Year: 2004

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.

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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

So am I the only one who, upon hearing that Bush and Cheney would only testify together before the 9/11 panel, immediately flashed on that scene from “Chicago” with Billy Flynn and Roxie doing the press conference where you never see the dummy’s mouth move…almost.

At which point the following occurred to me:

Continue Reading “Investigations, Chicago Style” →

I had just finished a quick rewrite on “Fallen Angel #13,” was about to save it so I could then send it off…and my computer cut out. One moment working, the next, a paperweight.

Three screaming calls to Glenn later, and he was on his way to lend his technical expertise. So the computer’s up and running now although, as I noted, I didn’t get much done.

Oh, for any interested, there’s a 25 question interview up with me over in the Pulse at comicon.com.

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I invite anyone interested to check out Kathleen’s website (the link is to the right) where she has up photos of a puppet she calls “Vampire Detective.” If anyone is interested in ordering their very own Vampire Detective, they should write to her at Kathodavid@aol.com where she’ll work out prices and delivery dates.

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“South Park” did indeed do a “Passion” episode. Guess I should have realized that Cartman wouldn’t be horrified, but instead validated, and that Kenny and Stan would just be annoyed because it’s about two hours of a guy getting pummeled. And the “real” Jesus didn’t show up. However, I was right about Mel Gibson enjoying the prospect of being tortured. So that’s something, I guess…although it was something I frankly think we all suspect by this point. And the line about Kenny and Stan wanting to get their money back for seeing a crappy movie just like when they saw “Baseketball” was hysterical.

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