Does anyone recall the opening words of the Super Man series?  Wasn't it
something like, look, it's a bird, no it's a plane, no, it's super man.
Faster than a speeding bullet.  More powerful than a locomotive.  Able to
leap tall buildings with a single bound.  I have a friend in Denver who has,
on tape and CD now, all the old Super Man shows and he is a Super Man Whiz.
I may call him to find out exactly what that opening says.  I was thinking
about it today because it somehow related, in my twisted way of thinking, to
a childhood experience I had and I was thinking about writing about it and
using the Super Man opening as a part of the story.  I loved the show so
much, I talked my mother into dying red, a bath towel on the stove in a pot
of red dye, and once it was dry, I ran around the yard with my died red cape
towel and played superman till my legs nearly fell off from the running.
Man, was I disappointed, as a kid, when I heard Super Man took his own life.
Something seemed mighty wrong with that.  Mom sure did a bang up job turning
that bath towel into a deep red for me, too.  Are you kidding?  No, my
parents never would have purchased a super man costume even for Halloween.
We weren't exactly poor but you just didn't spend money on things like that
back then.

Phil.