tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-229106412024-03-12T23:54:55.740-05:00The House of JoyChristopher T. Shieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04647913776402607463noreply@blogger.comBlogger70125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22910641.post-44515729106603434532019-09-13T01:28:00.002-05:002019-09-13T01:28:17.127-05:00New title, same blog ...ANGST and SPEED is now THE HOUSE OF JOY.
I'm going to start posting a lot of stuff a lot more often and decided that the blog wasn't really going to be angsty or about going fast ..., no, it was going to be about the stuff that makes me happy. I used to follow a similar blog about stuff that made another blogger happy. A lot of his happy stuff made me happy as well ... Christopher T. Shieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04647913776402607463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22910641.post-49367569589910482912019-06-07T01:32:00.002-05:002019-09-13T02:40:26.817-05:00A new toy ... and a new beginning.
I sold my 2004 Honda CBR600RR and picked up a 1988 Honda VF750C V45 Super Magna that's going to be the basis for my power chopper project. Check out the new blog here ...
https://1988hondasupermagnachopperproject.blogspot.com/Christopher T. Shieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04647913776402607463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22910641.post-80458531430887474622016-01-28T01:08:00.001-06:002016-09-06T17:09:55.984-05:00Electronic Arts "Wasteland" post-apocalyptic role playing game
My memory is so full of good times with video games when I
was growing up and one of those memories is Electronic Arts epic
post-apocalyptic role playing game “Wasteland”.
“Wasteland” literally came out of nowhere to rob me blind of many, many daytime
and night time hours of my eighteen year old life during my first year in
college away from home.
It was February or MarchChristopher T. Shieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04647913776402607463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22910641.post-3378389947643547582015-04-01T22:07:00.000-05:002015-04-01T22:10:59.269-05:00The Bermuda Depths
Some things from your childhood stay with you a long, long time. For me, one of those things was a made for TV movie called "The Bermuda Depths."
Way back in January 27, 1978 there came a made for TV movie called "The Bermuda Depths". It was only shown once on TV but it was one of those events in my childhood that I remember even to this day. I remember watching this Christopher T. Shieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04647913776402607463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22910641.post-68067260350638098142015-04-01T20:58:00.000-05:002016-09-24T23:24:29.989-05:00A new set of wheels
Some of you may not have heard but I was involved in a really bad car wreck back in November of 2014 (probably why I haven't blogged much). I lost my '89 Dodge Daytona Shelby turbo which I had previously blogged about having bought. You can read about it here.
Anyway ... I've got a new toy ... another '91 Chevy Corvette. This one is the third C4 (fourth generation) Corvette Christopher T. Shieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04647913776402607463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22910641.post-16613857615259870732015-02-22T01:38:00.000-06:002015-02-22T01:45:09.835-06:00A new comic fancy - "Manifest Destiny"
So I've added yet another comic series to what I'm reading. Like I've said before, I'm eccentric and my tastes vary. I don't like superheroes or other nonsense and I don't think of comic books as "kids stuff" ... comics are, to me, an art form. Growing up in the 1970's and being subjected to adult sci-fi and fantasy like "Heavy Metal" I took on an appreciation for illustratedChristopher T. Shieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04647913776402607463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22910641.post-73359280025603840352014-10-17T21:15:00.003-05:002014-10-17T21:19:54.865-05:00A new fancy: "East of West"
I was at Bombshell Comics in Hattiesburg the other day, seeing if a new "Prophet" had come in and I got invited to peruse a new offering ... "East of West". It's a post apocalyptic western that mixes "Call of Cthulhu", "The Outlaw Josey Wales" and "Bladerunner" all together in a delightful blend.
In other words, it's my kind of weird and I have pretty high standards for weirdChristopher T. Shieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04647913776402607463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22910641.post-70033858380843441762014-08-17T20:51:00.001-05:002014-08-17T21:22:01.259-05:00Late birthday gift to myselfBroke down and bought these for myself.
I've had Fantasy Flight Games' "X-Wing" for about two years now. I've not really played it ... just haven't had time. Our old game group (mostly guys I work with) really haven't gotten together in a year or so ... so, no games. So far I've got the starter set (one X-wing and two TIE fighters) and the Millennium Falcon Christopher T. Shieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04647913776402607463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22910641.post-31871866436624509782014-08-17T14:29:00.000-05:002014-08-17T19:26:59.393-05:00Prophet!It's not often that I collect a series of comic books and usually when I do it's a short-run series like Miller and Darrow's "Hard Boiled" or something like Delgado's "Hieroglyph" or Steve White and Dan Abnett's "Hypersonic" but every once in a while, thank you life, there comes another series which I adore. Luckily I found this one about two years back but didn't start collecting it until Christopher T. Shieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04647913776402607463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22910641.post-34748529142329267632014-08-10T21:36:00.000-05:002014-08-10T22:02:08.404-05:00My old dune buggy
I'm a '69 model, posed here in my '70 model Dune Buggy at my old house in Birmingham, AL. To this day I don't see how my parents never saw what was coming in my teenage and later years but in hindsight I had a frigging great childhood and it only got better after that!
The strange thing is, at 45 years old, I still remember this pedal pusher car. I had a lot of fun in it but Christopher T. Shieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04647913776402607463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22910641.post-6167175690623517642014-07-06T22:35:00.003-05:002014-08-10T22:06:17.648-05:00The new toy - 1989 turbo Dodge Daytona ShelbyI turned 45 years old in June and I was good to myself. I bought another toy, another high tech muscle car from the 1980's, this time it was a turbo Dodge, a 1989 Daytona Shelby to be exact.
I've had a fondness for turbo Dodges since they were introduced in 1984 as the Daytona and the top of the line Daytona Turbo-Z.
I had a 1986 Dodge Daytona Turbo Z way back in 1989 and Christopher T. Shieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04647913776402607463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22910641.post-80190962997840685872014-04-29T22:49:00.003-05:002014-04-30T00:01:01.580-05:00"Doomsday +1" - '70's post apocalyptic goodness from Charlton Comics"Doomsday +1" was a post apocalyptic science fiction comic series published by the small, Derby, Connecticut-based publisher Charlton Comics. The series ran for twelve issues with the first six issues running from July 1975 to May 1976 while the second six issues were simply reprints of the first six issues labeled 7 to 12. The reprints ran from June 1978 to May 1979.
The cover of Christopher T. Shieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04647913776402607463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22910641.post-50276484464136342012014-04-22T21:40:00.001-05:002014-04-30T00:00:12.373-05:00Ricardo Delgado's "Hieroglyph"
Digging through the piles of crap that I need to sort in my study I came across a four part sci-fi comic series that I had almost forgotten about.
I like comics.
As a child I used to read comic books a lot but the older I got the less I read and the less I collected them. Super heroes don't do anything for me, never really did so while I enjoy the occasional "Batman", "Spiderman", "Christopher T. Shieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04647913776402607463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22910641.post-32485818348052052232014-01-01T02:31:00.003-06:002014-01-01T16:38:00.429-06:00TSR's "GAMMA WORLD" - Post Apocalypse Role Playing Game
Growing up in the 1970's was an interesting time ... it was fun mixed with gloom. The ever present spectre of America and Russia nuking each other back into the Stone Age was a fear that was driven home constantly. Disaster movies, end of the world movies and a host of other media came at us like a tidal wave but instead of scaring me half to death it only fascinated me. Christopher T. Shieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04647913776402607463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22910641.post-53851225971013739132013-12-31T00:41:00.000-06:002013-12-31T01:06:00.482-06:00TSR's "Attack Force" MinigameI've recently covered TSR's Minigame "Revolt on Antares", one of TSR's chances at dipping into the microgame / pocket game market first realized by Austin, TX based company "Metagaming". I'll make a personal confession here ... for me, games in my life, in my wee years (1969 to 1977) consisted of card games like "Go Fish" and "War" as well as stuff like Milton Bradley's offerings. Christopher T. Shieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04647913776402607463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22910641.post-34511495696550675932013-12-29T19:24:00.004-06:002013-12-29T19:31:56.006-06:00"The Last American" - Post Apocalyptic goodness from Marvel Comics<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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coulda stopped it -- why didn't you? Eh? You're so all-damn powerful,
why didn't you do something? Have you seen what it's like Christopher T. Shieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04647913776402607463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22910641.post-42906195660687803952013-12-28T23:07:00.000-06:002013-12-28T23:30:45.501-06:00TSR Minigame – “Revolt on Antares”<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Christopher T. Shieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04647913776402607463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22910641.post-73354734054654454202013-10-05T23:48:00.002-05:002013-10-06T00:46:59.993-05:00Damnation Alley
Feeling in a vegetative mood
I decided to blow the dust off the old "DA" DVD, throw it in the XBox 360 and take it for another spin after all these years. I was
not disappointed. Sure "DA" has problems and loop holes but tha's what
makes it what it is. The effects are dated but "DA" is still a solid
"B" movie. Never intended to do anything but entertain a viewer withChristopher T. Shieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04647913776402607463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22910641.post-2330376997146565622013-09-21T13:30:00.000-05:002013-09-21T13:45:00.768-05:00It's been a "Megaforce" kind of week ...
The title song to the 1981 Hal Needham military action comedy, sung by "707" (think of them as "SURVIVOR Light") has the lyrics of ...
There's something moving
In the air tonight
Something moving
At the speed of light
And it's calling
Calling, calling to you
I got a feeling
Rushing through my head
We might never get
This chance again
And it's calling, calling
Call to you, yeah
If the time Christopher T. Shieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04647913776402607463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22910641.post-79959231295018153712013-06-18T20:51:00.000-05:002014-08-17T21:21:43.795-05:00Happy birthday to me!Happy birthday to me and because the wife is off at camp with my oldest daughter and my youngest daughter is staying with my parents I'm all alone on my birthday and that means that I'm going to celebrate it by myself. I'm going to be good to myself so I'm buying myself some nice presents.
Three to be exact. Three presents of one of my favorite movie spaceships of all time, Christopher T. Shieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04647913776402607463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22910641.post-27635524839335483132013-05-22T21:34:00.003-05:002013-05-25T02:26:09.822-05:00New blog! The March of the Twelve Backs!
I decided to start a "Star Wars" blog, filled with memories of my childhood and what it was like to be a seven year old kid when "Star Wars" hit the big screen in 1977. I decided to do this because if I didn't separate the "Star Wars" memories from the rest of the things I wanted to talk about then the "Star Wars" memories would rapidly drown this "Angst and Speed" blog.
TheChristopher T. Shieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04647913776402607463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22910641.post-18946886038331757402013-05-03T03:04:00.004-05:002013-05-03T03:06:49.252-05:00Kenner Star Wars Laser Pistol and Laser Rifle
There came a time in my childhood when two of the most awesome guns were made available by Kenner; the Star Wars (Han Solo) Laser Pistol and the Star Wars 3 Position Laser Rifle. This gave the "good guys" a gun to use and the "bad guys" a gun to use as well. For Christmas of 1978 I received the Star Wars 3 Position Laser Rifle while my friend three houses down got the Star Wars Christopher T. Shieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04647913776402607463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22910641.post-58404621438208902312013-05-03T01:29:00.003-05:002013-05-03T01:36:23.652-05:00The Dark One speaks ... !Sort of ... I'm going to be making a series of podcasts related to my website ... soon. So, if you've ever wanted to hear The Dark One speak, get ready. Most of the podcasts will be about things that make me happy, like toys and childhood memories and neat things and nerd things and fast cars and fast motorcycles and good times. There's even going to be some full frontal nerdityChristopher T. Shieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04647913776402607463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22910641.post-85014050748692152772013-04-16T02:32:00.001-05:002013-04-17T01:57:55.914-05:00Rayline Zebra II Soft and Safe Pellet firing Pistol
Another cherished childhood memory ... and a regular sidearm in my untold number of games of "guns" when I was in my single digit years ... was the Rayline Zebra II soft pellet pistol. This toy was based off of the (then) radical 1950's era .22 caliber Whitney Wolverine (but I never knew that at the time, I thought that the Zebra II was something that some secret agents somewhere carriedChristopher T. Shieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04647913776402607463noreply@blogger.com