Category: Missives
The Mummy and Spiderman
Today is the official start of Halloween season for me, despite the fact that stores have had their wares out for weeks. Today I added two new denizens to my Halloween menagerie, a five foot tall mummy and a cocooned man covered in spiders. I was nervous they would turn …
Pez Museum
One of the big tourist attractions here in the Bay Area, bigger than the Golden Gate Bridge, better known than Lombard Street, is the Pez Museum. They have every Pez ever made. Totally worth the visit.
The dead need love too
Just finished up a 10 page comic script for an undead story of love and loss. I’m really happy with how it turned out. I’ve always had sort of a morbid fascination with death. Not the gross, dead body, kind of death, but the iconography and subtext of death. In …
Zombie tattoo
Twenty five years ago I got a tattoo. It was skeletal/zombie theater masks. I wanted to be a writer and, well, I loved horror. Still do. So spooky theater masks seemed like the perfect tat. But 25 years of blurring and fading made my ink look like a blot. I …
RoboGames
Following up on the BarBots of Wondercon is RoboGames – remote controlled robots knocking the hell out of each other. You’ve seen it on TV. It seems silly, childish and geeky. I know. But when you are here live, watch 200 pound metal monsters trying to beat the crap out …
Did I say 77 ‘Vette?
Should have said ’75. For reasons unique to California’s highly legislated world view, cars made after 1975 must have their original emissions hardware. There are a lot of reasons why that is stupid, but ignoring the idiocy for a moment, my ’77 isn’t equipped with the proper hardware. Blah! So …