Classic Rock Music Monday

The stuff that now passes as "music", particularly rock 'n roll, leaves me cold. So, to start off the week, here's a video of a classic rock artist.

It is funny when a song is played, it takes one back to either a time or place (or both). Such is the case of the band Boston and their song, "More Than A Feeling" that came out in the summer of 1976. It was the time of the Bicentennial and the Republican presidential campaign battle between President Gerald Ford and former Gov. Ronald Reagan culminating in a raucous Republican National Convention in Kansas City, Missouri.  This is the song that will start off this week.

According to Wikipedia:

Boston is an American rock band from namesake Boston, Massachusetts, that had its most commercial successes during the 1970s and '80s.

Wikipedia says the band is still active although it has gone through some personnel changes over the years. Lead vocalist Brad Delp passed away in 2007 from suicide.

Al Plastino Sues Heritage Auctions Over Superman-JFK Artwork

Above, the caption stating that the artwork would be donated to the Kennedy Library
 is missing from the image that was supplied by Heritage Auctions. It was a glue-on
 overlay that was removed. Note the residue from the glue on the panel at right. 

The next step in the ongoing controversy over the original artwork comic book artist Al Plastino drew 50 years ago has been taken.

Plastino filed suit with the New York State Supreme Court in New York County against Heritage Auctions over the artwork (10 pages) of the story, "Superman's Mission For President Kennedy." The suit demands that Heritage name the person putting up the disputed artwork up for auction.

For 50 years, Plastino believed the artwork was donated to the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston, but they mysteriously turned up at a New York comic book convention last month.

According to the Dallas News:

Oak Lawn-based Heritage Auctions is holding a comic-art auction in Beverly Hills today. And that sale was scheduled to include 10 pages from Superman No. 170, which includes the story “Superman’s Mission for President Kennedy,” a rather unremarkable public-service announcement in which the Man of Steel encourages the nation’s youth to “close the muscle gap” by enlisting in the president’s Physical Fitness Program. 

But the lot has been pulled over a dispute over who owns — and who should own — the artwork. 

Heritage says it belongs to a private collector who bought it in 1993. But the man who drew it, 91-year-old Al Plastino, says it belongs to the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. And he has filed suit to have it returned to its allegedly rightful owner. Plastino, who found out just last month it never made it to Boston, wants Heritage to name names.

Some have speculated that it was Curt Swan's original art that was to be donated, not Plastino's:

Some comic-book scholars speculate that the original artwork to which Weisinger was referring was done by Curt Swan, among the most famous Superman artists, and not Plastino.

The above was referring to then-Superman editor Mort Weisinger. Plastino told me a few weeks ago that Swan only drew a splash page, not a full story and that the Kennedy Library has no record of receiving any Swan artwork either.

Above, the published version.  Note the caption on the panel stating that it would go to the Kennedy Library.

This is looking more like the art was stolen. Why would the caption stating the artwork's planned donation be removed?

To read the full story, go here. 

Massive Police Operation Underway In Boston

The Washington Post reported the following:

AP: Massive police operation underway in Boston

Police say one of two suspects in the shooting of an MIT police officer is dead and a massive manhunt is underway for another, who is tied to the Boston Marathon bombing. 

Shortly after the MIT officer was shot Thursday night, police got a report of a carjacking in Cambridge, just outside Boston. 

Police say of the at-large suspect, “We believe this to be a terrorist.”

Read more at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/police-converge-on-neighborhood-outside-boston-amid-reports-of-explosions/2013/04/19/8813d938-a8b6-11e2-9e1c-bb0fb0c2edd9_story.html

Boston Marathon Terror Attack

Thoughts and prayers go out to the victims and their families of the bombing attack at the Boston Marathon today.

The Reagan Foundation said it best:

Our thoughts and prayers go out to everyone at the Boston Marathon today and their friends and families. 

As President Reagan once said, "Above all, we must realize that no arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have. It is a weapon that we as Americans do have. Let that be understood by those who practice terrorism and prey upon their neighbors."

UPDATES:

From the Washington Post:

Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis on Monday confirmed a third explosion at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, following two earlier blasts at the Boston Marathon finish line that killed at least two people. 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/explosions-disrupt-boston-marathon/2013/04/15/2664e802-a600-11e2-8302-3c7e0ea97057_story.html

From the New York Post:

A 20-year-old Saudi national has been taken into custody as a suspect in the bombings of the Boston Marathon.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/authorities_under_suspect_guard_y2m8cJO29uC2PDGIjYBalO?utm_source=SFnewyorkpost&utm_medium=SFnewyorkpost

1502 hrs: Now they're saying the JFK Library wasn't bombed, but had a fire.

1504 hrs: No suspects in custody, Boston Police Commissioner says.

1505 hrs:  2 dead, 23 hurt.

1507 hrs: CNN says the FBI has classified Boston bombings as "terrorist" act.

1511 hrs: Resources to search for loved ones in Boston: Official Hotline 1-617-635-4520 and @Google Ppl Finder http://ow.ly/k5Lxl

1517 hrs: POTUS asks Americans not to "jump to conclusions", refers to the “senseless loss” in Boston due to “explosions”.

1520 hrs: WASHINGTON (AP) -- A senior U.S. intelligence official says two more explosive devices have been found near the scene of the Boston marathon where two bombs detonated earlier.

1556 hrs: From Drudge: CBSNEWS: SAUDI WAS ACTING SUSPICIOUS... NBCNEWS: 'YOUNG PERSON HERE ON STUDENT VISA'..

1518 hrs: Possible 5 devices.

1603 hrs: Bombs were inside trash cans.  Saudi acting "suspiciously" according to eyewitnesses.

1608 hrs: From Drudge: Jordanian Muslim group: 'Happy to see the horror in America'...

1610 hrs: Families of Newtown at finish line grandstands at time of attack.

1614 hrs: Boston Globe confirms 8-yr-old boy was 1 of the 2 victims who died.