Thrillerfest kicked off yesterday at the Grand Hyatt Hotel here in New York and I had the pleasure of attending the full day — I’ll be back tonight and most of Saturday — meeting some great people, picking up some interesting books, and taking in some insightful information on the publishing game from the perspective [...]
…but I certainly feel like I’ve been buried alive lately!
Speaking, tangentially, of being careful what you wish for*, I’d totally understand if Obama was really close to just saying “screw y’all” and handing the nomination to Clinton. Hunter S. Thompson’s sentiment – paraprashing someone else, I believe — “In a democracy, people usually get the kind of government they deserve, and they deserve [...]
In the 4th or 5th Grade, my teacher made me promise her that I’d never become a teacher when I grew up. Her request wasn’t made out of malice — it wasn’t until High School when I had any teachers who simply didn’t like me, a couple justifiably so — but based on her own experience and out [...]
The Comic Book Commentary blog that used to be located at loudpoet.com/comics/blog.html no longer exists, but the archives are located at http://comiccommentaryarchive.blogspot.com/, while the majority of those posts have also been imported here, predominantly into the Comic Books category.
1) While a couple of good things happened in January (most notably an unexpected promotion at work to Online Ad Sales Director for all of our properties!), overall it was as bad a start to 2008 as I could have imagined. Nothing major, but a lot of bumps in the road that tested my constitution [...]
