Starting weight: 215. Current weight: 210.

For some reason, I’m getting curious about techie stuff again. I’ve been using WordPress, the software that runs this blog, at barely more than novice level, and I’m starting to wonder what else it’s capable of and how much of it I could understand and utilize. I’d like to add a polling system and a […]

The excellent (and hilarious) “New Rules” segment from this week’s “Real Time with Bill Maher”: VIDEO DELETED

Yesterday, I officially started a diet. I’ve decided to combine two plans: the Carbo-Calorie diet, which fellow comics writer Gerry Conway recommended to me circa 1975 and on which I lost about 70 pounds back then, and the Shangri-La diet, of which I’m highly skeptical but willing to keep an open mind. The Shangri-La diet, […]

Robert Goulet goes to the hospital with the same damn thing I’ve got. Apparently, his condition is considerably more advanced. The doctors, though, seem upbeat about the prognosis. Hang in there, Lancelot.  I need all the role models I can get.

…and I’ve been up all night working, so this will have to be short. A few tidbits: Killhead also appears in COUNTDOWN TO MYSTERY #5, after something terrible happens to Inza. I see the cardiologist this afternoon to firm up plans for the angiogram that UCLA requested. Tentative date for that procedure is November 1st. […]

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: VIDEO DELETED Update 10/18/07: Unfortunately, this video has […]

Very provocative column about journalism, comics, bread, circuses, advertising, and (by implication) corporatism by Steven Grant. Click here.

…from Adam McGovern at ComicCritique.com. Click here. Thanks, Adam.

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 […]