Greetings from the Mid East

Last month My daughter traveled to Poland and Israel with her youth group  — and some 10,000 other teens from around the world — on a trip called The March of the Living.

This trip is for Jewish teens around the world to spend a week in Poland visiting the Death Camps and marching from Auschwitz to Birkenau on Holocaust Rememberance Day, then traveling to Israel for a week and spending Independence day there.

While she was in Israel she acquired for me a Spider-Man watch and a bar of Spidey Israeli chocolate.

How cool is that?

Unfortunately, I’m now presented with something of an impossible decision — do I preserve the chocolate for all times never eating it because it is “Spidey” chocolate, or do I (carefully) open the package and eat the candy, saving only the box in which it came...

Nope, not such a hard choice. I ate the chocolate.

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Well, I finally got around to opening up the Israeli chocolate, and — much to my surprise — the candy itself was wrapped in Spidey wrapping. Cool, eh?

Thanks, again, Kayla!

One last Spidey for the year

Yesterday was my daughter's 17^th birthday, and we went into NYC to celebrate, while she was there she spotted this Spidey figurine, and picked it up for me.

Here he is holding my straw. Pretty cool, eh?

Yes, today is my birthday!

Started today off pretty good, as I discovered the card my lovely daughter left for me. It contained some prety nifty Spidey stuff.

First up, Tattoos:

Then Stickers:

And finally, there was also what appears to be the key to the Spider-Lair!

Pretty cool, eh?

Imported Spidey stuff!

Now this is really cool, My daughter recently went to Israel and came back with some Spidey stuff for me.

What you are seeing here is a metal Spidey lunch box, a Spidey bag, and some sort of Spidey candy container. All very cool stuff, especially when you realize that she was in Israel when she bought it and the metal lunchbox in her luggage apparently caused the security people to pull her over for questioning — presumably because of  of the image it made upon screening.

Kayla is a doll, and is always willing to indulge my Spidey fetish. Thanks, baby, I love you so much!

Glad you are home!

I’ve decided to keep my daughter (for now at least)

So, today my sometimes cranky daughter needed to tap me for cash so she could go out with her girlfriends to do some shopping for one of her team sports, so I lent her the cash with the understanding that we would settle up later.

Well, she came home with not only whatever silliness that she need to buy (plus my change), she also brought home a couple of very cute Spidey things that she picked up at the Dollar store.

A jigsaw puzzle

A math flash-card game

A numbers & counting workbook for kids

Seriously, how cool is all of this? If my daughter was trying to get on my good side this week, she certainly got off on the right foot.

More Spidey for the Holidays

As I mentioned earlier, I forgot to post a couple of holiday Spidey pics, and promised to get them up today.

First up is a sheet of return addresses that my wife bought online (for a buck!)


(My daughter told me to blur my address before posting this pic. She is so cute, and yesterday was her 15th birthday)

Then, of course there was of course the gifts themselves...



And my stocking was hung (with webbing) by the chimney, with care...


And (of course) the wrapping paper...

Which I’m keeping!

Enjoy Efendi!

Fun Time at Dave & Busters

So, I haven’t had the opportunity to post on this yet, but last week (two weeks ago?) I attended a Funnybook Happy Hour in Times Sq. that was thrown by the good folks who stage the NY Comicbook Convention. They have been doing this for a few months now, and promise to keep doing it until they get it right er, until the next NY ComicCon (next October, I believe).

Well, this one was very special for me, and not just because my favorite Marketing professional (Belkis) showed up, but because my son, Dylan, attended the event with me. Now, Dylan is normally not a funnybook buff, (he has attended shows with me in the past, but mostly when he was much younger), but as this was his last week before he began college @ Syracuse University, he chose to hang out with me for a bit.

One of the advantages of having Dylan with me was Dylan is a very lucky kid, and I don’t mean lucky in that he has me as his dad, but lucky because he keeps wining stuff. Needless to say, he won for me the nifty-cool comic that you see with this post (which was autographed by the artist, I believe). The comic is Darkness/Hulk #1. While I’m not a usual reader of either title, I am (obviously familiar with both characters, and did enjoy this very well-written and well-drawn comic.

Thanks Dylan, and don’t forget to buy that lottery ticket. I hear it is worth around a quarter-of-a-BILLION-dollars (Hey, you still have four more years to go, and I still have to put your sister through school when it is her turn!

Letter from my daughter

My 14-year-old daughter has been away at camp for the past month, and will return home on Sunday. Today I received her latest letter:



Still, the funniest part of the letter is what she wrote:



Cute kid, eh?

I’ze Gotz Spidey-Fingers!

Yeah, its true, I’m a total Spider-geek. I can’t help myself I really can’t. I went to some local craft fair recently and found this Spider Finger-Puppet. One of the reasons I got it is, because I have two other Spidey Finger-Puppets, only both of those are variations of the classic red-and-blue costume. When I saw this one I knew that I had to have it.

Now all I have to do is find the other two...





One of these days I’m really going to have to photograph everything Spidey that I own.

(Photos courtesy of my daughter Kayla)