Peter David's Blog, page 168

The Intellectual Dishonesty of the Internet Mindset

For reasons surpassing understanding, for the past four days I've engaged in an email exchange with a Scans_Daily denizen who seemed to want to have a genuine dialogue, but apparently didn't. After four days they were just as resolved as ever that I was a big old meanie because ...

POTATO MOON, Part 78: "And Now For Something Completely Different" by Lee Houston, Junior

Before Bela and Woeisme could react, Jakob grabbed each of them by a hand, pulling the ladies towards him until one was on either side of their would be suitor. There were plenty of thoughts going through his mind as he realized the arrangement, but most of them were unprintable ...

People Keep Asking My Opinion

As if I have some sort of special insight into the Disney/Marvel purchase. So I'll say here what I've been saying elsewhere and let it be my "official" statement:

I honestly haven't formed an opinion yet. I've seen guesses ranging from "Nothing's going to change" to "Everything's going to ...

I Called It!

"Beauty and the Beast" from two years ago

In Case You Haven't Heard…

Marvel Comics has been acquired by the Disney Corporation.

Seriously.  I'm not kidding.   This is the AP article:


The Walt Disney Co. says it is acquiring Marvel Entertainment Inc. for $4 billion in cash and stock, bringing characters like Iron Man and Spider-Man into the Disney family.


Under the deal, Disney ...

Okay, Now I Can Announce It…

X-Factor is not canceled. The following month will see the numbering switch to issue #200, and the story is double sized so we need to give the artist extra time to get a jump on it.

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POTATO MOON, Part 77: "In Which The Author is Really Happy He Took a Nap in the Middle of This," by Lance Karutz

Edwood's eyebrow raised almost imperceptibly, but everyone happened to be blinking at that precise moment, so his act was, in all actuality, imperceived.  He stabbed at his potato (or was it potatoe?)-made voodoo doll of Jakob.  He had done many things to the spud… effigy… spudigy thing that he had ...

Well, She's Off…

Kathleen took Ariel and her stuff up to college today. I keep thinking of how lucky I was to marry Kath, because second wives sometimes have little interest in children from the previous marriage (probably why stepmothers get such a bad rep in fairy tales.) But Kath has ...

STASH WEDNESDAY–NOW WITH ADDITIONAL DAY!

Yeah, yeah, I forgot to do it yesterday.

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Separation? What Separation?

A whole bunch of years ago, when I was sitting in a court room during divorce proceedings, I noticed the words, "IN GOD WE TRUST" emblazoned on the wall above the judge's bench. And I leaned over to my attorney and, indicating the wording, said, "So...the whole separation of ...