Peter David's Blog, page 136

Off to Madison, Wisconsin

To attend Madcon. The big draw, of course: Harlan Ellison, who looked for a while as if he were going to be ailing too much to come out, but changed his mind and decided to attend.
After that, I'm heading to Los Angeles to watch the recording session of my first episode [...:]

National Non-Stories

Just the other day I was chatting with my father, and he was contending that the world is so much worse than it used to be. More violent, angrier, etc. And my contention was that, no, that's not the case; that the pervasiveness of the media and the incessant need to feed a [...:]

My Niece's Quiz

My niece, in second grade, took the following quiz, which is from a standardized book of tests used in schools nationwide. Why, you may ask, am I reproducing it here?
Just read it. You'll know it when you get to it.
PAD




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Barney Stinson Was Smoking This Weekend

Barney Stinson of "How I Met Your Mother" once enumerated the times that he indulged in the habit of smoking:
"I only smoke in certain situations: post-coital, when I'm with Germans, sometimes those two overlaps, coital, birthdays, to annoy my mom, pre-coital, on a sailboat, the day The Mets are mathematically eliminated every year,…"
Which was, this [...:]

Political Corrections, Part 2

Originally published December 17, 1993, in Comics Buyer's Guide #1048
Ooooh! Oooh! Hey everybody! Jo Duffy and Trina Robbins are having a catfight!
Can Catwoman's breasts actually be milked for an entire column? No. But it's a springboard for wider silliness, certainly.
Political correctness, as I discussed several weeks ago, is rearing its head everywhere. Even those worshippers [...:]

The Less-than-Great Debate

Originally published December 10, 1993, in Comics Buyer's Guide #1047
VIC CHALKER: Hello, and welcome to Larry King Live. Larry's on vacation this week. This is your substitute host, Vic Chalker, and I am tremendously excited to be host of a debate that everyone is going to be talking about for quite some time to come.

VIC: [...:]

Cowboy Pete has a Big Bang Theory

I've been wondering about a possible plot line that could unfold in the upcoming season of "The Big Bang Theory." Just on the off chance that I'm right, I'm treating it as a potential spoiler and putting it below the cut line.

In a third season episode, Penny makes a snarky joke–in relation to Leonard [...:]

On the bookshelves and in the comic shops

We have The Spider-man Vault which both Peter and Bob Greenberger worked very hard on.
We have Fable: the Balverine Order (which includes a cool code for Fable III)
And X-Factor 209 with Longshot in Vegas is out.
Enjoy-
Kath
PS: use this for this weeks Stash Wednesday and what you are currently reading



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Buy Harlan Ellison's First Typewriter

You can purchase Harlan's first typewriter. It still works.
More information about it can be found here
I felt as many people as possible should know about this. Feel free to spread the word.
I hope someone around here acquires it. That would be cool.
PAD



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Romania Travelogue II, Part 2

Originally published December 3, 1993, in Comics Buyer's Guide #1046
(Concluding Peter's latest foray to the wilds of Romania—in this instance, for the filming of the science-fiction western Oblivion.)
Oct. 29—Several scenes set in Mattie's (Jackie Swanson) store today. In one, Mattie is kidnapped by the ultra-kinky Lash (Musetta Vander). The script calls for Mattie to walk [...:]