I know that these two lists have some of the same
members, but can we dispense with the forwarding of
messages from one list to the other?
Let's face it, there are times when some of us will be
frustrated on the list. It's human nature.
I love both lists and appreciate the differences.
Don't let this kind of listing get you down, Scott.
It was written on Style B so that it wouldn't get to
you. They just wanted to vent, I'm sure.
I just got a comment privately about something I said
on MoPo. I could have mentioned it on Style B and MoPo
and gotten people in a huff. But the person and I had
a wink over it and it's done.
I want the freedom to vent about MoPo on Style b when
I want and visa versa. I have not had reason to do
either nor do I think I ever will. I understand the
differences.
I just wonder why people want to forward these types
of things to the list leaders. Don't they get punched
up enough?
Donnie, is a generous and sweet guy who offered
another list not to compete but to give an option.
Scott is a wonderful man who got an awesome list
together to provide a forum for people to talk about
posters.
Let's let them do what they do best and be supportive.
Toochis
--- Michael Spampinato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Scott - You hit us with a long post and am gonna hit
> you back. Have been reviewing many missed posts.
> Since I rwead your in its entirety you must read
> mine in its entirety1 ;-)
>
> I confess to not being active in Mopo for a while
> now but my poster collecting interests have
> returned. I never lost interest in posters but was
> spending more time researching and acquiring
> pre-code horror comic books. But I knew I would get
> back into poster collecting. And now, for the first
> time in my life, I seem to have achieved a balance
> betyween the two.
>
> ANYWAY - Scott - not even sure if you remember me
> but man - don't turn out the lights because of the
> classic internet mindset. People forget they are
> people talking to people and often say and do things
> they would never do "in real life" - like Mopo isn't
> real life!
>
> Even when I was deepest in comic books I knew I
> would return to posters, and why? Because of Mopo.
> Mopo is the one thing in the poster world that seems
> a constant. A refuge, as it were, to a world that
> really just don't get it!
>
> I have loved movies since I was a kid. I remmeber in
> the 50's watching Creature Feature and Creatuire
> Double Feature and Sherlock Holmes and Charlie Chan
> on the relatuively new IHF television (we got one of
> those special antennas that let you tune to UHF on
> your VHF TV). And I found my self almost addicted to
> movies - and expecially the black and white ones. I
> remember when Channel 38 (as I recall) in Boston had
> a Humphrey Bogart film festival. They showed maybe a
> dozen of Bogie's best (and some lessers) and I was
> introduced to folks like James Cagney, Edward G
> Robinson, Lauren Bacall and a host of others.
> Suddenly those old movies were just amazing.
>
> So I started "collecting" videotapes when VCRs came
> out. But that never really felt right. I didn;t feel
> like I was collecting a part of the movie itself. So
> one day, I am in The Outer Limits comic book shop in
> Waltham Massachusetts, and I see a Mothra insert on
> the wall. I asked what it was and Steve Higgins, the
> most excellent owner of that shop, told me it was an
> insert from Mothra. We talked about movie posters
> for a bit and turned out he had some oither pieces.
> Suddenly everything "clicked". THIS was how to "own"
> a movie. The comic book collector (aka paper lover)
> in me responded immediately.
>
> Not too long from then I discovered Rudy Franchi's
> The Nostalgia Factory in Boston. Man did I have a
> time. Rudy was just great. He seemed willing to chat
> with me for some time when he realized I had a
> genuine love of both movies and movie paper. I
> bought many pieces from him of lesser things that
> reflected my horror interests: but all in the $25 -
> 1oo range.
>
> Well, one day, I walk in and Rudy looks at me with a
> twinkle in his eye. He says "You have to see this"
> and he pulls out an original Frankenstein Meets The
> Wolf Man lobby card with the great closeup of the
> monster carrying the Baroness. Well, we talked a bit
> but I could NOT take my eyes off that lobby. It was
> literally the first Universal Horror pice I had ever
> seen. And the Universal Horror films were and are,
> hands down, my favorites.
>
> I don;t know who was more surprised, myself or Rudy
> when I pulled out a credit card and bought what was,
> by far, the most expensive piece I had even bought.
>
> Well, I bring it home and am looking at it and it
> suddenly dawned on me "You can DO this!". Meaning, I
> can actually get pieces form the Universal films I
> love so much.
>
> And by gum, I DID! I started hitting ebay. I hit
> Deke's Poster Palace (I still have some pieces from
> him I bought years ago, including a gorgeous Jungle
> Captive 1-sheet and a stunning Realart title card to
> Werewolf Of London). I started branching out into
> Sherlock Holmes and Charlie Chan pieces. I found I
> really liked lobbies. Easy to frame (I frame
> everything myself with colored aluminum frames -
> red, blue or green usually) and archival backing
> boards and mattes (I like to matte the lobbies with
> a matte the same color as the frame - 14" x 18" is
> my preference - I find that 16x20 overwhelm,s the
> lobby - and display larger pieces with no matte
> board but mounted flush, again with a complmentary
> colored frame. And with internet obtainabvle framing
> materials the cost is remarkablty cheap.
>
> So then I discover my namesake - the Poverty Row
> movies, especially those by Monogram and PRC. Lots
> of my favorite horror actor (Lugosi) and some
> Karloff and some great things by the ilk of Atwill
> and Zucco. So yet another crusade begins and to my
> delight, the Poverty Row pieces are often quite
> cheap for wonderful images.
>
> Phew! I could go on as to how I branched out more
> into things like the Mister Moto and Mister Wong and
> Dick Tracy type films, but you get the idea.
>
> So what is the point to all this. Witrhout Mopo, my
> dear Scott, I would not have a place to express
> this, to explain my love of the hobby and to have it
> understood. You turn out the lights on Mopo and -
> well - let's say that Karloff and Lugosi may not be
> as out of reach as you think! :-)
>
> Pov
> Michael
>
> Scott Burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I should let this die without comment but I just
> can't...
>
> Scroll down for a post (forwarded to me) that
> appeared today on Style-B.
> Read it and see how it makes *you* feel, THEN come
> back to the top for my
> comments....
>
> COMMENTS: Frankly, I've reached my limit on this
> kind of attack. MoPo is the
> way it is because that's the way the *participating*
> members want it.
> Bitching and moaning over on Style-B doesn't change
> a thing.
>
> "Stan" (the author of this post) as far as I recall,
> never voiced his
> opinions or concerns to me privately (he admits "he
> wasn't much of a
> contributor"), but he has no problems making them
> public now. He should have
> had the balls to contact me directly when he was a
> member. He should have
> stopped yelling at his computer screen and
> participated. Hell no, why do
> that? It's easier to just leave and post BS comments
> elsewhere. "Stan" will
> probably get great pleasure in knowing he's ticked
> me off even without
> actually being a subscriber to MoPo, and that's
> fine. Revel in it "Stan."
> Way to go "Stan" for your sidelines attack disguised
> as commentary. You sign
> your message "Clueless, Hardheaded, Grudge Holding,
> Disgruntled Mopolian
> (insert your own favorite label here)"....well I
> think you should really
> insert "pompous ass" to the signature. It's easy to
> be critical on the fly,
> at a distance. It's much harder to actually change
> what you don't like. It
> takes participation, something "Stan" didn't care to
> do while a member of
> MoPo.
>
> We started out as a friendly little group of 10
> souls who liked to collect
> movie paper and talk about it amongst ourselves. I
> never in my wildest
> dreams thought running this group would become so
> difficult, frustrating and
> at times, depressing. Not to mention anger-inducing,
> as you can tell if
> you've read this far! Perhaps on February 24, 2005
> as MoPo turns 10 we
> should turn out the lights and let this tired old
> group of "hobby 'elitists'
> who seem bent on collector-world domination" rest in
> peace. Sheesh!
>
> Scott
> MoPo List Owner
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Subject: Fwd: What Is MOPO ?? [WARNING extremely
> long post]
>
>
> --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Stan" wrote:
>
> Before anyone takes that question seriously...it was
> heavily laced with
> sarcasm. I know what MOPO is.
>
> So the janitor quit his part time job. What - again
> ? :)
>
>
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