Two other matters. My mailbox is jammed with messages from folks who want to know if I've heard that Steven Spielberg is making or may make a movie adapting the classic comic book, Blackhawk. Yes, I have. And since I wrote that comic for a while, they want to know what I think of this news.
I really don't think anything about this news that any fan of the comic book in any of its incarnations wouldn't think. If they proceed with the film, I hope it's good. There's a quote from me many years ago that has since been attributed to others and I want it back. It's "Never get possessive about characters you don't own." Yeah, I wrote Blackhawk. So have at least thirty other guys with many more to come. We all probably feel (or felt) we did it "right" at least in terms of a comic book published at the time we did it. That might or might not be the way to go with a movie made today…and since none of us get to decide that, I'm not going to spend the time to ponder that.
I hope it's good. That's my answer.
In other news: Remember that video I embedded of the Tachibana High School Marching Band from Kyoto performing at someplace Disney? This one? Well, Jeff Peterson writes to inform me — and I quote: "The Tachibana High School Marching Band visited Disneyland on December 29, 2017, just before their participation in the 2018 Rose Parade, the logo for which you can see on the tubas. The video you posted was taken on Main Street, at the intersection of Center Street, facing west. The eucalyptus trees in the background are original trees from the Anaheim orange groves, which now border the Jungle Cruise attraction."
Thanks, Jeff. That clears that up…but I still don't know why I'm up at this hour.