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I really am archie gemmill honest 
Live Stoners where did YOUR user name come from?
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Growing up in Florida all my friends used to call me Canad because one night we all were stoned and people kept fucking up the word canadian lol. So I just went with it and added the 420. Been my user name on everything since.
Why do they call you Stage? You were wondering? No? Well I'll tell ya anyway.
I was an aspiring DJ and I needed equipment.
I had a newspaper route but 28 dollars a month wasnt gonna cut it. My mom was distracted with silly shit like rent and food and clothing.
Turntables werent in HER budget. Problem
Being a voracious reader I used to love comic books.
All kinds of them but especially Marvel with DC comics a close 2nd.
They used to have comic conventions in Manhattan back in the 1970's.
There were two hotels that hosted them, The Diplomat and The Commodore near Penn Station.
They were sometimes 3 to 4 days long.
I was acutely aware of the value of certain issues of certain comics.
I wasn't an expert, but I was damn close. I got my hands on a trade magazine that gave me an edge on how to grade and know the value of comics.
As JJ on Good Times would say... "Momma..I Find thangs".
So one day at school I convinced some of my classmates to go to these conventions as a group and steal comics to keep and sell at a later date. I was 13 at the time.
We were very organized and we would always challenge each other coming up with different diversion tactics or make wagers on who got the most pricey comic.
I and my crew were very very successful. I even had Amazing Fantasy issue #15 not once but 2x.
For you Marvel buffs, that was the Amazing Spider-mans 1st issue. I had Bat Man (yep its spelled like that) 1st issue too.
As the ringleader they called me Stage because I staged the activities.
We were meticulous and never got caught. I eventually got the DJ equipment and the rest is history.
I was an aspiring DJ and I needed equipment.
I had a newspaper route but 28 dollars a month wasnt gonna cut it. My mom was distracted with silly shit like rent and food and clothing.
Turntables werent in HER budget. Problem
Being a voracious reader I used to love comic books.
All kinds of them but especially Marvel with DC comics a close 2nd.
They used to have comic conventions in Manhattan back in the 1970's.
There were two hotels that hosted them, The Diplomat and The Commodore near Penn Station.
They were sometimes 3 to 4 days long.
I was acutely aware of the value of certain issues of certain comics.
I wasn't an expert, but I was damn close. I got my hands on a trade magazine that gave me an edge on how to grade and know the value of comics.
As JJ on Good Times would say... "Momma..I Find thangs".
So one day at school I convinced some of my classmates to go to these conventions as a group and steal comics to keep and sell at a later date. I was 13 at the time.
We were very organized and we would always challenge each other coming up with different diversion tactics or make wagers on who got the most pricey comic.
I and my crew were very very successful. I even had Amazing Fantasy issue #15 not once but 2x.
For you Marvel buffs, that was the Amazing Spider-mans 1st issue. I had Bat Man (yep its spelled like that) 1st issue too.
As the ringleader they called me Stage because I staged the activities.
We were meticulous and never got caught. I eventually got the DJ equipment and the rest is history.
My handle was originally rninl8 (running late). I was playing Warbirds, and the guys had trouble typing that while in combat. So I shortened it to late.
I'd love to take credit for it, but it was serendipity.
I have always been late. My mother had been told she could never have kids, but several years into the marriage, I came along, a little late... I was a Boomer, but late to the party, so to speak. Everywhere I went I heard 'you shoulda been here last year'.
The good jobs were taken, the mentors were taken, the better colleges were full, the older kids with the jobs and mentors and cars got most of the gals. It was like being in a tidal wave, I could see all this stuff happening, but by the time I got there, it was mostly gone.
Don't get me wrong, my life wasn't bad. It's just that for a few years there, it was amazing. And by the time I was ready, it just wasn't.
I'd love to take credit for it, but it was serendipity.
I have always been late. My mother had been told she could never have kids, but several years into the marriage, I came along, a little late... I was a Boomer, but late to the party, so to speak. Everywhere I went I heard 'you shoulda been here last year'.
The good jobs were taken, the mentors were taken, the better colleges were full, the older kids with the jobs and mentors and cars got most of the gals. It was like being in a tidal wave, I could see all this stuff happening, but by the time I got there, it was mostly gone.
Don't get me wrong, my life wasn't bad. It's just that for a few years there, it was amazing. And by the time I was ready, it just wasn't.
I was smoking at a friends house and she been smoking for decades before I was born so she challenged me to a smoke off and half way threw she was tapping out I laughed and kept rolling dutches shortly after she got her composure back she said dam. You still smoking I said yeah and she replied damn you sure smoke a lot lol and 89 would be the year I was destined for greatness
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