Day: November 21, 2005

The man can’t even exit a room.

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On oversight on my part: I should have mentioned that “Funky Winkerbean” began the trial last week of the comic book store owner up on obscenity charges. John Byrne makes an appearance as an expert witness, and the strip echoes the Jesus Castillo case (right down to the notorious, “C’mon…everyone knows comics are for kids” comment from the DA which wound up swaying the Castillo jury.) The strip can be found here: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/funky.asp?date=20051120

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So we were channel hopping yesterday, and stumbled over a half hour documentary running on the Independent Film Channel, of all things. It featured a presentation of the recent San Diego Comic Con from the point of view of three different sets of attendees, each going to garner attention for their individual indy project endeavors.

“Maybe you’ll be in there somewhere, daddy!” chirped Ariel. I considered it unlikely: With 80,000 attendees over three days against the odds of my happening to wander on camera…well, do the math.

So we’re watching it, and they have an interview with Tim Leong and Amber Mitchell of http://www.comicfoundry.com. They start talking about having attended the CBLDF get-together, and I said, “Oh. That’s funny. I was at that.”

And then they started talking about me. My jaw dropped. A helpful pop-up appeared on the screen that stated, “Peter David is a science fiction writer” for the benefit of the likely 99% of viewers to whom my name meant nothing. This, of course, delighted Kathleen and Ariel.

“I can’t escape me,” I muttered.

For anyone interested who has the IFC, the half hour is next being broadcast Tuesday at 3:30 PM EST.

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