tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post1198749984690376860..comments2024-03-19T10:41:35.976-05:00Comments on Bronze Age Babies: Man, That's a Lot of Snow! And a Selling Update from DougDoughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04248324005584963229noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-15925657021023865672015-02-02T14:02:30.577-06:002015-02-02T14:02:30.577-06:00Uh-mazing!
That is so great! I am glad it is wor...Uh-mazing!<br /><br />That is so great! I am glad it is working out for you, Doug.<br /><br />Not sure that tops the $28 bucks I am about to make on 4 Spider-Man lots from the early 00s. ;)Dr. Oyolahttp://themiddlespaces.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-8461794069540057562015-02-02T12:01:44.537-06:002015-02-02T12:01:44.537-06:00Doug, that is some beautiful artwork and I am glad...Doug, that is some beautiful artwork and I am glad it is doing well for you. Buscema and Avengers are hot and very hard to come by lately. Hopefully everybody stuck in the snow keeps on bidding for you. I'm nearer to Chicago, and we got pounded. They cancelled school and it took me quite a while to get into work. I play the "how many plows do I actually see on the road" game. Stay warm.Martinex1noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-1897812982831831882015-02-02T08:39:45.511-06:002015-02-02T08:39:45.511-06:00Nope, I STILL love this weather. We got about 15&q...Nope, I STILL love this weather. We got about 15" up here, lots of tundra wind-blowing. And I just moved into my new home 3wks ago, so this was the first time with having a house on a major street (with the plows, etc..). Having to back the car out onto a busy street takes some fast-action and patience sometimes, but I absolutely love the place.<br /><br />I just found/bought one of those HUGE SW Legacy Millenium Falcons (2ft long...). It's frickin' huge and heavy, with a dozen audiofiles from the movies, engine noises and lights, etc.. I'm not a huge SW fan by any means, but once I saw that at my local toystore, I simply HAD to buy it. It's gorgeous. My girlfriend nearly spit up her coffee when she saw it. <br /><br />Size matters, you know.<br /><br />Blessings, everyone.david_bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00218727673816200051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-20980391844029654682015-02-02T08:00:52.346-06:002015-02-02T08:00:52.346-06:00Ha-- Yes, this could be the least-universal tangen...Ha-- Yes, this could be the least-universal tangent ever seen here, Redartz.<br />(As the chorus cries out in a unison of agony-- "Nobody CARES, you guys! NOBODY CARES!!!")<br /><br />But yeah, man, that was pretty the span of my own adolescence and teen-hood. You were indeed up there pre-McDonalds, pre-Arby's, and even pre-stoplight at the town's ONE intersection (Broadway & Main). It was installed while I was away at college, and I came home and immediately and inadvertantly ran it.<br /><br />Other than generally enjoying hopping on my friends' snowmobiles over the years (my folks would NEVER have considered buying one. . EVER), the only remarkable experience I had with one on my own was getting the behemoth Ski Patrol 'bile absolutely stuck at the top of a hill (totally misjudged the turning radius) while my senior instructor waited for me to return to the bottom. He eventually walked all the way up the slope and pretty much verbally chewed me into a twitchy, waking coma. 'Course. . . I never got stuck again-! (I was an impossibly bozo-esque youth, there's no prayer of denying that--)<br /><br />Ah, the golden memories!<br /><br />HBHumanbellynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-62866928488023135532015-02-02T03:33:28.959-06:002015-02-02T03:33:28.959-06:00Doug, that is some seriously outstanding news (abo...Doug, that is some seriously outstanding news (about the auction, not the weather obviously). Hope the other ones take off, too. Personally, I'm not as much into this original art as other fans, but if I were to bid on one of those it would be the Buscema Silver Surfer/Thor page.<br /><br />Love the photo of the cardinals, by the way. Reminds of some of the shots I snap while taking the dog for walks in the forest that's about a 15-minute walk from my house.Edo Bosnarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-64284980614170077332015-02-01T22:57:37.286-06:002015-02-01T22:57:37.286-06:00HB- we were up there most years from about 1969 to...HB- we were up there most years from about 1969 to 1980, don't recall McDonalds but I believe we went to rhe Tastee-Twirl. Wish I could remember the name of the lake, am guessing it was Diamond as we had to drive a bit to town. You probably have some snowmobiling tales too, I'd wager.Redartzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08221459636234713619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-39605093519539450012015-02-01T22:49:00.012-06:002015-02-01T22:49:00.012-06:00Wow -go, Doug, go!Wow -go, Doug, go!Karenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17032477453891087135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-55892664335843334922015-02-01T22:22:13.267-06:002015-02-01T22:22:13.267-06:00Hiya,
According to your comments regarding the we...Hiya,<br /><br />According to your comments regarding the weather it seems that I live to the west of you. Misery loves company.<br /><br />I don't know what I'm more envious of, the artwork that you have in your possession or the fact that you own a snow blower.<br /><br />Yours<br /><br />pfgaviganpfgaviganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05446007678336988354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-146515974838422592015-02-01T22:06:31.499-06:002015-02-01T22:06:31.499-06:00Redartz--
Good.
Lord.
That is simply mind-bogglin...Redartz--<br /><br />Good.<br />Lord.<br />That is simply mind-boggling-- that you've been to my teeny-tiny (and disturbingly Stephen King-like, when you've lived there long enough to see it) home town--! Great snowmobiling, no question.<br /><br />I'm guessing your friends lived either on Diamond Lake (a relatively solid vacation-home spot) or little Stone Lake, which was literally right in town, and backed up to a big woods.<br /><br />I just can't believe you've been there. . . Say, to give me an idea of your time-frame, was there a McDonalds yet? Or just an Arby's? Or-- god forbid-- only the Tastee-Twirl & the oft-condemned A&W-?<br /><br />HBHumanbellynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-38337482144660889292015-02-01T21:01:02.468-06:002015-02-01T21:01:02.468-06:00Doug, congrats on the sale of your artwork, boos o...Doug, congrats on the sale of your artwork, boos on the crappy weather!<br /><br /><br />- Mike 'it's summertime 24/7 all year round in these parts' from Trinidad & Tobago.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-81059026562761658382015-02-01T15:35:40.276-06:002015-02-01T15:35:40.276-06:00HB- small world is proven once again. My parents h...HB- small world is proven once again. My parents had close friends who lived in Cassopolis and each winter our family would take a trip up there for snowmobiling! They had a big house near a lake, well out in the woods. Perfect for a couple teenage boys and a winter afternoon ( at least one visit snowfall kept us 'stranded' there)...<br /><br />Doug- isnt it amazing how the market for original art has grown? I still recall the 1980 convention when I purchased a Milgrom/Austin Gaurdians page for 15 dollars , and a Byrne/DeZuniga Marvel Team-Up page for 25 dollars. Still have the former, sure wish I still had the latter...Redartzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08221459636234713619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-7203135350278635002015-02-01T15:29:33.715-06:002015-02-01T15:29:33.715-06:00The British Isles are on the same latitude as Cana...The British Isles are on the same latitude as Canada but it rarely snows here due to the effects of the Gulf Stream. I'd love to see some decent snowfall for a change. But when we do get some snow the whole country grinds to a halt as the authorities are never prepared.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-91522011098740335972015-02-01T14:57:33.398-06:002015-02-01T14:57:33.398-06:00Oo-- that day didn't end well for at least one...Oo-- that day didn't end well for at least one of the pheasants, I reckon. . .<br /><br />Coyotes are really becoming established in our metro area, as well. Just saw a dead one by the road last night--- a quarter mile beyond the beltway. Cripes. . . !<br /><br />You know, snowfalls like the one you're having did generally close our schools for a day. . . and yet somehow, we managed to ALWAYS get a school bus by 9:00 to take the ski club out to our local (rather remote!) ski area. . . <br /><br />HBHumanbellynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-15102640237744466262015-02-01T14:45:09.645-06:002015-02-01T14:45:09.645-06:00Hi, guys! Thanks for dropping by on a Sunday after...Hi, guys! Thanks for dropping by on a Sunday afternoon!<br /><br />That photo was taken today by a fellow I used to coach with. His back yard backs up to a large park that's sort of like a nature preserve. A couple of days ago he sent me a shot of two pheasants on the ground with a coyote eyeballing them. I should have saved it.<br /><br />HB, the only reason my foggy memory could remember what I paid for that Avengers page is that the receipt was still in my "portfolio" -- I use that term when in reality it's a nicely taped package of stiff styro-board in which the page was originally shipped to me! All of my pages slip nicely into it, so that's how I store them.<br /><br />Redartz, I'll take snow of nasty cold rain any day, brother!<br /><br />DougDoughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04248324005584963229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-88923727265728505432015-02-01T14:40:41.354-06:002015-02-01T14:40:41.354-06:00Who says this isn't the Marvel Age of Unwittin...Who says this isn't the Marvel Age of Unwitting Investment, eh? Heh--<br />Doug, that is such a delightfully great windfall for you that it somehow even improves my day vicariously, even-!<br /><br />Boy, do I ever miss those solid, lake-effect winters! As I'm sure I've mentioned, my childhood home town is just around the bottom end of Lake Michigan, there, and inland a bit (Cassopolis, MI)-- and for much of the winter the neighborhood roads stopped being pavement (or "blacktop") at all. The acceptable driving surface hard-pack snow. Man, 75% of the folks here in the DC area would just starve to death rather than venture out at all onto something like that. . . <br /><br />Your picture of happy cardinals makes me all wistful, too. . . <br /><br />HBHumanbellynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-19642665193136088772015-02-01T14:19:40.207-06:002015-02-01T14:19:40.207-06:00Beautiful page you're offering there, Doug! Ho...Beautiful page you're offering there, Doug! Hope it does well for you; looks like it is off to a good start. Let us know how it works out!<br /><br />Oh, and I envy you the weather somewhat. Here at the southern tip of Indiana all we are getting is cold, clammy rain...Redartzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08221459636234713619noreply@blogger.com