Month: June 2005

I’ve turned in the second draft for the CGI animated film, “Gene Roddenberry’s Starpoint Academy.” The heartening thing is that the producers, IDT Entertainment, have just signed a two year, multipicture deal with 20th Century Fox. So that increases somewhat the actual odds of the picture being made. That would be exceptionally cool, especially since they’re looking to try and build it up as a series rather than a one-off. Of coure, it’s showbiz, so anything can happen, but if my involvement should continue through to the end (so that the credits read “Screenplay by Peter David” as opposed to “Screenplay by Peter David and six other guys”) that will put me in pretty good position for continued participation.

At the moment, working as fast as my little fingers can fly on finishing the next “New Frontier” novel. Usually when I write novels, the beginning is very slow going and then as the story moves along, I start to write faster and faster as if I can barely keep up with the story unspooling in my head. In this instance I’ve been barreling along almost from the beginning, so hopefully that will be reflected in the final MS.

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Meet Tracer.

Yes, you all know who he is. I will now respond to the two questions he’s been howlingly repeating because, y’know…why not? And the rub of it is, he probably won’t understand either answer.

Response number one: The fact that I have not disagreed with his assessment of my veracity is not an indicator that what he says has worth. Rather, it’s an indicator of my belief that his opinion of me is, in fact, worthless.

Response number two: He has demanded to know how any of our individual lives are hurt or worsened because of the actions of George W. Bush…a man who needlessly launched a war that’s resulted in the deaths of 1600+ Americans and thousands upon thousands of innocent Iraqis. The answer is quite simple:

“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of they friends or of thine own were; any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”
–John Donne

And thus am I Donne with the clod.

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Hitting the newswires is an article that purports to prove one thing but actually proves another.

“Sen. John F. Kerry’s grade average at Yale University was virtually identical to President Bush’s record there, despite repeated portrayals of Kerry as the more intellectual candidate during the 2004 presidential campaign.”

Basically, Kerry’s Yale cume average was 76 while Bush’s was 77.

The thing is, if you read the article, Kerry tanked his Freshman year, with several D’s and one failed course. But during his subsequent three years his grades steadily improved. He was never çûm laude or anything, but the point is…he learned from his mistakes.

Whereas Bush started off with an average of 77 and didn’t deviate from it for four years. Kerry improved exponentially. Bush didn’t.

But, hey, what else to expect from the supposedly liberal-leaning press than an article that essentially tries to say that Kerry is no smarter than Bush.

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Well, I thought that was certainly the best Tonys in a while. Which, of course, means that the ratings will come back and report that it was the least-watched Tonys ever.

I’m not sure how “Spamalot” won best musical when other shows won best book and best score, but hey, I’m not knocking it. However it is infuriating that they had the absolute least time allotted to them to make their acceptance speech. Erid Idle never even got to say anything.

Hugh Jackman and Aretha Franklin in a duet: Can’t ask for better than that. However, I am tempted to put a sequence in “Spider-Man” wherein Wolverine wanders by Aunt May watching TV, and he asks her what she’s watching. She tells him it’s the Tonys. “Who’s the guy singing and dancing around?” “That’s Hugh Jackman.” And Wolverine snorts and says, “Wouldn’t catch ME doing high kicks.”

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We had wanted to wait on an announcement to have the final contracts signed (they’re not) and having sample artwork from the new artist (we don’t). But Bob Wayne just announced at the Wizard Philly Con that “Fallen Angel” is going to IDW, so the timing ship has just sailed from the harbor.

So yeah, “Fallen Angel” will be relaunching in December (we hope) from IDW. The first storyline will reveal the Angel’s true origin and, thus, will be an ideal jumping on point for anyone who hasn’t read it until now.

More details will be available shortly in a detailed interview on Newsarama.

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