The most satisfying collections are sometimes the most complicated, complex ones.
My growing collection of Yanoman’s ‘Demon’s Chronicle’ mini-figures is certainly the most involved collection that I have. Not only does each subsequent set need to be imported from poorly-translated overseas websites (since I haven’t found any US shops that stock these, due to their very [...]
We had the grandkids here over the holidays and they played their CD’s, and raved about the tunes in their iPods. Papa and I listened to some of the songs and except for the ‘rap’, enjoyed the variety and talented artists. It did bring back some memories of ’simpler times’, when we were growing up [...]
I’d like to suggest another collecting New Year’s resolution — this one based on a gripe I have.
Awhile ago I got the WKRP in Cincinnati - The Complete First Season DVD, and while I loved it in general, I was peeved to discover that, like the re-runs of WKRP, the DVD lacks the original [...]
11:30am on January 3rd, 2009, wasn’t the sunniest day of the year for an unveiling, but yesterday, just before lunch, the Captain Cook Hotel in Anchorage, Alaska buzzed with the release of a new postage stamp. On 3 January, 1959, Alaska was admitted to the union as the 49th state of the United States [...]
By now, you might have seen my unhealthy plethora of Batmen, which seems to continue to propagate completely unbidden. While I don’t wish to imagine any late-night post-coital-clone piles of little blue and grey defenders of Gotham, I can’t imagine that this is happening in any other way. Time to invest in night vision security [...]
