BitterOldMan

My kid brother is a retired CHP officer. One day he bought home a souvenir... a windshield with bullet holes.

What I wear when I go pimpin' and hustling.

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Hi Bighaley21, Many boardies will be attending the Sushi event Thursday night. Due to a scheduling conflict, I will be unable to attend Wizard Chicago this year. Have a fabulous time.

The Giants pretty much lost their mojo after the middle of last year. Since then, they have had inconsistent hitting, bad fielding, bad starting pitching, bad middle relief, and a horrendous closer, who lead the league in blown saves. Even though they won the wildcard game last year by shutting out the Mets, their relief pitching blew the fourth game of the NLDS, despite having a 5-2 lead in ninth inning. The Cubbies were a team of destiny. When the Giants won their World Series, what I saw was stellar starting pitching, fantastic middle relief, ok closer, timely hitting, and great fielding, unlike the power teams of the Mays/McCovey era, Clark/Mitchell era, and Barry era. Keep in mind that having the best record during the regular season does not guarantee a World Series Championship. Dodgers need to start resting their starters for the long playoff run. Getting Darvish was a good idea, even though he gave up ten earned runs in 3 and two thirds innings in his last start. I watched a ton of baseball and read plenty of baseball history. I am known as "The Statistician."

Early San Francisco Giants Radio was on KSFO through 1978. Remember 1962, when the Giants and Dodgers were tied at the end of the season and played a nasty three game playoff series. Tied one game each, during the third game, I remember Stan Williams walking in the go ahead run (the late Jimmy Davenport).

Nice 8mm projectors and old cameras. I have a Leica M3. Thinking of getting a refurbished payphone with the coin slots on top and change holder on the bottom.

I am still a Giants fan and a Robot Man fan. and a Sqeggs fan.

I was born in SF Chinatown, lived there, North Beach (Beatniks), and finally Hispanic Mission District, which is in the process of being gentrified. Lived in Berkeley, while attending college. Still own a nice house in the suburbs, but came back to take care of mom. The Mission had some wild lowrider parties during the eighties, where the participants would block off traffic driving low and slo, which is the only way to go. Had one party, where the police were called several times. The police finally blocked off both sides of the alley, where I lived and arrested all the low riders. Some guys tossed their weapons underneath cars. Fortunately, there was the fabulous San Francisco Comic Book Company run the the eccentric and ageless hippie, the late great Gary Arlington. Gary and I would talk about comic books for hours.

Homie, sounds like where I lived before gentrification, except pure inner city with zero-lot-lines. There is still plenty of graphitti, homeless, drug addicts (local crackhead call me bro), Sureños , MS-13, Norteños, and occasional dead gang member, but houses start at $1 million. Somebody was killed outside my parents' house in the 70s, while I was in graduate school. Recently, a busboy was killed around the corner late at night, just for being there. Believe it or not, Mark Zuckerberg has a house three and a half blocks away.

I only go back to the fifties. Anything with tiny flippers or no flippers did not really attract my attention. So guys could really nudge or shake the non-flipper or no flipper machines, but I was terrible on those. I remember going to a bar during lunch hour with my late friend during the eighties. He started playing one of those bingo machines and racked up a number of free games. A large sign above the machine stated "No Gambling Allowed." My friend walked over to the bartender, who promptly paid him off. What a hoot!

In 1950, The Mick played for the Joplin Miners and won the batting title before being promoted to the big leagues. As my friends told me, the more useless the information, the more I know about it. Mickey still holds the world series record with 18 homers.

I have read that Carl Barks never traveled during his comic book years due to lack of money, but used National Geographic photos as references for many Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge faraway land stories.

As the rhyme goes "Red touch black, safe for Jack. Red touches yellow, kills a fellow. " I do have these. First up is the Sydney Funnelweb spider from Australia known as the deadliest spider in the world Second is the Poecilotheria Metallicallca from South India. The tree spider is actually a beautiful metallic blue in color. .

Robot Man, Remember 1963. I remember how dominating Koufax was from 1962-1966, until he burned out his arm throwing so hard for 200+ pitches a game. I remember pulling this card from a 1964 Topps pack. LA Dodgers won the World Series in 1959, 1963, 1965. 1981, and 1988. Brooklyn won the WS in 1955.

The cartoon was ... I purchased the poster for $60, which was plenty for a poor undergraduate. I have two copies of Four Color 9, but never found an affordable copy of the poster again. The RKO cartoon posters rarely come up for sale or auction. All this talk about collecting reminded me of this great one page gag from Uncle Scrooge 39. For me, Barks will always be the greatest storyteller.

I love King Kong vs Godzilla 1962. Lobby card Large figure If you see somebody at a comic con wearing a tshirt with this scene from the movie, it is probably me.

You need an original Mars Attacks wrapper. I purchased the 1962 Mars Attacks cards from my local grocery store, but lost all of them running around the playground. I completed my set in 1977 buying from Wholesale Cards, want ads from The Trader Speaks, and my good buddy Dennis King of D King Gallery in Berkeley. Dennis is the man, when it comes to old paper, especially rock posters. By the way, I managed to scrape all my old photos from photobucket.

McDonald's book store. Once you get pass the drug dealers and barkers for the strip joints, you walk into this huge disorganized book store, where you take your life into your own hands walking down the huge aisles stacked to the rafters with musty, dusty old books. I felt unsafe and afraid that the books would fall on top of me any minute. But you never know when that rare book that you are looking for all your life is right in front of your nose. Ah, the thrill of the hunt.

I collect rubber suit monster Godzilla, Bruce Lee, Dirty Harry series, and James Bond one sheets. I got most of them in the 70s for next to nothing. I purchased an old RKO Walt Disney Donald Duck cartoon poster from Bob Beerbohm and traded for a Four Color 9 around 1975. Never could find the Donald Duck poster again at a reasonable price. There was a movie poster shop in the bad part of San Francisco called the Cinema Shop where I purchased many posters for $3.76.

Bought my first GI Joe in 1964 and still have it. Here is the Green Beret from 1966 in a repo box. Rather spend my money on comics than the original box.