Author Archives: rickjlundeen

It really wasn’t my intention to get this old this quick. I’d have put it off, really. Although I hate putting things off. I like to get it done, get it over with, etc. just waiting for something is tedious. It’s like when you have to go to a wedding. Sure, it’ll be nice toContinue reading “The Pill Case…”

I remember I was getting comics in the early ’70’s from the grocery store, this was ’71, ’72, early ’73. It was usually the neighborhood Jewel store. It was catch as catch can in those days, with no convenient area comic store around. I think it was the late ’70’s before they started popping upContinue reading “Finding Comics, Then and Now”

My earliest memory is — I believe — me drowning. Some deep, buried, vague memory. I can only assume I was a toddler. It certainly wasn’t me being born like some water baby, as that “new age” stuff was I think well after my mother’s time and even if it wasn’t, that’s not my mom’sContinue reading “Man of infrequent action- Drowning interlude”

You know, without barber shops and stylists during this pandemic… for the next two? Three? Six? Eight months? That’s gonna get interesting. They’re gonna get hairy. Really, unless you have a family member that knows what they’re doing, or you’re ready to just shear yourself like a sheep… …we gonna get hairy. Oh baby. DoContinue reading “We Gonna Get Hairy”

This is the day where you go almost anywhere on the internet, and you start reading an article that almost doesn’t seem too outlandish in our world today, then suddenly it seems ridiculous, then you think WTF?!?!, then you notice the date.  I guess a lot depends on how early it is, if you’ve forgottenContinue reading “Fool Me Once…”

You’re stuck at home. The entire family is stuck at home. After you take care of any necessary work, emails, etc., you have to fill the time. Yeah, sure, there’s tv–it IS a great time to watch that old movie you’ve heard about for years but never got around to watching. You take strolls aroundContinue reading “Quarantine Home Projects”

Everyone’s sheltering at home, and if they want to work out, they now have to DO it at home. Believe it or not, I have tips. Several, in fact. But what ho…..you say “Rick, you’re a tree trunk of a blob! Surely, you don’t exercise!” Ah, but I do. Really, it’s the best place TOContinue reading “So, You Say You’re Forced to Exercise at Home now…”

When I started sheltering in place some 15 years ago, I didn’t even realize it had a name. I just referred to it as a common sense approach and far more efficient for my line of work. The hectic and unpredictable nature of what I do necessitated me either working from home or staying atContinue reading “How are you adapting to the Rick Lifestyle?”

I’d been threatening to watch it again — I don’t know *who* I was allegedly threatening, maybe the blu-ray player, I don’t know. Maybe I was just mentally warning myself because originally I was going to watch the Infinity War and Endgame double feature. But come on, that’s too much at once, unless you startContinue reading “Endgame for the fifth (?) time…”

Let’s face it, by July 1971, Stan Lee was in a rut. A year earlier, Jack Kirby had left Marvel to go to DC comics. Stan and Jack had done just over 100 issues of the FF together but the honeymoon was over. Marvel publisher Martin Goodman had never appreciated the value of what JackContinue reading “Kirby’s departure”