This might be the most posts I've done in a row. Might not be, I haven't really kept track.
This post is to tell you about what is upcoming here.
- Tomorrow, I will be attending a small Comic Book Convention (Comic Book Swap Meets as I like to call them). I will bringing my camera & be filming a bit there so look for that video sometime in early to mid February.
- The third & last part of "Comic Book Backlog" will be posted sometime in Early February also.
- Also in February: I might start up that "really super cool & awesome thing" I've mentioned in past posts. With the videos I've been doing you've already sort of seen glimpses of what that thing is but the not the full awesomeness of it.
- Another things I've been thinking about is commenting on my Commentors. After recently finding out that people are actually commenting on my old posts I've gone back to see what people have said. Yes, there is a bit of junk mail but there are some odd comments there & I want to say something about. I've also found out who my follower & where they are from surprised me. Look for that post next week.
So, until next time: Stay Jazzy!
- Brian
Friday, January 29, 2010
Thursday, January 28, 2010
This is Entry 128: My Wizard Rant
Today in the mail I got the latest issue of Wizard, the comics maga.. uh.. the magazine of comics, entertainment and pop culture.
*sighs & rolls eyes*
I've been reading the magazine since Issue 90 (The issue I got today was #222) & have read pretty much every issue since that point. But today something I read might just have turned me off the magazine. I've noticed a change in the magazine over the years. The page count went down, regular segments were done away with or diluted to a point of being almost pointless, the lay out changed, they started to add more & more non comic related content. I read Wizard for Comic Book news so the "Secrets of last season of Lost revealed here!" don't interest me. If I wanted that I'd read Entertainment Weekly, People or a number of other entertainment magazines that are out there.
I read Wizard since they are the only one out there. They corner the market & should act like it! Others have tried to come & take some of their readership (Comic Foundry was a valiant effort!). But they have all failed. The only thing that has taken reading away from Wizard that then Wizard sucking has been the rise of the Internet & the ability of comic book readers to get their own news. But Wizard knows that! Every issues for the last few months has had a... uh... thing on it's cover asking you to check of geekchicdaily.com. Having this on the cover seems to me that Wizard it's self doesn't believe in it's self.
"Hey, you could buy this 6 dollar magazine to read some out of date news or just go online & for free read the most up to date news out there!"
I recently found a few old copies of Wizard (Issues # 23, 47 & 49). In looking through them I say so much promise & knowing where they were going I felt warm in side. Now nostalgia might be factored a bit in here but those issues were good, I might dare to say Awesome! It was a "Guide to Comics", as the cover to Issue #49 says, with news on what is upcoming, out there now (Now being the Mid 1990's) & what had gone on before. #23 has a really nicely done article on Captain Marvel (Shazam, not Kree). After looking over those my mind turned to thoughts of what Wizard was now. The warm feeling inside was no longer there. Almost everything that made the Wizard for me is no longer there.
So, what brought about this rant? What was so bad in Issue #222 that made be what to stop reading the magazine all together or at least not renew my subscription?
As many people know that after the latest Marvel event "Siege" that all the Avengers books (Dark Avengers, Mighty Avengers, New Avengers, Avengers: The Initiative) are being cancelled. At the writing of this "Article", it was not known what would replace these books so Wizard gives some suggestions from possible teams.
*sigh*
There are 5 proposed teams, all with stupid names. In reading the "thinking" behind each team line-up. It seems like the writer (who's name is not presented with the article) has only a passing knowledge of the present day Marvel Universe. Now I know it might be hard for someone to read every book a company puts out there. But these lists are presented in a magazine that claims to know about Comics & at least with me, the readers probably know what is going on in the Comics. So, when you present that Wasp (Janet Van Dyne) should be on a team, my left eyebrow goes up in puzzlement.
Why?
Well, for one thing: She's Dead! She has been for a year or two & died in a pretty major way, She being one of the causalities of "Secret Invasion"! Now I know that death in comics isn't permanent & Janet might come back to the land of the living post-Siege. But I doubt Wizard all what Marvel has planned post-Siege. So... I, for one, would think that knowing who's Alive or Dead would factor into my decisions of team line-ups.
2 other Team line-ups that makes we wondering how much thinking when into it are the "Avengers International" & "Astro-Avengers" branches.
*rolls eyes at the name "Astro-Avengeers"*
Now I don't really have problem who the team line-up from the Avengers International are (Iron man, Vision, Wonder Man, Hercules, Namor, Pete Wisdom, Black Widow, Black Panther, Sunfire, Radioactive Man & Ursa Major). But the thinking of "Hey, I liked The Justice League International so lets do that with the Avengers!" seems not so cool. Also, the fact that it seems like need to make sure they have pretty much every Avengers who isn't an US citizen on the team seems kind of cheap.Another thing: The team is too darn big, if you cut out half the team, I think it could work. Also, maybe not make the entire basis for the team be something the Distinguished Competition did & has success with.
The other team: Astro-Avengers seems to have no really thinking other then "The Avengers frequently in Space so why not have a team based in space?" Ok, but 1. Didn't they already do & have a much cooler name? &2. isn't that what the Guardians of the Galaxy already do pretty much the same thing? For the team line-up of Captain America (it doesn't say which one), Noh-Varr, Black Bolt, Adam Warlock, Beta Ray Bill, Nova, Silver Surfer & Skaar: to me it just seems like a mishmash cosmic characters with Cap thrown in to make it "THE AVENGERS... IN.... SPACE!" Now I don't know if the writer is actually reading comics that current feature these characters but I kind of doubt that this team would even form. Cap might show up & a few of the hose might join up just because Cap is there but there a few others that his presence doesn't hold that much sway with them (Skaar being one of them.)
Now on to to the one that really cheese me off. The one that set off this rant, This writers' choice for the main Avengers team. It's about half way down the text piece that I stop & my eyebrow raises. They say that the team needs a brainiac but they can't go with Hank Pym is "so unstable". Wha?
Now I know that in the past that Hank has been at time a few issues short of a complete run but has the writer of said article been reading Mighty Avengers (my favorite Avengers book out of the bunch): Hank has been kicking ass! Now I don't know if he's unstable but if he does he's got it under control & doing some great thing with it (Infinite Avengers Mansion anyone?) So, I further down the piece & they are still referring Noh-Varr as Captain Marvel.
*sigh*
I guess this writer had not read the Dark Avengers annual from a few months back wear He break away from the team, gets a new costume & codename (Protector). Now what I know of him is limited but given his past experience with "The Avengers" I doubt he'd be all that willing to join up with another one.
Oh.. For those wondering you else is on this team. They are: Captain America, Thor, Iron Man, Beast, Hawkeye, Mockingbird, Vision, Spider-Woman & Hellstorm.
Now one might be wondering if I have a such an adverse reaction to this why not send a letter, an e-mail to Wizard, make a comment on their Messageboards, etc. I could do that. But at least with the Messageboard option I might start a flame war which I do want to do since almost every time they are pointless & go no where. So, I've made my option know here on my blog & I felt a bit better about it.
One last thing: In thinking about the lists, they don't seem like a thing I'd see in a magazine, any magazine. It seems more like something I'd see here. Not, my blog. But here as in The internet. The list seemed like a Fan wrote it & posted it to a Message board.
Will I continue to read Wizard: Yes. I've got a subscription. :)
Will I resubscribe? That's a different story. One for later on.
Until next time, I want you & everyone else out there to Stay Jazzy!
- Brian
*sighs & rolls eyes*
I've been reading the magazine since Issue 90 (The issue I got today was #222) & have read pretty much every issue since that point. But today something I read might just have turned me off the magazine. I've noticed a change in the magazine over the years. The page count went down, regular segments were done away with or diluted to a point of being almost pointless, the lay out changed, they started to add more & more non comic related content. I read Wizard for Comic Book news so the "Secrets of last season of Lost revealed here!" don't interest me. If I wanted that I'd read Entertainment Weekly, People or a number of other entertainment magazines that are out there.
I read Wizard since they are the only one out there. They corner the market & should act like it! Others have tried to come & take some of their readership (Comic Foundry was a valiant effort!). But they have all failed. The only thing that has taken reading away from Wizard that then Wizard sucking has been the rise of the Internet & the ability of comic book readers to get their own news. But Wizard knows that! Every issues for the last few months has had a... uh... thing on it's cover asking you to check of geekchicdaily.com. Having this on the cover seems to me that Wizard it's self doesn't believe in it's self.
"Hey, you could buy this 6 dollar magazine to read some out of date news or just go online & for free read the most up to date news out there!"
I recently found a few old copies of Wizard (Issues # 23, 47 & 49). In looking through them I say so much promise & knowing where they were going I felt warm in side. Now nostalgia might be factored a bit in here but those issues were good, I might dare to say Awesome! It was a "Guide to Comics", as the cover to Issue #49 says, with news on what is upcoming, out there now (Now being the Mid 1990's) & what had gone on before. #23 has a really nicely done article on Captain Marvel (Shazam, not Kree). After looking over those my mind turned to thoughts of what Wizard was now. The warm feeling inside was no longer there. Almost everything that made the Wizard for me is no longer there.
So, what brought about this rant? What was so bad in Issue #222 that made be what to stop reading the magazine all together or at least not renew my subscription?
As many people know that after the latest Marvel event "Siege" that all the Avengers books (Dark Avengers, Mighty Avengers, New Avengers, Avengers: The Initiative) are being cancelled. At the writing of this "Article", it was not known what would replace these books so Wizard gives some suggestions from possible teams.
*sigh*
There are 5 proposed teams, all with stupid names. In reading the "thinking" behind each team line-up. It seems like the writer (who's name is not presented with the article) has only a passing knowledge of the present day Marvel Universe. Now I know it might be hard for someone to read every book a company puts out there. But these lists are presented in a magazine that claims to know about Comics & at least with me, the readers probably know what is going on in the Comics. So, when you present that Wasp (Janet Van Dyne) should be on a team, my left eyebrow goes up in puzzlement.
Why?
Well, for one thing: She's Dead! She has been for a year or two & died in a pretty major way, She being one of the causalities of "Secret Invasion"! Now I know that death in comics isn't permanent & Janet might come back to the land of the living post-Siege. But I doubt Wizard all what Marvel has planned post-Siege. So... I, for one, would think that knowing who's Alive or Dead would factor into my decisions of team line-ups.
2 other Team line-ups that makes we wondering how much thinking when into it are the "Avengers International" & "Astro-Avengers" branches.
*rolls eyes at the name "Astro-Avengeers"*
Now I don't really have problem who the team line-up from the Avengers International are (Iron man, Vision, Wonder Man, Hercules, Namor, Pete Wisdom, Black Widow, Black Panther, Sunfire, Radioactive Man & Ursa Major). But the thinking of "Hey, I liked The Justice League International so lets do that with the Avengers!" seems not so cool. Also, the fact that it seems like need to make sure they have pretty much every Avengers who isn't an US citizen on the team seems kind of cheap.Another thing: The team is too darn big, if you cut out half the team, I think it could work. Also, maybe not make the entire basis for the team be something the Distinguished Competition did & has success with.
The other team: Astro-Avengers seems to have no really thinking other then "The Avengers frequently in Space so why not have a team based in space?" Ok, but 1. Didn't they already do & have a much cooler name? &2. isn't that what the Guardians of the Galaxy already do pretty much the same thing? For the team line-up of Captain America (it doesn't say which one), Noh-Varr, Black Bolt, Adam Warlock, Beta Ray Bill, Nova, Silver Surfer & Skaar: to me it just seems like a mishmash cosmic characters with Cap thrown in to make it "THE AVENGERS... IN.... SPACE!" Now I don't know if the writer is actually reading comics that current feature these characters but I kind of doubt that this team would even form. Cap might show up & a few of the hose might join up just because Cap is there but there a few others that his presence doesn't hold that much sway with them (Skaar being one of them.)
Now on to to the one that really cheese me off. The one that set off this rant, This writers' choice for the main Avengers team. It's about half way down the text piece that I stop & my eyebrow raises. They say that the team needs a brainiac but they can't go with Hank Pym is "so unstable". Wha?
Now I know that in the past that Hank has been at time a few issues short of a complete run but has the writer of said article been reading Mighty Avengers (my favorite Avengers book out of the bunch): Hank has been kicking ass! Now I don't know if he's unstable but if he does he's got it under control & doing some great thing with it (Infinite Avengers Mansion anyone?) So, I further down the piece & they are still referring Noh-Varr as Captain Marvel.
*sigh*
I guess this writer had not read the Dark Avengers annual from a few months back wear He break away from the team, gets a new costume & codename (Protector). Now what I know of him is limited but given his past experience with "The Avengers" I doubt he'd be all that willing to join up with another one.
Oh.. For those wondering you else is on this team. They are: Captain America, Thor, Iron Man, Beast, Hawkeye, Mockingbird, Vision, Spider-Woman & Hellstorm.
Now one might be wondering if I have a such an adverse reaction to this why not send a letter, an e-mail to Wizard, make a comment on their Messageboards, etc. I could do that. But at least with the Messageboard option I might start a flame war which I do want to do since almost every time they are pointless & go no where. So, I've made my option know here on my blog & I felt a bit better about it.
One last thing: In thinking about the lists, they don't seem like a thing I'd see in a magazine, any magazine. It seems more like something I'd see here. Not, my blog. But here as in The internet. The list seemed like a Fan wrote it & posted it to a Message board.
Will I continue to read Wizard: Yes. I've got a subscription. :)
Will I resubscribe? That's a different story. One for later on.
Until next time, I want you & everyone else out there to Stay Jazzy!
- Brian
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
This is Entry 127: This Date in History 2010
It has all alined: This is Entry 127, today is January 27th (or 1/27) & I am now 27 years old. Spooky, ain't it?
Now if I wasn't a lazy so & so I would (maybe) had a video to mark this event but I don't. So, you all a bunch of Text!
On to one of the traditions of this blog, I mark the anniversary of my spawning by telling you various things that alos happen on THIS DAY IN HISTORY!
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Events:
98 - Trajan becomes Roman Emperor after the death of Nerva.
1142 - Wrongful execution of noted Song Dynasty General Yue Fei.
1186 - Henry VI, the son and heir of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I, weds Constance of Sicily.
1343 - Pope Clement VI issues the Bull Unigenitus.
1593 - Vatican opens seven year trial of scholar Giordano Bruno.
1416 - Republic of Dubrovnik, as a first state in Europe, outlaw slavery
1606 - Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins, and ending in their execution on January 31.
1662 - 1st American lime kiln begins operation in Providence, RI.
1678 - The first fire engine company in the United States went into service.
1785 - The University of Georgia is founded, the first public university in the United States.
1825 - The U.S. Congress approves Indian Territory (in what is present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the "Trail of Tears".
1870 - The first college sorority, Kappa Alpha Theta, is formed at DePauw University.
1870 - Manitoba and Northwest Territories incorporated.
1880 - Thomas Edison files a patent for his electric incandescent lamp.
1888 - In Washington, D.C., the National Geographic Society is founded.
1894 - 1st college basketball game, University of Chicago beats Chicago YMCA 19-11
1900 - Boxer Rebellion: Foreign diplomats in Peking, China demand that the Boxer rebels be disciplined.
1900 - Social Democrat Party of America (Debs' party) holds 1st convention.
1902 - 5 workers killed on explosion during IRT subway construction in New York City.
1918 - "Tarzan of the Apes," 1st Tarzan film, premieres at Broadway Theater.
1926 - John Logie Baird makes the first television broadcast.
1927 - Harlem Globetrotters play their 1st game.
1939 - First flight of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning.
1948 - 1st tape recorder sold.
1951 - Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flats.
1956 - NFL's New York Giants switches games from Polo Grounds to Yankee Stadium.
1964 - "Introducing the Beatles" album released in US.
1965 - 1st ground station-to-aircraft radio communication via satellite.
1967 - Apollo program: Apollo 1 - Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of the spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center.
1967 - More than sixty nations sign the Outer Space Treaty banning nuclear weapons in space.
1967 - The Doors self titled debut album is released.
1970 - Movie rating system modifies "M" rating to "PG".
1973 - Paris Peace Accords officially end the Vietnam War, Colonel William Nolde falls, becoming the conflict's last recorded American combat casualty.
1976 - "Laverne and Shirley" spinoff from "Happy Days" premieres on ABC TV.
1977 - 1st broadcast of "Roots" mini-series on ABC TV.
1977 - Record company EMI sacks the controversial United Kingdom punk rock group the Sex Pistols.
1983 - Pilot shaft of World's longest subaqueous tunnel (53.85 km) between the Japanese islands of Honshū and Hokkaidō breaks through.
1983 - I was born in Seattle, Washington, USA.
1984 - Michael Jackson is burned during filming for Pepsi commercial.
1984 - Carl Lewis beats his own indoor world long jump record by 9¼ inches (23.5 centimeters) with a 28-foot, 10¼-inch (8.795-meter) jump.
1991 - Superbowl XXV: New York Giants beat Buffalo Bills, 20-19 in Tampa, FL.
1996 - Germany first observes International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
1997 - It is revealed that French museums have nearly 2,000 pieces of art that were stolen by Nazis.
1998 - American First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton appears on the Today Show calling the attacks against her husband part of a vast right-wing conspiracy.
1998 - WNBA begins filling rosters of Washington Mystics and Detroit Shock.
2006 - Western Union discontinues its Telegram and Commercial Messaging services.
Births:
1443 - Albert, Duke of Saxony (d. 1500)
1687 - Balthasar Neumann, German architect (d. 1753)
1701 - Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim, German historian (d. 1790)
1756 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer (d. 1791)
1805 - Maria Anna of Bavaria, queen consort of Saxony (d. 1877)
1832 - Lewis Carroll, English author (d. 1898)
1834 - Dmitri Mendeleev, chemist, discovered periodic table of the elements
1848 - Togo Heihachiro, Japanese admiral (d. 1934)
1850 - Edward J. Smith, English captain of the Titanic (d. 1912)
1900 - Hyman G Rickover, U.S. Admiral, father of modern nuclear navy
1908 - William Randolph Hearst, Jr., American newspaper magnate (d. 1993)
1921 - Donna Reed, American actress (d. 1986)
1924 - Sabu Dastagir, Indian actor (d. 1963)
1928 - Michael Craig, British actor
1928 - Hans Modrow, a German politician, premier of East Germany
1940 - James Cromwell, American actor
1945 - Nicholas Berkeley Mason, drummer, Pink Floyd-Brick in the Wall
1946 - Nedra Talley, American singer (Ronettes)
1947 - Björn Afzelius, Swedish singer (d. 1999)
1951 - Brian Downey, Irish musician (Thin Lizzy)
1952 - Billy "White Shoes" Johnson, American football player
1954 - Peter Laird, American comic-book artist
1955 - John Roberts, 17th Chief Justice of the United States
1956 - Mimi Rogers, American actress
1957 - Janick Gers, British guitarist (Iron Maiden)
1957 - Frank Miller, American comic book artist and writer and film director
1959 - Keith Olbermann, American news presenter
1961 - Margo Timmins, Canadian singer (Cowboy Junkies)
1961 - Gillian Gilbert, British musician (New Order)
1964 - Bridget Fonda, American actress
1965 - Alan Cumming, Scottish actor
1969 - Patton Oswalt, American actor and writer
1972 - Guillermo, Mexican-born American TV personality
1983 - Me!
1987 - Katy Rose, American pop singer
Deaths
98 - Marius Cocceius Nerva, Roman Emperor (b. 35)
661 - Ali, the final Sunni Rashidun and first Shia Imam
1595 - Sir Francis Drake, European explorer (b. c.1540)
1629 - Hieronymus Praetorius, German composer (b. 1560)
1688 - Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, grandmother of the Kangxi Emperor in Qing Dynasty China
1731 - Bartolomeo Cristofori, Italian maker of musical instruments (b. 1655)
1740 - Louis Henri, Duc de Bourbon, Prime Minister of France (b. 1692)
1814 - Johann Gottlieb Fichte, German philosopher (b. 1762)
1851 - John James Audubon, French-American naturalist, ornithologist, and painter (b. 1789)
1901 - Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer (b. 1813)
1910 - Thomas Crapper, English inventor (b. 1836)
1967 - Crew of Apollo 1: Roger Chaffee (b. 1935), Virgil "Gus" Grissom (b. 1926), Edward White (b. 1930)
1972 - Mahalia Jackson, American singer (b. 1911)
1973 - William Nolde, last American combat casualty of Vietnam War (b. 1929)
1986 - L. Ron Hubbard, Novelist & founder of the Church of Scientology
1993 - André the Giant, professional wrestler and actor (b. 1946)
2003 - Henryk Jabłoński, President of Poland (b. 1909)
2004 - Jack Paar, American television show host (b. 1918)
2004 - Salvador Laurel, 9th Vice President of the Philippines (b. 1928)
2006 - Johannes Rau, 8th Bundespräsident (President of Germany) (b. 1931)
2006 - Gene McFadden, American singer and songwriter (b. 1949)
2006 - Jean-Christophe Lafaille, French mountaineer (disappeared) (b. 1965)
2007 - Marcheline Bertrand, actress and mother of Angelina Jolie (b. 1950)
2008 - Gordon B. Hinckley, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1910)
2009 - John Updike, American novelist, art critic, and literary critic
Holidays and observances
- UN: International Holocaust Remembrance Day
- United Kingdom: Holocaust Memorial Day.
- Germany: Gedenktag für die Opfer des Nationalsozialismus (Commemoration Day for the Victims of National Socialism).
- Poland: Dzień Pamięci Ofiar Nazizmu (Memorial Day for the Victims of Nazism).
- Italy: Giorno della Memoria (Memorial Day).
- Serbia: St. Sava Day.
- Denmark: Auschwitzdag (Auschwitz Day; commemoration day for the victims of the Holocaust and other genocide).
- Monaco: Day of Saint Devota, patron saint
- My Birthday.
Now if I wasn't a lazy so & so I would (maybe) had a video to mark this event but I don't. So, you all a bunch of Text!
On to one of the traditions of this blog, I mark the anniversary of my spawning by telling you various things that alos happen on THIS DAY IN HISTORY!
---------------
Events:
98 - Trajan becomes Roman Emperor after the death of Nerva.
1142 - Wrongful execution of noted Song Dynasty General Yue Fei.
1186 - Henry VI, the son and heir of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I, weds Constance of Sicily.
1343 - Pope Clement VI issues the Bull Unigenitus.
1593 - Vatican opens seven year trial of scholar Giordano Bruno.
1416 - Republic of Dubrovnik, as a first state in Europe, outlaw slavery
1606 - Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins, and ending in their execution on January 31.
1662 - 1st American lime kiln begins operation in Providence, RI.
1678 - The first fire engine company in the United States went into service.
1785 - The University of Georgia is founded, the first public university in the United States.
1825 - The U.S. Congress approves Indian Territory (in what is present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the "Trail of Tears".
1870 - The first college sorority, Kappa Alpha Theta, is formed at DePauw University.
1870 - Manitoba and Northwest Territories incorporated.
1880 - Thomas Edison files a patent for his electric incandescent lamp.
1888 - In Washington, D.C., the National Geographic Society is founded.
1894 - 1st college basketball game, University of Chicago beats Chicago YMCA 19-11
1900 - Boxer Rebellion: Foreign diplomats in Peking, China demand that the Boxer rebels be disciplined.
1900 - Social Democrat Party of America (Debs' party) holds 1st convention.
1902 - 5 workers killed on explosion during IRT subway construction in New York City.
1918 - "Tarzan of the Apes," 1st Tarzan film, premieres at Broadway Theater.
1926 - John Logie Baird makes the first television broadcast.
1927 - Harlem Globetrotters play their 1st game.
1939 - First flight of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning.
1948 - 1st tape recorder sold.
1951 - Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flats.
1956 - NFL's New York Giants switches games from Polo Grounds to Yankee Stadium.
1964 - "Introducing the Beatles" album released in US.
1965 - 1st ground station-to-aircraft radio communication via satellite.
1967 - Apollo program: Apollo 1 - Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of the spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center.
1967 - More than sixty nations sign the Outer Space Treaty banning nuclear weapons in space.
1967 - The Doors self titled debut album is released.
1970 - Movie rating system modifies "M" rating to "PG".
1973 - Paris Peace Accords officially end the Vietnam War, Colonel William Nolde falls, becoming the conflict's last recorded American combat casualty.
1976 - "Laverne and Shirley" spinoff from "Happy Days" premieres on ABC TV.
1977 - 1st broadcast of "Roots" mini-series on ABC TV.
1977 - Record company EMI sacks the controversial United Kingdom punk rock group the Sex Pistols.
1983 - Pilot shaft of World's longest subaqueous tunnel (53.85 km) between the Japanese islands of Honshū and Hokkaidō breaks through.
1983 - I was born in Seattle, Washington, USA.
1984 - Michael Jackson is burned during filming for Pepsi commercial.
1984 - Carl Lewis beats his own indoor world long jump record by 9¼ inches (23.5 centimeters) with a 28-foot, 10¼-inch (8.795-meter) jump.
1991 - Superbowl XXV: New York Giants beat Buffalo Bills, 20-19 in Tampa, FL.
1996 - Germany first observes International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
1997 - It is revealed that French museums have nearly 2,000 pieces of art that were stolen by Nazis.
1998 - American First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton appears on the Today Show calling the attacks against her husband part of a vast right-wing conspiracy.
1998 - WNBA begins filling rosters of Washington Mystics and Detroit Shock.
2006 - Western Union discontinues its Telegram and Commercial Messaging services.
Births:
1443 - Albert, Duke of Saxony (d. 1500)
1687 - Balthasar Neumann, German architect (d. 1753)
1701 - Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim, German historian (d. 1790)
1756 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer (d. 1791)
1805 - Maria Anna of Bavaria, queen consort of Saxony (d. 1877)
1832 - Lewis Carroll, English author (d. 1898)
1834 - Dmitri Mendeleev, chemist, discovered periodic table of the elements
1848 - Togo Heihachiro, Japanese admiral (d. 1934)
1850 - Edward J. Smith, English captain of the Titanic (d. 1912)
1900 - Hyman G Rickover, U.S. Admiral, father of modern nuclear navy
1908 - William Randolph Hearst, Jr., American newspaper magnate (d. 1993)
1921 - Donna Reed, American actress (d. 1986)
1924 - Sabu Dastagir, Indian actor (d. 1963)
1928 - Michael Craig, British actor
1928 - Hans Modrow, a German politician, premier of East Germany
1940 - James Cromwell, American actor
1945 - Nicholas Berkeley Mason, drummer, Pink Floyd-Brick in the Wall
1946 - Nedra Talley, American singer (Ronettes)
1947 - Björn Afzelius, Swedish singer (d. 1999)
1951 - Brian Downey, Irish musician (Thin Lizzy)
1952 - Billy "White Shoes" Johnson, American football player
1954 - Peter Laird, American comic-book artist
1955 - John Roberts, 17th Chief Justice of the United States
1956 - Mimi Rogers, American actress
1957 - Janick Gers, British guitarist (Iron Maiden)
1957 - Frank Miller, American comic book artist and writer and film director
1959 - Keith Olbermann, American news presenter
1961 - Margo Timmins, Canadian singer (Cowboy Junkies)
1961 - Gillian Gilbert, British musician (New Order)
1964 - Bridget Fonda, American actress
1965 - Alan Cumming, Scottish actor
1969 - Patton Oswalt, American actor and writer
1972 - Guillermo, Mexican-born American TV personality
1983 - Me!
1987 - Katy Rose, American pop singer
Deaths
98 - Marius Cocceius Nerva, Roman Emperor (b. 35)
661 - Ali, the final Sunni Rashidun and first Shia Imam
1595 - Sir Francis Drake, European explorer (b. c.1540)
1629 - Hieronymus Praetorius, German composer (b. 1560)
1688 - Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, grandmother of the Kangxi Emperor in Qing Dynasty China
1731 - Bartolomeo Cristofori, Italian maker of musical instruments (b. 1655)
1740 - Louis Henri, Duc de Bourbon, Prime Minister of France (b. 1692)
1814 - Johann Gottlieb Fichte, German philosopher (b. 1762)
1851 - John James Audubon, French-American naturalist, ornithologist, and painter (b. 1789)
1901 - Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer (b. 1813)
1910 - Thomas Crapper, English inventor (b. 1836)
1967 - Crew of Apollo 1: Roger Chaffee (b. 1935), Virgil "Gus" Grissom (b. 1926), Edward White (b. 1930)
1972 - Mahalia Jackson, American singer (b. 1911)
1973 - William Nolde, last American combat casualty of Vietnam War (b. 1929)
1986 - L. Ron Hubbard, Novelist & founder of the Church of Scientology
1993 - André the Giant, professional wrestler and actor (b. 1946)
2003 - Henryk Jabłoński, President of Poland (b. 1909)
2004 - Jack Paar, American television show host (b. 1918)
2004 - Salvador Laurel, 9th Vice President of the Philippines (b. 1928)
2006 - Johannes Rau, 8th Bundespräsident (President of Germany) (b. 1931)
2006 - Gene McFadden, American singer and songwriter (b. 1949)
2006 - Jean-Christophe Lafaille, French mountaineer (disappeared) (b. 1965)
2007 - Marcheline Bertrand, actress and mother of Angelina Jolie (b. 1950)
2008 - Gordon B. Hinckley, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1910)
2009 - John Updike, American novelist, art critic, and literary critic
Holidays and observances
- UN: International Holocaust Remembrance Day
- United Kingdom: Holocaust Memorial Day.
- Germany: Gedenktag für die Opfer des Nationalsozialismus (Commemoration Day for the Victims of National Socialism).
- Poland: Dzień Pamięci Ofiar Nazizmu (Memorial Day for the Victims of Nazism).
- Italy: Giorno della Memoria (Memorial Day).
- Serbia: St. Sava Day.
- Denmark: Auschwitzdag (Auschwitz Day; commemoration day for the victims of the Holocaust and other genocide).
- Monaco: Day of Saint Devota, patron saint
- My Birthday.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
This is Entry 126: Blank Entry #3
*THIS ENTRY PURPOSELY LEFT BLANK*
Why? So.. that the posts, dates, stars & a few other things aline themselves for awesomeness!
Look for that tomorrow!
And as always: Stay Jazzy!
-Brian
Why? So.. that the posts, dates, stars & a few other things aline themselves for awesomeness!
Look for that tomorrow!
And as always: Stay Jazzy!
-Brian
Monday, January 25, 2010
This is Entry 125: I have a follower!
So... the 3rd & final part of the Comic Book Backlog will be up... uh... sometime. :)
But these videos are just test. The real reason for me having a Camera is forth coming!
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In news unrelated to Videos but related to The Blog: I have found out I have a "follower". I'm not sure who they are but according to Blogger they exist. So, Hello mystery follower!
Until next time I want you, my mystery follower & everyone else to Stay Jazzy!
- Brian
But these videos are just test. The real reason for me having a Camera is forth coming!
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In news unrelated to Videos but related to The Blog: I have found out I have a "follower". I'm not sure who they are but according to Blogger they exist. So, Hello mystery follower!
Until next time I want you, my mystery follower & everyone else to Stay Jazzy!
- Brian
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
This is Entry 124: another Video by Me!
Here is Part 2!
EDIT: So... the video doesn't seem to want to play here so here's a link to somewhere it will: Comic Book Backlog, part 2
Part 3 is coming up soon!
Stay Jazzy!
- Brian
EDIT: So... the video doesn't seem to want to play here so here's a link to somewhere it will: Comic Book Backlog, part 2
Part 3 is coming up soon!
Stay Jazzy!
- Brian
Monday, January 18, 2010
This is Entry 123: I made another Video!
Look for Parts 2 & 3 soon.
Oh & I bought I video camera. :)
Stay Jazzy!
-Brian
Sunday, January 17, 2010
This is Entry 122: a response to a reply
So... a few days ago I checked on my Blog & wonders beyond wonders: someone had replied & that reply wasn't a piece of junk mail! Since this is such a special occasion I've decided to make my reply to Dandelion as an official post.
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Hello!
Thanks. I try to keep my blog light in nature.
uh... Not sure if you mean that as a good thing but I'll take it that way.
Now She gets into some questions:
I'm 26, soon to be 27. But people tend to think I'm younger then that.
The "super cool thing" I've been hinting at will be previewed (hopefully) at the end of this month & some time in February, probably Mid-February. It's project I've been thinking about for a few months now & once it sees the light of the Blog will (hopefully) be super cool & awesome!
Maybe. But I will check out your Blog.
Which she she then makes mention of it:
And then she closes:
Thanks.
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That was it. The whole reply! It's one of the longer, non-junk mail, replies I've had here in the 2 years the blog has been around.
Well, in a little over 2 weeks from now I'll (hopefully) have that super cool & awesome preview for you all.
Until then: Stay Jazzy!
- Brian
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hey!
Hello!
haha... i found ur blogentry amusing..
Thanks. I try to keep my blog light in nature.
its cute though.
uh... Not sure if you mean that as a good thing but I'll take it that way.
Now She gets into some questions:
by the way, how old are you???
I'm 26, soon to be 27. But people tend to think I'm younger then that.
ok, so now here is a comment. and its not a spamjunk okay? whats the super cool thing ur talking about? is it those comics?? lol.
The "super cool thing" I've been hinting at will be previewed (hopefully) at the end of this month & some time in February, probably Mid-February. It's project I've been thinking about for a few months now & once it sees the light of the Blog will (hopefully) be super cool & awesome!
by the way, keep in touch. dish me up at my blog okay?
Maybe. But I will check out your Blog.
Which she she then makes mention of it:
"Talking about the dirtiest secrets and confidential issues"
And then she closes:
thank u. i found ur blog entries funny. :) take care. lol
Thanks.
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That was it. The whole reply! It's one of the longer, non-junk mail, replies I've had here in the 2 years the blog has been around.
Well, in a little over 2 weeks from now I'll (hopefully) have that super cool & awesome preview for you all.
Until then: Stay Jazzy!
- Brian
Monday, January 4, 2010
This is Entry 121: Update!
What better way to start off the year then to get 2 responses to my last post. Oh wait, They were both "junk mail". :( Well, that seems to be about the only replies I ever get anymore. But in happier, more awesome news: I am now just a few steps away from that something really super cool & awesome thing I mentioned in the last entry. Look for more info on that soon.
And as always: Stay Jazzy!
-Brian
And as always: Stay Jazzy!
-Brian
Saturday, January 2, 2010
This is Entry 120: Happy New Years!
Happy New Year, Jim Nation!
As you can see, this here blog has been rechristened. Why? Well, in 2010 I hope to add something really super cool & awesome here. The new title fits in with that. Look for info on that later on. Now this is not the thing mentioned in Entry #119. Well, not exactly it could be connected if I decided to connect the 2 but then I don't really know if I want to do that. I know I'm being cryptic, all will explained later on.
Time to turn on the broken record (or the corrupted Mp3 file): I've got a ton of comics to review here & getting more all the time. Ok, I'm not sure if they are an actual ton of comics but All of them together are pretty heavy & I don't think I could carry they all at once. Not sure how or when I'll do them but I really need to do them soon.
Well, I don't know what else to say so until next we meet: Stay Jazzy!
- Brian
As you can see, this here blog has been rechristened. Why? Well, in 2010 I hope to add something really super cool & awesome here. The new title fits in with that. Look for info on that later on. Now this is not the thing mentioned in Entry #119. Well, not exactly it could be connected if I decided to connect the 2 but then I don't really know if I want to do that. I know I'm being cryptic, all will explained later on.
Time to turn on the broken record (or the corrupted Mp3 file): I've got a ton of comics to review here & getting more all the time. Ok, I'm not sure if they are an actual ton of comics but All of them together are pretty heavy & I don't think I could carry they all at once. Not sure how or when I'll do them but I really need to do them soon.
Well, I don't know what else to say so until next we meet: Stay Jazzy!
- Brian
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