The famed and fabled EMI recording studios at Abbey Road, in St. John’s Wood, London, may be 80 years old, but the facility is up-to-date and it’s still a happening place. cnet has a gallery of photos.
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I’ve joined the Colbert Super PAC!
Stephen Colbert has received approval from the Federal Election Commission for his super PAC, and I’ve joined!
Separated at birth?
Scott Krinsky from Chuck and Don Most from Happy Days
Sir Paul gets cloudy
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As was first announced last September, Paul McCartney is partnering with Hewlett-Packard to put his solo catalog online. What I want to know is, what storage platform is HP using for Paul — 3Par, XP (has nothing to do with Windows XP), or EVA?
Gene Colan obit
The Boston Globe’s lead obituary today is Gene Colan. In the printed edition it’s on the page before Peter Falk’s obit! The sample of his art they picked is far from Colan’s best, and it isn’t even typical of his work, but how far we’ve come as a culture in our embrace of comic books.
The day comic books died?
This picture was taken at That’s Entertainment, Paul Howley’s award-winning comic book and collectibles store in Worcester, MA. The comic book is Captain America issue #108, on newsstands September, 1968. The pencil art was drawn by Jack Kirby, and it was inked by Syd Shores. Captain America #108 was the last issue of Cap I bought in Norwalk, CT, before my family moved to Massachusetts. The villain was the Trapster, a revamped version of Paste Pot Pete, who should have worked for 3M, but instead used his expertise in adhesives for evil.
What would I have done without comic books when I was a kid? The point is, I like comic books being physical things, but like music and movies, comics are becoming virtual products. The Boston Globe has an article at this link about comics publisher DC offering a digital alternative. Of this development, Paul says…
“Once one of my customers buys a comic online, then DC Comics has them forever,’’ Howley said. “They don’t need me. They have no interest in keeping people like us in the middle. This really is, in the long run, cutting our own throat.’’
My friend Morris doesn’t see digital comics as replacing the real thing, on paper. He has a point. How many casual comics readers are there? There used to be many, when comic books were sold in drug stores and read in barber shops, but these days almost all comic book readers are also collectors, and who wants to collect PDF’s?