Thanksgiving with an actual family. I have a loving wife, Kathleen, my munchkin, Caroline, and my loving teen, Ariel all here with me in our house…and there was a time in my life where none of those things were assured or even possible.
My dad back home. I hadn’t mentioned it here because I didn’t want to discuss it until we knew how things were turning out, but my dad was recently hospitalized with a minor heart attack. Fortunately everything’s okay now, he’s back home with my mom, and the prognosis is very good.
Politics. If it weren’t for that, this site would have a fraction of the traffic it does.
Fans, whom I’ll be meeting and greeting this week at Mid-Ohio Con.
Bowling. If I weren’t in three leagues, I’d have no social life. Plus at the end of February, Ariel and I are going to be going up to upstate New York to bowl in the Pro/Am along with my brother, Wally (and, hey, have you checked out his website, http://wallydavid.com yet? Beautiful nature photos. He’s having a grand opening sale. Go buy some, okay? Make him thankful.
Turkeys. With all the concern about mad cow disease, thank God there’s no worries whatsoever about contracting any sort of flu from birds.
So read some comics, then go out, take some photographs with your family, give your dad a call and talk about what a dummy Bush is, and bowl three strikes in a row which is, of course, referred to as a turkey.
PAD
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Happy Thanksgiving, PAD.
so, uh, looking through the latest previews, Spike Vs. Dracula. Why?
Happy Thanksgiving to you and all your family, Peter! I’m glad your dad’s doing all right. Have a great holiday!
Oooh, telling my Dad that about Bush’d likely start a fight… with my family, it’d be a food fight, but it’d be a sure shame to waste good turkey on tossing. 😉
Happy thanksgiving!
“so, uh, looking through the latest previews, Spike Vs. Dracula. Why?”
Did you watch “Buffy the Vampire Slayer?” Because if you did, I’m surprised you’d even have to ask.
PAD
You’re doing a Spike Vs. Dracula?
I’m thankful for THAT. 🙂
So does he get his fifteen pounds back?
Happy T-day to everyone.
Michael
Not that I’m worried about that but, technically,
“What is avian influenza (bird flu)?
Bird flu is an infection caused by avian (bird) influenza (flu) viruses. These flu viruses occur naturally among birds. Wild birds worldwide carry the viruses in their intestines, but usually do not get sick from them. However, bird flu is very contagious among birds and can make some domesticated birds, including chickens, ducks, and turkeys, very sick and kill them.
Do bird flu viruses infect humans?
Bird flu viruses do not usually infect humans, but more than 100 confirmed cases of human infection with bird flu viruses have occurred since 1997″
http://www.cdc.gov/flu/avian/gen-info/facts.htm
Anyway, Happy thanksgiving PAD and everybody here. I wish we celebrated it here in south America (long time I don’t eat Turkey).
Don’t mean to be rude, but I am thankful for nothing. Everything I have, I earned.
Happy Thanksgiving, Peter! Your T’day post is almost as good as Kath’s. 🙂
Happy Thanksgiving, Peter. All the things you mentioned are good things to be thankful for.
(And very good news about your dad — it’s always nice when these scares turn out to be relatively minor.)
Happy L-tryptophan day to all!
TWL
who spent lots of time talking politics with family today
1>>Don’t mean to be rude, but I am thankful for nothing. Everything I have, I earned.
Wow, you earned your parents (siblings?); you earned being born without a severe brain defect that made you a vegtable since birth. You earned not being killed in a accident over the last year. You earned your friends and family’s health, well-being, etc. You even earned this country. Wow, here I thought soldiers and others throughout the last few centuries built and died for this country, but it turns out that you earned it. Wow.
The things you mention I either don’t have, or are the result of coincidence. To whom should I be thankful for coincidence?
>>To whom should I be thankful for coincidence?
To “whom” is irrelevant.
You should be thankful FOR the coincidence.
The coincidence that caused your parents to have you,
the coincidence that you were not born without a severe brain defect that made you a vegtable since birth,
the coincidence that you were not killed in a accident over the last year,
the coincidence for your friends and family’s (good, I hope) health, well-being,
the coincidence that you were born in the country you that were and not, say, Iraq, Rwanda or Ethiopia.
Eddie
Ahhh, it just wouldn’t be a PAD blog entry without a flame war starting in the first ten comments over something inconsequential. 🙂
A happy Thanksgiving to all in the US. And to all our European friends, Happy “F@$! Off, Putitan” Day!
I, for one, am thankful for trolls, who remind me to be thankful that my parents raised me better.
But mostly, I’m thankful for my lovely wife and for our (still in-utero) daughter.
-Rex Hondo-
I am thankful we have yet to blast ourselves off the face of the earth.
Which is saying alot, considering how hard we try. 😉
I’m thankful for my beautiful wife, my lovely daughter, my occasionally thoughtful cohusband, and our handsome son, who completed his third week extrautero just yesterday! 🙂
I’m also thankful that they all put up with me on a regular basis…
Leafing through the Previews yesterday, I noticed something else you can be thankful for, Peter: Titan Books reprinting your Next Gen run at DC.
Happy Thanksgiving to y’all whom are celebrating this particular holiday. And, if you are not, just take this moment to be thankfull for anything to take for granted. Because, you know, the second you stop thinking about it, it’ll be gone. So, yeah, big waves of love to y’all, and its nice to be back at PAD.net (assuming anyone noticed I was gone, which I really doubt)
peace, love and empathy:
Albert Leonard DeSantis
The things you mention I either don’t have, or are the result of coincidence. To whom should I be thankful for coincidence?
Since you don’t want to thank anyone for the existence of your parents and siblings (which is completely understandable if you believe there is no one to thank for this)….is there truly nothing in your life that you have your parents/siblings to thank for?
Were your parents/siblings truly so hateful to you that nothing they ever did you find praiseworthy? Do you have no friends or loved ones? It’s possible, and if the case, I hope you find someone.
Thanksgiving is not just a time to thank a deity. It is also a time to thank those you care about for all they have done for you out of love.
Don’t mean to be rude, but I am thankful for nothing. Everything I have, I earned.
I also made my life exactly what it is. I am still thankful for my wife my daughter and my family.
I am also very thankful that both are sleeping and I have leftovers and world of warcraft all to myself =)
Leafing through the Previews yesterday, I noticed something else you can be thankful for, Peter: Titan Books reprinting your Next Gen run at DC.
I haven’t seen the entry, but that sounds wrong to me — I don’t recall Peter ever having a TNG run at DC. The TOS comic, yes, for a decent-sized run that would’ve been longer were it not for certain “R”igid “A”uthorities, but not TNG. Am I misremembering?
TWL
I don’t mean to pry, Jonathon, but I’m just curious …
What exactly is a “cohusband?”
🙂
Rex Hondo, I am not a troll, if you were referring to me.
John, you’ve hit upon it. I will not send out an amorphous ‘thank you’ for what exists. It exists whether I’m thankful or not. As to thanking my sibling(no parents), I do that when the occasion warrants it. I have manners and thank people when it is appropriate. I need no holiday to be polite.
Now, Turkey Day, that I can live with!
Curiosity understandable, Hal. He shares our lives, he shares a bed with our wife (on a variably-rotating schedule, depending largely on her whims), he shares parenting duties with our children and responsibilities with our house – if the law permitted it, we’d all be married together. As it happens, we’re content with our relationship the way it is, and we’re actually considering adding a fourth (another woman) to the mix…
Okay, now you can all bomb me as an evil sinner. 🙂
Your living in a commune Jonathan (the other one).
I do not do well with others, sounds like it could be a lot of fun though.
Oh, it’s definitely Peter’s Classic Trek run that’s getting reprinted. ‘Cause the first volume will be DC Trek v2 1-6, which includes Admiral Tom Y. Galloway’s appearance, and you better believe I noticed that. 🙂
Okay, now you can all bomb me as an evil sinner. 🙂
*shrug* Your situation is not an arrangement I would ever find myself in. Now, two ladies on the other hand… yes, that makes me a ‘typical’ male. 🙂
As long as the kids are growing up in a loving family, it need not be a “proper” family, imo.
Ah, Jonathan (the other one) – it sounds like you actually have what I refer to as a “Heinlein family” 😉 [From – many of – his books; as far as I know, RAH himself did not live in one – right?] While I’ve not tried one, I’ve got no objection to it, and actually do see some logic to it – so, no flames from me 🙂
Happy Black Friday!
Jonathan, whatever brings happiness to you and yours is okay by me.
-Rex Hondo-
I’m thankful for Craig, who represents what’s great about this country:
The freedom to disagree, *and* the freedom to *say* it.
Amen.
RLR
Personally I’m thankful that my wife’s kidney stones passed last night after her not being able to stand upright for a week. I’m thankful that I have a job that I like and am a little too good at for them to advance me. Well, not TOO thankful for the second part, really. I’m thankful for the the fact that all I need to start Nightblayde Productions full blast is three more gig of memory. And the fact that our son looks like me, acts like her. Thankful that my parents are no longer suffering. (We’re WORKING on getting a house, Dad. Stop haunting, ‘kay?) Thankful that I picked up Exile a way long time ago. And for the fact that none of her family has shown up on our doorstep to further hurt my wife. For that matter, I’m thankful that her life no longer resembles a week’s worth of Lifetime movies. Thankful that there’s a roof over our heads. And for all of you.
And cherry Coke. Otherwise I would have nothing in my veins…Spike would go into a diabetic coma if he ever drank from me…
No flames from me either, Jonathon. If it works for you, more power to ya, I suppose.
Having grown up reading Heinlein’s later works, I have long been a supporter of the theory behind polyamity. Unfortunately, I have found it difficult to find ONE woman interested in sharing her life with me, who I am mutually interested in sharing my life with. So finding a second woman or man is a nice theory for me, but not exactly where my mind is focused.
PAD:
Is this true?
1) Is Diamond threatening to shop shipping Claypool Comics, including Soulsearchers — with the April issues being the last ones?
2) Are the January issues being used as “Jump-in” issues, with the potential of swaying Diamond to change their mind if the orders go up?
John: Claypools press release:
CLAYPOOL IN CRISIS
“Independent Publisher Reaches Out to Readers and Retailers”
Press Release
Diamond Comics Distributors has told Claypool Comics of plans to cancel the Claypool titles DEADBEATS and SOULSEARCHERS AND COMPANY, starting with the issues shipping in April, unless Claypool can push their sales up. That move would wipe out much of Claypool’s line.
This news comes as Claypool is in the middle of a group of special issues. SOULSEARCHERS #76 and ELVIRA #153 (shipping in January) and DEADBEATS #76 (shipping in February) are “Jump In” issues written and drawn especially for new readers. Last year, when Claypool inaugurated the “Jump In” issues, they sold very well.
Claypool has asked retailers to order an extra copy of each “Jump In” issue. In addition, Claypool has asked readers to buy Claypool titles now and request that the retailers order the “Jump In” issues. The cover of SOULSEARCHERS’ “Jump In” issue is on the Web at http://www.claypoolcomics.com/uploads/ss76.gif, while http://www.claypoolcomics.com/uploads/db76.gif houses DEADBEATS’ cover.
Claypool is backing up its requests with point-of-sale cards that retailers can put on their counters or use as bag stuffers. The cards tell readers about the issues and include a spot to check off which issues they’d like to buy.
DEADBEATS, by Marvel veterans Richard Howell and Ricardo Villagran, is a punk vampire soap opera that should appeal to fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and 30 Days of Night. SOULSEARCHERS, written and co-created by Peter David, is a super-hero satire featuring a group of supernatural investigators, featuring art by Joe Staton and covers by JSA Classified: Power Girl’s Amanda Conner.
Claypool editor Richard Howell says, “Claypool Comics has always had a dedicated base of fans, most of whom are literate and educated people whose needs aren’t always met by the current comics marketplace. A retailer who puts our comics on the shelves will most likely find that they continue to sell month after month. The consistency of our sales is undisputable, and we have every indication that if our books got more exposure, they’d sell strongly for many, many more retailers. Claypool Comics are and always have been a labor of love — love of comics, that is. We’re committed to good comics, and that makes our readers committed to us. Any retailer who wants to profit from that dedication and goodwill is enthusiastically invited along for the ride.”
Claypool, which has published comics steadily since 1993, is known as “the publisher of hidden treasures” — but it doesn’t WANT to hide them!
Happy Thanksgiving and thanks for all the fine writing and, speaking of turkeys, what’d John Kerry do for the holidays?
I’m thankful for my health, my family, and my friends.
I’m thankful that there ar still some people who are willing to fight for free speech in this country.
And, yes, I’m thankful that George W. Bush can’t run for another term.
I hope everyone had a happy Thanksgiving.
Mr. David, great to meet you yesterday. It is always a pleasure for this jaded long-time fan of comics to meet someone who seems grounded and likeable in this industry. Glad your Dad is OK. I wasn’t able to meet your wife and daughter, so tell them I said hello!
-BBayliss
Curiosity understandable, Hal. He shares our lives, he shares a bed with our wife (on a variably-rotating schedule, depending largely on her whims), he shares parenting duties with our children and responsibilities with our house – if the law permitted it, we’d all be married together. As it happens, we’re content with our relationship the way it is, and we’re actually considering adding a fourth (another woman) to the mix…
Man, I want some of what you’ve got going on! 🙂
And since I never posted it in the first place…
I am thankful for having escaped Hurricane Katrina with my husband, cat, life and possessions all intact. I am thankful that I had family who would take me in. I am thankful for all my friends and various relatives, and I am thankful for having the most excellent roommate in the world, even though I never get to see him. I’m thankful that my various effed-up health problems haven’t been screwing with me.
And I’m thankful that I wasn’t dumb enough to buy an XBox 360. 🙂