Peter David's Blog, page 164

Christine Valada on Jeopardy!

Why is no one discussing the fact that Len Wein's wife, Chris Valada, is on Jeopardy as the defending champion right now?

PAD

A note from the management: 'As If' debuts tonight

Tonight is the first night of Ariel David and Shayna Kessler's new radio show AS If. Go to whrtradio.com at 9 PM. They will be taking requests and call ins as they come. The show will be every Monday night from 9-11PM.  The call-in/request number is (203) 365-4747.

Go and listen. ...

Winding Down the Excursion

Monday is the final day of our convention excursion that has taken in both Melbourne, Australia, and Auckland, New Zealand. To say we've been busy is an understatement. We've seen penguins by the hundreds come marching in at the end of a long day of fishing. We ...

Stash Wednesday Now on Thursday

Because we were traveling from Australia to New Zealand.

We hiked up a volcano today.

So what did you buy and what summer movies for 2010 have already got your interest?

Thunder Down Under

Embarking on the second day of Armageddon Convention. A few days ago I thought Armageddon was coming as, upon nightfall, blasts of flame erupted along the street and I thought someone was blowing up Melbourne. But no, it turns out to be a nightly show involving natural gas ...

Stash Wednesday Now on Thursday This week

Because we didn't have a Wednesday due to our travel to Australia and crossing the International Dateline.

So what did you get and what is coming out in the future that has your interest?

Kath

The Nobel Prize and the Hawthorne Effect

I think what we're seeing is a deliberate attempt by the Nobel Committee to implement the Hawthorne Effect--that aspect of reactivity which states that a subject being observed changes its behavior simply because it knows it's being observed.  More broadly, the mere act of observing an experiment can lead to ...

THIS JUST IN:

Barack Obama wins Nobel Prize for not being George W. Bush.

(Observation by Kathleen)

PAD

Marvel Bowl-off results:

Marvel freelancers over the Marvel editors. It was a reasonably close game: We had 900 total pinfall, and they had something like 873. Axel Alonso then informed us we were all fired. He was kidding...I think.

I had the high score with 177, which wasn't bad considering ...

Cowboy Pete Heroes Up

It's been a good long while since "Heroes" was watercooler television, and they really had no one to blame but themselves.  Overcomplicating their own concept with byzantine storylines about corporate schemes and government conspiracies, plus excessive time-jumping and world saving, they drove away their core audience faster than Glenn Beck ...