Month: March 2006

Woke up this morning to the sound of Tornado sirens, followed immediately thereafter by our power going out.

Lawrence got nailed this morning at around 8-ish. National Weather Service hasn’t confirmed the Tornado(s), so they’re just saying “Tornadic Winds”. Widespread damage all over the city: windows busted and awnings down all over Mass. Street, trees down all over town, reports of an explosion in North Lawrence, a flipped-over Semi out by the Wall-mart/Target/Best Buy zone, etc.

We dodged the bullet here. No damage to our place, and everybody’s fine. Power is back on as well, obviously.

“Lazy Sunday” my ass.

From today’s NY Times….ties nicely into ‘s recent posts about the future of media:

As Internet TV Aims at Niche Audiences, the Slivercast is Born.

(NYT requires registration, which is free….and the article is worth reading)

Stopped by the comic store last night, and picked up the 50-cent special preview of the forthcoming Buckaroo Banzai series from Moonstone.

The preview features the first few pages of the story (uncolored), and then an article about the long road from the original film to the new comic (including details on the two failed TV proposals, etc.). Good stuff.

A while back , I had talked with Rauch and Richter about licensing the property for a role-playing game….at the time, they were trying to get the second TV proposal off the ground, and weren’t interested in licensing. Now that those aren’t in the works, the comic book is a pretty good indication that they’re willing to consider licensing now. Perhaps I should dig up the contact info and try again…..