As part of their promotional endeavors for “Tigerheart,” Del Rey has taken out advertising on 3-Day Membership badges at the New York Comic Con. Anyone buying a 3-Day membership badge, either on line or at participating comic shops, will receive a badge that looks like this:
Also Del Rey will be giving out a limited number of advance galley proofs on one of the days of the con and I’ll be there to sign it. More specifics on that to come.
PAD
I don’t typically run Marvel press releases here, but I thought it relevant since King will be discussing Dark Tower 2 on NPR next Wednesday from 2:30 to 3 PM.
Details below:
Tired of pushing so-called memoirs that turn out to be fantasies?
May I recommend my book, “Tigerheart,” coming out in June. It doesn’t purport to be anything else but a fantasy, and it’s uplifting to young and old alike. Check out the comments on www.tigerheartbook.com and then have your people contact the publishers.
PAD
I would be remiss in not pointing out to you that Peter David and Jae Lee are interviewed at ComicMix TV for the midnight launch of Stephen King’sThe Dark Tower at Midtown Comics.
Go. Watch. Enjoy.
MSNBC had a piece today in which they observed that, gee, the current campaign is playing out like the last season of West Wing.
January 30th, guys. I noted on January 30th something MSNBC just now picked up on.
That’s why I’m surprised anyone thought that Clinton would be knocked out in yesterday’s election. To fulfill the West Wing scenario, this is going to have to go all the way to the convention in August, at which point–after much struggle–Obama is made the candidate (although don’t rule out the notion that, after the first ballot is cast, someone else suddenly throws his hat into the ring just to make things REALLY interesting. It could be anyone from Al Gore to John Edwards who, to the best of my knowledge, has yet to endorse either Obama or Clinton.)
At which point Obama will then choose an unexpected political old hand to be his vice presidential candidate.
A word of advice to anyone whom Obama taps for VP–don’t take the offer. Because Obama wins, but only because you die unexpectedly.
PAD
The one with the announcer intoning “Who do you want picking up the phone in the event of an emergency?” while children are shown sleeping.
It screams to have grafted on a clip of Adam West as Bruce Wayne picking up the phone and saying, “Yes, commissioner,” and then he and Burt Ward run to the Batpoles.
Because…really. Wouldn’t YOU really Batman be the one answering the call?
PAD
Luigi brought the following to my attention:
Jeremy Jaynes of Raleigh, N.C., considered among the world’s top 10 spammers in 2003, was convicted of massive distribution of junk e-mail and sentenced to nine years in prison.
Almost all 50 states have anti-spamming laws. In the 4-3 ruling, the court rejected Jaynes’ claim that the state law violates both the First Amendment and the interstate commerce clause of the U.S. Constitution.
This is one of those strange situations where I find myself agreeing with both sides. For instance, one of the dissenting justices in the case wrote:
the law is “unconstitutionally overbroad on its face because it prohibits the anonymous transmission of all unsolicited bulk e-mail including those containing political, religious or other speech protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.”
Since I haven’t read the law, I will simply take her word for it. That being the case, the law is out of line and should be overturned. Unfortunately, this case wasn’t the one to overturn it.
Jaynes allegedly used aliases and false Internet addresses to bombard Web users with junk e-mails peddling sham products and services. The court’s majority said misleading commercial speech is not entitled to First Amendment protection.
Well…yeah. I don’t see how it possibly could be. If a store is charged with false advertising with the intention of bilking its customers, how can the store owner possibly seek defense behind the First Amendment? Just as the First Amendment doesn’t protect things you say about another person knowing that they’re falsehoods, I do not see how it can protect attempts to bilk people over the internet. To say nothing of slamming e-mail boxes with thousands of spams. It’s no different than a neighbor blasting his stereo at ear-splitting decibel levels at 2 in the morning in violation of local ordnances and then claiming he has a First Amendment right to do so.
There may well be grounds for challenges to anti-spamming laws, but I don’t see this case as offering them.
PAD
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