A couple of choice pieces of original art currently on Heritage Auctions.
I can’t say for sure if the Pro-White changes on Doctor Doom were made by Joe and/or someone at the Marvel office. In this collection of Joe’s brushes, in the middle of the container you’ll see one with dried Pro-White.
Ditko’s inking is a good contrast to Joe because he favored a pen for outlines, using a brush for emphasis and solid areas.
As bad as things are on Earth, they’re even worse everywhere else.
Something from today’s Washington Post:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/08/18/bidens-bogus-claim-that-afghanistans-military-was-larger-than-nato-allies/
“Roughly 40% of the total [300,000 security forces] consisted of Afghan National Police (ANP) whose forces varied sharply in quality, were largely conventional police and could not play an effective paramilitary role or properly hold even supposedly secure areas,” writes Anthony Cordesman of the Center for the strategic and International Studies in a report published this week on the Afghan military’s collapse.
Someone named Anthony Cordesman also wrote this:
https://www.theabsolutesound.com/author/anthony-cordesman
To the extent that new surround recordings exist, they now seem to consist largely of SACDs from a few leading U.S. audiophile recording firms like Reference Recordings and a number of European firms that have helped keep SACD alive after Sony largely abandoned it, and that are now beginning to experiment with other methods of surround recording.
Coincidence or the same guy? Same guy. This is a question that’s been asked and answered in audio circles for decades.
William H. Pratt, aka Boris Karloff.
With Zombies!
With another $119 having gone to Amazon to renew Prime, I felt justified in sampling a TV series I’ve never watched, that my subscription makes available for streaming. I think of “House” as a recent show, but it started a couple of years before this blog, which is coming up on its 15th anniversary.
The series is old enough that it was written to a formula that isn’t ideal for binge-watching. The sequence of events is essentially repeated in each episode. “Okay, here’s where they try the wrong thing and it causes a heart attack or seizure,” etc. So, like my experience watching “The Walking Dead,” I was losing interest at the start of the second season. Then I saw this scene in S2:E3.
My mother lived for seven years after surviving a deadly Aspergillus fungal infection in her lung, by undergoing an extremely difficult course of Amphotericin treatments. Two of my sisters — one an MD, the other an RN — installed the central line themselves, after brushing aside the attending physician and nurse. The drug’s side effects are so awful it deserves to be called “amphoterrible.”
The impossibly intertwined personal lives of the “House” characters is typical TV soap opera writing. But physicians breaking into patients’ homes to find clues to the cause of their illnesses, and never getting caught during or afterwards? Ludicrous! But… hmm… come to think of it, there were times at work when the quickest way to fix a problem was to open a VPN tunnel to a hospital without prior permission, and use RDP to access a system console with administrative privileges. (Note: This is the method cyber criminals prefer to introduce ransomware.) Okay, so the idea isn’t so ludicrous. Maybe the breaking-and-entering plot device is resolved later in the series.
As expected, Hugh Laurie is fun to watch. I’m sure he made a lot more money playing Gregory House than he did appearing with Rowan Atkinson on “Blackadder”…
… or when he teamed up with Stephen Fry. This is about as British as British comedy gets!
Boston, you’re my home. Well, not Boston proper, but close enough. 1968 was the year that WBCN went from being a Classical longhair radio station to being a Hippie longhair radio station. It also happened to be the year my family moved to a Boston suburb. The timing was perfect for my coming-of-age transition from AM Pop radio kid to FM Rock radio adolescent.
The Boston Globe has an article about a YouTube playlist of 1960’s New England garage bands, posted by Ryan H. Walsh, based upon a checklist compiled by Aram Heller. The article is behind a paywall, but it’s based on this Web page by Walsh.
Here is Ryan’s YouTube playlist with 200 recorded Nuggets and Pebbles that were probably mostly heard by the bands that made them and their friends.
