Welcome Back to The Fortress of Markitude!

Previous visits to my nonsolitary stash of superness were here:

Number 1

Number 2

Number 3

Number 4

And, as with previous posts in this series,  PLEASE NOTE:  all of these pictures were taken a few years ago when the place was less cluttered.  All text is in the present tense anyway.

Now we’ve reached the inner sanctum of inner sanctums, the Comics Closet.

You can tell by the presence of videotapes that these photos are a few years old.

Here is a better shot of all of the STAR TREK model box lid illustrations, cut out and mounted like patients etherized upon a table.  I must confess the truth, that most of these cutouts are courtesy of my friend Ed Porter, who had even more STAR TREK models than I did.

The small piece of STAR TREK model seen hanging from the ceiling in the top right corner is the AMT electrified Enterprise model from STAR TREK: The Motion Picture.

At the bottom you can see a fan piece of Superman art I bought at a SoonerCon.

If you can imagine taking a 90-degree left turn from the previous photos and taking a picture with your right shoulder touching the videotape shelf above, then you’ve got the viewpoint of the above image and the next one.

Hanging above is the electrified shuttle sold  in tandem with the Galoob 3¾-inch STAR TREK: The Next Generation figures.

Below that is an inflatable NASA space shuttle, and at the top of the photo you can see part of the STAR TREK: The Motion Picture AMT version of a Klingon ship.

Since this photo was taken, there are even more long boxes in there!

From this angle you can also see Ed Porter’s Battlestar Galactica model in the distance, hanging at the far end of the ceiling from the light fixture, perfectly at home with the other spaceships.

As you can tell from your angle on the inflatable space shuttle hanging from the AC grate, this is a reverse angle from the previous two photos, with your back against the videotape shelf seen in them.  (Yes, MORE videotapes!)

Well, I’m going to leave you in VHS limbo on this instalment of our series inside the Fortress of Markitude.  More to come!


  

See You in July!

We're taking some time off to ramp up to SoonerCon 23 , a High School Reunion, and jazz like that.  See you in July!

 

MA-19 - Records from Regulus

Another instalment in my conglomeration of songs about the space program, outer space, and other unworldly topics.

1      Man from Mars         Ferrante and Teicher             1955

2      Those Funny Little Saucers in the Sky   Dr Danny Hart of the Church of Soul-Truth           1958

3      Take Me to Your Leader Cha Cha Cha         Sam Space and the Cadettes       1958

4 What Do You Hear from the Red Planet Conried-Pearce   1959

5 The Girl from the Fourth Dimension Sheldon Allman     1960

6 Space Mice Walter Brennan    1960

7 Sky Men Geoff Goddard      1963

8 Hootenanny on Mars Randy Starr and the Merry Martians 1964

9 You Came from Outer Space The Kirby Stone Four 1964

10 Mr Spaceman The Byrds 1966

11 The Invaders Are Here Mike Adkins   1967

12 Urban Spaceman Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band 1968

13 Space Oddity    David Bowie     1969

14 It Came Out of the Sky Creedence Clearwater Revival 1970

15 Space Buggy    Asleep At The Wheel 1973

16 I've Seen the Saucers Elton John 1974

17 Flying Saucer Attack The Rezillos    1977

18 The Flying Saucer Man and the Truck Driver Red Simpson 1979

19 Thing from Another World Marlin Wallace    1981

20 Rocket Ship Kathy McCarty   1988

21 I Saw Elvis in a U.F.O. Ray Stevens   1989

22 Humans From Earth T-Bone Burnett 1991

23 Background   Background   2000

24 I Want an Alien for Christmas Fountains of Wayne 2005

25 Heck, I'd Go Maria Muldaur     2006

26 Flying Saucer U F O  with  Dee Dee Bridgewater 2006

Zoom Zippedee Dee!

Man, every time I hear it, "Background" (Track 23) is stuck in my head for a couple of days ...