Hello from 30,000 feet, with free Wi-Fi. Thank you, American Airlines and AT&T!
Here’s some classic Kirby/Sinnott FF art to enjoy.
Category: Joltin’ Joe Sinnott
The late, great Marvel Comics Legend, Joe Sinnott
Colleen to the Rescue!
Did Colleen find the missing Mitch McConnell?
No, it’s Super-Turtle, worn out from helping to replenish America’s nearly depleted stock of long-range missiles.
I’m getting packed for the annual NCS meeting and awards dinner in Columbus. I’ll post when/if I can from there.
I have a gift for Colleen that I know she will appreciate. Joe Sinnott’s illustrated life of Pope John XXIII, a work that he was rightly very proud of.
Hey Beatles/Hey Bingle!
I’m thinking Joe Sinnott probably had Bing Crosby’s Hey Jude/Hey Bing! album in his record collection. 65-year-old Bing covered two Apple label singles from the fall of ’68.
On December 11, 1961, ABC-TV in America broadcast a TV special that Bing had produced in England, in which he performed this humorous rendition of ‘The Sheik of Araby’.
A few weeks later, on January 1, 1962, the Beatles, with Pete Best on drums, recorded their own humorous take of ‘The Sheik of Araby’ at their Decca Records audition.
Marvel Man on the Mend
Wishing a very quick recovery for Joe Sinnott’s son Mark, who underwent successful coronary bypass surgery today.
Joe
Six years ago today, the world of comic books lost one of its finest talents, Joe Sinnott.
From IEM to AI and AIM
Jack Kirby now has a New York street named in his honor.
Advanced Idea Mechanics, AIM, was created by Jack Kirby to oppose another one of his creations, SHIELD. An organization of brilliant, amoral scientists and engineers, wearing outfits lifted from Dr. No, AIM didn’t see itself as being necessarily evil or good. It was simply working for itself, as if the only goal of the Manhattan Project in developing and testing the first atomic bombs had been to prove it could be done.
Where AIM screwed up was in creating Modok. He was supposed to serve the aims of AIM, but he quickly dominated them and took over the organization. You can see where I’m going with this, regarding Artificial Intelligence.
Right now I’m listening to American Top 40 on SiriusXM, with one of my ten pairs of inexpensive wired IEM earphones. I enjoy making comparisons between them.
Today’s listening selection is with the first version of the 7Hz Salnotes Zero IEM. (There’s a second version that I also have.) I came upon this website with a review of the Salnotes that I hadn’t seen before.
https://audioreview.frieve.com/products/en/7hz-salnotes-zero/
Frieve Audio calls itself, “An audio company and product meta-review site that surveys dozens of sources worldwide and publishes reviews that can be treated as final conclusions.” I’m pointing this out because Frieve is obviously a work of AI that’s dependent upon other sources, most notably Audio Science Review.
The process of AI’s recursive consumption and regurgitation of its own sh*t will eventually prove the old adage of garbage in, garbage out. If it isn’t doing that already in some areas of interest.