Author: Kathleen David

Today is Peter’s Birthday.
It is 3 weeks after Ariel’s and 2 weeks after mine. So if Ariel’s birthday is on a Friday we know Peter’s and mine are too.
Kath

We’re here at Crescent Con, where the hotel initially advertised cable access in the room. Technically, yes: As it turns out, about fifteen percent of the rooms. However, believe it or not, we can also get internet access if we sit with Kathleen’s computer in the hallway outside the room. For some reason the atrium serves as some sort of bizarre conduit for net access or something. So I’m sitting on the floor outside the room with the computer balanced on a chair.

Convention is going well so far. At their evening cabaret I took a whirl at their Karaoke, going with ‘Purple People Eater.” Unfortunately for some reason the words didn’t come up on the screen, and it’s been ages since I’ve done the song. So I did the best I could from memory, but totally went up on the last stanza (although, naturally, I remembered as soon as I got back to the hotel room.)

Haven’t seen a thing of New Orleans itself. Hoping to have a chance on Sunday, since Saturday’s booked. Wendy Pini had an adventure getting out here, missing her Thursday flight and then getting delayed today in Houston before finally staggering in. Poor Richard kept worrying about her, so it’s a relief she finally got here. Marv Wolfman’s here, so that’s cool. And Caroline, I’ve discovered, has increased in her running speed. She runs so fast that her hair literally blows back behind her. Her goal is to make it to an elevator and ditch us. I was charging after her at one point, sprinting across the hotel lobby, and I was carrying her pink security blanket. Remembering my “Peanuts,” I swing the thing like a whip and it snagged around her waist, stopping her cold, much to her surprise.

Attendance doesn’t seem to be huge, but we’ll see what happens Saturday.

PAD

Along with the BID columns, I thought I might give you a chance to ask me questions.

Of course this comes with some conditions.

I won’t get into either political or religious discussions or debates. It can make this kind of opportunity dissolve into nothing real fast.

There are certain projects that I cannot and may not discuss because of various non-disclosure agreements I have signed or the company has signed.

I will answer as time allows within the comments/questions. I am in the middle of getting ready for the Shoreleave Costume Contest among a few other things that I need to do.

Kathleen

Peter will be AFTK (away from the keyboard) for the next couple of days as he works on a project that he has been working on for a while but needs his undivided attention for a few days.

I am asking everyone to play nice while he is not online.

thanks-
Kathleen

Meet Tracer.

I’ll be really surprised if this entry posts, but…

Basically, Glenn spent hours fixing all the wrong files, and then sometime during the night, the entire site reset itself to the wrong settings again. Kind of like a sick body rejecting a healthy transplanted organ so it can stay sick.

He’s working on it.

PAD

When “Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man,” the new Spidey series coming from Marvel late this summer, hits the stands, it will be launching with a different creative team than previously announced: Mike Wieringo as artist, and yours truly as writer.

I’m really excited about this, since it’s been years since I’ve written on ongoing Spidey title and fans have been asking when, or if, I’ll ever have the opportunity again. I’m pleased to be working with Ringo, whose art I’ve very much enjoyed, and am grateful to editor Tom Brevoort for offering me the assignment (and Joe Q, naturally, for giving the final OK). Spidey was my very first comic work for Marvel, and it’s great to be back.

PAD