Re: [MOPO] What Did We Do To Deserve This? LONG!!!

[Shelly Whitworth-King]

Hey Toochis
You've taken the words right out of my mouth!
Let's all relax for a few days, enjoy the experience for what it is, catch
up with friends & family or do whatever flicks your switch.
If there's one thing we have learnt here in MOPO and on B-STYLE .. if you
can't stand the heat, then stay out of the kitchen, but there's very few
real grumpy bears on the list so try to take it all with a pinch (or
wheelbarrow) or salt.
My best juletide wishes to all the group.
Shelly


----Original Message Follows----
From: Toochis Morin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: Toochis Morin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Subject: Re: [MOPO] What Did We Do To Deserve This? LONG!!!
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 15:19:04 -0800
Hi Mike,
Let me be clear.  I did not cite your posting.  I was
responding to Scott being pummeled.
Okay.  I usually don't get into this type of string.
I just think Scott and Donnie do so much hard work and
deserve to be supported.
Again, I did not use your posting.  Hope your have a
great holiday and that all is settled and nice in the
New Year.  We ALL deserve it.
Toochis
--- Michael Spampinato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Man I have had it. Really had it. WHY is my post
> being cited for this? I don;t even know what the
> heck Style B IS, did not MENTION Style B and my only
> reason for the post was to express my pleasure at
> having a place like Mopo and assure Scott it is
> worth it.
>
> Earlier, I post what I THINK is a complimentary
> email about my results on Bruce's auctions and Bruce
> makes that post the poster boy for expressing
> disapporval.
>
> Earlier still I post very clear examples and
> questions as to the whole high-end thing and am
> accused of trying to read between the lines or
> reading thigs that arfen;t there.
>
> Know what? I will just post FOR SALE and WTB
> messages. Lord forbid I should express myself beyond
> that.
>
> And Merry Christmas and Happy New Year anyway.
>
> Pov
>
>
> Toochis Morin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I know that these two lists have some of the same
> members, but can we dispense with the forwarding of
> messages from one list to the other?
>
> Let's face it, there are times when some of us will
> be
> frustrated on the list. It's human nature.
>
> I love both lists and appreciate the differences.
> Don't let this kind of listing get you down, Scott.
> It was written on Style B so that it wouldn't get to
> you. They just wanted to vent, I'm sure.
>
> I just got a comment privately about something I
> said
> on MoPo. I could have mentioned it on Style B and
> MoPo
> and gotten people in a huff. But the person and I
> had
> a wink over it and it's done.
>
> I want the freedom to vent about MoPo on Style b
> when
> I want and visa versa. I have not had reason to do
> either nor do I think I ever will. I understand the
> differences.
>
> I just wonder why people want to forward these types
> of things to the list leaders. Don't they get
> punched
> up enough?
>
> Donnie, is a generous and sweet guy who offered
> another list not to compete but to give an option.
>
> Scott is a wonderful man who got an awesome list
> together to provide a forum for people to talk about
> posters.
>
> Let's let them do what they do best and be
> supportive.
>
> Toochis
>
>
>
> --- Michael Spampinato
> wrote:
>
> > Scott - You hit us with a long post and am gonna
> hit
> > you back. Have been reviewing many missed posts.
> > Since I rwead your in its entirety you must read
> > mine in its entirety1 ;-)
> >
> > I confess to not being active in Mopo for a while
> > now but my poster collecting interests have
> > returned. I never lost interest in posters but was
> > spending more time researching and acquiring
> > pre-code horror comic books. But I knew I would
> get
> > back into poster collecting. And now, for the
> first
> > time in my life, I seem to have achieved a balance
> > betyween the two.
> >
> > ANYWAY - Scott - not even sure if you remember me
> > but man - don't turn out the lights because of the
> > classic internet mindset. People forget they are
> > people talking to people and often say and do
> things
> > they would never do "in real life" - like Mopo
> isn't
> > real life!
> >
> > Even when I was deepest in comic books I knew I
> > would return to posters, and why? Because of Mopo.
> > Mopo is the one thing in the poster world that
> seems
> > a constant. A refuge, as it were, to a world that
> > really just don't get it!
> >
> > I have loved movies since I was a kid. I remmeber
> in
> > the 50's watching Creature Feature and Creatuire
> > Double Feature and Sherlock Holmes and Charlie
> Chan
> > on the relatuively new IHF television (we got one
> of
> > those special antennas that let you tune to UHF on
> > your VHF TV). And I found my self almost addicted
> to
> > movies - and expecially the black and white ones.
> I
> > remember when Channel 38 (as I recall) in Boston
> had
> > a Humphrey Bogart film festival. They showed maybe
> a
> > dozen of Bogie's best (and some lessers) and I was
> > introduced to folks like James Cagney, Edward G
> > Robinson, Lauren Bacall and a host of others.
> > Suddenly those old movies were just amazing.
> >
> > So I started "collecting" videotapes when VCRs
> came
> > out. But that never really felt right. I didn;t
> feel
> > like I was collecting a part of the movie itself.
> So
> > one day, I am in The Outer Limits comic book shop
> in
> > Waltham Massachusetts, and I see a Mothra insert
> on
> > the wall. I asked what it was and Steve Higgins,
> the
> > most excellent owner of that shop, told me it was
> an
> > insert from Mothra. We talked about movie posters
> > for a bit and turned out he had some oither
> pieces.
> > Suddenly everything "clicked". THIS was how to
> "own"
> > a movie. The comic book collector (aka paper
> lover)
> > in me responded immediately.
> >
> > Not too long from then I discovered Rudy Franchi's
> > The Nostalgia Factory in Boston. Man did I have a
> > time. Rudy was just great. He seemed willing to
> chat
> > with me for some time when he realized I had a
> > genuine love of both movies and movie paper. I
> > bought many pieces from him of lesser things that
> > reflected my horror interests: but all in the $25
> -
> > 1oo range.
> >
> > Well, one day, I walk in and Rudy looks at me with
> a
> > twinkle in his eye. He says "You have to see this"
> > and he pulls out an original Frankenstein Meets
> The
> > Wolf Man lobby card with the great closeup of the
> > monster carrying the Baroness. Well, we talked a
> bit
> > but I could NOT take my eyes off that lobby. It
> was
> > literally the first Universal Horror pice I had
> ever
> > seen. And the Universal Horror films were and are,
> > hands down, my favorites.
> >
> > I don;t know who was more surprised, myself or
> Rudy
> > when I pulled out a credit card and bought what
> was,
> > by far, the most expensive piece I had even
> bought.
> >
> > Well, I bring it home and am looking at it and it
> > suddenly dawned on me "You can DO this!". Meaning,
> I
> > can actually get pieces form the Universal films I
> > love so much.
> >
> > And by gum, I DID! I started hitting ebay. I hit
> > Deke's Poster Palace (I still have some pieces
> from
> > him I bought years ago, including a gorgeous
> Jungle
> > Captive 1-sheet and a stunning Realart title card
> to
> > Werewolf Of London). I started branching out into
> > Sherlock Holmes and Charlie Chan pieces. I found I
>
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