tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post6664595762859146429..comments2024-03-28T18:40:59.101+00:00Comments on CRIVENS! COMICS & STUFF!: RUMINATING REPOST: THROUGH A GLASS, DARKLY...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-39645738817460950132017-12-31T19:49:16.799+00:002017-12-31T19:49:16.799+00:00Good. At least you were original.Good. At least you were original.Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-74671536578015439442017-12-31T18:48:10.155+00:002017-12-31T18:48:10.155+00:00I think the strangest bit is that folks seem to ke...I think the strangest bit is that folks seem to keep doing it, generation after generation, merely changing the focus. <br />At least i managed to avoid those same mistakes with my boys. I found whole new ways to screw up with them.<br />-3-https://www.blogger.com/profile/18201804552651989442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-53815538700982118352017-12-31T04:32:42.168+00:002017-12-31T04:32:42.168+00:00That's a good saying - I like that, and have n...That's a good saying - I like that, and have now filed it away in my mind for future use. As for your brain wandering off mid-sentence while you type, I do that all the time. That's why some of my posts don't always seem to have a cohesive point to them - I forgot where I was going with a line of thought. I even do it when I'm speaking. As for obsessions, I remember reading an article about a bloke who ran a teddy bear hospital. (Where people can have their bears repaired.) When asked what had made him start this enterprise (he was also a collector of bears by the way), he said it all originated from his mother throwing out his teddy when he was a boy. A similar thing happened to me, too. One day, when I was about four maybe, I went looking for my two teddies which I'd last seen on top of my parents' wardrobe, but they weren't there. When I asked my mother about them, she said "You're too old for them, I gave them away." She may actually have said "I threw them out", but I don't like to consider that option. Anyway, many years later, I started buying the occasional teddy, simply because I felt I'd been prematurely parted from my originals - like one 'from his mother's womb, untimely ripped'. Strange, eh? Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-31714785534724300952017-12-31T03:34:15.657+00:002017-12-31T03:34:15.657+00:00A favorite John Lennon quote runs along the lines ...A favorite John Lennon quote runs along the lines of "Time you enjoyed wasting wasn't time wasted." A lot of truth in that.<br /><br />I started feeling old around 12, and it's only grown more profound in the decades since. I had a point to that when i started this paragraph, but my feeble old brain couldn't hold on to it and now i'm at a loss as to where this sentence is meandering off to while the fingers just keep typing and typing an<br /><br />We discussed my disconnect from the past enough to know how your musings intersect with my own in recent times. But one line in particular caught my eye:<br />"Many a lifelong obsession has resulted from such thoughtless parental behaviour, I'm sure."<br /><br />You're not wrong there, Kid. When we were moving back stateside from the Philippines, my father threw out my comic books. We can see how that worked out.-3-https://www.blogger.com/profile/18201804552651989442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-72849435833896090372017-12-24T23:32:18.226+00:002017-12-24T23:32:18.226+00:00I've wondered the exact same thing myself, DS,...I've wondered the exact same thing myself, DS, and pretty much come to the same conclusion as yourself.Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-41289020046708506672017-12-24T22:28:50.674+00:002017-12-24T22:28:50.674+00:00It's something I've pondered, whether time...It's something I've pondered, whether time spent indulging nostalgia is time wasted by not enjoying the present. I love re-reading old books, comics and watching old TV programmes that I enjoyed once, but also like to discover new stuff too.<br /><br />To be honest, I think that time spent enjoying yourself and relaxing is time well-spent, whether that involves enjoying a look back to the past, or enjoying today. Dave Snoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-27794604241298431472017-12-24T07:37:04.249+00:002017-12-24T07:37:04.249+00:00That's how I feel sometimes. Surely it was onl...That's how I feel sometimes. Surely it was only last week I was half the age I am now? Physically though, I do feel old, because I can't do the things I used to be able to do, but in my mind I'm still a kid - or a teenager at the most. Thing is, I often find myself wondering who that stranger is staring back at me from the mirror - the one who bears a resemblance to me, but is much older than the way I see myself in my mind's eye.Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-2413277227671773502017-12-24T06:28:27.933+00:002017-12-24T06:28:27.933+00:00Yep, 60 it is. I can't be 60, I was only 40 a ...Yep, 60 it is. I can't be 60, I was only 40 a minute ago - there must be some sort of clerical error! I don't feel 60, whatever that is supposed to feel like, guess it depends on how you look after yourself or what hand you were dealt in the genetic lottery in regard to your health. I don't even feel like an 'adult', though I have a wife, offspring, a house and a job, all things that adults are supposed to have, but I also like comics, action figures and follow a range of pop culture interests that are considered the domain of kids. I'll keep leading this double life for as long as I can; you are only here once so why live your life by somebody else's rules? Like what you like as long as nobody gets hurt.Philip Crawleynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-48907373661447584412017-12-24T05:39:34.727+00:002017-12-24T05:39:34.727+00:00That's interesting, Phil, because I associate ...That's interesting, Phil, because I associate the books, comics and items with whichever house I lived in at the time - and vice versa. As I've said before, sometimes when I finish re-reading an old comic and look up from its pages, I'm momentarily surprised (and disappointed) not to find myself in the room of the house in which I first read it, because that's how strong the association is. Strange, eh? Incidentally, have a great Christmas and an even better 2018. Oh, and Happy Birthday. 60, is it? Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-32809886944093676712017-12-24T05:17:30.671+00:002017-12-24T05:17:30.671+00:00My ties to the past seem to link up with the books...My ties to the past seem to link up with the books, comics and items that I bought back then rather than the house that I lived in when I first acquired them. I left the family home between the ages of 21 nad 22 and only returned a handful of times after that. A visit about a year ago, where I just looked out at it from the car window (it has long since passed out of the family ownership and I did not feel like asking the present owners for a 'tour')brought about the sensation that it had been the scene of someone else's childhood and not mine. Don't know if that was because I had changed so much or the house, possibly a bit of both. But when I take down a book off the shelf or unbag a comic from that time (as I did with Silver Surfer 5 the other day) I tend to recall the when and where of its purchase. Just having experienced a birthday recently that added a zero to the end of my age I have been thinking about the past a bit more, while also trying to remind myself to soak up as much of the present as I can while I can!Philip Crawleynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-35933867406903901172017-12-23T02:27:58.512+00:002017-12-23T02:27:58.512+00:00The whole movie is enjoyable from start to finish,...The whole movie is enjoyable from start to finish, CJ, though, curiously, when Rodney Bewes died, it was reported as not being well-received. However, I remember Barry Norman reviewing it at the time and saying it was the best movie based on a TV show that he'd seen.Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-67543014057566347522017-12-23T02:20:14.681+00:002017-12-23T02:20:14.681+00:00And I still buy hardback books, Kid, including sev...And I still buy hardback books, Kid, including several in the last couple of months. Last month I bought a new hardback version of Agatha Christie's "Murder On The Orient Express" (released to cash in on the new film version no doubt). I'm not a fan of crime fiction but I do like that one. The cover looks quite festive with a falling-snow design.<br /><br />That Likely Lads quote is one of the best comedy lines ever - and so poignant too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-28936686233522423122017-12-22T15:49:24.313+00:002017-12-22T15:49:24.313+00:00Gasp! You actually BUY a magazine?! I thought it w...Gasp! You actually BUY a magazine?! I thought it was all digital with you, CJ? Thing is, with me, I've always lived in the past, from when I was around 5 years old, so it must be congenital with me, I think. What you're like with the beer and Babycham at Christmas, that's what I'm like every day - not with beer and babycham obviously, but with other things.<br /><br />I've got the Likely Lads DVD boxed set, so I'll probably watch the Christmas Special again as well - unless it's repeated on TV, in which case I'll watch it 'live'.<br /><br />And remember - as Bob Ferris said in the LL movie - "In the chocolate box of life, the top layer's already gone - and someone's pinched the orange cream from the bottom."Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-47986909736856739292017-12-22T14:53:29.028+00:002017-12-22T14:53:29.028+00:00I buy SFX magazine every month and a few years ago...I buy SFX magazine every month and a few years ago one of the regular team on the mag came out with an interesting quote: "I like taking day-trips to the past but I don't want to live there". That chimed with me because I feel like I take day-trips to the past by reading this and other blogs, or looking at a cover gallery or watching an episode of the Clangers on YouTube (or the 1974 Likely Lads Xmas special which I watched last night). But I don't want to dwell on the past, I don't want to be surrounded by stuff from a childhood that is long gone. But that's just my personal opinion, not a criticism of anyone else!<br /><br />However, I do feel a much stronger sense of nostalgia at Christmastime. I think I'm trying to somehow re-capture that childhood magic of Christmas. So, for example, I buy Babycham and beer just because we had Babycham and beer at Christmas when I was a kid :)<br /><br />And tonight I'll be watching the 1973 Steptoe & Son Xmas special - the one where Harold organizes a party and Albert gets chicken pox. Hooray for YouTube!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com