MY BETTER HALF...

This woman is cleverer, funnier and stronger than I am. So she can certainly kick YOUR ass...

LEAST ACTION HERO...

So many deadlines and dinosaur incursions, so little time...

JOURNEYMAN...

Lay back and think of the air-miles I'm earning...

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Archive for November 2009

THE THOUGHT THAT COUNTS...

I t's been a busy week or so since the last post. Last weekend was the Thought Bubble event which formed the last weekend of the Leeds International Film Festival and I was asked to moderate a panel on Comics-to-Movies.

Much fun was had at the Leeds City Hotel (with the impressive view from the bar there to the right) and the Savile Hall's actual con venue. On the panel wre Doctor Who and Marvel writer Paul Cornell, Iron Man designer Adi Granov, The Losers and Daredevil writer Andy Diggle and we were joined later by Losers artist Jock.


The Movie panel was great fun and it's always made easier when the panellists are conversational and fun. Though there wasn't any great news to break, it proved to be a good analysis of where the industry is and the way that those in the comics field are responding to it. It easily lasted the allotted full hour and I think we could have gone on a bit too - so that's always good.

The week before had seemed packed to the brim, so I went into the weekend already suffering from a lack of sleep. However I was well looked after during and after by Mark and Sabrina Peyton and Lisa Wood and I should thank them here for the good company and two very tasty meals with the guests and the party at the casino on Saturday evening. You'll be reading more about the day in the Impacts coming out around Christmas and January.

Come Sunday afternoon I was on the train down to London for the early Monday am press for The Lovely Bones. I have to say I wasn't that impressed with the Euston accomodation I got, but it was central enough to get to the screening for 9:00am and then head to Claridges for the press conference. Peter Jackson was in good form and the room was packed out and so all went well. Had to race to get the train back and was back to Leeds by about 6:00pm after writing as much as I could on the train.


The rest of the week has been general hurry-up-and-wait style writing. I'm trying to pull ahead a little on the work so that I have it easier over Christmas and New Year. Got a few small presents sorted and got the bag ready for packing. Jilly seems busier and more tired than I am, but hoping we get some quality time together over the holidays where we can put the chores, works and deadlines aside for a little while. We'll see how that works out.

Friendly reminder to all that the T-shirt store is up and running at www.cafepress.com/theregoestheday and anyone wanting the ideal Christmas present should hurry up and order soon. They are good at the delivery side, but as we head into December, it always pays to sort the post earlier rather than later.

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I DON'T LIKE MEH-NDAYS

I t's been a busy week or so. Lots to do and just the hard slog of getting through it I did get to go to the 'Horsforth' with Glenn, Simon, Sheryl, Sally and Co last Friday and it was good to take a few hours off for once. But generally, Impact is taking up a lot of time, the TGTD Store is looking better but it takes time to do all the tweaking behind the scenes and I haven't been able to get to sleep until way after 2:00am most nights, which makes mornings come annoyingly quickly.

The laptop is in for repair, so currently using the parentals' spare laptop. I hope to have mine back in about a week, but who knows with my history with electronics? For the moment, I also need to prep for the Thought Bubble event at the weekend, which should be a fun opportunity to meet old friends and moderate an interesting panel.

I just feeli a bit at a loose end. Need to generate some more $ coming in for the amount of work I'm doing or at least make it pay in some way, shape or form. I guess I also need to work out basic aims and objectives and intents for 2010 so that I can start putting my energies and efforts where they need to be to keep momentum up.

All fine... but today, it's all a bit... 'meh'.


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FIRE WORKS. LAPTOP, NOT SO MUCH...


S o, the parentals are off in Vegas, playing at being bankers (spending my inheritance). That means I'm house-sitting by default once again. I worked out recently that between now and the middle of March, we'll probably be like ships in the night with me or them out of the country at any given point.  However, on this occasion, I think they've certainly got the best of the weather. 70-80 in Nevada and distinctly colder and wetter here. It's been dreary all week and more typical November weather after the a-typical warmer weather of a week ago. At this rate, we'll have snow before December. Or at least horribly grey and damp ('British').




On Thursday I went up to Roundhay Park with Simon, Sheryl and her son for November 5th celebrations. The last time I went up there for the big bonfire and firework display was with Karen and her parents - probably well over a decade ago now. Apparently, according to her Facebook, she was up there on Thursday too with her sons - I should probably have checked ahead of time.

Tonight there's a lot of fireworks going off locally as well, it appears a lot of people waited until Saturday, in the hope of better weather (ha!) to throw their parties. Someone just up the road is really putting a lot into it and giving Roundhay a run for their money.

Sadly, I'm having laptop problems again. Yeah, I know... whodathunkit? For some reason the bloody thing keeps freezing and requiring me to shut it down and start it up again. It's happened about seven times today already, at different times - this post is rushed out between them. I've beem meaning to put the laptop in for repair for a while as the DVD drive and webcam mic are on the blink, but I guess this means I need to arrange it next week so there's a cat in heck's chance of me getting back before Iowa. Fortunately all my design and writing is on the external hard disk, so I can just unplug that and not lose anything.

I can use the parental laptop or desktop in an emergency, but could do without it. So I can only hope that PC World fix it all quickly... or lose it/destroy it again and have to give me a new one. Such is life.

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THE MEANING OF LIFE... AND UNDEATH.

W ell, year ago today I was lying in a hospital bed and seriously wondering if I was going to make it through the night. It was a day after Hallowe'en and - even then - the irony wasn't lost on me.
Perhaps on purpose I was back at the FAB Cafe's Hallowe'en party again yesterday. I was meeting Mark, Sabrina, Adi and Tamsin for a few drinks and several hours before heading there I still hadn't decided what (if anything) I was going to get dressed up as/in. Last year I smothered my face in cheap and heavy skull make-up and though there's probably no viable connection to what happened later, I decided that I wasn't going to go quite as mad with it all this year. I had a cheap mask, just in case, but in the end decided to apply a little visceration latex and fake blood to give myself a small but convincing scar.

I got to the Cafe for 8:00 as arranged, only to find the opening was running late and then was sent to the back of the queue by the bouncer on the door because I was queueing on the 'wrong side of the door' (bizarrely there were two queues by that point, so... go figure). Mark, Sabrina, Tamsin and Adi were delayed, so it was considerably after 9:00 when they got there, however I had fun watching the various Lara Crofts, vampires and things that defy description . But it was a good evening with Mark and putting together our theories on the upcoming Who specials (we think we have it all solved, including KEY plot aspects that go ping when there's stuff... :)

Took it easy today and breathed a quiet sigh of relief when 5:00 passed and I'm into another, hopefully normally healthy, year without any 'splodeyness!

42 days until Iowa. The meaning of life, indeed.

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