AndyFish wrote: ↑Sat Oct 11, 2025 7:42 am
Never want to be a hoarder. Currently I have so many books it would take me 173 years to read them all. I doubt I'm going to find that kind of time.
If your stuff is cool, it's not hoarding. I know the feeling, between all the books reprinting comics, books about comics, facsimile comics, and the related other books, you need two lifetimes to read them all. I just added 3 new bookcases to my library and I still don't have them all put away. Wish I had a house like in the old movies with a library where the walls were floor to ceiling bookcases.
Boy that would be a dream! Circular room with ladders going up to the highest shelves and nothing but books from floor to ceiling! Maybe someday.
The Time Enough at Last image made me laugh.
I keep a pair of glasses in every single room in the house, drives my wife bonkers-- they're readers so I can't walk around with them on.
AndyFish wrote: ↑Sun Oct 12, 2025 6:23 am
Boy that would be a dream! Circular room with ladders going up to the highest shelves and nothing but books from floor to ceiling! Maybe someday.
The Time Enough at Last image made me laugh.
I keep a pair of glasses in every single room in the house, drives my wife bonkers-- they're readers so I can't walk around with them on.
My Great Grandparents house had a library not as big as the ones in the movies. It was a regular sized room but it had floor to ceiling barrister bookcases going around the room. It was my favorite room n the house, I loved going in there and looking at all the books,and the smell of all those books was just wonderful. The smell of knowledge .
You can never have to many readers....
When I was in college I took a film class with one of Baltimore’s well-known documentary filmmakers. One of the assignments was for each student to submit a script and storyboard for a public service commercial about teen pregnancy and the resources available. The professor would select the best one and it would be shot and submitted to all of the television stations in the Baltimore area for broadcast. My commercial was selected, and I got to direct it.
Because we were using a dolly and a small camera crane, the location had to be someplace huge. He knew this collective group of hippies who had purchased a gigantic mansion, with a library and study, etc. We shot the commercial in what used to be the ballroom. It was the type of home you fellows are speaking of. Wood paneled library with floor ceiling bookshelves.They somehow pooled their resources and bought this place and then used it for their commune.It was a wreck. We spent a decent amount of time just cleaning up the ballroom because they had broken some of the window panes out of the floor-to-ceiling glass doors and leaves and debris had blown in, as well as water damaging the parquet wood floors. They had replaced the front doors with Supermarket doors!
This place had several acres. I don’t remember how many but the driveway was so long it took us a few minutes to get to the house.
My grandmother and my great aunt had a house in Portland Oregon, and the basement was finished and was a full library-- bookshelves all around AND aisles of books. In the Summer's I would come out and spend most of my vacation there, in the corner of the library was a cozy nook where I had a bed, a tiny TV and an ever full (how did it refill itself) giant bowl of M&Ms that hung on a decorative manner at the corner of the bed. In the mornings I would spend my time at an artists co-op making silk screens and painting huge canvases, after lunch I'd ride the bike they provided me up to the 7-11 and pick up a handful of comics (there was also Old Weird Heralds which often had old comics) and I'd ride back to the house and share the comics with my great aunt who was a big fan of "Flaming Carrot" among other oddball titles.
But at night, after dinner, man I'd curl up in that cozy area with a book I'd select from their collection and read until early in the morning, usually with the Twilight Zone or something similar playing softly on that little TV for background noise.
Those were good times.
Speaking of Baltimore- I'll be there this week for Comic Con-- traveling with a posse of State Police friends while I'm there.
AndyFish wrote: ↑Mon Feb 03, 2025 3:23 pm
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Sorry for the lousy pic-- very busy.
I wasn't going to get the Corgi Batmobile in the window box then it showed up in my Amazon feed for $28 shipped-- so I jumped on it. It was an anomaly as happens every so often on Amazon, when I went back to post the link the price had shot back up to $37 (and now $45). It came from the UK so it didn't arrive next day like most Prime orders, and the shipping box looked like an elephant stepped on it. This is actually the version I best remember as a kid-- although I prefer the art version.
I also got the Ben Cooper Batman Costume figure-- very proud to say these figures were something I pitched back when BC was a client-- they didn't think they'd sell and they're doing gangbusters.
I just made a diorama with the DC Ben Cooper Costume kids and have posted the pictures on this forum in the craft section.
Just spotted this at the local grocery. Had not seen this packaging before, and it’s way overpriced at $6.99, but there’s only one and I like the graphics with the “1966” featured prominently. So..
BiffPow wrote: ↑Wed Oct 29, 2025 1:11 pm
Just spotted this at the local grocery. Had not seen this packaging before, and it’s way overpriced at $6.99, but there’s only one and I like the graphics with the “1966” featured prominently. So..
I actually love this packaging! I already have 38,822 of that scale Batmobile, so hey, what's one more?!
Package is pretty cool -- like all of you I have about 70 1/64 scale Hot Wheels '66 Batmobiles, so I think I'd pick this up if I stumble across it but I won't look for it.
AndyFish wrote: ↑Thu Oct 30, 2025 12:29 pm
Package is pretty cool -- like all of you I have about 70 1/64 scale Hot Wheels '66 Batmobiles, so I think I'd pick this up if I stumble across it but I won't look for it.
My latest arrival!
The McFarlane Multiverse
Batman Classic TV Series
Batmobile! Untitled by Michael Kramer, on Flickr
Here it is with my other ‘66 Batmobiles
Mego Comic Action Heroes, Funko TeAction, Mattel Batman ‘66 and McFarlane Batman Classic TV Series collection Untitled by Michael Kramer, on Flickr
And here it is with some of it’s successors
Batman ‘89, Batman Forever and the Tumbler from Batman Begons Untitled by Michael Kramer, on Flickr
"Someone might be able to substitute for Batman, for a very short time, but no one could ever replace him!"
Golddragon71, looking at your lineup, I thought: if you photograph three of them, smallest to largest, one at a time, in front of a cityscape backdrop, you can re-create the end of the opening credits for the TV show.
Untitled by Michael Kramer, on Flickr
Untitled by Michael Kramer, on Flickr
Untitled by Michael Kramer, on Flickr
