Friday, November 04, 2005

Dr. Peter Venkman Says No to Ghostbusters III -- Is He Rescuing America From an Even Worse Sequel, or Is He Just Too Damn Respectable Now?

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A quick post for Friday. Looking at Aintitcool.com , I found a link to an interview with Harold Ramis, who, in addition to being the direct...
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Thursday, November 03, 2005

Even Though his Latest Novel Is About a Sixties Revolutionary Running a Chimp Sanctuary in Liberia, When He Reads it Aloud, It Sounds Damn Interesting

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Peggy and I went to the Margaret Mitchell House last night to hear Russell Banks give a reading and then have him sign a pile of novels. Rig...
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Wednesday, November 02, 2005

Congohead Goes to Washington

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Well, I had a great time in DC over the weekend. To start, I'm going to tell you how this post is going to go. I'm going to write ab...
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Tuesday, November 01, 2005

"Trying my hand at no-look telekinesis, this was taken during the half-hour I spent trying to launch the Washington Monument with my mind. No dice."

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Tomorrow's post will be an account of my few days spent in the nation's Capitol. Today's post will be, like my last two posts, ...
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Monday, October 31, 2005

A Quick Post From The Last Day of My Trip to DC

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I am in Rockville, MD this afternoon, hanging out with Peter Fedak in his natural habitat, which is located on the fourth floor of a four-st...
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Friday, October 28, 2005

I'll Be Gone 'Till November

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Well, for whatever reason, either Blogger or my computer will not allow me to post an image, so today, you get no picture. Sorry. Just ima...
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Thursday, October 27, 2005

The Four-Page Saga Comes to a Close: Breathless Anticipation is Replaced with Wistful Nostalgia for the Magic That Was

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Directly to the left is the third, penultimate, and least well-drawn of the entire "Untitled Indian Superhero Comic", (as you can ...
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White Sox Win First World Series Title in 88 Years! Can You Hear That? It's the Collective Yawn of an Entire Country

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Oh my God! Oh my God! It's been 88 years since their last title? Oh my God!! Who gives a f**k?!! Yeah, that's right, I used qu...
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Wednesday, October 26, 2005

Reading Nickel and Dimed Make Hulk Mad! Make Hulk Remember Time Hulk Was Nickel and Dimed by Scientologists! (And some stuff on drug testing, too.)

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I finished Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich last night. It's an excellent book written by a very skilled writer. She's a litt...
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Tuesday, October 25, 2005

Second Page of a Third-Rate Comic, a Link to A Graphic Novel, Ruminations on the Onset of Fall, and a Question About Calvin and Hobbes

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For all none of you waiting for this, here's the second page of the Untitled Indian Superhero Comic. I'll be interested to read Heat...
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Monday, October 24, 2005

For No Particular Reason and Of No Particular Use: The Top Six Books I've Read This Year.

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This week is looking to be a pretty major, if not historic news week. With the likely number of servicemen and women killed in Iraq expecte...
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Friday, October 21, 2005

A Syrup-Drenched Bacchanalia in the Heart of Midtown Atlanta

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Peggy and I had lunch here today. I can still feel it, two hours later. In my guts. Sitting. I really don't like R&B music and even ...
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Thursday, October 20, 2005

A Comic-Book Co-Written With L.G. and Concerning the Amazing Exploits of an Indian Superhero? Sure! What Could Go Wrong?

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Hello everyone. To the left is the first page of a would-be comic book I started with L.G. my freshman year at film school. This was back ...
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Wednesday, October 19, 2005

Even Though She Didn't Deign to Speak To Me, at Least She Didn't Laugh at Me When I Asked What Her Writing Hours Were.

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I went to the Margaret Mitchell House last night to see this woman: Barbara Ehrenreich. It wasn't actually at the house itself, but rath...
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Tuesday, October 18, 2005

A Taste of What I'm Doing on Tuesday, the 18th of October, 2005

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Today, I am working on the book. I am going through Chapter 11 right now, revising and rewriting, improving (hopefully) as well as cutting ...
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Monday, October 17, 2005

Sword of Shannara, the Graphic Novel: A Taste of My Unusual (and Former) Obsession

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Art, art, the musical fruit. Nah, I don't know why I wrote that. Other than to say that instead of my usual Monday diatribe against what...
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Friday, October 14, 2005

For Your Still-Technically-Friday Inanity: Inane Mini-Reviews of Good Night and Good Luck, and The New Wallace and Gromit Movie. Yup. You Enjoy That.

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Sorry I'm late with the post. I was a movie-seein' fool today and have a couple of very brief, spoiler-free mini-reviews for you. Fi...
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Thursday, October 13, 2005

Another Drawing and Reflections on A Mystery Novel That's Not Really a Mystery Novel At All. Or Is It?

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Here is the other drawing I promised in the Knights Killing Monsters series I did for Fradley's short film. I stole the creature design ...
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Wednesday, October 12, 2005

Is It Wednesday Again Already? Yaaaayyyy!

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This is me. This was taken in the waning days of our time in Burbank, CA. I've posted another photo on this blog a month or so ago, th...
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Tuesday, October 11, 2005

Random Guy is Bored With Yet Another Negative Eclipse; Wants to Talk About Yanni's New Album

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I drew this using Photoshop this evening (with the aid of my low-rent WACOM tablet and pen-stylus). As for who this character is, I have no...
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