Okay, as I promised, since we’re over a thousand hits so far on Kathleen’s video (although let’s try to pump those numbers; she’d never had a video go viral and it’s her birthday today, so that’d be nice to see happen.)
Anyway, here:
“A Lord of Time” at Dragon*Con
At the Dragon*Con Puppet Slam this year, Kathleen–with the aid of five other puppeteers (Rachel Wyman, John Hudgens, Jamie Kamin, Cheralyn Lambeth, and Hannah Miller)–brought to life my old filk song take off on Billy Joel’s “The Longest Time.” (I updated some of the lyrics considering that when I first wrote it, Tom Baker was the Doctor.) Reenacting the premise of the Joel video, Kathleen brought on the 11th Doctor who appears to have been stood up for a Time Lord reunion…only to have his disappointment turn to joy when his predecessors turn up (the fan-taken video didn’t capture the first thirty seconds which included the TARDIS arrival.)
The only problem was that we had major technical difficulties doing a pre-record, so I had to sing it live and unseen from behind the playboard. I flubbed one of the lines, but no one seemed to notice. Ladies and gentlemen…
Waiting for Lucy
Originally published December 5, 1997, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1255
Well, it’s ironic. I’d been writing articles about how people in a position of celebrity oftentimes find themselves in situations where, no matter what they do for the fans, it’s never enough. And then, lo and behold, I found myself on the receiving end of that exact same situation.
The “culprit?” None other than Xena, Warrior Princess herself: Lucy Lawless.
The Undiscovered Hamlet
Originally published November 28, 1997, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1254
And now, digging into the But I Digress electronic mailbag, I’ve come upon this which was sent to me by Tom Galloway—the demented creation of one Mike Schiffer, who graciously gave permission for its reproduction in this column.
It needs absolutely no introduction.
Shooting off your mouth at the Right to Vote you don’t actually have
As one of those bleeding heart liberals that you’ve heard tell about—-the type who buys into the whole global warming thing and wants to allow illegal aliens to overrun the borders so they can falsely vote for that un-American Muslim terrorist Obama—-I’ve found the GOP’s recent drive to protect the sacred voting system to be quite interesting. Why? Because it’s yet another example of just where their priorities are.
It’s worth noting that back in 1790, only white male property owners were able to vote. In 1855 and 1857, Connecticut and Massachusetts implemented literacy requirements for voting. On the surface, not an unreasonable notion: you should be able to read the name of whom you’re voting for. But the main reason was to limit the participation of Irish-Catholic immigrants. In 1890, Mississippi did the same thing in order to counter the voting rights of black slaves given the vote by the 15th Amendment. Since then (and until recently) there has been a relentless drive to widen, not narrow, the right to vote, culminating in a ban on literacy tests in 1975 from the Supreme Court, with Justice Hugo Black citing “the long history of the discriminatory use of literacy tests to disenfranchise voters on account of their race.” (The foregoing information courtesy of infoplease.com).
Yet interestingly there isn’t anything specific in the Constitution that actually guarantees a right to vote. Reasons as to why certain people can’t or at least shouldn’t be discriminated against, yes, but nothing that says flat out, “People have a right to vote.” It’s not enumerated as such. Instead that’s left in the respective hands of the states.
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Danger, Will Robinson
Originally published November 21, 1997, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1253
We were speaking last week of how satisfying all fans, everywhere, is an impossibility. How fans can set such expectations for those whose careers they follow that meeting those expectations can become an insurmountable task.
It can become extremely frightening for those who are in the public eye. For every thousand fans who are decent, polite, caring folk (and there are thousands, tens of thousands out there) there’s the one or two who have their own agendas. Some of them deliberately target you for the purpose of building themselves up, or proving something by showing they can be tougher or smarter than “the pro,” or feel the need to show that they are not intimidated by you—even though intimidation was never your intention. (I can’t tell you the number of times fans have told me that they were afraid to come up to me; what did they think I was going to do, bite their heads off like a circus geek?)
And then there are the fans who are so obsessive, it gets… well… scary.
Ha Ha. I have a scoop on “Bleeding Cool”
Bleeding Cool announced yesterday that Marvel is releasing a special edition through Walmart of “The Avengers” on Blu-Ray and DVD, packaged with an all new, original “Avengers” graphic novel. But who (they wondered), WHO could possibly have been involved with the creation of it?
Yeah, uh, that would be me. One hundred page original “Avengers” graphic novel. I’ll let you find out the artist(s) on your own, but the entire story is by yours truly.
You can find out more about the package here
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