Day: January 29, 2004

The following news item screams for a lousy pun:

TAIPEI (Jan 29) – The decomposing remains of a 66-ton sperm whale exploded on a busy Taiwan street, showering nearby cars and shops with blood and organs and stopping traffic for hours, local newspapers said. The 56-foot dead whale had been on a truck headed for an autopsy at a university earlier this week, when gases from internal decay caused its entrails to explode in the southern city of Tainan. The whale had died after it was beached on the southwestern coast of the island.

This is not a contest because there’s no prize except the universal contempt of your peers. And let’s head off the likely first forty respondents by saying, “Wow, talk about your huge sperm donors” and “Everyone stood around blubbering” just to get those out of the way.

Go.

PAD

All this time and I haven’t given a free plug to Nat Gertler’s Panel Two: More Comic Book Scripts by Top Writers, featuring Peter’s full script for a SpyBoy one-shot with commentary by artist Pop Mahn.

Where do you buy it? Why, here’s a convenient link.

For anyone interest and living in the area of Long Beach/Oceanside, I’ll be doing a talk tomorrow at the Oceanside Library from 7:30 until whenever. I’ll be doing readings of various stories of mine, answer questions (such as, I’m sure, the ever popular “Who are you again?”) and give out free comic books.

With Long Island a frozen block of ice for the past two weeks, I will frankly be astounded if people turn out.

PAD