Terry says the new books are out. Innumerable shakeups and firings in the comics industry. No details but sounds like there's gonna be some big changes soon.
UGH! I got involved again today! Had to stay after school 'til almost 4 to finish an experiment in Physics. That was bad but it led to the silence of a long walk home in the cooling rain. Later it rained harder.
Very little on TV tonight. Think I'll go to bed early.
IT, too today. (Et tu, Brute?)
NOTES: I was doing everything I could think of to help in Physics but nothing seemed to work. I don't recall what this experiment was exactly but it had something to do with heating some kind of solution.
In those pre-Internet days, the comics gossip was often slow in coming. The news I had here was probably from Terry via the Yellow Kid Comics Shoppe and would be fleshed out later on.
In the picture above, note my 8 track player. I hated 8 tracks and only ever had four--Chicago's greatest hits, Mike Nesmith and the First National Band, The Beatles Yesterday and Today and Dolenz, Jones, Boyce and Hart.
Why the 8-Track hatred?
ReplyDeleteUnlike records or cassettes there was nothing to turn over but 8 Tracks still had to switch between tracks. An 8 track cartridge tended to switch from one track to another right in the middle of a song....thus leaving you with a few seconds of silence (or rather loud clicking as it switched). This occurred several times per album and was very annoying. By the time I got mine, they were already being phased out and would be largely gone by the end of the seventies.
ReplyDeleteI had them up until the late 1980s. I had a nifty 8-track suitcase player also. They disappeared while I was away in the service or I would probably still have them. I have cassettes going back to about 1975, and records older than that, of course.
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