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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 26, 2024 10:27:47 GMT -5
It's not just one piece. But the biggie was an individual from my profession essentially telling the Supremes that "the President is above the law." It's never just one piece, not since about 8 years ago at least. And yeah, that's the one I was thinking of (I figured that every lawyer with a functioning moral compass would be pulling their hair out over that).
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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 26, 2024 10:23:45 GMT -5
It occurred to me that I dominos how to post my comics. I’ve only ever did copies from Internet Best way is to sign up at a free image hosting site. One of the currently better ones that I think many folks here use is Imgur (https://imgur.com/). Another one that I know of, but haven't yet used, is ImgBB (https://imgbb.com/), although that one has a limit on the amount of files you can upload, which Imgur doesn't seem to (either that or I haven't hit it yet, and I've using it for about 6-7 years now).
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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 26, 2024 10:19:26 GMT -5
Well, since our host posted a signed comic from the 1970s, I'll follow his cue and post a treasured signed comic that I have, Marvel Premiere #32: Now, this would be a treasured book even without the signature, because it's arguably the best single issue of Marvel Premiere ever (and I'm not saying that lightly, as I'm really fond of that series). It contains an excellent, stylish done-in-one space opera story written and drawn by Howard Chaykin. However, the fact that Chaykin also signed it when he was here in Zagreb over a decade ago, when I had the opportunity to sit at his table and shoot the breeze with him for almost a half-hour, just makes this comic all the more meaningful.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 26, 2024 3:22:24 GMT -5
I liked the two Tim Powers books I read back in the 80s, The Anubis Gates and Dinner at Deviant's Palace, and always meant to read more of his work but somehow never have gotten around to it. But I'll get there one of these days. Anubis Gates is one of three more books by Powers I have on my shelf waiting to be read (another is the third installment of the Fault Lines trilogy that I'll probably start reading today). Dinner at Deviant's Palace is one I'd like to get to eventually, because it's possibly his only straight-up SF novel, as opposed to the supernatural/fantasy (mixed with alt history) stuff he usually does.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 26, 2024 2:44:11 GMT -5
Probably a good thing that there isn't a politics thread today. Agreed. That's a thought I've had pretty much on a daily basis for a year, too! Just the last year? Otherwise, I'm pretty show I know which piece of news from yesterday triggered Slam to make that observation, and if I'm right - yeah, oof.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 26, 2024 2:35:40 GMT -5
(...) By around age 7, I had discovered the so-called Red and Blue compilation albums ( 1962-1966 and 1967-1970) in my parents' record collection and had quietly spirited both of those upstairs to my bedroom, where they were on almost constant rotation on my second-hand turntable. (...) Ah, yes. The Red and Blue albums. The Beatles starter kit for many a young music lover back in the late '70s and '80s.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 25, 2024 16:37:00 GMT -5
Expiration DateTim Powers, 1995 In Los Angeles in the early 1990s, about a week before Halloween, an 11 year-old boy named Koot Hoomie ‘Kootie’ Parganas unknowingly ingests Thomas Edison’s ghost after a series of events that left him an orphan and homeless. To wit, the world he lives in is populated by ghosts and people who hunt them down to capture their essence, which can then be ‘eaten’ (although actually inhaled) by the living, which has a drug-like effect. And now a bunch of these ‘ghost-eaters’ are after Kootie, because Edison’s ghost is quite a prize, and since he hasn’t reached puberty yet, the ghost was not really ‘eaten’ – rather it just sort of hangs out in Kootie’s psyche (where it gives him advice and occasionally takes over his body), but it can still be extracted. Several other characters and plot-lines intertwine, the most important being Pete Sullivan, an itinerant electrician who used to work for one of the ghost-eaters in LA (a ruthless woman whose work as an indepnent, mainly documentary filmmaker serves as cover for her more nefarious activities), and Angelica Elizalde, a former psychiatrist who fled the city a few years prior because of séance gone bad that ended up killing a few people – it’s complicated. In fact, summarizing this book is proving complicated, as there is so much story, and so many layers, with supernatural and occult elements intertwined with actual historical events and figures (e.g., Houdini’s ghost also makes a showing here). I’ll just end this by saying it’s a really enjoyable, if dense, story. By the way, this one is the second in a trilogy called the ‘Fault Lines’ series. The first book, which I read a number of years ago, is Last Call (set mainly in Las Vegas, the story revolves around gambling, tarot, Bugsy Segal and Fisher King legend, among other things). Storywise, it has no points of contact with this book, except that they both take place in 1992.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 24, 2024 10:50:44 GMT -5
Incredible Hulk #245 (Marvel, 1980)
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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 24, 2024 10:45:49 GMT -5
So, a few weeks ago, in another thread I asked anyone here if they were familiar with the Marlowe 'graphic novel' published back in 2003 by ibooks (Byron Preiss strikes, or rather struck, again) and whether it was worth picking up; no answers were forthcoming, and I decided to risk it, given that I stumbled onto a roughly $10 used copy from an online seller in the UK. It arrived today, while a few days earlier the mailman brought the other, better known Chandler graphic adaptation, The Little Sister (purchased from an eBay seller in Germany): I'll have a definitive answer as to whether or not the former book was worth getting when I get around to reading it, but just based on its condition (absolutely pristine - no signs of any previous use) and the art I saw when flipping through it (I'll post images when I get around to scanning a few pages), it was more than worth it, esp. given the price. It's a very nice-looking and beautifully packaged book.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 24, 2024 3:08:04 GMT -5
(...) And left looking a bit foolish are ... EdoBosnar ... I regret nothing.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 23, 2024 15:40:49 GMT -5
k7p5v
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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 23, 2024 14:04:16 GMT -5
Just saw the news that actor Terry Carter has passed away at the age of 95. He's perhaps best known to many of us here as Col. Tigh from the original Battlestar Galactica... He had a long career, though, and appeared in many television shows (either as a guest star or in recurring supporting roles) and movies (including Foxy Brown). He was also a filmmaker, producing among other things a number of documentaries for PBS.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 23, 2024 7:36:57 GMT -5
I've bought a few John Brunners and have thought about getting this one when I've seen it on the shelves, so it's good to hear this description. He has quite a few books that sound more interesting so I'll leave this one aside for now. My impression is that he was one of those very prolific writers who put more into some of his books than into others that were turned out more or less quickly to meet a deadline. I should be getting to him soon but I forget which one I have picked out to start with.
Based on my limited reading of his oeuvre (about a half-dozen books - only reviewed three of them on this forum, the one mentioned above plus another novel and a short story collection), my opinion is that there is always a baseline of quality with Brunner. Even his drier - I won't say 'boring' because he's never bored me - material is still interesting and I've never felt like I've wasted my time reading any of it. And when he's good, he's really good - e.g., a book like Stand on Zanzibar definitely deserves all of the praise it gets.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 23, 2024 1:51:33 GMT -5
Latest read: The Traveler in Black by John Brunner-this came recommended by someone who's tastes have a lot of overlap with mine, but I struggled with this one. It was more satire than story, with a wanderer going around dispensing just desserts w/o any real narrative. -M Read this about a year ago; guess I liked it a bit more than you did, as I generally found the stories pretty interesting and I liked the bits of dry humor peppered into them. However, your cover (can't go wrong with the Dillons) is much better than the lame art on the UK edition that I read.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 22, 2024 16:24:37 GMT -5
Vespers
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