Another Lousy Day In Paradise

Red Riding Hood & Spider-Man

Lars Hindsley — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 21:21:00 -0400

My Spider senses are warning me. No really, they are.

Bad Girl...

Lars Hindsley — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 20:53:00 -0400

Lil Red Undoing Spidey

Spider-Man Phillies fan & Red Riding Hood

Lars Hindsley — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:20:00 -0400

My friend Renae and I. Waiting in line to get into Logan House for an hour she was great to keep me warm. :) Thanks Nae.

Sarah Palin and Spider-Man

Lars Hindsley — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:13:00 -0400

Couldn't resist a photo op with Alaska's Governer!

Wilmington Delaware doesn't play second to any city on Halloween. Each year downtown Wilmington becomes party central for the over 21 crowd. Never to be missed, this is a life experience you can't just show up to, you must participate or experience the embarrassment of being the only person on the planet to show up without a costume. What happens on Loop Night? Starting at 8pm the conservative stuffy banking town of Wilmington is born again. Buses drive in a loop around preeminent bars. You pay for a wristband at any bar and from there you get all night access to the buses and bars they hit.

Over the years I've personally witnessed amazing expressions of originality, and many times as groups. Themes include, The Addams Family, The Knights Who Say Ni and The Brady Kids dressed in their jumpsuits with racing stripes. They even performed Keep On Movin in the street. This had people in stitches if you've ever watched a Brady Bunch episode. One year a The Flintstones showed up with their stone wheeled car. I don't know how they made entrance into any of the clubs but they drew a crowd everywhere they were.

Where did this now famous Halloween Loop come from? Uninformed rumors in the early days had people thinking it was sponsored by University of Delaware campus clubs and frats that drove busloads of students into town so they could party. The truth is the Halloween Loop begat from the concept of various loop nights meant to showcase Delaware bands back in the late seventies and early eighties. The bar hopping idea was applied to other loops like an Art Loop too. Nothing has taken on the size and recognition of the Wilmington Halloween loop.

Declan and Spider-Man

Lars Hindsley — Sat, 05 May 2007 17:31:00 -0400

Taken on free comic book day May 5 200 at Captain Blue Hen Comics on Main Street in Newark Delaware.

Web buddies!

Lars Hindsley — Sat, 05 May 2007 16:26:00 -0400

Dalton knows how to shoot a spidey web!

Taken at free comic book day at Captain Blue Hen Comics in Newark on Main Street.

Dalton and Spider-Man

Lars Hindsley — Sat, 05 May 2007 20:22:00 -0400

Dalton haming it up for the camera with Da... I mean Spider-Man. :)

Spider-Man Batgirl Batman Darth Vader and Tie Fighter Pilot

Lars Hindsley — Sat, 05 May 2007 16:07:00 -0400

This was funny. I have about 10 photos of this, they asked me to stand on the car for these photos and it was funny. The things we do for a photo... This was batman's car, but I cropped this so you could see the detail of the costumes.

Spider-Man family

Lars Hindsley — Sat, 05 May 2007 20:57:00 -0400

I volunteered as Spider-Man for free comic book day at Captain Blue Hen comics on May 5, 2007. Here I am with some of my family, My father (L Sr), Declan, myself and Dalton. Dalton really loved spinning the webs.

SpiderMan Dalton & Batman!

Lars Hindsley — Wed, 16 May 2007 10:53:00 -0400

I volunteered to help out for free comic book day on May 5th 2007 as Spider-Man before I sold my costume. My father and boys where there too. It was funny, I had hundreds of kids taking photos with me as Spider-Man but I had to keep whispering to my son here in the photo... "I'm not dad, I'm Spider-Man buddy, don't call me dad right now..."

So he would walk away and come back a minute later standing underneath me with his arm around my leg... and he would then say in a bragging voice to what seemed no one in particular...."Spider-Man is my dad, yeah."

I wanted to laugh my ass off. He is unbearably cute. Check out Darth Vader signing autographs behind us! LOL This was actually a fun event. My boys took loads of photos with superheroes and villains alike. There were a lot of costumed heroes there. They tell us they had over 2,000 attendees at free comic book day. I know I signed a lot of autographs and held a lot of kids. There is something about putting a smile on a kids face. I suggest anyone that has the time, volunteer to do something for a child. The reward is priceless.

SpiderMan mask

Lars Hindsley — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 15:45:00 -0400

Yes, you can see very clearly in this.

SpiderMan costume close up

Lars Hindsley — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 15:40:00 -0400

Yet another view of the raised webbing and block pattern on the lycra SpiderMan costume. Notice the black spider is also raised.

The lense assemble is very nice and you can see out of the lenses very easily. You can put the mask on with total confidence that you are not going to do damadge to it.