Originally published July 23, 1999, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1340
And now, as part of my ongoing self-delusion that you folks are interested in what’s going on in my personal life, I’m updating you as to what’s been going on in and out of casa David during the summer.
Originally published July 16, 1999, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1339
Did you know the X-Men were gay? At the very least, that they were a metaphor for homosexuality?
Originally published July 9, 1999, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1338
It’s depressing not being a target audience. It’s disconcerting feeling one’s age. And it’s particularly uncomfortable when one feels that way when lots of other people are around, as was the case when I saw Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me.
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Originally published July 2, 1999, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1337
Assorted observations and ramblings:
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Originally published June 25, 1999, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1336
When I was nine or ten years old, something like that, my dad—who was a reporter at the time—did a lot of reviews of local theater. Road companies and such like came through places in North Jersey, and if there was something that my father thought would be appropriate for me (and presumably if my mother wasn’t interested) then he’d bring me along.
Knowing how much I was into comics, it seemed a natural fit as far as my dad was concerned when the musical Li’l Abner rolled into town.
Originally published June 18, 1999, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1335
Would you like to go to your very own private screening of Trekkies?
It shouldn’t be all that difficult. All you had to do was go this past weekend, the very first weekend that The Phantom Menace was playing. Because while other studios did everything they could to clear any other film the hëll out of the way of Star Wars‘ path, Paramount Pictures—boldly going where no intelligent distribution would go—released a documentary called Trekkies the exact same weekend. They did so with virtually no promotion at all, on an extremely limited number of screens, with a film whose target audience was off seeing possibly the most anticipated movie of the century.
Originally published June 11, 1999, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1334
Peter’s Star Wars Journal
WEDNESDAY, MAY 12: I make a rare trip into Manhattan. There is a weekly get together of people in the science fiction writing community which has been held every Wednesday at the same restaurant for nearly a decade, if not longer. I decide to show up for once. Much discussion is made of various people being “on line.” I assume they’re discussing the Internet. It is only after some minutes that I realize they mean that the aforementioned folks were actually on line for Star Wars Episode I. There is much talk of the multiple-block-long queues that await anyone determined/foolish enough to try to score tickets.
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