Spike Jones and his City Slickers play the inspirational power ballad “I Like to Sock Myself in the Face”.
Who or what is Killhead? Well, he, she, or it is coming in COUNTDOWN TO MYSTERY #4 and is almost as weird as what you’re about to see:
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Update 10/18/07: Unfortunately, this video has mysteriously been removed from YouTube by the user who posted it.
Very provocative column about journalism, comics, bread, circuses, advertising, and (by implication) corporatism by Steven Grant.
The update: UCLA wants me to have another right-left cardiac catheterization — an angiogram, basically — before they put me on the transplant list. Since having all those stents inserted, I’ve been on Plavix, a blood thinner, and I have to be off that medication for the transplant operation. A new cath procedure should reveal whether or not it’s safe for me to go off Plavix. I’m hoping this procedure can be performed here in Las Vegas, and soon.
The excuses: DC is desperate to get the next Fate script, so my postings here will be even spottier than usual for the next week or so. If I have any hard information to pass along, I will. Don’t expect much in the way of musings, though.
Burrowing in. See you soon.
The news from UCLA was generally good. They want to redo one test, however, before they list me. I’ll know more about that next week.
In the meantime, my gratitude goes out to Buzz and Soon-ok Dixon, Art and Judy Ginsberg, and Donna Daves Kent, without whom this trip would have been far, *far* less successful, and to Harris Miller, Jim McLauchlin, Gordon Kent, and Mark Evanier just on general principles.
Thanks to all of you, as well, for your good wishes.
I’ll be in Los Angeles Monday through Wednesday of this coming week, so I won’t be posting for a while longer.
Yes, this is a trip to UCLA, and hopefully it’ll result in my being put on the transplant waiting list. Wish me luck.
Thanks to everyone for their comments on COUNTDOWN TO MYSTERY and Doctor Fate. I’m particularly gratified that the longtime Fate fans among you enjoyed the book. I think you’re going to like the second issue even more. We’ll see.
Much to do, no time to do it in, so I have to keep this short.
See you toward the end of next week!
Much of this material will be familiar to you from the Newsarama interview and our discussions here, but it touches on a couple of other interesting subjects as well.
Just follow this link to Mark Evanier’s blog, read his commentary, and watch the BBC documentary by Jonathan Ross.
From Daily Kos:
“So why aren’t the papers reporting on the Republican intransigence
in the Senate? Why aren’t they telling everyone how they’re ordering
troops stressed to the breaking point back into combat while they busy
themselves smoothing their pocket squares? Why aren’t they publishing
screaming headlines about the sheer gall of yesterday’s Republican
filibuster?
“Because there was no Republican filibuster. That’s why.”
Read the rest here. It’s pathetic.
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The friend I was supposed to have coffee with never showed up. No major good news. No major bad news. My headphones fell apart Monday, and the new set I ordered from Amazon as a birthday present to myself arrived this afternoon. That was nice.
All in all, no complaints.
And I still have a script to get done.