Month: September 2004

Yeehaa! The rootin’ tootin’ return of Cowboy Pete’s TV Roundup

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Yup, winter’s comin’, and that’s the signal that Cowboy Pete is back with the TV roundup. This week’s launch is a good ‘un with two episodes of “Charmed,” the season launch of “Smallville,” and a brand new “I Like This Show, I Wonder When They’ll Cancel It” entry called “Veronica Mars.” Spoilers abound.

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It’s Good to be the king

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Weather was perfect for the Renfaire yesterday (although admittedly the traffic going both up and back was a horror show.) It was a nice birthday excursion for Ariel and three of her friends, Alyssa, Danica and Noelle.

The costumes Kathleen did up looked great. And I have to say, I began to enjoy all the bowing and scraping from a number of the attendees, including guys who went to one knee and cried out, “King Arthur! My liege!”

Every so often someone would try to be challenging, shouting out things like, “Where are the coconuts?” To which I would reply archly, “Bloody peasants. Come, Patsy.” And I would gallop away with Kathleen right behind me, banging two coconuts together, while Caroline rode in the backpack on Kathleen’s back, wearing a jester hat and clutching a white Monty Python huge-fanged plush bunny.

Best was the bellydancers who hauled me up on stage during their performance and I danced with them while Kathleen discovered that her digital camera was out of memory. And the crowd was shouting “Hail to the king!” and “Long live Arthur!”

Right now I’m sitting here wearing the crown. Feels good.

PAD

Back from MASS.

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Ariel and I are back from Boston, where I did store signings at two of NEC’s outlets. We had a really good turn out, and I’ve already been talking with the fine folks there about returning in January to promote “Hulk #77.”

While there, Ariel spent time with her big sister, Gwen,and they checked out the Lord of the Rings exhibit which–I’m told–is most impressive.

Best of all, the chocolate bars that Ariel was assigned to sell on behalf of the synagogue were purchased in their entirety by hungry fans, so that’s one less thing to worry about.

Driving back here was a hoot and a half, with torrents of rain courtesy of Ivan hammering down. Fortunately I was driving a rental car, and had opted to get a GPS system with it. With main roads flooded out, the Global Positioning System guided us through back streets and enabled us to avoid several major trouble spots. Otherwise a four hour trip would have been six to eight hours, easy.

Tomorrow we’ll be traveling, for Ariel’s birthday, to the Renfair up in Sterling Forest. I’ll be sporting my King Arthur ensemble, Kathleen will be Patsy, and Ariel and her friends all have wenchlike outfits they’ll be sporting. Should be fun.

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