Year: 2006

There’s a preview of the first five pages of “Fallen Angel #5” up on Newsarama. You may want to check it out.

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…is apparently prosecuting the Gordon Lee case in Rome, GA. As the press release from the CBLDF below will show, after a year and a half, on the eve of the case going forward, the prosecutor “suddenly” discovered that the basic facts of their case were wrong. Out went the old case, in comes the new. If I were a taxpayer in Rome, I’d be outraged over the frivilous waste of tax dollars. See below:

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Spent the weekend at Ad Astra convention in Toronto. It’s the 25th year of Ad Astra, and the committee folks (including my main contact, Kirsten) couldn’t have been nicer. All the panels were well-attended, and some of them were downright packed. Got to spend quality time with Terry Brooks and his wife Judine, and Betsy Mitchell from Del Rey. I was kept hopping pretty consistentyly Friday and Saturday, which was only fair since I had to light out from there early Sunday morning to get back in time for the Pepsi Challenge, a bowling tournament in which Ariel had made the prelims and was rolling in the county wide tournament (she shot a 547 series; whether she moves on to the nationals or not, we’ll find out in a couple of weeks.)

Looking forward to “West Wing” tonight. My no-doubt wrong predictions: Josh and Donna, after bedding each other, feel kind of weird and are content to remain merely good friends; Santos wins and asks Vinnick to serve as his vice-president.

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I don’t like Spam. I don’t like the potted meat nor do I like the dumping onto Peter’s website much less mine. I spend almost an hour getting ride of over 1000 hits trying to get onto our web sites. There is no simple way to do this because of the way that these morons try to get around the various firewalls that have been set up to prevent the site from being flooded with non-relevant information. Unfortunately some other people who DID have legitimate comments to post got held up in the filter as well. I think I have sorted everything and everyone out. There has been no censoring of anyone comments but a cluster “f” that I hope has been flushed.

It’s an IDW kind of week. Part 4 of the five part intro storyline for our angelic heroine, and issue 2 of everyone’s favorite vampire and his decades-spanning rivalry with the vamp lord. Whad’ja think?

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(Updated: I’d been under the impression I’d opened up an X-Factor #5 thread previously. Apparently not. So you can comment on that here as well.)

Well, obviously Bush is learning. In his secret wiretapping program, he threw out the laws, procedures and guidelines in order to do whatever he wanted. And now he, along with his GOP cronies, are simply throwing out the procedures for MAKING laws that all of us learned back in eighth grade social studies. A budget cut of $2 billion that’s going to crucify the elderly and infirm simply bypassed the whole pesky House/Senate voting thing and was signed into law by Bush.

If Bush were truly upholding the constitution as he vowed to, he would have kicked it back and said, “The buck stops here. If you guys can’t do YOUR job properly, I should at least do mine. Vote on it and send it through the proper way, and then I will sign it or veto it, as the Constitution dictates I am empowered to do.”

He didn’t. He is demonstrably, indisputably in violation of his oath. What the hëll kind of country is this where a bløw jøb is an impeachable offense, but a screw job isn’t?

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Spent the weekend commuting to and from I-Con, the convention at Stoneybrook University that, over the course of a quarter century, has grown from taking up one building to taking up about a dozen. My knee, although on the mend, still hurt enough to make the schlep between buildings tedious and tiresome. But the panels were well-attended and, as always, part of the fun of I-Con is hanging out in the green room where I could shmooze with Terry Brooks, Michael Uslan, Greg Pak, George Takei, Bob Greenberger and many others.

Oddly, most of my panels seemed to focus on comics transitioning into movies, or movies into books. One panel, oddly, consisted of only me, talking about the subject as if it were a dissertation.

I begged off the final panel of Sunday afternoon, since it was about Web Comics vs. Print. Since I’ve never written a web comic, have no intention of doing so, and have no opinion on the subject whatsoever, I didn’t see that my presence would add much of anything to the proceedings. I got home, put a turkey in the oven, and am overseeing dinner cooking while Caroline, Ariel and Kathleen all nap.

Also came home to discover that my VCR didn’t fire for some reason and I missed PBA bowling this afternoon. Seriously pìššëd about that. Fortunately it’s rebroadcast tomorrow at 10, but still…

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