Replies: 72 Unseemly Comments
Actually Bruce, mathematically speaking ":-Þ" actually looks to me like a colon MINUS a hat. Now why would we need to draw attention to the fact that the colon is NOT wearing a hat. I would think this was the norm. Has anyone seen a colon WITH a hat? Ludicrous. Mad even! Oh yes - and I know from hats!
Posted by The Mad Colon Hatter @ 11/18/2002 07:44 AM PST
My allowance was only 50 cents per week, so I didn't buy comic books. When I got a little older, I would often invest 35 of my 50 cents in teen magazines featuring Donny Osmond. Probably my favorite books were the Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Posted by Laura @ 11/18/2002 07:49 AM PST
8-) Isn't the internet and chat world a lovely place? Even if we don't understand it and find ourselves perplexed? 8-/
I too enjoyed MAD magazine especially the movie spoofs. I hated Spy vs. Spy however. My favorite comic book was of course Superman - with a special interest in the stories that took place on Krypton. 8-O
First work of fiction was A TALE OF TWO CITIES when I had seen the movie on television and wouldn't shut up about it - so voila Charles Dickens. I was 8 or so. It is still a favorite of mine. 8-]
We subscribed to LIFE which came every Friday, although I liked LOOK for better pictures. And when I could find it - FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND! 8-D
Posted by Jrand55 @ 11/18/2002 08:00 AM PST
As someone very clever (and I wish it had been me) said last night,"Does a colon still wear a hat?"
Comics: Richie Rich(including Lotta Plump, Little Audrey, etc.) and
Archie (and the gang)
Magazines: MAD, Highlights (even though it was usually just at the dentist's office. And yes, I still like Goofus and Gallant and the Hidden Pictures)
Books? We went to the library a lot, but I'll have to think of what some of those first books were. I know a lot of the non-fiction books that used to fascinate me and which definitely influenced me, but I'll have to work on the early non-fiction.
Posted by Kerry @ 11/18/2002 08:02 AM PST
Comic book: Archie (altho I could never understand why he preferred Veronica over Betty).
Magazine: Theatre Arts (when I could find it), Life
The first non-youth fiction book I remember being completely absorbed by was Gone With the Wind (I think I was about 10 or 11). And I got in trouble in high school for reading Forever Amber during Algebra class...
Posted by Pam @ 11/18/2002 08:25 AM PST
Good morning!
Favorite work of fiction: I remember being hooked on the Scholastic Books program - the one where you would get this flyer every month, then check off the books you wanted, and then beg your parents for the money to buy them all. I also loved all the books fairs I would go to. But I digress...
I loved all the Judy Blume books (Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Super Fudge, etc.), and I was particulary fond of the Wrinkle In Time series by Madeleine L'Engle. Oh, and C. S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia. -I never read the whole series, but I've started buying them in nice hardcover editions, and will, hopefully, have some good reading time coming up soon. -And Katherine Patterson's Bridge to Terabithia.
-Wow, it's amazing how much I did read as a teenager compared to how much I don't read now.
As for magazines, I too liked MAD - even to the point where I would do the folding "trick" to a store copy even though I knew I wasn't going to buy it. However, some of my favorite magazines growing up were Family Circle and Better Homes & Gardens, believe it or not. My mom subscribed to them for years, and it was always a treat reading something new that just came in the mail. *I recently checked out a recent copy of both magazines, and was disappointed to find that some of the content has been sort of dumbed down, especially in the cooking departments.
Comic Book - I'm not sure if I ever had a favorite specific series, I usually just read and loved what I came across. However, my parents used to bring home some Filipino comic books, and I always enjoyed reading - not understanding - them. That's when I discovered that "ng" was an actual word in Tagalog - and it's pronounced the way it looks. -And the famous St. Francis of Assissi comic book, too, which still makes the rounds.
Posted by Jose C. Simbulan @ 11/18/2002 08:33 AM PST
Does the Chet Atkins diet come with a finger chart?
Posted by Jrand55 @ 11/18/2002 09:29 AM PST
My favorite comics were the Disney, particularly the Donald Ducks. Of course at the time I had no idea that all the best ones were written and drawn by Carl Barks, and even today I'd rather read an old Barks story than what passes as comic books today. Today's comics have great art with unreadable stories.
I know as a child I read magazines like Children's Digest and Jack & Jill plus the "adult" magazines my parents got like Collier's and Look although I never bothered with their Readers' Digest... too boring. I eventually grew into magazines like 'Teen and Dig. I also liked magazines like Hit Parader which printed lyrics from all the popular songs.
As a child my favorite books were Uncle Wiggely, The Wizard of Oz and the Bobbsy Twins series. The first time I was old enough to go into the "adult" section of the library the book I took out was the libretto (although I didn't know the term) to SOUTH PACIFIC! "Adult" novels I remember reading as a child and young teen include CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN and A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN, both books that I revisited recently - the first did not hold up, the second did.
Posted by William E. Lurie @ 11/18/2002 09:31 AM PST
Hmmmm. I don't remember the first book I ever read, but the first book I ever owned was Heidi, a gift from my grandmother, and it, of course, became my favorite book. My all-time childhood favorite book had to be Follow My Leader. It is one book I've insisted that all my children read, and they've come to love it, as well.
As for comic books, I was very much into the Archie and Veronica series until, of course, I came to discover Mad Magazine, which I've always considered to be a sophisticated comic book.
I imagine I used to read some magazines, as well, but all that comes to mind is Seventeen and an assortment of movie magazines, from the time when I used to swoon over Richard Chamberlain. (Go figure!)
Posted by Susan Gordon @ 11/18/2002 09:59 AM PST
When I was beginning to read, my mother gave me a subscription to a book club that yielded a few treasures like "Slim Green", the story of a garden snake; "This Cat Came to Stay," the story of how a cat adopts a family; "Somebody Called Boo", about a boy whose sister had nicknamed him Boo when he was an infant and how the name was hurting his self-image as he grew older. There were others, too, which I can see but cannot recollect the titles of. My mother retains these books.
The first fiction I ever read from a library (city library mobile pulled up to our schoolyard once every two weeks)was "The Hobbit." I was ambivalent towards it, but it had nice illustrations. Now, as much as I love "Lord of the Rings," its precursor, "The Hobbit", remains a read I don't much enjoy.
The first truly "grownup" book of fiction I read -- and it was a WOWZER -- was "To Kill A Mockingbird." I was 14.
Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 11/18/2002 10:23 AM PST
Kerry... that clever bloke was me. I take full credit. Not half credit.. not quarter credit.. but the full credit (which is better than the full monty).
More later...
Posted by Craig @ 11/18/2002 10:31 AM PST
Comics????? MAD was definitely on the list, as were many of the DC titles (Superman, Batman, Flash, Green Lantern, Justice League of America, Legion of Superheroes). But the one that caught my imagination then - and still does to this day - was Spiderman, which I have from issue #50 to date (destined to become my son's college tuition!). Especially the run of issues when Harry Osborne (one of Peter Parker's closest friends) was exposed as a junkie - Marvel felt so strongly about the drug situation in the mid 70's that they published those issues without the comic "seal of approval".
Posted by Phil @ 11/18/2002 10:47 AM PST
Here I am in the library again, still working on this fershluganah King Lear paper, and making copies, copies, copies (that is three copieses) of all sorts of unseemly articles for the research paper that just won't die.
In fifteen minutes, I must go to my history class, where I must sit for an hour and fifteen minutes whilst an old Australian lady says the word "hee-uh" eighty count them eighty times.
Posted by Sandra @ 11/18/2002 11:07 AM PST
:-Þ
And I say again: :-Þ
But I wish someone would tell me how to make that last symbol and what it is. I just did a cut and paste from above.
This weekend, Joe and I went to a celebration of the Confirmation of our neice Laura in the Catholic Church. The party consisted of a gaggle of kids in the basement, the adults upstairs, and mountains and mountains of food. We were very happy to see that Laura's mother, Joe's sister, is baking again. She stopped when her husband walked out, and now three years after the divorce, she is in charge of her life again.
We had no gift for Laura, but right as we left the house I remembered that I had picked up several of the Border's/Varèse-Saraband Spotlight Sampler that came out a few years ago--as future gifts. Laura is just getting into musicals, and she will, I hope, appreciate a CD of various Bruce Kimmel gems.
1st Book: I got The Magic of Oz for my 8th birthday and read the whole book in one day, which I thought was quite an accomplishement. After that, I read all the Oz books, all the Dr. Dolittle books (I don't even want to thing about Eddie Murphy), and all the Freddie the Pig books. I picked up a set of the Baum Oz books for a dollar apiece in hardcover when I was in college.
(The above-mentioned Laura, on the other hand, when she was 10, had already devoured the complete works of Jane Austen. I love to brag about our neices.)
Comics? Definitely Marge's Little Lulu.
Magazines? After I graduated from "Children's Digest", I went directly to "Scientific American". I too, however, always read my mother's "Good Housekeeping".
Posted by William F. Orr @ 11/18/2002 11:10 AM PST
And even if I do thing about Eddie Murphy, I refuse to think about him.
Posted by William F. Orr @ 11/18/2002 11:12 AM PST
I just went downstairs to get a cup of coffee, and there was the student intern watering her plants. "This plant is called NEERG," says she. "I name all the plants--they grow better." And sure enough, there on the side of the pot is a label saying NEERG.
"Why," ask I, "is it called NEERG."
"He is called NEERG," replieth she, "because it is GREEN spelled backwards,and he is green."
And she hasn't even read Benjamin Kritzer.
Posted by William F. Orr @ 11/18/2002 11:21 AM PST
Ah, but what was in the office when I went down to get my coffee? A varitable treasure trove. A package from Footlight. And contained therein:
Fremat's Last Tango, York Theatre.
Flowers for Algernon with Michael Crawford.
Juno and The Grand Tour (even Footlight sold them cheaper than the website that must not be named.)
The Big Voice: God or Merman?
The Last Session
Going to Pot by our own, our very own JMK.
A Little Night Music in Catalan.
Two copies of Anne of Green Gables, one for me and one for my dear neice Laura who is an absolute Anne-of-Green-Gables freak. Last year for her birthday I made digitally made a card from the cover of the book, modified to read "Laura of Green Gables". This weekend she chose Anne as her confirmation name.
Chicago in German, Theater an der Wien.
Dance a Little Closer
Dance on a Country Grave
I am going to have an orgy of CD listening.
Posted by William F. Orr @ 11/18/2002 11:33 AM PST
I remember the first book I actually read on my own was "The Magic Faraway Tree" by Enid Blyton. I discovered her books when I was in second grade at Eastwick First School in England. I immediately became a fan and now I have about 25 of her books in hardback copies. At least I HOPE I still have them. They're somewhere in my parent's basement I believe.
I also remember every two weeks (or every "fortnight") a magazine was released full of stories that had also been recorded on tape by celebrities...so you could read along! It was fantastic. I can't quite remember the name of the magazine unfortunately. I think it might have been "Story Tellers." I may even have some of those stashed away somewhere.
I'm very excited because I just received my first birthday card in the mail today. I think tomorrow to celebrate my friends and I are going to have a lovely lunch and then proceed to see a taping of the Ricki Lake show. How much fun will that be??
Sorry I missed the chat last night. :-( I needed the rest. Anywho...I'm off for a while.
Posted by Jason @ 11/18/2002 11:33 AM PST
WFO, fyo: :-Þ
1) Type a colon
2) Type a hyphen
3) While holding down the 'alt' key, type, in succession: 0 (zero), 4, 7 and 8
4) Voila! :-Þ
:-)
Posted by Susan Gordon @ 11/18/2002 11:57 AM PST
OPPS! I meant fyi, not fyo.
hee hee
:-)
Posted by Susan Gordon @ 11/18/2002 11:58 AM PST
FAVORITE COMIC BOOK(S):
Little Lulu &:()
Archie, Jughead, Veronica & Betty
A memory - The kids in my neighborhood used to regularly trade comic books. We'd bring them to school (I brought mine in a little red wagon filled to the brim).
FAVORITE MAGAZINE:
Seventeen (which I read BEFORE I was 17).
FAVORITE FICTION:
I devoured the Nancy Drew Mysteries.
Posted by Donna - Cabaret West @ 11/18/2002 12:00 PM PST
Favorite magazine: (not counting Mad)--Saturday Evening Post. I became fascinated by this mag when it folded in 1969, and began collecting them. I have issues going back into the 1800s. I once was developing a musical based on the magazine's history, starting with Benjamin Franklin and moving up to the corporate lethargy that killed the magazine in 1969. (The "reborn" version out now published by fundamentalist Christians might make an interesting epilog).
Childhood book--a classic, though no one has heard of it. "The Silly Book," by Stu Hample (who decades later would do "Children's Letters to God.") I was aghast when many years ago I went back home to discover my father had thrown out all of my childhood books, including this gem. I was able to get an autographed copy on eBay for a mere several hundred dollars (I guess Hample has his own collectors).
Posted by JMK @ 11/18/2002 12:12 PM PST
William F.:
I wish you luck with FERMAT'S LAST TANGO. That was another case where everything was good about a York production except their choice of show. What a waste of a good cast and excellent design. Considering how many good shows get "developmental workshops" at the York, sometimes their choice of shows for the mainstage series is puzzling. SUBURB, which followed FERMAT.. was another case in point. And some really good shows that I have seen at their workshops are never heard from again.
Posted by William E. Lurie @ 11/18/2002 12:32 PM PST
Hee-uh I am Sandra. I wonder whence you history teacher comes. Probably from South Australia. I don't think we say hee-uh here in Victoria. How old is old I wonder!
When we were on a flight from NY to New Orleans a few years ago, the lady next to me asked what part of New York state we were from as our accents were strange.
A lady in art gallery in New Orleans asked about our accent too - when we said we were from Australia, she said "I knew it was one of those countries in Europe". I had a video from Broadway Video (or whatever it's called) "Working" sent to an Austrian address!
Fist comics" I grew up with the Disneys (loved the Donald H D & L & Scrooge adventures). Some of the stories were serialised which was annoying when you were reading an old copy and could not find out how the story ended. I also read the Archie comics and the Superheroes too.
The first "real" books I read were the Enid Blyton "Faraway Tree" books. then I read "The Adventures Of a Wishing Chair" and it sequels and then graduated to the Adventure series by the same writer. I also had 18 (I think) of the Bobbsie Twins books. I could never work out how they had a birthday and Christmas in every book and they never aged. good to see Harry Potter is allowed to age.
I liked to read "Mad" comics as a young teenager and also liked to visit family friends who had copies of Saturday Evening Post and National Georgraphic.
Happy Birthday Jason. (it is Nov 19 here (hee-uh) already. Hope the phantom comes through for you. It is less than a month to BK's birthday and MINE. Maybe one day I will get Ice-cream cake.
So much writing. People will think this is a post from Jose. Carmen sounded wonderful. So glad you got to get that ticket from Ms Lee, Jose.
Does Good Housekeeping magazine have hints on how to look after your Neerg? shoudl the leaves be dusted more than once per week. I think you need a Triffid or an Audrey to deal with the students William.
Posted by Tom from OZ @ 11/18/2002 12:33 PM PST
Well, she only said "hee-uh" 77 times today. Once she said it 99 times. I thought that was amazing. I think counting her hee-uhs is the only thing that keeps me awake during her class. And I wouldn't even make a guess at how old she is.
It's amazing how I can spend so much time in the library and not get any work done on that King Lear paper.
Posted by Sandra @ 11/18/2002 01:02 PM PST
One of my teaching colleagues used to say "right" very often. She was often a speaker at staff meetings and we used to count her "rights". Teachers are real people too! We had to stay awake.
My French teacher at school used to wear odd ear-rings and odd stockings (one with a seam and one without) (ask Laura about those). As a teacher I used to get bored in my own classes at times. When I was teaching secretarial skills my students often told me to go for a walk as I annoyed them to much when they were trying to work!
Just remembered that Rita (the "right" person)used to say OK after every statement too.
I have never had the pleasure (!?) of reading (or having to do so) Lear. I did not get past McBeth, Richard III and Hamlet as texts. I have vague memories of the Merchant of Venice being read in class when I was about 13.
Posted by Tom from OZ @ 11/18/2002 01:22 PM PST
Just realised that you will need to ask someone older than Laura about stockings with seams. Only people older than BK will remember.
Posted by Tom from OZ @ 11/18/2002 01:23 PM PST
When, I was a kid I really liked to read Roald Dahl's books like James And The Giant Peach, Charlie And The Chocolate Factory and The BFG. As a teenager I liked to read compilation books of comics like Doonesbury, and such and I also liked to read Robert Crumb's underground comics. And, I'm going to try to do that colon with s hat thing. :-Þ. There we go.
Posted by Brandon @ 11/18/2002 01:27 PM PST
Tom from Oz -- thank you for that correction.
Posted by Laura @ 11/18/2002 01:37 PM PST
When I was a kid, I was never really into comics. I guess they were never introduced to me by the adults in my life. Go figure... I did read ALL the Judy Blume books (Including the "girly" ones) and had a fondness for Beverly Cleary and read the entire "Little House" series at LEAST 5 times. I was never into Sci Fi very much, but I loved all other fiction. I read a lot as a kid, a great escape.
I just put Benjamine Kritzer on my Christmas list. Cheers :)
Posted by Matthew @ 11/18/2002 01:50 PM PST
Hey, Dear Reader Mom, class got out early today, and I used all my quarters making those fershluganah Xerox copies so I can't use a pay phone. So if you happen to read this, could you come pick me up a little early?
Posted by Sandra @ 11/18/2002 02:30 PM PST
Who said this here website doesn't serve a practical purpose?
Posted by Jay @ 11/18/2002 02:32 PM PST
Won't SOMEONE buy Matthew Benjamin Kritzer for Christmas?
I am jiggy with all these posts. Keep 'em coming.
Posted by bk @ 11/18/2002 02:32 PM PST
Dear Reader Sandra -- I'm on my way.
Posted by Laura @ 11/18/2002 02:48 PM PST
I was never into comic books.
Don't know why, they just never
interested me much. As for
magazines, I got the whole
PBS set as a little kid: Sesame
Street, 3-2-1 Contact, et al.
And of course Boys Life during
my scouting years.
Books as a kid: I read very
possibly everything Beverly
Clearey every wrote, and a
good 80% of the Judy Blume
books. Around age 8 I got
hooked on the Hardy Boys and
read an unseemly amount of
those over the next few years.
Posted by Jed @ 11/18/2002 02:54 PM PST
Dagwood, could you pick up some milk and eggs on your way home from the office?
Posted by Blondie @ 11/18/2002 02:55 PM PST
:Þ
;Þ
Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 11/18/2002 03:23 PM PST
I loved Mad magazine and have a familiar connection. my cousin David Shayne was an associate editor of the magazine for many years. I also have the complete collection of Mad magazine of CD-ROM (at least up to the time the CD-Rom was manafactured) My prized bonus souvenir is Spy vs Spy toliet paper. My favorite things were the musical parodies that were Sung to the tune of....It has been disapponting the last few years as it been control more and more by Warner Brothers. It even now accepts advertising. Don't mind the color all that much.
You know you made it when you were parodied in MAD magazine.
Posted by Michael Shayne @ 11/18/2002 04:08 PM PST
Tom from Oz: How funny that we both read the Faraway Tree books as kids! I absolutely loved them and I am certain that I read them at least three times each. I don't know that the Enid Blyton books are available here in the States. At least I've not seen them in the local Barnes and Nobles. Oh...thank you for the birthday wishes. :-) Did you read my post the other day to let you know that I did indeed receive the package you sent me? I really think I may have come up with a book idea to build around those songs...I know...I'm a freak like that.
Other books that I discovered as a kid:
Nancy Drew (can we say red flag?)
Hardy Boys (sometimes)
and when I was really young my favorite book to have read to me was called "Don't Wake Papa" about little bunny rabbits who had to be very quiet so they won't wake up their father. I'm not sure why that one sticks in my mind...but it does.
Posted by Jason @ 11/18/2002 04:11 PM PST
My very first book was The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. My parents were visiting NYC and the went into the original Sam Goody Record store and they found a multi-LP of the book and the bonus was a hardcover edition with original illustrations in color. I listened to the recording over and over again and taught myself to read by listening to the book and following it with the book. At one time I was able to recite the first ten chapters from memory.
Another favorite of mine was Alice's Adeventures in Wonderland. I also had a multi-lp set narrated and enacted by Cyril Ritchard (Captain Hook)
Finally I still have my hard copy edition of Charlie and The Chocolate Factory complete with its grape juice stain. I used to (and still do) love to read while I eat.
Posted by Michael Shayne @ 11/18/2002 04:14 PM PST
I am also reminded of the Noddy books from England that I also read as a child. Unfortunatly I don't think they are any politically correct anymore. There was a black doll called a Gollowog (or something like that) that I am sure in todays sensabilities is no longer proper.
Also every Christmas until he died I looked forward to the Giles Annual of single panel cartoons that were featured in the Daily and Sunday Express newspapers. Sometimes they were political and I did not get them, but most of them featured a continuing cast of characters that never aged over the years. It was a one gift I looked forward to growing up as a child.
Posted by Michael Shayne @ 11/18/2002 04:19 PM PST
I enjoy this topic.
Sort of off-topic: Does/did anyone else have the obsession of buying books but never reading them all the way through? Sometimes I'm really bad about reading only the first couple of chapters of things (including the classics) and then putting the books away. It's weird...I know.
Posted by Jason @ 11/18/2002 04:19 PM PST
They are indeed called Golliwogs.
Posted by Enid Blyton @ 11/18/2002 04:20 PM PST
Benjamin Kritzer, isn't available where I live. Hopefully my town will get it someday. :-Þ.
Posted by Brandon @ 11/18/2002 04:54 PM PST
Why, Brandon, Benjamin Kritzer is available signed right here on this website. Just go to the home page and click on the "Link to new sections". Or amazon.com has it, or the publisher 1stbooks.com has it (cheaper than amazon - at least the hardback).
Posted by bk @ 11/18/2002 05:16 PM PST
The problem was that the Golliwogs were naughty all the time.
Why do elephants have Big Ears?
They're waiting for Noddy to pay the ransom.
All is forgiven Michael. The coloured (colored?) email was very exciting. Do I need to get a life?
I have been out all day worrying about Sandra waiting.
How is Megan?
Posted by Tom Guest @ 11/18/2002 07:48 PM PST
Brandon. By this time you should now have ordered your copy of Benjamin K. It is a delight and a charming window to an innocent past.
I was always worried about the names of the Children in the Farawy Tree stories. Do you remember them Jason?
Posted by Tom Guest (from OZ) @ 11/18/2002 07:52 PM PST
Tom -- Sandra is safely at home, re-reading King Lear. Megan was released from the hospital on Friday.
By the way, it literally brought tears to her eyes when she read the posts from you folks. It meant a lot to her that someone cares. Thank you.
Posted by Laura @ 11/18/2002 08:06 PM PST
Tom: Could you be referring to Jo...Bessie...and Fanny? They sound like cow names to me. Anyway...I thought the Faraway Tree sounded like the coolest place to be. Then I found HainesHisWay.com. :-D Do I get brownie points for saying that BK?
(I'll be 26 years old in 15 minutes!!)
Posted by Jason @ 11/18/2002 08:42 PM PST
And let's not forget Moon-Face and the Saucepan Man and the Land of Topsy-Turvy and Do-As-You-Please and the Silky Fairy...oh to be 6 years old again.
Posted by Jason @ 11/18/2002 08:44 PM PST
May I be the first to wish you a Happy Birthday, young Jason!!!!
Posted by Laura @ 11/18/2002 09:03 PM PST
Thank you Laura!!! I'm 26!! I'm 26!!
Posted by Jason @ 11/18/2002 09:25 PM PST
Jason: May you always have a cushion as you slide down the slippery dip of life. (That way it will always be fun). Happy Birthday.
The Faraway Tree kids' cousins were Dick & Connie. The books were "The Enchanted Wood", "The Magic Faraway Tree" and "The Folk Of The Faraway Tree". (I think my sister has the books locked up in a trunk somewhere).
Watch out for angry Pixies.
Posted by Tom from OZ @ 11/18/2002 10:05 PM PST
Happy Birthday, Jason!
Posted by Jose C. Simbulan @ 11/18/2002 11:04 PM PST
Jason, Hap----py Birthday! My birthday's not until May, but all of Mexico celebrates on that day: Cinco de Mayo! [I'm still working on my list of musical recordings that I own. My computer has been moved to my new place but the Internet hookup won't be installed until tomorrow (Tuesday) afternoon!]
The only comic (which are now commonly called "graphic novels") I ever remember owning was a comic book version of "The Invisible Man." I thought that it was pretty cool. I lost it when we moved from Colorado to Washington state when I was in the 5th grade.
The earliest book that I can remember reading (on my own) was a book of children's fairy stories called "Hilda Boswell's Treasury of Children's Stories." I think my parents got it for my sister and I when we were young and I just loved the pictures. I lost that, also.
I never really started reading magazines until I got older. Playbill was the first magazine that I subscribed to on my own. Shortly after that, I discovered Show Music Magazine. I just got my official letter saying that the magazine is no more. :-(
Posted by George @ 11/19/2002 12:44 AM PST
Here I am struggling out of bed and grasping around for my first cup of coffee at five oh something in the morning--but first I must put on my pointy party had and manage to dance a semblance of the Hully Gully, and shout for all and sundried to hear in the middle of the Leonid meteor shower:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JASON!!
There! Now gimme that coffee!
Posted by William F. Orr @ 11/19/2002 02:13 AM PST
party had ===> party hat
Posted by the spelling demon @ 11/19/2002 02:14 AM PST
Happy Birthday, Jason.
Posted by Jrand55 @ 11/19/2002 04:31 AM PST
Happy Birthday Jason. I remember 26. I wasn't even in New York yet. It was 1979 and I was performing in Minnesota, planning my great escape to New York City. 22 years later, here I am. Happy Happy Day. I may re-post this when the new notes are up so you can see it for sure.
Posted by Ben @ 11/19/2002 05:02 AM PST
Jason - Happy 26th and many many more (gee, I celebrated the 20th anniv of 26th this past summer.....)
Perhaps we should plan a Hansie/Kimlet trip to see Jason should he be fortunate enough to get cast? What sayest thou everyone?????
Posted by Phil @ 11/19/2002 06:49 AM PST
Dear JMD,
I just came across your email lamenting your long-lost childhood fave, THE SILLY BOOK, which your father threw away. It’s practically impossible to find an original copy, but you might be interested to know that Candlewick Press will be reissuing Stoo Hample’s classic gem in October 2004! Stay tuned to the Candlewick website for more details.
Long live Boodleheimer!
All the best from another Stoo fan,
JDM
Posted by Jamie @ 07/11/2003 08:58 AM PST
Dear JMD,
I just came across your email lamenting your long-lost childhood fave, THE SILLY BOOK, which your father threw away. It’s practically impossible to find an original copy, but you might be interested to know that Candlewick Press will be reissuing Stoo Hample’s classic gem in October 2004! Stay tuned to the Candlewick website for more details.
Long live Boodleheimer!
All the best from another Stoo fan,
JDM
Posted by Jamie @ 07/11/2003 08:58 AM PST
Dear JMD,
I just came across your email lamenting your long-lost childhood fave, THE SILLY BOOK, which your father threw away. It’s practically impossible to find an original copy, but you might be interested to know that Candlewick Press will be reissuing Stoo Hample’s classic gem in October 2004! Stay tuned to the Candlewick website for more details.
Long live Boodleheimer!
All the best from another Stoo fan,
JDM
Posted by Jamie @ 07/11/2003 08:58 AM PST
Dear JMD,
I just came across your email lamenting your long-lost childhood fave, THE SILLY BOOK, which your father threw away. It’s practically impossible to find an original copy, but you might be interested to know that Candlewick Press will be reissuing Stoo Hample’s classic gem in October 2004! Stay tuned to the Candlewick website for more details.
Long live Boodleheimer!
All the best from another Stoo fan,
JDM
Posted by Jamie @ 07/11/2003 08:59 AM PST
Dear JMD,
I just came across your email lamenting your long-lost childhood fave, THE SILLY BOOK, which your father threw away. It’s practically impossible to find an original copy, but you might be interested to know that Candlewick Press will be reissuing Stoo Hample’s classic gem in October 2004! Stay tuned to the Candlewick website for more details.
Long live Boodleheimer!
All the best from another Stoo fan,
JDM
Posted by Jamie @ 07/11/2003 09:03 AM PST
Dear JMD,
I just came across your email lamenting your long-lost childhood fave, THE SILLY BOOK, which your father threw away. It’s practically impossible to find an original copy, but you might be interested to know that Candlewick Press will be reissuing Stoo Hample’s classic gem in October 2004! Stay tuned to the Candlewick website for more details.
Long live Boodleheimer!
All the best from another Stoo fan,
JDM
Posted by Jamie @ 07/11/2003 09:03 AM PST
Dear JMD,
I just came across your email lamenting your long-lost childhood fave, THE SILLY BOOK, which your father threw away. It’s practically impossible to find an original copy, but you might be interested to know that Candlewick Press will be reissuing Stoo Hample’s classic gem in October 2004! Stay tuned to the Candlewick website for more details.
Long live Boodleheimer!
All the best from another Stoo fan,
JDM
Posted by Jamie @ 07/11/2003 09:04 AM PST
Dear JMD,
I just came across your email lamenting your long-lost childhood fave, THE SILLY BOOK, which your father threw away. It’s practically impossible to find an original copy, but you might be interested to know that Candlewick Press will be reissuing Stoo Hample’s classic gem in October 2004! Stay tuned to the Candlewick website for more details.
Long live Boodleheimer!
All the best from another Stoo fan,
JDM
Posted by Jamie @ 07/11/2003 09:09 AM PST
Dear JMD,
I just came across your email lamenting your long-lost childhood fave, THE SILLY BOOK, which your father threw away. It’s practically impossible to find an original copy, but you might be interested to know that Candlewick Press will be reissuing Stoo Hample’s classic gem in October 2004! Stay tuned to the Candlewick website for more details.
Long live Boodleheimer!
All the best from another Stoo fan,
JDM
Posted by Jamie @ 07/11/2003 09:11 AM PST
Dear JMD,
I just came across your email lamenting your long-lost childhood fave, THE SILLY BOOK, which your father threw away. It’s practically impossible to find an original copy, but you might be interested to know that Candlewick Press will be reissuing Stoo Hample’s classic gem in October 2004! Stay tuned to the Candlewick website for more details.
Long live Boodleheimer!
All the best from another Stoo fan,
JDM
Posted by Jamie @ 07/11/2003 09:11 AM PST
Dear JMD,
I just came across your email lamenting your long-lost childhood fave, THE SILLY BOOK, which your father threw away. It’s practically impossible to find an original copy, but you might be interested to know that Candlewick Press will be reissuing Stoo Hample’s classic gem in October 2004! Stay tuned to the Candlewick website for more details.
Long live Boodleheimer!
All the best from another Stoo fan,
JDM
Posted by Jamie @ 07/11/2003 09:11 AM PST
Dear JMD,
I just came across your email lamenting your long-lost childhood fave, THE SILLY BOOK, which your father threw away. It’s practically impossible to find an original copy, but you might be interested to know that Candlewick Press will be reissuing Stoo Hample’s classic gem in October 2004! Stay tuned to the Candlewick website for more details.
Long live Boodleheimer!
All the best from another Stoo fan,
JDM
Posted by Jamie @ 07/11/2003 09:11 AM PST
