Comments on The Blog Brothers: Superheroes

Thanks Meg-- and Russian olives! Now I remember! w...

2008-03-13T23:55:00.000-07:00

Thanks Meg--
and Russian olives! Now I remember! we use to use baby plums, peaches, apples and acorns! Seasonal ammo! Yeah!

This post is so well-written and right on it took ...

2008-03-06T08:26:00.000-08:00

This post is so well-written and right on it took my breath away--and took me back to those days on Ash street. We used to have wars with slingshots loaded with Russian olives. Our castles were the storage platforms in our garages. Spies found out who was in his/her castle, so soldiers (or cowboys, depending on the day) could eliminate them. Those were the days.Thanks for your wonderful post.

"...time travel was easy then..." as I recall the ...

2008-02-26T23:15:00.000-08:00

"...time travel was easy then..." as I recall the swinging rubber tire airline and the ocean liner porch swing that virtually transported me to all those exotic foreign locales I longed to visit and a few magical places, too.

Your story got me going, resulting in this:http://...

2008-02-12T04:22:00.000-08:00

Your story got me going, resulting in this:
http://www.nobodyasked.com/2008/02/12/schwinn-bicycle-adventures/

Oh how I remember. Some of it shimmering with crys...

2008-02-10T06:12:00.000-08:00

Oh how I remember. Some of it shimmering with crystalline clarity, some, as Mick suggested, "dimmed by the dust of ordinary, everyday reality."

But I fear you have given short shrift to one of the most important things -- the Schwinn. The big 26" bike with the tank, the tassels flowing from the handlebar grips, the bulb-driven horn mounted on the handlebar. We ranged far (what Mama didn't know never hurt her) and rode fast, faster than a speeding bullet...

I can imagine that you and Mick were a handful in those days...

Great essay! Thanks for the memories...

Pauline-- like I sensed all along, girls are beyon...

2008-02-10T01:07:00.000-08:00

Pauline-- like I sensed all along, girls are beyond superheroes...

Kenju-- of course girls are still kryptonite, essence of the home planet...

And thanks Mick-- from the heart, from the heart, bro...

Yeah, I remember. I can see them even more clearly...

2008-02-09T08:50:00.000-08:00

Yeah, I remember. I can see them even more clearly now, though. Of late those events had seem faded; dimmed by the dust of ordinary, everyday reality.

We mortals can only hope that the last (and most important) superpower that will ever fade from your superbeing is the one which allows you - more than any other superhero I know - to bring back those memories as if by magic, in all their shimmering, dazzling pixie dust.

Proud to have been your sidekick all these years, bro. Write on.

The thought came to me yesterday how I used to bou...

2008-02-09T07:32:00.000-08:00

The thought came to me yesterday how I used to bound down the stairs hitting only about 1 on 4-5 steps. Them days are over!

When did you decide that girls weren't kryptonite anymore? Or did you? LOL

Ha! So many good lines in this - "...that world wh...

2008-02-09T05:07:00.000-08:00

Ha! So many good lines in this - "...that world where we could run down the stairs like water and cartwheel at will and roll down hills like logs and jump higher, skate faster than anybody..."

I felt like that, too, and I'm a girl!