Comments for Rick Bowes

Comment on I read my 9/11 story “There’ a Hole in the City” on WBAI-FM, NY by Adrian Aportunse

Adrian Aportunse — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 11:36:34 +0000

The year the Towers fell was the year I started going to Quaker Meeting, the five year anniversary of my mother

Comment on Lost Troubadours – Phil Ochs, Tim Hardin, Fred Neil by Matt Kressel

Matt Kressel — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 12:59:49 +0000

Hey thanks for this post, Rick. Some really great songs in here. Must have been a crazy, wonderful, terrible and fabulous time to be alive.

Comment on The Jokers – The Long Ago World of 1950′s Teens by Tom Crosshill

Tom Crosshill — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:12:27 +0000

Very cool! I’d say what a great nostalgia trip, except I’ve no business getting nostalgic for the 50s . Still, I love the sense these shots bring across that things were different yet the same (although, as you point out, what might have been shocking behavior then is pretty run-of-the-mill today — most of these people remind me of kids I went to college with).

Comment on Paper back book covers by Matt Kressel

Matt Kressel — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 02:43:14 +0000

I agree, great cover.

Comment on JACK THE RIPPER by Matt Kressel

Matt Kressel — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 18:05:22 +0000

I had no idea you designed games. We should play this instead of Mafia at cons.

Comment on JACK THE RIPPER by VT

VT — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 16:19:40 +0000

One last thing – the last picture is of Mohawk.

Comment on JACK THE RIPPER by VT

VT — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 16:17:43 +0000

I’ve played games for a long time. My teen-age and young adult years were full of anger at authority. Not sure there was linkage between the two.

That made it all the more strange when I played this game as the inspector and found myself deeply outraged by Jack’s string of murders. I was relieved (and lucky) to apprehend Jack near the end of game by collaring him in person as the inspector. An attempt at playing Jack ended in surrender because I found it too upsetting.

Since then I stick to games about world conquest, rather than intense and close-up crime.

Comment on Forbes Toy Galleries by Rick Bowes

Rick Bowes — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 03:40:16 +0000

And as for your asking if these are my shots. No, photography is not allowed. These are by the Forbes Gallery and I should have noted that when I used them. Whoever did these has a nice technique.

Comment on Forbes Toy Galleries by Rick Bowes

Rick Bowes — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 03:37:24 +0000

Why thank you. Taking the pictures has been the great pleasure of selling old toys online. I’m winding that business down but somehow I think I’ll still want to do the pictures. The camera is an old Kodak DVC3525 Digital Video Camera that I’ve had for six or seven years and which replaced another one I used for five or six years. I probably should get a new camera and will doubtless bother everyone for help with that.

Comment on Paper back book covers by Eugene

Eugene — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 03:07:19 +0000

They just don’t make covers (or books!) like these anymore.