I Still Enjoy Them (Old Post, Updated)

https://fivedotoh.com/2020/08/31/fowc-with-fandango-hunter/ I remember racing (okay, so not exactly racing, but it's a good cliche) to the corner candy store on Tuesdays and Thursdays to see which comic books had come in. Then, there was the ecstatic agony of deciding which ones to buy. Of course, I did have some favorites that I always bought, and …

Book Covers [Old Post, Slightly Edited]

FOWC with Fandango — Covered When I was in sixth grade, our teacher, Mrs. Harris, with whom I did NOT get along, showed us two books, or rather two different copies of the same book.  One copy was old, with no dust jacket.  The other was new, and covered with a beautiful dust jacket. Mrs. Harris …

A Fitting Speech

FOWC with Fandango — SpeechIt's funny. I can't remember exactly how old I was; I only know that I was in my early or middle teens, and my Baba, my father (who had come for a Sunday visit) and I were watching "The Happy Years", an old movie about boys in prep school, on tv. The …

Archie Shocker [Old post, renamed, edited, and slightly expanded.]

FOWC with Fandango — Survivehttps://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2020/08/28/conniption-2/The original version of this post was written way back in 2009. I grew up reading, and loving, the "Archie" comic books. Even now, I have several reprint collections which I still read from time to time. I will probably buy more reprint collections in the future.I relocated in 2013, and, unfortunately, …

Young And In Love

Perhaps "in love" is too strong a phrase for the way I felt about him. After all, I wasn't quite eight years old when it began. And when I was ten years old, it ended, and I was heartbroken. It might not even be an exaggeration to say that I was absolutely devastated. Was this …