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I love this.

Another great gift idea.

I KNOW WHAT DADDY'S GETTING!

I've been especially good this year.

Dude.

Check out this dude's Legos.

End this. Now.

Hasn't there been enough suffering?

Son of a...

Ever since this XKCD comic came out, my brain has been rickrolling me about once an hour.

Freakin' freak.

Why does this crap happen to me?

(Update: Currently brainstorming ways to use this to foil the plans of those who hate freedom.)

You Monsters.

Movies that Joss Whedon was going to write, but now we'll never see because of the Writer's Guild strike:

1) The Man With The Golden Thing
2) Seven Brides For Seven Draculas
3) Avenging Benji
4) Don’t Pick At It – Oh God, What’d I Just Say?
5) The Cars That Could Turn Into Robots But No, It’s Different
6) Wonder Woman
7) Cheese For Frieda

Please, Big Hollywood Conglomerates, just give them anything they ask for. We've already lost too much.

This has got to stop.

WWFCND?

THINGS THE PUNISHER WOULD NEVER DO

Excerpt from the next Batman movie:

Batman, Master of Timing

Sorry.

We apologize.

Or, as we say in our house, "Oopsie Poopsie".

No biggy, right? Until it's you they're bundling away.

You're only one or two small coincidences away from unlawful combatant status.

Please, make it stop.

I am completely unable to refrain from scanning my spam folder. There is a worm in my brain that is constantly shouting "What if you miss a message from someone important, and they're just not added to your safelist yet?"

I can't let go.

I can't let go.

Please, let it stop.

Special Update:

I'm in Los Angeles, and I hate it here.

Sorry.

I forgot to exist for the past eleven days.

If I haven't written or called, I'm still around, just busy.

Hope you're all doing well.

It's full of stars...

Amazon just killed everyone.

This is insane. Book publishers, music studios, film studios, comic publishers. I seriously think they all just got killed by the internet.

I want to feel sorry for all those suckers, but it's looking like Amazon just did something right, and did it better than everyone else could have.

Why would I need Diamond distribution anymore if I want to self-publish a graphic novel?

What's going to stop anyone from distributing their own indy film on DVD?

What's going to stop a band from putting their own CD out, and linking to Amazon from their myspace, rather than getting screwed by a label?

POD just got funky.

Compartmentalizing

So, I've been feeling extremely scattershot lately in respect to what I'm working on and what my goals are. I'm all over the place. It's been like that scene in The Great Dictator where Hynkel is going from room to room, posing for paintings, playing piano, approving military inventions, romancing the secretary, running the government, etc.



I'm supposed to be in three different places tonight.

So I've been trying to break everything up, and attack things in chunks. I haven't been entirely successful, but I've been making a little progress. I've got two new scripts underway, I've got some ads out for artists, and a whole pile of ideas that I need to get rid of. Right now it's just an ongoing process of elimination: goal-oriented stuff stays, everything else goes. I'm seriously considering a significant alteration of my web presence.

I'll get it figured out eventually.

Yay!

FINALLY, the future is shaping up to be something I want to be a part of:

'Spider-man' suit secret revealed

Back from East Coast.

Status: Not Dead.

Takehome from Warren Ellis Panel:

Three words:

Fatal Robot Cosplay

List

Here's my list of people I got to see/meet/hear at Comicon 2007, roughly in order:

The DC writing crew, notably Dan Jurgens, Paul Dini, Dan Didio
Syd Mead - Blade Runner
Ray Bradbury
Ray Harryhausen - Superpanel, watched 20 Million Miles From Earth
George Romero - Diary of the Dead - FANTASTIC Panel, great
Max Brooks - Zombie Survival Handbook - One of us.
J. Michael Straczynski
Peter David - Writing panel, valuable event, great H. Ellison anecdote
Orson Scott Card - Writing panel
Maggie Thompson - Comic Buyers Guide
David Petersen - Mouse Guard
Warren Ellis - Nuts, but hilarious. I got the last question at the panel!
Maddie Greene - The Engine, very kind.
Ben Templesmith - Fell, 30 Days of Night - Very Australian
Jonathan Hickman - Nightly News
Brian Wood - DMZ
Dan Curtis Johnson - Chase - Had a great lunch and conversation
J. H. Williams III - Desolation Jones, insane art Skillz
Lauren McCubben - Like everyone's crazy aunt, very sweet
Grant Morrison - Off-planet
Geof Darrow - Busy drawing
Art Adams - Busy drawing
Mike Mignola - Busy drawing
Matt Wagner - Busy drawing
Sergio Aragones - Saw him walking around
Jeff Smith - Nearly crashed into him on the exhibition floor
Jim Lee - Image Panel
Todd McFarlane - Image Panel
Erik Larsen - Image Panel
Jim Valentino - Image Panel
Mark Silvestri - Image Panel
Rob Liefeld - Image Panel
Whilce Portacio - Image Panel
Robert Kirkman - Walking Dead
Charlie Adlard - Walking Dead
Ryan Ottley - Image Booth
Frazer Irving - Gutsville - SUPER friendly guy filled with awesome
Rob Schrab - Scud
Mike Oeming - Image Panel
Matt Fraction - Casanova
Kelly Sue DeConnick - 30 Days of Night, too nice for words
Tycho and Gabe - PA - CAN'T DESCRIBE HOW AWESOME THIS WAS
Mark Evanier - The Eisners
Gene Simmons - Wandering the floor
Jennifer Love Hewitt - Wandering the floor(?)
Josh Hartnett - 30 Days of Night - SCARIEST PREVIEW EVER.
Sam Raimi - 30 Days of Night - He's hilarious in real life too.
Joss Whedon - Women love him.
Brian Posehn - Image panel
Gerry Duggan - Image panel
9000 Teenage Girls with "FREE HUGS" signs - EVERYWHERE.

Too many great experiences, anecdotes, advice, and stories. Information Overload.

Photos.

Heya, here's my San Diego Comic-Con 2007 Flickr set.

Enjoy. I'm not a photographer.

This is probably my favorite shot.

I'm realizing now that I shot a lot of Star Wars shots, which wasn't wholly intentional. I think it's because most of the Star Wars costumes belonged to a select group of cosplayers that realized that they needed to cover their shame.

Seriously. The fishnet stocking market must have gone through the roof last week.