tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post7754992600432904522..comments2024-03-28T18:40:59.101+00:00Comments on CRIVENS! COMICS & STUFF!: WHAT'S IN A BOOK?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-12374221762440830642014-01-17T21:35:35.541+00:002014-01-17T21:35:35.541+00:00Nae bother.Nae bother.Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-69433915102897114612014-01-17T19:55:03.862+00:002014-01-17T19:55:03.862+00:00Thank you!Thank you!Chris Sobieniakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09838106041175506925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-31603101761671348292014-01-17T19:30:21.598+00:002014-01-17T19:30:21.598+00:00Great response, Chris - thanks. The staff had my b...Great response, Chris - thanks. The staff had my book under the counter waiting for me, and thought I had come to collect it when I entered the shop. Of course, I didn't know it was in until they told me, but I assured them I'd be back for it in a few days, so no danger of them not having it for me.<br /><br />And Chris, I'm sure your life IS important and that you have lots you could be doing, so I appreciate you taking the time to drop by.Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-8608132488689900852014-01-17T18:58:13.861+00:002014-01-17T18:58:13.861+00:00Of course, I've wittered on before about the a...<i>Of course, I've wittered on before about the associations that items can conjure up, but if I didn't return to a topic from time to time, I'd have little to write about - and then some of you might be placed in the unfortunate position of having to find something a lot more worthwhile to do with your time than read this humble blog of mine.</i><br /><br />That's OK, my life isn't that important to be doing something else than to read your wonderful posts!<br /><br /><i>I should perhaps mention that we were only around 18 or so, and schools were much more welcoming to former pupils - and far less security-conscious - than they are nowadays.</i><br /><br />Lord knows the high school I went to wants nothing to do with me these days. :-(<br /><br /><i>To once again walk the corridors and view the classrooms of our childhood was a magical thing, even though it had only been about six years or so since we had left.</i><br /><br />I'm more dismayed at mine however, what with replacing the grass in the football stadium with astroturf for starters!<br /><br /><i>Of course, at that time, six years was a third of our lives so, pro-proportionately, it seemed a much longer period than six years would seem to me today. (These days, six years appears to be roughly equivalent to a fortnight back then.)</i><br /><br />The older I get, the shorter it seems.<br /><br /><i>I didn't have enough on me, but I returned to the shop a few days later and paid for my new acquisition.</i><br /><br />Well thank God they didn't run out this time.<br /><br />I wish I could think of a book that took up a memory in my childhood I still relate to personally, I suppose I had plenty of books but never really had one that stuck out in a time and place in my life that I wish was still there. The best I can think of is getting a copy of Chuck Jones' first autobiography "Chuck Amuck" by simply begging my mom to get me the book after seeing him on a morning news show (probably Today), sometime in 1989. We got it at Thackeray's Books, which use to be in a shopping center that no longer exists in it's present state (the book shop itself closed just before all that when Borders came to town and bought out it's employees, that place though didn't last too long either if you remember that story).<br />http://www.toledoblade.com/Retail/2005/02/01/Thackeray-s-Books-to-close-in-May.html<br /><br />I still have that book, creases, marks and all. Too bad he never came to town or I would've had him sign it!Chris Sobieniakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09838106041175506925noreply@blogger.com