Yesterday I posted something that I felt was a whole lot of fun over on the PiercingMetal.com site and what it amounted to was a night of Heavy Metal music in a cozy wine bar called Terroir located in the Murray Hill section of NYC (that’s near the Gramercy Theatre kinda sorta). They were calling this event “Heavy Metal Monday” and since it had the “Metal” prominence I felt that I should load the story onto the music related site. I attended this event with my buddy “The Big Cheese” of the Heavy Metal Mayhem online radio show and if you click the graphic below you will be transported to my overview.
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Was wandering around my neighborhood the other day (a practice I am generally involved in) and happened by a spot that I have not thought about in a very long time. The main reason for this is based on the location not being what I originally knew it to be for many, many years. Do any of you readers recognize the spot which is on the corner of Fourth Avenue and 94th Street?
If you don’t this was the former location of a place called Bill and Bob’s Comics and I went there religiously each and every week with the allowance money and eventually the earnings from odd jobs during the course of my youth. To say that I spent a lot of money there over the years would be an understatement. It was here I went from a couple of books a week to full on runs of Marvel and DC Comics with the occasional Image or Valiant title when those became popular and they even allowed you the means to easily get complete boxes of the latest trading cards. Action figures were not as much a big deal when this place was in its heyday and I don’t recall them really having any in their later years but I might be mistaken in that. It was run by a father and son team and would close when the Dad passed away while at the same time moving down to a part of Park Slope. Now that is also gone to my knowledge but there are other comic shops in each region that you can get to with minimal travel.
Just sharing a recollection with you. Sadly I have no “classic shots” of the store but originally it was only the left hand side of the visible space and eventually expanded when the right side became available. Despite that I do remember that it was in here that I first purchased many iconic titles like “The Dark Knight Returns”, “Watchmen”, the #1 issue of “Spider-Man” by Todd McFarlane, “Crisis On Infinite Earth” and the eventual “Death Of Superman”. I can go on and on, but another important fact was the back issue boxes allowed me to quickly complete collections or series runs. Yeah I had a lot of luck in them back then. Eventually some kind of interior decorating service took it over if memory serves me but I believe they have also shut down at this point in time. If you remember the place and feel like reflecting as well, the comments are open for such things.
A few days ago I had the pleasure of attending the 110th Annual Toy Fair or Toy Fair 2013 as many referred to it. This time around I decided to space out my postings as opposed to doing several days of continued blogs that finish in one single week. With many of the items not being readily available it made more sense and if you click the photo below you will be magically transported to the available run of them. This is my third year straight attending as a member of the press and I am all the more excited about going. I’ll be joined by Skeleton Pete once again and he will be dishing out the narratives and views on his own site so be sure to hit his link on the bottom of our website and show him some love. Have fun with the series, I know I had fun putting all of this together.
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It’s a crazy world out there almost every single day and maybe we all just need to get a little more of this into our lives. After I saw this hanging in a window, I knew that I had to offer it up for any who could use a dose of positivity in their day. I will admit that I sure don’t mind.
That’s all I have right now, “speak” to you again soon 🙂
Before you read any more of this post, I want to admit to you that I have already used this photo over on my PiercingMetal site but it was too cool in my humble opinion and hence my rational in sharing it here with all of you readers of the PiercingKen blogsite. I took it the other day while in the city for an appointment at a brand new venue called Stage 48. I was doing a walk-through with my trusty colleague Skeleton Pete and as we walked down 42nd Street there it was.
Folks who read this blog only might not be aware that I have been to the B.B. King Blues Club and Grill over 200 times over the past eight years and for each of those times I was covering some kind of show for the website. I like to consider myself an advocate of the live music scene and that is why I keep a comprehensive calendar over on my main music reporting site. You can access that calendar by clicking the photo above and please do feel free to share that resource if you like what you see. If you’d like to see the coverage from those 200 plus shows you can click HERE. I can only imagine that this listing will get bigger and bigger as we aim to the future. Alright, time to get back to the normal writings and planning. Like the venue said “Have A Nice Day” 🙂
