Reed Richards

Bugs the Heck

Out of Me!

I don't know why, but just the sight of Reed Richards (Mr. Fantastic of the Fantastic Four) annoys me no end. 

I can't stand him.  I don't know if it's his horrible haircut, his boring personality or his long-winded speeches - okay it's probably all of that.

He's so annoying that you really have to wonder what in the world Sue sees in him. 

She must be able to see the invisible in addition to being invisible. 

What were Stan Lee and Jack Kirby thinking when they created him?  "Oh, let's make a hero everyone can hate!"?

Ioan Gruffud plays him to perfection in the FF movies.  I can say this because I love him as an actor, having seen him in "Horatio Hornblower" and "Amazing Grace."  But in the FF movies - he bugs the heck out of me!

Why am I venting on this today?

I just spent several hours listing dozens of Fantastic Four comics in our eBay store - and I'm just sick of looking at Reed Richards!

Tina!

A Long Indy Weekend!

'Indiana Jones' Grosses $101 Million Barely Topping Iron Man by $300,000 for Opening Weekend Bragging Righbts this Summer!

It's been a long Indy weekend for us.  After seeing the movie ('Indiana Jones' and The Temple of the Crystal Skull) on Saturday, it seems people everywhere are asking us what we think of it.  Even loyal blog readers are emailing us wondering.

For those of you new to us, we have an ongoing Pop Culture  - Comic Con here at Make It So Marketing, what with our daily blog posts and listings of items for sale! You are welcome to visit our blog again and again!

Michael

Teri Hatcher

On The

 American Idol 

 Finale Red Carpet!

The American Idol Finale Show was a long one... ran overtime as usual for this show lately...

There were so many scenes or segments on this American Idol Finale and Red Carpet previews, that we have been blogging about them separately.

Regular readers of this blog will know that I have enjoyed watching Terri Hatcher's career since first seeing her in Quantum Leap, where she was Sam's girlfriend! She was also one of the few reasons I would catch the 'Lois and Clark' TV Show... and is the main reason I started viewing 'Desperate Housewives' when it started!

I missed seeing Teri Hatcher  on the American Idol Red Carpet previews, so thought I would share the above photo of her at the top right!

Can't see all the shows all the time you know!

Tonight, (Monday May 26th, 2006), Larry King will be having all ten of the American Idol Finalists on his show, in a Part 2 of his interview of them that was started on Friday night.  We have already blogged about Part 1 and are looking forward to tonight's show!

Will probably have a blog about that tomorrow, should you miss the show and like to know some of what was said....

Thanks for reading this blog post, and all of the others you may have read during this loooong Season 7!  Michael's comments have already been blogged in Part 1 and Tina's was in Part 2 of the Season Finale Results Show blog posts!

We have an ongoing Comic Con and Pop Culture convention here at Make It So Marketing, what with our daily blog posts and listings of items for sale!

Thanks for reading our Pop Culture - comics - comic book blog post today and join us again!

Michael

It's Been an Indy Weekend At Our House!

No, we're not watching the Indy 500 being run today in Indianapolis, I'm talking about  'Indiana Jones'!

Yesterday, we joined the throng at our local movie house to cheer the return of  'Indiana Jones' in the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.  

We enjoyed the movie so much , it got us waxing nostalgic for Raiders of the Lost Ark.  So, we watched that on VHS tape Saturday night.

What a kick to see a young Harrison Ford put on the fedora for the first time. And, I got a chuckle out of seeing Alfred Molina (later Doc Ock of Spider-Man II) con Indy out of his prize (but not for long) in the opening scene.

Sunday morning saw me peddling on the exercise bike where I caught the tail end of an interview with Karen Allen (Marian Ravenwood) on CBS Sunday Morning.  She talked about what she's done since Indy.  After splitting her time between NY City (theater) and Vermont, she divorced and "retired" to rural Massachusetts to raise her son.

Well the climate agrees with her - she looks amazing - as you will see in the new movie.  And, it ain't all makeup and it ain't plastic surgery.  Ms. Allen explained how she wouldn't want to go under the knife.

Most recently, she taught herself weaving and started her own textile line (Karen Allen Fabrics) and opened a retail shop.

What an amazing woman, and what an amazing Indy weekend - and it's not over yet!

Tina!

ZZ Top 

At The 

American Idol 

2008 Finale

The American Idol 2008 Finale Show was a long one... ran overtime as usual for this show lately...

With Finale Shows of this nature, there usually is a lot of 'filler' material until they actually get around to announcing the winner.

Sometimes the 'filler' is a 'hit'... sometimes it is a 'miss'.

For me, seeing ZZ Top and David Cook perform together was a 'hit'!

Don't get me wrong, I'm not a ZZ Top fanatic, matter of fact Tina keeps telling me I don't have any 'musical taste' at all... even though she and I have voted for the same contestant in the last three Finales of American Idol!

It's just that I have a fondness for ZZ Top, ever since I saw them in 'Back To The Future Part III', where they played the band when McFly traveled back in time to the Old West Days and attended a dance!

Then again, I've had a beard, goatee and/or mustache before my kids were born... so maybe that has something to do with me liking them some! LOL!

However when my beard gets a week past having it trimmed, it does start to feel like the ones that ZZ Top wear! LOL!

Thanks for reading this blog post, and all of the others you may have read during this loooong Season 7 of American Idol! 

Michael's comments  for the Finale Results have already been blogged in Part 1  and Tina's in Part 2 in our archived blog posts!

For those of you new to us, we have an ongoing Comic Con and Pop Culture convention here at Make It So Marketing, what with our daily blog posts and listings of items for sale!

Thanks for reading our Pop Culture - comics - comic book blog post today and join us again!

Michael