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Rick’s Writin’sTens of thousands of people gathered in our nation’s capital, Washington DC yesterday, in two separate rallies including one around the Lincoln Memorial, to participate in “Read Comics in Public Day”, a celebration to promote the awareness of the joy of reading comics and graphic novels. There were speeches and celebrities and everything!! Millions of pages of comics were read, stories and art, enjoyed. Discussions on who could take who, or which hero was more powerful were taking place all over. A grand time was had by all as it was like everyone Read the rest of this entry »
Rick’s Writin’sJust got back from visiting my mom down in the Vancouver/Portland area. Over the past 30 some years visiting family and friends I bet I’ve made that journey back and forth on I-5 at least 150 times and on 90% Read the rest of this entry »
Rick’s Writin’sAs a former movie theater manager, I have long followed the weekly movie grosses, or ticket sale money generated that week. I was very curious how the three big movie releases this week would end up, grosses wise, as the three were a diverse group, aimed at very different audiences. For the manly men, and guys like me as well, you had “The Expendables,” an action fest starring Sylvester Stallone, Arnold “The Governator” Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Jason Statham and many more current and former action heroes. For the women, Julia Roberts in “Eat, Pray, Love.” Julia Roberts, ’nuff said. And then the hero of San Diego Comic Read the rest of this entry »
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Paula is off in Paul Bunyan country this week, visiting her parents in northern Minnesota. Supposedly, her pop was going to take her fishing in the land of 10,000 lakes, some of the best fishing in the country, maybe the world. She survived her white water rafting experience a few weeks ago, though she can’t swim, and I haven’t heard the loud “BLOOP!!” of her falling out of the boat, so she’s probably fine. Might’ve even caught a fish! All goes well in the shop while she’s gone. I’m thankful the weather cooled down for a bit even though it happened to do so on SeaFair weekend. I sure didn’t want to spend a week and a half without a break, constantly sweating in the hot box our shop becomes when the weather’s too warm. As you can see, the newsletter is done and to me looks like my best job yet of figuring out how to put it together. Practice will eventually make perfect. I promised San Diego Comic Con pictures from Larissa, and we’ll have them up next week. I’ve been writing captions and Paula needs to upload them as I don’t know how. Might learn that one some time along the way too. Nothing really exciting to talk about otherwise as all work and no play makes Ricky a dull boy. Looks like some interesting new comics coming though so let’s get to that:
Rick’s Writin’sThe brain isn’t functioning on all cylinders at the moment, so I’m going to go with a new edition of Rick’s Random thoughts: 1. This past week Puyallup hosted it’s annual event (I can’t recall the name) that brings out bunches of beautiful old time classic cars, from early 1900′s Ford Model T’s to 60′s-70′s muscle cars, plus customs jobs and works still in progress of all types. When I see and especially hear those muscle cars Read the rest of this entry »
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Rick’s Writin’sSan Diego Comic Con is just around the corner and again, I’m not going. Bummer. I’ve been lucky enough to go four times, but I haven’t for the last couple three years. Most of you know that Hollywood and many other non-comic entities have taken over the San Diego Comic Con, with the actual comic part of the con becoming almost forgotten and getting smaller and smaller show floor wise. I admit that the main Read the rest of this entry »
Rick’s Writin’sThe Mariners ruined my opening on this newsletter by winning yesterday. I’ve got the game today and was going to bitch about this being the second time this year I was going with them on a six game losing streak. I’d rather be staying home watching the World Cup final. I’ll DVR it but the results will be given away around the second or third Read the rest of this entry »
We are closed today Sunday, July 4th and new comics will be here on Thursday, July 8th instead of Wednesday due to the holiday.
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I hope all of you are having a wonderful July 4th Holiday and Read the rest of this entry »
Rick’s Writin’sA couple weeks ago I wrote I was excited about the World Cup soccer “football” tournament, though I wasn’t sold on the game itself, more-so the national pride involved. Well, I’ve now watched at least six games in part or in their entirety and I’ve got to say that I’m starting to get the appeal, at least at this World Cup level. Read the rest of this entry »
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