Beyond My Geeky Life

 Here in the Denver Metro area, there are a lot of people awaiting the reopening of one of the most unique and memorable restaurants you can experience. Casa Bonita. It closed up due to COVID and had a great deal of issues reopening, until the South Park guys bought it and invested in fixing it up. Last time I was there was for a free tour that they were doing regularly while trying to work out the details to open it for business. It really is hard to describe Casa Bonita in any manner that would give a person the real feel of the place, but I will give it a try. It is an old Mexican village with all manner of areas to explore, which fully feels like you are in a different world from the strip small off a major street that you entered by. There is a massive waterfall cascading into a clear pool in the middle of it all, with divers regularly taking plunges into it as silly skits get performed on the small stage, with them normally ending with at least one person ending up in the poo...

In a batch of comic books I got a hold of recently was Giant Sized Fantastic Four issue six (A reprint of FF Annuel #6), which ends with the birth of Franklin Richards, the son of Reed Richards (Mr. Fantastic) and Susan Richards (The Invisible Woman). The date of the original comic was 1968, which means that Franklin is a few years older than I am... Right now in the comics Franklin is a teenager. His age had jumped around a lot over the years and we have seen various older version of him from alternate futures a few times now. It seems he was trapped in the age of a little kid somewhere between four and eight years old for several decades, ageing and de-ageing in that range as needed. In the last few decades, they decided to let him hit puberty finally and have not trapped him at that age for the time being. So a few decades later he gets a little sister, Valeria Richards, who originally would have been born in the early 80s, except this is the comic book world and she was miscarried ...

 Yes, I am quoting Capt. Reynolds today. “It's my estimation that every man ever got a statue made of him was  one kind  of a  son  of a  bitch or another ." --Malcolm Reynolds. The quote is full relevant to today's topic. I really love the musical 'The Greatest Showman'. So many of those songs speak to me and the overall story is great. I get emotional just about every time I watch, which is a lot because I enjoy having it on in the background when I write. The song 'A Million Dreams' is myself and my mindset to a scary level and 'This Is Me' very much fits with what I have gone through in my life. I also know the truth, that the story is highly, and I mean highly, romanticized account of the life of P.T. Barnum. There is really little fact or truth to be found in musical. There was a great deal of 'questionable' actions taken by the real  Barnum. He very much...

 It has been a little while since my last post. Lot's been going on in life. Today I just want to talk about how my comic book collection actually serves as a great therapeutic outlet for me.  I actually find it very relaxing to bag up and organize my comics. There is something rewarding for me to get them grouped together in an organized manner, even if it is a system that others might be confused over. I have been collecting comics for over three decades now and easily have over 10,000 unique issues in my collection. Most of them are Marvel comics. And as anyone who collects knows, most of them are not really worth much. That being said, I do have a good deal of key issues that are highly sought after. As I don't collect for value, that is information I know of but am not highly concerned about. It is interesting to look at such a collection and see what all is there. I have some random stuff from the silver age of comics that I am not too sure where I got them from. Somehow...