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Post by badwolf on Aug 13, 2018 17:57:00 GMT -5
We used to just pick up stuff...even if we hadn't experienced it firsthand, our parents and other adults would talk about them. I've never listened to an old-time radio show but I'm aware of them and can name them. I'm not really sure what has changed. Are today's parents only interested in current things? Have they abandoned their pasts?
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Post by beccabear67 on Aug 13, 2018 17:57:44 GMT -5
Be that as it may, I'll try to be more delicate in the future at least in this particular scenario. And I had the reaction to your asking if people thought John Byrne was an a-hole awhile back. I can be overly blunt myself (and I've never even been to NYC) so know I need to try and watch that as it can push buttons. We all have buttons and sometimes... No Stimpy, not the jolly candy-colored red button! (beccabear67 implodes)
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Post by hondobrode on Aug 13, 2018 17:59:13 GMT -5
I think the older a person gets the more they're exposed to older things pre-dating their experiences, and in general, the more familiarity they have and probably more appreciation they have for it.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2018 19:09:20 GMT -5
I'm disabled to the point, I'm totally deaf in my left ear and severe hard of hearing in the right that I can hear perfectly normal with my hearing aid. I used to wear hearing aid in my left and my Doctor informed a year ago -- that I'm no longer unable to hear from it.
I've can't walk downstairs anymore because of my bad balance and equilibrium so I constantly take the elevator down and I can climb stairs and take the escalator up -- but not down. I've have my limitations and I do have a dear neighbor name Jay that can place a call to my brother Steven in case I have problems that I need some assistance and I'm grateful for that.
I do have a flashing light doorbell and I don't wear my hearing aid at home and I loved the silence aspect and so far it's working good for me. My hearing in my right ear is stable and as long that I'm not wearing my aid more than 3-4 hours a day -- I'm fine.
I'm an excellent lip reader if the person talk real slow and easy and I can adjust real well; and I watch TV closed captioned and discovered a theatre that provides closed captioning on the first matinee and I enjoyed watching Mission Impossible the other day with friends. Anyway, I cope with it in the best way possible and adjust accordingly; I do drive and so far no accidents in the past 35 years!
I do cope with it and I cope it -- one day at a time.
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Post by beccabear67 on Aug 13, 2018 23:40:36 GMT -5
Wow, Mecha, sorry to read about that. I complain about lawn crew noise sometimes but not hearing would be hard. Well, they say there's always someone worse off than yourself so I suppose sight would be even less agreeable to lose, especially for movie and comic book fans. I wonder if the balance and hearing could be connected somehow... I know Meniere's Disease responds to a low sodium and low caffeine diet change.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2018 3:19:57 GMT -5
beccabear67 -- I don't have Meniere's Disease and I was unfortunately born with this condition and defect.
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Post by Cei-U! on Aug 16, 2018 7:04:08 GMT -5
According to Mark Evanier, comics writer and historian Gerard Jones was sentenced yesterday to six years in prison for possession and distribution of child pornography. There was no trial. He pled guilty to the charges back in May. Sorry waste of talent though it is, I think he got off easy. The crimes he committed are about as loathsome as they come. Cei-U! I summon the paid piper!
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Post by EdoBosnar on Aug 16, 2018 7:47:10 GMT -5
Erm, Gerard Jones, not Jacobs. But yeah, very reprehensible behavior. Six years seems like a bare minimum punishment.
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Post by Cei-U! on Aug 16, 2018 8:40:54 GMT -5
Erm, Gerard Jones, not Jacobs. But yeah, very reprehensible behavior. Six years seems like a bare minimum punishment. Thanks for that. No idea where "Jacobs" came from.
Cei-U! I summon the good catch!
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Post by hondobrode on Aug 16, 2018 11:51:56 GMT -5
I saw that.
Very sad.
He wrote one of the best history of comics books I've ever read.
What a loss, though I agree, it seems his sentence was light.
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Post by Prince Hal on Aug 16, 2018 15:58:56 GMT -5
Erm, Gerard Jones, not Jacobs. But yeah, very reprehensible behavior. Six years seems like a bare minimum punishment. Agreed. But if what we hear about the life of a short-eyes in prison is even half-true, it will be a very long six years for Jones.
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Post by Rob Allen on Aug 16, 2018 16:14:37 GMT -5
Jones' sentence also included five years of "supervised release" after his prison sentence, a $10,200 fine now and a hearing will be held in a few months to decide how much restitution he must pay the victims.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Aug 16, 2018 16:36:23 GMT -5
Erm, Gerard Jones, not Jacobs. But yeah, very reprehensible behavior. Six years seems like a bare minimum punishment. Agreed. But if what we hear about the life of a short-eyes in prison is even half-true, it will be a very long six years for Jones. Sex offenders are generally kept segregated into their own cell blocks.
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Post by Cei-U! on Aug 17, 2018 0:54:22 GMT -5
Just finished putting the final touches on Chapter 5, which means that aside from a few minor tasks my part in producing the 1940-44 volume of TwoMorrow's American Comic Book Chronicles is done! I can't believe I finally got here! Any celebrating will have to wait til tomorrow, thugh, cause I am some kinda drag-assed exhausted.
Cei-U! Go, me!
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Post by Icctrombone on Aug 17, 2018 5:27:06 GMT -5
How many chapters do you have left to write?
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