Me wonders what makes a regular grape vine produce a pumpkin grape, and if there is a market for said pumpkin grapes if they were able to be mass produced. Read the rest of this entry »

Okay — so I’ve got four. To make it an official post, I need readers to give me 7 more.

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Drax the Destroyer. DRAX THE DESTROYER. At that moment it was no longer August, 1985 but February 1973. American POWs were released by the Viet Cong, the US and Red China established diplomatic liaison offices, and in domestic matters I was continuing my never ending role as sparring partner for DeWayne Bell, Buddy Green, Eric Anderssen, and Michael Colobussi.

Looking back on it now, I still can’t figure out why I bought that particular issue of Iron Man. It sure as hell wasn’t the cover. But from the moment I saw the first page I was hooked.

Iron Man was not a big draw for me as far as comic buying habits went. I seem to remember him most from reading a reprint story from Strange Tales when he kicked the crap out of the Crimson Dynamo (the Commie imitation, who, naturally, was no match for Yankee know-how and ingenuity). In an act of mercy, Shell-head let CD escape. After failing his mission, he returned to his rendezvous point with a Soviet sub and they let him drown, stating that failure could not be tolerated. For a kid, that was pretty heavy stuff so maybe that’s why I picked up #55, plus it had a green guy a la The Hulk on the cover.

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I don’t think I ever posted photos from last Thanksgiving. I don’t upload all my photos at once usually, so it can be a couple months before they are all uploaded. They’ve been up for the most part for awhile now, but I forgot to post the link here. Click on the photo below to see them.

I was in Japan recently for work. I stayed in some hot spring resort in a town called Kusatsu. There was an arcade in the hotel that had a bunch of weird games in it. More importantly, it had a Golgo 13 game in it, one I had never seen before.

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Tim has recently agreed to be in a film where he pilots a blimp. Resultantly, I’m looking for some miniature blimp designs. I’ll probably green screen the blimp, so it would be good if there was a way it could be suspended in front of the green screen. If anyone has any good designs, please post them below or email them to me.