Oyster Festival 2012

Back in August of this year, I was working @ the Norwalk Seaport's 35^th Annual Oyster Festival, and — as it has for the past three or four years — the Festival had a Sunday morning kid show staring Marvel Comics characters. Once again, I got my picture taken with the characters after the show, and will continue to use the photo as my desktop wallpaper for the next year (until the 2013 Fest, when I will get a new pic.).

Well I just today received the photo from the Oyster Fest volunteer who took the pic for me (John Leskovsky — thanks John). Needless to say, the Marvel stage show was the best attended show that we put on this year. Even better than our lead act, (the lead singer from the rock group Foreigner)

Oh, yeah, and that’s me in the center, sporting my pair of Avengers IDs (one of them signed by then President Ronald Reagan, and the other signed by the head of Homeland Security). Who’s cooler than me?

Spidey's been Punk'd!

OH NO!

I suspect either the Green Goblin or Julie Taymor.

Watch Sam Raimi's Original Green Goblin FX Test

OK, now this is really cool, follow this link to watch Sam Raimi's Original Green Goblin FX Test.

It is wickedly awesome and makes you wonder why Raimi didn't go with this version of the Goblin Mask instead of the hideous thing that actually wound up in the movie.

This version is so much better.

Ah well.

When superheroes go bad...

Could someone please explain to me why people do this? If you are going to rob a bank, why dress up as Spidey, why not pick a real bad guy, like Doc Doom. or someone? And why does it always seem to be Spidey that they pick?

A man wearing a mask and sweater bearing “Spider-Man” designs robbed a Fort Washington bank Wednesday, police said.

The man entered the BB&T bank branch in the 9400 block of Livingston Road around 3:18 p.m., displayed a handgun and passed a note to a teller demanding money, according to the Prince George’s County police.

I’ve got to tell you that it really irritates me. I really hope that he gets caught and his cellmate has a Green Goblin fetish.

Marvel Oyster Festival Swag

When I was meeting Spidey and Co. at this year’s Oyster Festival, I was able to acquire some cool swag from the heroes. The first one (even though you can’t really tell from the scan), is a hologram “flicker” card featuring Wolverine. 

I was also able to acquire a Marvel autograph card signed by Captain America, Thor, Spider-Man, and (of course) the Green Goblin.

I know, you’re totally jealous!

It's starting to look a lot like Christmas!

I was in my local Hallmark store the other day I I saw a bunch of very cool Christmas Tree Ornaments.

 

All — especially the Spidey/Goblin one at the end (and yeah, even the Batman & Superman ones) — are very cool, and I wouldn’t mind having any of them hanging on my tree. (Tell my wife if you see her.)

Sorry for the fuzzy nature of the pics, they were taken w/my camera phone, and sometimes those pics don't come out very well if I'm standing too close to the subject, which apparently I was.

For a better look, check out this image from the Hallmark web site.

The Goblin’s last stand?

I don’t know, but I’m starting to think that the producers of the Spider-Man Broadway musical should have picked a different name, especially given that they can’t seem to turn ON the light for their $60 million show. According to a recent report from the NY Times, the show’s opening has been delayed, yet again...

The first performance was supposed to be in nine days, on Nov. 14, but this is a show that its famous creators — the director Julie Taymor and U2’s Bono and the Edge — are laboring to finish. The two-dozen flying sequences are being worked out and still require safety approval from the state Department of Labor. The music, marking the Broadway debut of the U2 frontmen, still isn’t synchronized with special effects, plot and dialogue. Scene-to-scene transitions, essential for rhythm and safety, aren’t complete. Two actors have been injured hurtling through acrobatic rehearsal sequences.

Yep, that’s right, it seems that this hero just can’t seem to get this show up off the ground, and it is going to miss having a pre-Thanksgiving Day opening, and lose out on much (if not all) of the very lucrative holiday theater-going traffic.

Apparently there is a serous safty issue in regards to the “flying” issues

...the show has developed a problematic reputation, at least in the short term. Questions have been raised, and a state investigation is under way, about the safety of the flying. All of the attention on special effects may ward off traditional theatergoers who want a good score and story; some older people, for instance, have asked group sales agents if there is anything in the show for them.

Personally, I can’t help but to think that Norman Osborn is cackling to himself from his prison cell on the Raft (located just off Ryker’s Island)