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GST, Action Comics, etc.
Dec. 1st, 2011 08:42 amIt is Thursday. Only one day more after today before "Sleeping in Saturday."
It's also Green Shirt Thursday! I've posted this shirt before, but there is only so much greenery in the closet, even if it is my favorite color.
Some odds & ends:
A near mint-condition of Action Comics #1 sold for over $2 million at auction yesterday. It's the first appearance of Superman and only about a 100 copies are known to still exist and very few in such good condition. My family often asks me if I would sell that comic if I owned it. Hell yeah! While it would be awesome to have such a comic, I recognize that I could do a lot with that kind of cash. And I could buy a reprint to read the story. Trivia Question: What other golden-age hero (with ties to a current heroine) also made his first appearance in this issue?
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I was watching an independent horror flick on Netflix last night called Victim (Warning - movie poster is NWS). It's the story of a guy who gets abducted by a crazed scientist and his brutish assistant and experimented on for a very disturbing purpose. It was actually an interesting movie, not great but good enough to pass the time. The burly, goateed assistant is who caught my eye. He never speaks during the movie, is shaved bald with a graying mustache and thick goatee, and has a like pro-wrestler build. He's played by Irish actor Brendan Kelly, who played hairy-chested Mike in a really bad syndicated action show from the 1990's called "Acapulco H.E.A.T." He's aging REALLY well :)
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A coworker paid me a great compliment yesterday. He's going overseas for the first time for work this weekend and he stopped by to ask me questions on how to do certain things on this sort of trip. We talked for probably a half-hour and I gave him some things to ease things along, based on my experience. Before he left, he told me, "You know, you'd make a really great teacher!" I'm flattered. :)
Happy Green Shirt Thursday, y'all!
It's also Green Shirt Thursday! I've posted this shirt before, but there is only so much greenery in the closet, even if it is my favorite color.Some odds & ends:
A near mint-condition of Action Comics #1 sold for over $2 million at auction yesterday. It's the first appearance of Superman and only about a 100 copies are known to still exist and very few in such good condition. My family often asks me if I would sell that comic if I owned it. Hell yeah! While it would be awesome to have such a comic, I recognize that I could do a lot with that kind of cash. And I could buy a reprint to read the story. Trivia Question: What other golden-age hero (with ties to a current heroine) also made his first appearance in this issue?
I was watching an independent horror flick on Netflix last night called Victim (Warning - movie poster is NWS). It's the story of a guy who gets abducted by a crazed scientist and his brutish assistant and experimented on for a very disturbing purpose. It was actually an interesting movie, not great but good enough to pass the time. The burly, goateed assistant is who caught my eye. He never speaks during the movie, is shaved bald with a graying mustache and thick goatee, and has a like pro-wrestler build. He's played by Irish actor Brendan Kelly, who played hairy-chested Mike in a really bad syndicated action show from the 1990's called "Acapulco H.E.A.T." He's aging REALLY well :)
A coworker paid me a great compliment yesterday. He's going overseas for the first time for work this weekend and he stopped by to ask me questions on how to do certain things on this sort of trip. We talked for probably a half-hour and I gave him some things to ease things along, based on my experience. Before he left, he told me, "You know, you'd make a really great teacher!" I'm flattered. :)
Happy Green Shirt Thursday, y'all!
