Category: Books

  • My Father’s Day Gifts to Myself

    Amazon package arrived today.  Guess what’s inside? The animated Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 1-3, which is now packaged together for $17 instead of sold individually for $15 each.  (I don’t know why they won’t do season sets anymore.  Obviously, they want to shake us down for more cash per individual disk, but I’m not buying…

  • Resurgence of piracy

    There is obviously a resurgence of interest in piracy due to the recent capture of a USA-flagged ship and the hostage situation with the ship’s captain that happily ended in his rescue just this morning. Many of us, of course, still think of pirates in terms of 1700s brigands in tall ships with parrots, bandanas,…