Day: April 5, 2004

I introduced Peter to the South Park Character Generator.

Finally, the colorized version is here for the– well, I leave it to you to guess who they are. Or you could just buy the book and find out.

Folks told me I should try and send my “Chicago” parody to Al Franken at Air America Radio.

First I tried to create an account at their website, which was repeatedly stymied as assurances of a confirming e-mail proved empty. When the e-mail with the special “unlocking” code finally showed up, I went back to the website, entered the code, and was send three times to a page that said, “You shouldn’t have been sent to this page.” Swear to God, that’s what it said.

Finally, managing to make that all work, I went to the “Contact us” section. There it said they could be e-mailed, or be sent snail mail, or be reached via Fax. I tried e-mail about six times. It wouldn’t go through. It either told me to fill out the “comments” section, which I had but it didn’t seem to realize it, or it would remove the topic line and then tell me I had to fill in the topic line. Fax? Nice notion. If there was a fax number there, I couldn’t find it. Which leaves snail mail, but I doubt I want to bother with it.

I tried to e-mail them about how crappy their website was. That wouldn’t go through either.

Which all works out, I guess, because my radio doesn’t pick up 1190 anyway, lord knows I tried.

Yeah, I bet Rush is just shaking in his boots.

PAD

Just in case anyone didn’t know, Harlan Ellison–literary great and all around spiffy guy–has written the intro for the “Fallen Angel” trade paperback, due out in June. I figured I’d present an excerpt from it:

“While (FALLEN ANGEL) is neither the capstone nor the culmination of a writing career that will continue to enrich us for decades to come, it is as one with Moore