Odd day. One of my cats is sick. One of my friends is going through some major emotional upheavals. One of my brain cells is functioning…I think. (Or it does.) Tuesday should be more productive. Songs About Writing Songs? “I Write the Songs” is pretty much the definitive answer, isn’t it? (Read the comments to […]

You may have noticed my near silence over the past couple of weeks. There’s a lot going on. Mostly it has to do with battling blockage and drubbing deadlines — an uphill battle — but there have also been some health issues that I’ve been hesitant to discuss. When I finish up the script I’m […]

A nice piece about Dave, who died this week, on CNN.com. As most of you know, he and Len Wein co-created the “new” X-Men. Dave and I only did a couple of stories together. It’s probably been the better part of thirty years since I last spoke to him or his wife Paty, but I […]

The two people most responsible for my career in comics are Roy Thomas, who hired me as a proofreader at Marvel Comics in 1972, and Dr. Jerry G. Bails, who, like Roy in his fannish days, had the patience and graciousness to correspond with, and take seriously, a 14-year-old nuisance with a million questions about […]

Mine will be spent with a frozen dinner, a desperate deadline, and maybe a DVD — if I’m lucky. May yours be more exciting.

Nothing terribly profound. I’m surprised and hugely pleased that the Dems didn’t blow it. If they prove they can govern, they’ll retake the presidency in 2008, and that’s fine with me, too — as long as they *lose* one house of Congress in 2010. It’s become abundantly clear that, at least most of the time, […]

Nevada has early voting, so I cast my ballot today. The place was packed around two in the afternoon, and had been that way, one poll worker said, all day. I suspect there’s going to be a far bigger turnout this year than is typical for a midterm election. Oh — before I forget, a […]

If you’ve been following the flap over the RNC’s anti-Harold Ford campaign ad, you may find this video amusing: (By the way, I *still* think the Democrats will find some way to blow this election, and I won’t be convinced otherwise until we get the results straight from Diebold — or is it Venezuela?)

Went to the hospital Tuesday for what was expected to be a routine test — an angiogram — preparatory to dealing with a larger health problem. No such luck. Blockages in three major arteries to the heart. Two stents inserted. One more to go, sometime in December. Spent a day and a half in the […]

Keith Olbermann on the death of habeus corpus. Read the transcript or watch the video on CrooksandLiars.com.