Robert Blake–who, for all we know, really did kill his wife–said he desperately needs money.
I think he and O.J. Simpson should team up and put together a song-and-dance act, like Roxy and Velma did in “Chicago.” I’m not sure what they would sing, but I bet it would be interesting.
PAD
When someone is saying stuff about me that is deliberately false, I say they lied. “He lied.” “He’s fulla crap.” “He doesn’t know what he’s talking about.” “That’s bull.”
That’s how I put it.
So Todd McFarlane claims that Neil “gave away” all rights to Miracleman, and ha ha on Neil. And Neil, in the course of calmly dissecting Todd’s claims, says:
“Beyond that, he’s also distancing himself from the reality-based community in his description of the result of the legal case.”
Distancing himself from the reality-based community. You gotta love that.
PAD
Turned in the completed script for the Spike one-shot today. Just did an out-loud reading of it for Kathleen and Ariel, to make sure all the dialogue and voices sounded okay. It’s not as if they’re the most unbiased audience in the world, but they liked it a lot. My goal–which, of course, I’ll probably never know if I achieved–is to have Whedon read it and think, “Okay, why the hëll didn’t we hire this guy to write for us?” Of course, he could just as easily think, “Thank God we never hired him to write for us.” But I think it’s got enough twists and turns to live up to his sense of the perverse.
If nothing else, it should please the Buffy fans since it definitively establishes that Cecily and Hallie were the same person and shows what happened at the party after William fled into the night to meet his vampiric fate.
The artist has already started work based on early pages I turned in. We’ll probably have sample artwork and the cover to put up here on Monday, although naturally it will still be pending approvals from Fox and shouldn’t be considered necessarily the final versions.
PAD
Understand, I’m not saying “Fallen Angel” is continuing. I’m not saying that. And if it were, which I’m not saying it is, I’m not saying that there would be a different artist, because it’s a moot question since I’m not saying it’s continuing in the first place.
But if it were continuing, which I’m not saying it is, and I were in the market for a new artist, which I’m not saying I am, who would you want to see drawing it?
PAD
Over on the Dixonverse.net board, an interesting discussion has cropped up involving CBG columnists and the ostensible politicization thereof. Which is remarkably hilarious since CBG editor Maggie Thompson actually bends over backwards to AVOID political content.
John Jackson Miller’s article “Blue States vs. Red States” is falsely described as a political polemic touting Blue State superiority. It is, in fact,a detailed and thoughtful analysis of how comic book sales and existing stores break down along geographic lines, and even features a lengthy sidebar interview with a retailer who is not only a huge advocate of labeling, but laments “Comics do not reflect mid-American culture.” The same poster then goes on to say that I compare the “fight” of the CBLDF in Georgia to the censorship of the Nazis, and then complains about “clueless, elitist artists.” Chuck Dixon also weighed in to complain about how politics or political views had no place in comics centering on the adventures of costumed iconic superheroes. In case anyone’s interested–and since it’s come to my attention that folks hereabouts seem to like political discussion–this is what I wrote in response to the guy complaining about clueless artists:
Since this is related to the case but a tangent, I’ll post it separately since it could likely engender a whole different discussion.
What occurs to me is that if the person in a coma were one half of a gay married couple, if the spouse were advocating that all extreme measures SHOULD be taken to keep the comatose mate going, and it was the parents who were saying the patient should be starved to death…
Congress wouldn’t touch it with a ten meter cattle prod.
PAD
Several years ago, I had a living will done up. If the worst should happen, I’m never going to have to concern myself that politicians, like leeches, will attach themselves to my case the way they have with poor Terri Schiavo. Screaming hypocrites who consider all life sacred–unless, of course, we’re bombing it into oblivion or consigning it to death row for execution.
Yes, friends, the US government–the one that the GOP claims they want to keep out of people’s lives–just loves mixing into people’s deaths, setting the calendar on life termination and making sure that no one, absolutely no one, dies before the government is ready to send them to their deaths personally.
I strongly suggest to any and all reading this that you decide one way or the other while you still can. If you want to insist your family takes whatever measures possible to continue your life, even if medical science says it’s hopeless, then make that clear in writing. If, like me, you don’t want to burden your family and force them to watch you lie there like a slab of meat, consigning you all to a sort of twilight zone holding pattern for year after year after year, then make that clear as well.
Don’t leave it in the hands of politicians, lawyers, judges, and, God forbid, a Bush.
PAD
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