General Update

Had a few folks ask what I’m up to, so here’s a brief run-down:

1) Finish up the last of my freelance gigs before switching over to write for Adamant full-time.

2) Finishing the next three Adamant releases, so I have a regular stream of releases ready to go.

3) Entering the home stretch of rehersals and prep for the KCRF, which opens the first weekend of September.

4) Trying my hand at digital artwork for a possible graphic novel release based on a game property that I was working on with a partner

5) Continuing work on several fiction projects.

So, you know, the usual.

Oh…political outrage news of the day: The Bush administration, in it’s fervor to release yet another terror alert (see below), blew the cover of mole within Al-Queda who was participating in a sting to round up other operatives. Good thing that it’s really, really easy to infiltrate the organization, otherwise this would be a major fuck up….oh, wait a minute.

Political Terror Alerts

For those of you who haven’t yet made up your minds about the politically-motivated nature of the “Terror Alerts” issued by the Bush administration…check out the following chart:

Interesting. Things which you can notice from this graph:

– Whenever Dubya’s ratings dip, there’s a new terror alert.

– Every terror alert is followed by a slight uptick in his approval ratings.

– As we approach the 2004 elections, the number and frequency of terror alerts keeps growing. (Doesn’t appear to be doing any good, though, as the approval ratings are lower than ever.)

Fun With Slogans

So, the latest Bush campaign slogan appears to be “We’ve turned the corner…and we’re not going back”, judging from recent campaign appearance video on the news. Dubya hits the phrase again and again during points about the economy, about security, about job creation…and you can always tell the line is coming, because he breaks into that beady-eyed smirk that he gets when he thinks that his writers have given him something clever to say.

Except, as a writer, I can’t help but notice that when one is travelling, “turning the corner” means that you’ve made a course change…and are no longer moving forward.

Yeah, we’ve turned a corner alright….to the RIGHT. We’d like to get back to going forward, please.