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I leave for the trade show in Vegas in a week….so naturally, my allergies have decided to kick my ass. Goddamned March. There is a little man living inside my sinuses, who is carving away at the backs of my eyes and the lower regions of my brain, with what seems to be a rusty butter knife. Joy.

New business cards ordered and on the way. Should be here this week. Here’s the design that I went with.

Picked up some comics this weekend, and stumbled accidentally into a swords-and-sorcery theme, purchasing the first CONAN trade paperback collection from Dark Horse (I already had the second collection), the first issue of the new Warlord series, and the Busiek-scripted reboot, Aquaman: Sword of Atlantis.
Grabbed others as well, indulging in my Green Lantern fix (as well as the final issue of the Green Lantern Corps miniseries), the final installment of ASTRO CITY: THE DARK AGE Book One, and a few others.

Finally decided to drop Blood of the Demon….Etrigan is one of my favorite DC characters, but John Byrne is a ham-fisted idiot, and his handling of the series is just pissing me off. The current issue, 13, is one of the “One Year Later” issues (all DC titles are jumping ahead one year in continuity, to reflect the reboot from INFINITE CRISIS). This gives the creative teams a chance to shake things up…to come at the character from a different angle (see Aquaman), or to just jump into action with things having changed a bit. Not Byrne. Same shit, different issue. Enough.

Work proceeding on the novel (and not the one that I shared a sample of with the writing group, either). It’s really strange….as I was telling this weekend, this is the first time where I’ve gotten visions of entire scenes, but completely out of order, and from various points in the story’s chronology. The odd thing is trying to figure out where they go, and how they are connected….because, in most cases, I have NO BLOODY IDEA. This has never happened to me before, and I’m intrigued….which, for right now, is enough to keep me working.

I’m describing the book as “Bernard Cornwell’s Sharpe meets The X Files meets La Femme Nikita meets Hammer Horror.” If there’s interest, I’ll probably post excerpts from the manuscript here on the journal.

Back to work.

George Clooney, in his acceptance speech upon receiving Best Supporting Actor for his role in “Syriana,” referred to the latest conservative talking point — that the films being honored at the Oscars were just another example of how Hollywood was out of touch with ‘Mainstream America.’ He said:

“We are a little bit out of touch in Hollywood every once in a while.

We were the ones who talked about AIDS when it was being whispered. We talked about Civil Rights when it wasn’t really popular. This Academy gave Hattie McDaniel an Oscar in 1939, when Black people were forced to sit in the back. I’m proud to be part of this Academy. I’m proud to be part of this community.

I’m proud to be out of touch.”

Preach, brother.

One of the things that kills me is that conservatives will bitch about “Hollyweird” and how it’s pushing a “liberal agenda”, etc……..but yet those same conservatives still line up and go see the latest brain-dead action-packed blockbuster crap that Hollywood produces….even though it’s produced by those damned liberals.

They criticize and rant and froth at the mouth…..but they still participate and consume.

Yet another example of conservative hypocrisy.

From the minds that brought you “The Chronic-WHAT?-cles of Narnia”:

Natalie Portman.

I’m strangely turned on. :)

EDIT: The link is no longer valid. The video is now available via NBC.