It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown is starting right now on ABC. Will Charlie Brown kick the football? Will the Great Pumpkin visit Linus? Of course not! And we wouldn’t want it any other way.
If you missed the Great Pumpkin tonight, don’t worry, it’s on again Friday night at 8 ET.
Here’s me last Sunday at the Albany Comic Con, with Denro and the Sinnott boys — Joe, his son Mark, and grandson Trevor. It was great seeing Joe getting around with no trouble at all, since his hip replacement surgery. I treated everybody to dinner and we all had a great time!
Joe is a lifelong fan of the Giants baseball team, going back to their years in New York, so he was very happy with their win against the Phillies last Saturday night. Joe’s mother’s uncle was John McGraw, which explains his continued loyalty to the Giants after they moved to San Francisco in 1957. Tonight they play the Texas Rangers in game 1 of the World Series. Friends who know Dennis as a loyal Boston Red Sox fanatic, and not a comic book fan, will be shocked to see that he donned a Giants cap! This proves that Dennis is second to none in his admiration and appreciation of Mighty Joe Sinnott. Considering how much I admire the man, that’s saying something!
Denro and I are in Albany at a one-day comic book show. Marvel Comics legend Joe Sinnott is here, for his first appearance since having hip replacement surgery. Joe’s looking great and getting around all right.
Ya know, it seems that whenever I try to not blog because I have more important things to worry about, I spot something almost immediately that makes me break my self-imposed silence. Dennis and I are hoping to get to Albany on Sunday, to see Joltin’ Joe Sinnott, who is scheduled to be at a comic book show. This would be Joe’s first appearance since having hip replacement surgery, and it’s great that he’s feeling up to getting out and about again.
What has me writing this, however, is this news item from Albany, about a man beaten and robbed of his valuable comic-book collection. He wasn’t killed during the assault, but later died of a heart attack, after being interviewed by police. Here’s a different article that includes a photo of Rico J. Vendetti, who allegedly hired thugs to commit the crime, back in July. Vendetti supposedly was/is owner of this comic-book shop:
Irondequoit Collectibles
125 Pebbleview Drive
Rochester, NY 14612-4118
To add spice to the story, the break in the case came from a tip a hooker gave to a cop. I wonder if Rico had bought a dealer’s table at the show on Sunday? The whereabouts of the stolen collection is unknown. If he already unloaded it, I assume the buyer(s) will come forward.
Denro, who should be on his way back from a comic book convention in New York, sent me a promo for a new Broadway musical that has both of us asking, “what is this?” Just when you would be expecting to see Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker, or Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, we get Spider-Man??
With a score by Bono, and direction by Julie Taymor, the production certainly has credentials, but the fanboy in me can’t help but wonder if they drew some inspiration from Spider-Man’s 1972 Rockomic…!
A 60 Minutes interview with Charles M. Schulz from 1999.
