Category Archives: travel

Journey to the West Coast

“‘And now at last it comes.  You will give me the Ring freely!  In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen.  And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night!  Fair as the Sea and the Sun and the Snow upon the Mountain!  Dreadful [...]

Changes!

“Greetings from California. I’ve been very busy. Am having a great time trying to make it as a writer in LA. It’s just as easy as everyone thinks it is. I’ve been working the room at a lot of Hollywood parties.” –Brian Griffin, Family Guy Yep, so here I am: Los Angeles. City of Dreams. [...]

Comic-Con Wrapup: Sunday Success!

I was completely trashed by Sunday. I could feel the fever coming on and the muscle relaxers had created… undesirable… digestive problems, but still, I soldiered on. Today was the day I’d get my Dharma Initiative test. It was now or never. Besides, my flight didn’t leave until 7pm. I got up early, scoped the [...]

Comic Con: Saturday Afternoon Panels

I love Battlestar Galactica. I had a few reservations about attending the panel, however. I don’t watch the shows “live,” I get them on DVD (no cable) and I don’t like spoilers. None of that mattered, though. Despite the fact that I stood in line for an hour and a half, I wound up being [...]

Comic-Con: Saturday Morning Cartoons

Turns out that missing the “Lost” panel was a good thing. It was on youtube later (no surprises there). Of course, Matthew Fox was there (drool), but he probably would have been a mere speck on the stage, so faint that like a distant Messier object, one would only have been able to see him [...]

Comic-Con: Saturday Insanity

This was when I started feeling like crap. I attributed it to the muscle relaxers I was taking for a back injury, so I stopped taking them, which, of course, made me feel even more uncomfortable. Still, I got up at 5:30 so that I could go stand in line for the “Lost” panel. The [...]

Comic-Con: Friday Fun Stuff

I feel like a dork for posting these things so late. I missed so much work being sick and whatnot that it’s been kind of crazy for me to try to catch up. Anyway, I got to meet Lloyd Kaufmann (president of Troma films) at Cannes this year. My friend Pericles (director of “Loop,” for [...]

Comic-Con: Friday Panels

Friday was my favorite day. It was the last day I remember actually feeling well before coming down with West Nile or adult onset mono or whatever the hell it was I ended up getting sick with. Today I learned how to be a panel camper. I’m a Joss Whedon fan, so I wanted to [...]