Bi-Plane Madness of My Youth

Eckman's!

Well, looks like I'm going to miss another one. But at least by October it should be a little cooler!

Feathertop

The Complete Peanuts: 1983-1984

Yesterday I got this in the mail. My latest purchase from E. R. Hamilton, and the seventeenth volume in the series. I like getting these through ERH; they are generally about nine dollars cheaper than cover price, and I don't mind waiting until they are discounted. By the early 1980's Peanuts was past its glory years (this was the era of Flashbeagle, aerobics jokes, and Trivia), but it is still pretty amusing. The love triangle between Peppermint Patty, Marcie, and Charlie Brown; Snoopy's brother Spike and his antics among cacti and coyotes; the story-line of "The Snoring Ghost," where Peppermint Patty's snores haunt her old desk: these all raised a few chuckles for me. These squat little volumes are starting to take up a lot of space.

100,000 Hits

My Statcounter just ticked over to slightly past 100,000 hits to this blog since I started it on January 28, 2008. My thanks to all who have followed or visited it and allowed me to reach this modest personal milestone. If I have helped anyone find what they are looking for, or amused someone with image collections or my ramblings, then my amateurish efforts will have some justification past being simply one man's online commonplace book. I intend to go on in the future as I have in the past, with perhaps a little more personal composition and explication. Once more, I thank you all.

"Won't You Join The Dance?": Alice At 150

One hundred and fifty years ago today, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) first told the story of Wonderland to Alice Liddell and her sisters.

Independence Day

"They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."

--Benjamin Franklin.