Is You A Junior Master-Mind?

Yesterday's Quiz comes from 1975's Valiant's Junior Master-Mind Quiz Book:

Check your answers, scoring 3 points for each correct response:

As noted above, since we're only quizzing 1/3 of the categories, score 3 points for each correct answer. Add up your points and see what kind of Junior Master-Mind you are:

quizzes from Valiant's Junior Master-Mind Quiz Book (1975)

Am You Be Smart?

Jeff Foxworthy hosted a show many readers are likely familiar with - Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader? While the inherent analysis was of the title was flawed, it was an entertaining concept anyway - how much of what you learned as a child did you actually wind up remembering as an adult?

If that sounds like the introduction to how we like to whimp out of Friday Night Fights around here, you are correct! It's time for

Last night we were visiting 1977 - let's hang out in that mid-70s time frame for when these questions were originally being asked. Adjust your answers accordingly where history may have changed things since then. We'll go easy on our poor growed-up brains and only use 1/3 of the original quiz list - a mere 10 of 30 categories.

You can do it!

Answers tomorrow - no surprise there.

yeah, credits tomorrow, too

Meanwhile, 40 Years Ago In 1977...

Double Natural was a big year for me - lots of good things happening.

I got married again (to the same woman).

We conceived our first child, but #1 Son didn't arrive until '78.

I was a scifi geek, and we'd been listening to this Lucas guy talk (at Space Con, i believe - one of the local Los Angeles conventions we used to attend) about his big movie concept before it came out, so i was among those wearing Star Wars t-shirts at the opening of the first film. (Of Course he was selling t-shirts there before the movie opened - he had the merchandising rights in his contract)

But there was one thing happening on my birthday that occurred on the other side of the country, in New York City, and online galleries were many decades away - so i missed it: The Berni Wrightson Exhibition.

The ads for his Frankenstein Portfolio, with those incredibly luxurious inks that merged fine art and comic art so deliciously were appearing at the time, and inspiring great lust for the collection. Seeing that his work was going to be hanging in a gallery seemed so right, son, that we wanted very much to be there.

At least i eventually found a gallery catalog for the show - one of 500 signed by The Artist - so we can get a glimpse of what was on display:

Yeah, i never made it there.
But, it was still a good year.

(Better?)

art by Bernie Wrightson from the NYCA Gallery Catalog (Oct 1977)

This Is Me (Again Or Still)

I know that some would like to know more about the hermit behind the words, beyond the small snapshots that spill out in the ramblings. Every now and then i'll manage to get perhaps too open in an off-kilter sort of balance. But generally, i find it hard to consciously talk about my odd life, no matter how suited it might be to the topic of the blog. Somehow, that's largely detached from wandering through old memories, because i'm focused on the memories and not myself. It's something i'll try to work on.

Of course, that doesn't leave much for this post, does it?

Fortunately, there are still some small societies that tell my story, and the story of my peoples. So, we'll go to their tribal writ-

They, um...  they might have gotten a bit confused towards the end there.
Just a bit

the works by -3- from This Is Me (2011)