Half-swill, half-grub, and all S.H.I.E.LD.! So it was with Agent Rob's first visit in a good while to Ice Station Zebra 'fer to see' Agent Johnny (who answered the door with his best 'bedhead' on, a truly impressive sight!). Seems the 'aches and pains' are often a little too much to bear and that 'hittin' the sack' is the only sensible option. Of course, always best to gather one's strength ahead of an afternoon's 'View To A Swill'. With nothing worth watching aside from Our Man In Pester Wail's brand new rug - a magic carpet fer sure! - it was time to 'mugdock' the 'music box' and crank open some swill....
It was (nearly) 50 years ago today.... Imagine Agent Rob's surprise when presented with a 'stack' of Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos comics - gifted to Agent Johnny by an old 'Sheffield Fart College' pal - that were published in 1967! Seems every pop-culture milestone's hittin' the hallowed half-century, er, milestone this year! As if trying to comprehend this sudden passage of time wasn't enough, creative lives blinking on and then off, Agent Johnny then stated that, as well as conversing with Gareth Hunt on the phone several times, he'd met Patrick Macnee as he'd been an extra in 3 or 4 episodes of The New Avengers! (IMDB unable to verify this outlandish claim unfortunately....)
Following on from in depth discussions about 'Woden'sday's screening of The Curse Of The Mummy's Tomb, that evening's screening of Thunderball and the fillums Enter The Dragon and Shout At The Devil it wiz time for gettin' on for time gettin' on and Agent Rob 'buzzed' his way into town to drop off a bale of Braw Books at Deadhead Comics. Seems the festival spirit suits Agent Austin down to the grind and a guid hour of guid humoured chunterin' ensued before Agent Rob left fer pastures old clutching Rumble Volume 1 and the 'True Believers' edition of Black Panther #1, a celebration/further milking of (what would have been) Jack "King" Kirby's full-century(!)....
Sounds: Memory Span by The Lines: Two From The Vault by Grateful Dead and Blows Against The Empire by Paul Kantner, Grace Slick et al....
Paul Kantner, Grace Slick, Jefferson Starship - The Baby Tree
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