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Post by EdoBosnar on May 1, 2024 15:44:03 GMT -5
This is the best mayonnaise...
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Post by EdoBosnar on May 1, 2024 15:16:00 GMT -5
Looking over the list of 2009 movies, I'd probably go with Black Dynamite, too (I only got around to watching for the first time last Christmas). Although I really like Up as well. Don't like Inglourious Basterds as much as most other people seem to. And one that gets a kind-of/sort-of honorable mention from me is Julie & Julia - I may have noted this in another thread here previously, but if this had just been a straight-up biopic about Julia and Paul Child (played by Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci) during their time in Paris, I would unreservedly think it's an excellent film. I was completely uninterested in the B-plot (or is it the A-plot?) about the woman blogging her way through Child's cookbook in the early '00s.
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Post by EdoBosnar on May 1, 2024 14:50:35 GMT -5
Batman #230 (DC, 1971)
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Post by EdoBosnar on May 1, 2024 9:44:45 GMT -5
1994.1 Teenager of the Year - Frank Black(...) That's a really good album, but I never liked his solo material as much as the Pixies. And he'll always be Black Francis to me...
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Post by EdoBosnar on May 1, 2024 9:24:53 GMT -5
First of May, International Workers' Day... How could I resist listening to L'Internationale, as every year? (...) Yeah, it's pretty good, but as far as socialist ballads go, I've always preferred Bandiera Rossa; here's an excellent rendition by a Belgian musician from her balcony back in 2020 during the Covid times...
And possibly my favorite version, by a Croatian punk band, KUD Idijoti, from 1990:
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Post by EdoBosnar on May 1, 2024 6:12:59 GMT -5
Definite 'yea' from me; I've had several series or runs bound, including - yes - Logan's Run... ...as well as the original Charlton run of E-man... ...which I think has been collected into a now out-of-print tpb once, but I also wanted the various back-up stories and letters pages: Since, like me, you're not interested in the resale value of your books, this is a really great way to go, because it's so much better and easier to have them on a shelf rather than bagged and stuffed in boxes that you rarely feel like pulling out.
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Post by EdoBosnar on May 1, 2024 2:17:30 GMT -5
I have a preference for some branded stuff, e.g. I like Hovis bread, and Diet Coke. But I am absolutely happy with generic, non-branded cereals, biscuits, orange juice, etc. A non-branded, generic orange juice tastes just as nice as a branded one that is double the price.Yup. From what a friend of mine tells me (he's a senior manager for a major grocery chain), their "home brand" orange juice is made by the same company that makes a certain big brand. It's just the packaging that changes. Yep. That's something I recall learning in high school (in a personal finance class) - back in the 1980s. It's particularly true for canned goods, frozen foods and sometimes even pasta. Since bread has also been mentioned, we always buy bread in a bakery, although most supermarkets here (in Croatia) sell baked goods made by one of the bakery chains, and a few even have their own in-house bakeries. Packaged (i.e., in a plastic bag), brand-name bread is not a popular thing over here.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 30, 2024 16:45:00 GMT -5
Yeah, Prince Hal's "A Comic Lover's Memories" was really good. And, yeah, fourthing the missing of certain members, esp. brutalis, among other things because he started and maintained a number of really awesome threads, like "Remember When: comic book remembrances" (a nice companion to Prince Hal's aforementioned thread) or "Which One?"
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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 30, 2024 15:12:44 GMT -5
Prince Hal
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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 30, 2024 12:38:33 GMT -5
I have a copy of that issue signed by Chaykin as well, form when I met him at Gem City Comic Con a couple years prior to Mike Grell being there. I had like 4-5 books signed by him and commissioned a Hawkgirl sketch form him. -M Yeah, he signed two other books for me and drew me a sketch of Monark (which I know I've posted somewhere else here at least once before - can't remember which thread, though). While searching for something else here, MRPs_Missives, I stumbled onto the post I mentioned above: it's in The Stories Behind Your Signed Classic Comics thread back in 2018 (images of the sketch and the three books he signed are posted there).
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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 30, 2024 12:27:05 GMT -5
Doing a little thread necromancy here to post some recentish SF paperback covers that I've always liked because they have such a retro look. To wit, the first-run pb covers on John Scalzi's Old Man's War series, all featuring lovely paintings by John Harris:
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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 30, 2024 7:12:32 GMT -5
And I continue my discovery of new (to me) music by clicking on eye-candy album cover art; in this case, it's Sweetback, by Ivan "Boogaloo Joe" Jones...
Funky jazz guitar - definitely sweet, and so far my favorite of these algorithmic recommendations I've been getting from YouTube recently.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 30, 2024 4:55:23 GMT -5
So a few weeks ago, in another thread, I noted that I was interested in picking up the Astro City Metrobooks, and - as often happens when we talk about things on the forum - later on that same day I came across a very reasonably priced used copy of vol. 1 online and snapped it up, and it just arrived... (the banana was purchased separately...)
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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 28, 2024 15:13:02 GMT -5
Interrupting your regularly scheduled 1994 album talk with another album I discovered thanks to the YouTube algorithm ( similar to way I found the Terry Callier album I posted about upthread): Open Soul by Tomorrow's People. Again, an eye-catching album cover got me to click the link, but then I ended up staying for the whole show as it were. Never even heard of the band, but it's pretty nice stuff.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 26, 2024 15:39:43 GMT -5
I have a copy of that issue signed by Chaykin as well, form when I met him at Gem City Comic Con a couple years prior to Mike Grell being there. I had like 4-5 books signed by him and commissioned a Hawkgirl sketch form him. -M Yeah, he signed two other books for me and drew me a sketch of Monark (which I know I've posted somewhere else here at least once before - can't remember which thread, though).
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