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Post by Confessor on Feb 16, 2024 15:06:47 GMT -5
I have heard English comedians say that real Belgian pommes frittes blows away anything they ever go from a chip shop. My wife and I spent a week in Brussels and Bruge a few years back, and we were really disappointed with their chips. We'd heard so many good things about them, but the ones we had were a bit average, to be honest. Not terrible, mind you, but nothing to write home about. We kept trying place after place, thinking we'd just been unlucky, but we still kept getting fairly ordinary pomme frittes. Chips with mayo is a great idea of the Belgians' though. |
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Post by Confessor on Feb 16, 2024 14:07:08 GMT -5
That green does look enhanced, as we do with Chicago-style pickle relish for hot dogs.
Yeah, they are a particularly virulent green in that picture. Most times, mushy peas are a paler green than that. |
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Post by Confessor on Feb 16, 2024 12:45:07 GMT -5
Correction, the dialog might have been by Stan, but at this point 100% of the plot was Wally Wood, so that plot twist was Woody, not Lee. Credit where credit is due. I'm not convinced that's true. So, unless you can produce evidence in the form of old documentation or similar concerning the plotting of Daredevil #8, I'm gonna go ahead and assume that the plot was likely influenced by both of them. I know that Wood told Comics Journal that he wrote every Daredevil story that he worked on, but he's not a reliable source. In that CJ interview, he's moaning about Stan doing nothing and then a couple of paragraphs later he's saying that he got a writing credit for Daredevil #10 because Stan let him write that one by himself.  Well, what's the differance between DD #10 and all the other issues then, Wally? It just doesn't make sense. God knows I love Wally Wood's art, but he wasn't a reliable source and he was also a depressive alcoholic with an axe to grind. So, given that the Wilbur Day/Stilt-Man twist is a major plot point, I think it was probably Lee's idea --even if he was only producing a vague outline of the story and leaving Wood to fill in the rest. It's that pivitol to the story as it unfolds. EDIT: This should probably go in the Stan Lee thread!  |
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Post by Confessor on Feb 16, 2024 6:59:14 GMT -5
More early Daredevil with issue #8...  This is the first appearance of the mighty Stilt-Man, one of my favourite C-list superhero losers.  I know, Stilt-Man is a bit of a lame and ineffectual supervillain, but he has a realy nifty costume. In particular, is helmet incorporates some kind of gas mask, which I've always thought looked very cool. This is a cracking good issue, with fantastic Wally Wood artwork. Stan Lee does a great job of making the reader think that poor old Wilbur Day is the one being victimised by industrialist and inventor Dr. Carl Kaxton, before turning that on its head and revealing that it is in fact Day himself who is the villain of the story and the one inside the Stilt-Man costume. There's plenty of superhero daring-do in this issue, along with some nice soap opera-style romance in the Matt Murdock-Karen Page-Foggy Nelson love triangle. The issue ends on a moralistic note, like some of those early, pre-FF Marvel sci-fi tales, with Day getting zapped by the shrinking ray from his own "molecular condenser" weapon and shrinking down to nothingness. Thankfully for comics fans everywhere, Stilt-Man would be back. All round, Daredevil #8 is a brilliant and really fun slice of Silver Age goodness. |
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Post by Confessor on Feb 15, 2024 21:18:17 GMT -5
So, today I learned that the fictional Yancy Street from Fantastic Four and other Marvel comics -- home of the infamous Yancy Street Gang -- is based on Delancey Street on the Lower East Side of New York City. This was the same neighbourhood where Jack Kirby grew up and it was, back in the '50s and '60s, home to a large Jewish community. I sought out some images of Delancey Street from the 60s and you can see that it looks very much like the kind of street that Yancy Street has been depicted as in FF and other Marvel comics of the '60s, '70s and '80s.   |
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Post by Confessor on Feb 15, 2024 20:45:17 GMT -5
(...) Mushy peas are the height of culinary perfection.  Not on fries! Looks like it would be pretty good on mashed potatoes, though... Fries?!  I'll have you know those are finest British chips, my good fellow! And not just any old chips: those are " chip shop chips", the crème de la crème of all chips. |
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Post by Confessor on Feb 15, 2024 15:35:38 GMT -5
Bloody ignorant colonials!  Nothing can ever make up for the abomination that is mushy peas. You're dead to me. Mushy peas are the height of culinary perfection. |
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Post by Confessor on Feb 15, 2024 13:00:47 GMT -5
Being utterly tasteless, perhaps it represents British food? *ba dum tsss* Bloody ignorant colonials! |
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Post by Confessor on Feb 15, 2024 4:55:22 GMT -5
William Post, inventor of Pop-Tarts, has died...at 96. Clearly I need to eat Pop-Tarts more often. A man responsible for first-degree burns in millions of mouths over the years. |
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Post by Confessor on Feb 15, 2024 4:51:05 GMT -5
The movie is my favourite western of all time, so I thought I'd give this 2009 series a shot after noticing it only quite recently. Negotiated a good deal with blondie... Is that an adaptation of the movie? Or all new tales starring the Man With No Name? |
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Post by Confessor on Feb 14, 2024 8:04:39 GMT -5
BBC radio DJ and all round national treasure Steve Wright has died at age 69... www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68287707 Steve Wright's weekday afternoon Radio 1 show in the '80s and '90s was a must listen fixture for millions of Britons -- myself included! His witty and zany, quick-fire program, with its numerous highly quotable comedy characters like Sid the Manager and Mr. Angry, was a game changer for British radio. I have never met anyone who said they disliked the man or his show. He always came across as an immensely charming and genuinely nice guy too. He will be missed by literally millions of people in the UK. This small selection of remembrances in The Guardian speaks volumes about how much people the length and breadth of the nation liked him... www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/feb/14/readers-on-steve-wright-dj |
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Post by Confessor on Feb 14, 2024 6:12:19 GMT -5
I've never come across any Mike Nesmith albums in my used record/cd store excursions but every time I hear anything of his solo work I'm impressed. I'll have to start looking online. Nesmith's first two solo albums with the First National Band ( Magnetic South and Loose Salute) are both really good country-rock albums and very much worth hearing. The third, Nevada Fighter is a bit of a step down in terms of quality, but it's still pretty good. |
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Post by Confessor on Feb 14, 2024 6:04:47 GMT -5
Also, both Stephen Stills (then currently in the struggling Buffalo Springfield) and cult leader/murderer Charles Manson auditioned for The Monkees show, but weren't selected. How much better for humanity would it have been if Manson had been a success as a singer-songwriter or pop musician and Hitler had been a success as an artist? Perhaps they would have vented their evil and insanity in harmless verbal feuds with critics or other artists. Are there any other historical parallels or examples of this kind? Reg Dwight wanted to write and record his own music. Unfortunately for music lovers everywhere he succeeded and became Elton John! |
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Post by Confessor on Feb 14, 2024 0:39:46 GMT -5
As a bonus, Davy Jones' fame as a Monkee led young aspiring pop star David R. Jones to adopt a new stage name - David Bowie. Also, both Stephen Stills (then currently in the struggling Buffalo Springfield) and cult leader/murderer Charles Manson auditioned for The Monkees show, but weren't selected. |
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Post by Confessor on Feb 13, 2024 18:31:17 GMT -5
I'm gigging this Sunday, so I won't be around.
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Well, what's the differance between DD #10 and all the other issues then, Wally? It just doesn't make sense. God knows I love Wally Wood's art, but he wasn't a reliable source and he was also a depressive alcoholic with an axe to grind.
