A potential death blow has been dealt to the Clinton campaign: George W. Bush has stated that he feels that–of the entire Democratic slate–she has the most experience when it comes to the presidency.
The Obama camp is reportedly thrilled about the vote of confidence, feeling it’s the best thing that could happen to their man. They probably figure that a Bush endorsement of Hillary is like having Morton’s salt endorse slugs.
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I walked with the WGA picket line outside Viacom last Thursday. It rained steadily, as it did the previous time I walked it. Fortunately I had interesting company to chat with; trooped alongside Ron Howard for an hour chatting about his upcoming project, a film version of “Frost/Nixon,” the Broadway show dramatizing the David Frost/Richard Nixon interviews.
Considering I spent the previous weekend hanging with Henry Winkler, all I have to do is run into Ralph and Potsie.
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Part 3 of “Messiah Complex,” and a one-off in which we actually show Bete Noire shaping the world. Whad’ja think?
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The WGA and the producers have announced that formal negotiations will recommence beginning the 26th.
In honor of formal negotiations, I will probably start wearing a tuxedo to the picket lines. Why a tuxedo? Because my evening gown would look ridiculous during the daytime.
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In case anyone’s interested, and even if they’re not, I will be attending the Big Apple convention tomorrow. It’ll be a pretty short stint; I’m coming in to participate on a 1:30 panel with Andy Schmidt about breaking into comics. I’m not set up to sign or anything, although if you come up to me with book in hand and waving a pen, I won’t throw it back in your face.
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As the link below indicates, Dark Tower
And work is moving along briskly on the next five issue series, due out early in 2008.
Best Books of 2007: Top 10 Editors’ Picks: Comics & Graphic Novels
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Reported for WGA picket duty today outside Fox at 47th and Sixth Avenue. I’ve never walked a picket line in my life, so circling a half block radius for four straight hours (minus ten minutes when the sainted Margaret Clark, one of my Pocket Book editors across the street, provided bathroom relief for me) was a new experience to put it mildly.
A ton of celebrities such as Robin Williams and Alec Baldwin showed up to express solidarity…on previous days. No one turned out for us today, so that kinda sucked.
At one point a guy with a microphone, identifying himself as being from Sirius Satellite radio, pulled myself and another writer, a distinguished looking older fellow named Michael St. Germain, aside and asked if he could interview us. We shrugged and said sure. He had a list of questions and the first couple seemed straightforward enough. But St. Germain was looking at him suspiciously and suddenly said, “You’re from Howard Stern, aren’t you.” The guy nodded. That immediately flipped a switch in my mind, so that–moments later–when the questions turned skewed (“If UPS makes a delivery to your home, are you forbidden from signing for it since you’re not allowed to write?”) I was able to roll with it rather than say, “Huh?” So that was lucky.
Met several staffers from the Colbert Report, which was also cool.
Will be back at it next week. I hope this doesn’t drag on, but suspect it will.
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