Sunday, December 31, 2006
lookin` Back:
My wife keeps track of all the books she reads each year and logs them all in her diary. One of the last books she read was Stephen Cox`s the Munchkins Remember. There are a great many photos of all the little people that appeared in the Wizard of Oz and half way through the book there is a section on my old Sarasota neighbor Harry and his sister Daisy Doll.
I didn`t know them that well although I always saw him in his yard with his big Sherlock Holmes pipe waving up at his gardener. My father made the adjustable controls for their car. The built up gas peddle had to be 3 different sizes for Harry, the shortest; his sister Daisy, the tallest and Harry`s wife who was just a little taller than Harry.
This got me thinking. I have known a lot of people in my years. I use to hang out over at Harry A. Chesler`s house with John Totleben (Swamp Thing) and Chris Kalnick (Robotech).
I use to drink beers with Gray Morrow. I helped him dig his car out of the snow once.
Tex Blaisdell once peed in my widow ledge green house when he was desperate and couldn`t find the restroom in my Dover studio at 4 in the morning when he was crashing at my place.
The list of strange people and happenings goes on and on. I really don`t know how long the list is, it just kind of snack up on me.
I never really thought of myself as a source of memories for the past of Comic Books and Animation. Or not until I joined the Afternoon of Remembrance committee and I am nothing compared to my follow members.
Don`t forget
The Afternoon of Remembrance
February 3rd .
1 PM to . . .
Lasky-DeMille Barn
2100 North Highland Avenue
(Across from the Hollywood Bowl)
Hollywood, California
I guess the New Year is making me think. The one thing I am most grateful for is all the memories of all the strange people I have known and been friends with over the years. Have a safe and sensible New Year.
Larry Loc (ASIFA Blog Guy) ¶ 4:26 PM
My wife keeps track of all the books she reads each year and logs them all in her diary. One of the last books she read was Stephen Cox`s the Munchkins Remember. There are a great many photos of all the little people that appeared in the Wizard of Oz and half way through the book there is a section on my old Sarasota neighbor Harry and his sister Daisy Doll.
I didn`t know them that well although I always saw him in his yard with his big Sherlock Holmes pipe waving up at his gardener. My father made the adjustable controls for their car. The built up gas peddle had to be 3 different sizes for Harry, the shortest; his sister Daisy, the tallest and Harry`s wife who was just a little taller than Harry.
This got me thinking. I have known a lot of people in my years. I use to hang out over at Harry A. Chesler`s house with John Totleben (Swamp Thing) and Chris Kalnick (Robotech).
I use to drink beers with Gray Morrow. I helped him dig his car out of the snow once.
Tex Blaisdell once peed in my widow ledge green house when he was desperate and couldn`t find the restroom in my Dover studio at 4 in the morning when he was crashing at my place.
The list of strange people and happenings goes on and on. I really don`t know how long the list is, it just kind of snack up on me.
I never really thought of myself as a source of memories for the past of Comic Books and Animation. Or not until I joined the Afternoon of Remembrance committee and I am nothing compared to my follow members.
Don`t forget
The Afternoon of Remembrance
February 3rd .
1 PM to . . .
Lasky-DeMille Barn
2100 North Highland Avenue
(Across from the Hollywood Bowl)
Hollywood, California
I guess the New Year is making me think. The one thing I am most grateful for is all the memories of all the strange people I have known and been friends with over the years. Have a safe and sensible New Year.
Larry Loc (ASIFA Blog Guy) ¶ 4:26 PM
