Pretty much everybody I talk to at my job works practically next to me, in development or QA. The bad part is that never talking to end users or customers means I don’t have any wacky Stupid, Stupid End-User stories to tell on my internet journal (like everybody else with an internet journal). The good part… well, that’s pretty much self-evident.
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Actually this whole post might be in “Huh” territory.
In case anybody was wondering, there are All Your Base jokes in Spider-Man 2 (the game, not the movie). Which in a way is cool, but mostly isn’t. I mean… I think it already went through its hyper-retro post-kitsch “briefly hip again” phase. Now it’s firmly in “Huh?” territory.
The Lovecraftian epithet “Black Goat with a Thousand Young” becomes less frightening when you realize that technically, it should be “Black Goat with a Thousand Kids.”
Great Xbox games and reasons they are great
- Grand Theft Auto (and sequels)
- They’re Grand Theft Auto.
- Crimson Skies
- It’s Grand Theft Auto, plus Halo, plus airplanes.
- Spider-Man 2
- It’s Grand Theft Auto, except you’re Spider-Man.
Yes, for the record, Elizabethtown has been filming about a hundred feet from my apartment for a couple days now. No, I haven’t seen anybody famous (although Ian has), and I’m finding it very difficult to care, except that traffic is worse because of all the blocked lanes. No concern for celebrity! I feel practically un-American.
I don’t think today’s For Better Or For Worse is supposed to be as funny as it is.
Apologies for the lack of Anacrusis this past week; they were all written ahead of time, but I banked on having Interweb in California, then didn’t. Have it.
Anyway, last week’s are all posted at their intended times, and I’m back to the regular schedule now.
- Gave away what, 60 copies of HONOR? Something like that. Two of them I traded for other ashcans (Yeperynye and The Last Sane Cowgirl), which I totally count as sales. And every copy given away was to somebody whose work I (or Will or Stephen) really respect, which is a worthwhile transaction, in my opinion.
- Left my hat at Preview Night. Never got it back.
- Got to meet a lot of cool people from the online.
- Cool people I met from the online all had a curious need to run off to important, distant engagements within seconds of meeting me. Either I smell bad or I’m Creepy Interweb Fan, or (probably) both.
- Had a really good time with Monica, Will, Stephen and Maria. And Stephen’s lady Erin, at whose residence we crashed, is maybe the coolest person on the whole planet.
- Ran out of plane-ticket money and was unable to visit Leonard and Sumana. That was a pretty stupid mistake, and I feel really bad about it. Hopefully, a post-student-loan trip is in the works.
- Tycho and Gabe were the coolest, most professional people at the whole freaking Con.
- Speaking of Tycho and Gabe, I had one of the world’s most random encounters: passing by their booth, I recognized Paul Mattingly, a great guy who was in Richmond Children’s Theatre with me a billion years ago and who now works as a Klingon and Second City understudy (!) in Vegas. I literally hadn’t seen him in over a decade. He even has a site, The Famous Paul, though I understand that’s mostly a placeholder for the moment.
- Getting to California by train was interesting, right enough, and I’m glad we tried it. but the people who work for Amtrak seem unhappy and unhelpful and it’s very bumpy. I think I’ll pretty much be flying from here on out.
- I thought about taking a whole bunch of stuff to get signed, but eventually decided against it. I had a better idea. Thanks to the unlined pocket Moleskine my family got me for my birthday, I now possess what can only be referred to as
The Greatest SKETCHBOOK
Ever In The History Of Time
which basically means I win.
I managed to take a whole roll of film, which is good, considering I frequently manage to wish I had a camera while holding one. Probably more updates after I get that developed, but considering I still haven’t posted the pics from my San Francisco trip in February, one shouldn’t hold one’s breath.
I highly recommend the Brother HL-1435
There exist exactly 100 copies of HONOR, the first comic book anthology from The Fake Middle Names Collective. They are in a box. I helped make a comic book! Life goal #22 gets a BIG FAT CHECK!
We were supposed to print it this morning and leave by 1, and it’s been kind of a torture test on the printer and humans involved, but it’s done. And now Maria, Monica, Will and I roll for Alton, nine hours late but moving fast.
CALIFORNIA HO!