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A theoretically perfect day might include riding my bike on a Saturday out to buy comics, Topps cards, and monster mags, seeing something worthwhile at a theater matinee or on Sir Graves Ghastly and maybe even staying up late enough to watch The Ghoul and his Z-grade movies late that night. I had a bunch of those such days for real, it's sort of like 1972 or 1973 through about 1977 was a separate lifetime and all I remember are the summer days. Several years later I met a friend who kept that lifestyle going. No bicycles, but endless monster movies and comics and joy in being surrounded by it all. He's gone now but the joy still remains and always will for those who are excited about things imaginative and the pleasure of even the most dismally bad horror films...and certainly the great ones. Other perfect days? In 1977 the Detroit Triple Fan Fair hosted Ray Harryhausen...and this was a perfect weekend. All of his films up to that point were shown in 16mm, even the shorts, and I met Ray, Charles Schneer, and Beverly Cross among a huge turnout of likeminded fans. People brought in their sculptures and armatures to show off, Harryhausen had several on display (the First Men In The Moon spacecraft was balanced atop a Stroh's beer can) and of course there were untold thousands of comic books there, and if I remember correctly, Star Wars had just opened that week, too. I saw it on its 2nd week, it was only at one theater in MI at the time, widescreen and incredible stereo sound, so that when I saw it later at a regular theater, it looked tiny by comparison, and the stereo was no longer there. All these moments matter and we must remember them.