King O' The Web
Showing posts with label ephemera. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ephemera. Show all posts
Sunday, May 03, 2009
Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen
Exquisitely airbrushed Doehla Fine Arts Card #5211 as a Happy Birthday to my youngest child - also a link to a wallpaper!
Friday, July 18, 2008
Kool UK Komik Artifakt
I stopped in to say "yo" to Bill at Frankenstein Comics and while I was there I spotted this hardbound volume:
It turned out to be several dozen UK weekly Spiderman weekly comics, originally valued at 5p each. I never knew this behavior was possible, but Bill assured me it was commonplace among misguided collectors from Old Blighty (owing to the binding doing nothing to enhance value) to take collections to the Binder and have it done - like Dickens or something- "taking my penny dreadfuls to the Binder's mum!".
His assertion was that this particular binding was only average and that he had seen other UK bound comics that had embossing and gold leaf.
Where the book had fallen open to, there was a back page ad for free badges for eating "Supermousse" which got you Pop Star badges and "Fudge" which got you free footballer badges.
Lo and behold, who was one of the free Pop Star badges? Why Gary Glitter - egregious child molester - ew! He supposedly gets out of 'Nam jail next month.....
No Supermousse for me or any of my readers, Gary!
All photos were phonecammed- sorry for any blurry
It turned out to be several dozen UK weekly Spiderman weekly comics, originally valued at 5p each. I never knew this behavior was possible, but Bill assured me it was commonplace among misguided collectors from Old Blighty (owing to the binding doing nothing to enhance value) to take collections to the Binder and have it done - like Dickens or something- "taking my penny dreadfuls to the Binder's mum!".
His assertion was that this particular binding was only average and that he had seen other UK bound comics that had embossing and gold leaf.
Where the book had fallen open to, there was a back page ad for free badges for eating "Supermousse" which got you Pop Star badges and "Fudge" which got you free footballer badges.
Lo and behold, who was one of the free Pop Star badges? Why Gary Glitter - egregious child molester - ew! He supposedly gets out of 'Nam jail next month.....
No Supermousse for me or any of my readers, Gary!
All photos were phonecammed- sorry for any blurry
Sunday, February 25, 2007
Let's All Dance To .......ROCK N' ROLL !!
A friend loaned this to me back in my filmmaking days, and I thought it could be used as background music. He never got it back. It still could be.
I haven't heard it yet so bear with me. From vinyl, so anything goes. I do recommend skipping the two "unnamed" tracks (despite the fact that they're at the top of the widget). Those particular tracks are swing-ish which leads me to wonder if this is the same Hen Gates that played with Dizzy Gillespie..
It rocks tho, saxophonishly, what I've heard...... in a just-shy-of-Las-Vegas-Grind sort of way.
Rock on rockers in your rock world, rock on.
Personally, I say skip the unnamed tracks......
I haven't heard it yet so bear with me. From vinyl, so anything goes. I do recommend skipping the two "unnamed" tracks (despite the fact that they're at the top of the widget). Those particular tracks are swing-ish which leads me to wonder if this is the same Hen Gates that played with Dizzy Gillespie..
It rocks tho, saxophonishly, what I've heard...... in a just-shy-of-Las-Vegas-Grind sort of way.
Rock on rockers in your rock world, rock on.
Personally, I say skip the unnamed tracks......
Monday, December 18, 2006
Son of GlyphJockey
at 3
17 years later - the birthday boy
Why is he the way he is?
Also a brief history of him thumbs-upping
now
His cool girlfriend gave him this incongruous piece of modern ephemera-
Happy Birthday, lad.
17 years later - the birthday boy
Why is he the way he is?
Also a brief history of him thumbs-upping
now
His cool girlfriend gave him this incongruous piece of modern ephemera-
Happy Birthday, lad.
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