universe and had it’s own continuity (not that DC was big...
My Personal Comics History Pt.1
With Comicon International: San Diego starting today I thought I’d give you a quick rundown on my own history as a comics reader, collector and unfortunately investor. I blame my parents. In the late 70s we took car trips everywhere and generally the morning we would head out my dad would swing by Westhaven Pharmacy to buy some drinks and snacks and let us boys peruse the comic rack for...
The End... spoiler free
Just a couple hours better than two days and I have finished HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS and returned to the web. I enjoyed the book immensely. The beginning was fast and shocking, the middle was more your typical Potter story, and the end was quite simply great. It was sad and tragic but then things would turn and excitement would flood through my body only to then calm for a wonderful...
The "Ghost" is George W. Bush
Insightful (excerpt) commentary from Steven Grant’s “Permanent Damage” column at cbr.cc: “While it’s a reasonably good bet the Ghost isn’t hoping for a terror strike, it surely hasn’t escaped his strategists that having one to boldly respond to, especially if the Democrats can be painted as the weaklings whose partisan blindness allowed it to happen,...
Offline the next couple days
So the new Harry Potter book comes out today and headlines have been appearing for days now, so far none have come out and spoiled the ending. My copy should be arriving from Amazon today and I’ll spend my free moments reading it. But I don’t want the ending spoiled. Rumors have swirled since the third book that Harry would die here in Book 7, Rowling has said for years she knew how...
Rules of the Road
Pay attention. Match the speed of the traffic you are merging with. Move to the right to allow traffic to pass you. In a multi-lane road, try to avoid driving long term in the far left lane allowing it to be used solely for passing purposes. Don’t talk on the cell phone while driving, seriously too many of you sit through green lights or miss turning opportunities because of this. Turn down...
More Than Meets The Eye
Finally saw the TRANSFORMERS movie. I thought it was great. Yeah there was some cheesy moments (almost entirely in regards to Optimus Prime’s dialogue) but I had a blast watching this flick. Loves the whole Used Car Lot scene with Bumble Bee and the Volkswagon Bug. That’s the kind of tongue-in-cheek humor I like that gives a nod to the Transformers history without disrupting the flow...
Next Big Thing
Sophia Myles. Today I was gearing up for the third season of Doctor Who on Sci-Fi by watching last season’s episode “The Girl In The Fireplace” in which Miss Sophia Myles starred. And she was fantastic. I forgot how fantastic she was, even though I shouldn’t have since I’ve saved that one Doctor Who episode on my Tivo all this time simply because it was so...
Mandy Moore Marathon
Somehow I ended up watching “Saved” and “Chasing Liberty” the last two days. I was amusingly entertained by both of them and surprised to find one of my favorite actors, Jeremy Piven, actually was in the second. Ever since ssing “PCU” I’ve kept an eye out for Poiven apeparances. Really enjoyed his short-lived tv series CUPID ten or so years back....
Confessions of an Addict
I admit it… I love teenage girl movies. The Princess Diaries, Mean Girls, Raise Your Voice, What a Girl Wants.. I’ve seen ‘em all. And I like ‘em. Well maybe not Raise Your Voice so much but I still like Hillary Duff. I also think Lindsay Lohan is a terrific actor if not totally lost wasting away in LA on booze and possibly drugs. But I long for the day she’ll make...