Month: April 2008

At I-Con, Harlan was talking about an Eddie Izzard routine about “Star Wars.” During the rest of the convention people kept coming up to me and saying, “You know, there’s a Legos version of that bit.” So here it is:
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We think the artwork speaks for itself here.

Spent the majority of the day at Mets opening day, courtesy of a last minute invite from convention guy Jon Manzo. The festivities were all great, and Citibank Park is coming along nicely. The only thing disappointing about the day was the Mets’ level of play as they dropped the final Shea home opener 5-2 to the Phillies. It’s bad enough when a team plays well and they’re outplayed by a better team. But the Phillies were thunderingly unimpressive, with dinky, unimpressive seeing eye hits. What won them the game was the Mets bullpen, handing bases to them courtesy of hit batsmen (well, one batsman, Utley, who kept getting plunked. Who the hëll did he pìšš øff, anyway?), walks, and sloppy fielding that, in one instance, turned a potential inning-ending double play ball into an error that resulted in a run scored and everyone safe. When you hand a team five outs per inning, you’re going to lose. Feh.
More cheerful was the evening spent at the screening of the Harlan Ellison documentary, “Dreams with Sharp Teeth” at Lincoln center. Present were Harlan, the doc’s director, Erik Nelson, as well as such luminaries as Josh Olson, Norman Spinrad, and others (as well as Kathleen, who met up with me in the city and looked QUITE fetching, I have to say). Harlan and Erik did a Q&A afterwards that easily could have done another hour if they hadn’t kicked us out. Good times.
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Chris Ullrich interviews Peter for ComicMix, where he talks about She-Hulk, X-Factor, Stephen King and Dark Tower and online comics. Enjoy.

Had a good time at I-Con this year. How can you not when Harlan Ellison is in town?
Dire weather was predicted but fortunately held off, since I-Con (or, as I call it, Schlepcon) can be something of a drag in the rain. Held on the campus of Stony Brook University, you have to walk to various buildings for different panels, some of them practically on opposite sides of the campus.
Did a bunch of panels with such luminaries as Harlan, Bob Greenberger, Dwayne McDuffie, Murphy Anderson, Peter S. Beagle and Norman Spinrad. They were well attended and the fans were uniformly enthusiastic.
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A 37? The man bowled a 37 during a campaign stop in Altoona?
How in God’s name am I supposed to get behind a man who rolls a 37? Caroline bowls better than that, and she’s five. I mean, okay, granted, Obama can probably tell a joke better than she can. Her most recent endeavor which she told me just now:
“Daddy! Knock knock!”
“Who’s there?”
“Banana!”
“Banana who?”
“Banana chair!” (followed by hysterical laughter)
Yeah. Anyway..
Thirty seven? Out of a possible 300?
Yo, Senator: Here’s a bowling hint. That curved, deep wood channel on either side of the lane? The object is to keep your ball OUT of that.
I saw pictures of him in his endeavors. The man has no form at all. Even worse, he’s a lefty.
Open invitation, Senator: Come to New York, I’ll work with you for an hour, and we’ll have you rolling strikes in no time. Until then…
Thirty seven? Good lord, we have to have SOME standards for a president.
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