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Brian Talley Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 16 April 2004 Location: United States Posts: 5123
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Posted: 24 March 2005 at 5:12pm | IP Logged | 1
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Now this shows a lot of promise.
And then there's YULIALAND.
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John Byrne
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Joined: 16 April 2004 Location: United States Posts: 102266
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Posted: 24 March 2005 at 6:06pm | IP Logged | 2
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...as a kid I used to love the occasional stories where aliens or beings from the future would stitch wings on Batman's back and he would soar like his namesake."++++ Was this, at all, part of the inspiration that allowed the Batman to fly in G3? **** Oh, you bet!
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Mark McKay Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 16 April 2004 Location: United States Posts: 2266
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Posted: 24 March 2005 at 8:02pm | IP Logged | 3
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JB,
The perfect place to shop for TNP:
Design Within Reach
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Mike O'Brien Byrne Robotics Member
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Joined: 18 April 2004 Location: United States Posts: 10934
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Posted: 24 March 2005 at 11:23pm | IP Logged | 4
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ach! It can't become Yulialand - we'd never see another JB comic! I mean, I don't want to deny the man his life's reward and all, but JB's got at least another 40 good years of comic making before he can settle down in the pool with a Russian Supermodel...
Jeez, guys!
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Brad Brickley Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 29 April 2004 Location: United States Posts: 8290
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Posted: 24 March 2005 at 11:40pm | IP Logged | 5
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John Byrne wrote:
When I permit myself to get analytical about it, I often wonder why BATman doesn't fly, while SuperMAN does. I
know that in the latter case, the decision to have him fly came from
the Fleischer studios, who liked the look better than having him
leaping around like -- as Jim Steranko described it in his "History of
Comics" -- an "anthropomophic kangaroo", but as a kid I used to love
the occasional stories where aliens or beings from the future would
stitch wings on Batman's back and he would soar like his namesake. |
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I remember as a kid getting into an aurgument about the very same
thing. I still remember saying that just because Batman had a
cape didn't mean he could fly. Maybe if I stay on this board long
enough, I might remember the rest of my childhood.
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John Byrne
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Posted: 24 March 2005 at 11:42pm | IP Logged | 6
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Design Within Reach
*****
I get their catalogs! Neat stuff.
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Steve Lyons Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 02 September 2004 Location: United States Posts: 2171
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Posted: 25 March 2005 at 12:00am | IP Logged | 7
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So, JB, assuming all goes well with the paperwork, when is moving day?
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John Byrne
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Joined: 16 April 2004 Location: United States Posts: 102266
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Posted: 25 March 2005 at 7:06am | IP Logged | 8
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....when is moving day?
******
Closing is currently set for July 15th -- coincidentally, my father's birthday -- so the move will begin after that. Moving day would be a misnomer of the highest order, of course. I expect this exodus to take about two weeks if i'm lucky!
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Robert Cosgrove Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 16 January 2005 Location: United States Posts: 1710
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Posted: 25 March 2005 at 7:54am | IP Logged | 9
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About twenty years ago, I visited Lee Falk at his place in Truro, in the Cape Cod area of Massachusetts [Truro is also the setting of the short story/movie "Portrait of Jenny"]. Falk called his hideaway "Xanadu," and on the way up the winding, woodsy road in, he posted signs, a la Burma Shave, "In Xanadu . . . " ". . . Did Kubla Khan . . . ". . .A Stately Pleasure Dome Decree."
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Jonas Vesterlund Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 12 January 2005 Location: United States Posts: 241
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Posted: 25 March 2005 at 9:29am | IP Logged | 10
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VERY nice! That is the kind of home I would like to live in.
A question:
Don't you think you will miss your current home and street? I remember a truly beautiful message you once posted about how you all got a bunch of snow and you had had some hard times with your personal life and you realized that your neighborhood was "your tribe".
(I apologize if I got stuff mixed up.)
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Brian Rhodes Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 19 April 2004 Location: United States Posts: 3347
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Posted: 25 March 2005 at 10:31am | IP Logged | 11
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Hmmm....
"Fortress of Attitude"?
"Fortress of Fortitude"?
"Point Perspective"?
"Shady Acres"?
"Fable Stables"??
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John Byrne
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Posted: 25 March 2005 at 12:24pm | IP Logged | 12
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Don't you think you will miss your current home and street? I remember a truly beautiful message you once posted about how you all got a bunch of snow and you had had some hard times with your personal life and you realized that your neighborhood was "your tribe".***** I will definitely miss my home here -- by any reasonable definition, this is the first real home I have had, and it has served me well for two decades. But the new place is an easy drive away, and I am sure my current "tribe" will mingle with what I can only hope will become my new "tribe". Life is all about moving on, after all. When it isn't, we call it "death".
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