Friday, May 21, 2010

Tale from the Crypt

Sometimes…

Sometimes your heart just feels heavy, a stone inside your chest, weighing you down and causing you to walk slower.  The stone is not always there, and you do not notice it when it is gone, except for when it has just lifted and disappeared.

I feel the stone inside my chest today.  I would like to just go home, but I am bound for Manhattan this evening to participate at a function. 

I hope I can walk enough to get home without feeling exhausted when I get there.

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Sunday, May 16, 2010

From LIFE.com: Mainstreaming

Comic book spin-offs -- whether appearing on TV, in movies, or in any other media -- dominate the box-office these days. This 1966 cover of LIFE magazine, meanwhile, suggests the phenomenon of cross-media pollination is not new. Pictured: Adam West as Batman in the ABC television series that aired from January 12, 1966, to March 14, 1968.

- Rob

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From LIFE.com: Comics in the Golden Age, 1930s and 1940s

During the mid-1930s, newspaper comic strips in the U.S. bloomed into entire books. Famous Funnies, published in 1934, is widely considered the first American comic book and helped usher in what fans of the genre often cite as the Golden Age of comics, running from 1930s through the late '40s. Pictured: Taking in a newspaper comic strip, 1933.

- Rob

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