Signing Tomorrow

Posting has been sparse since I got my new computer -- the scanner still isn't hooked up yet. But I wanted to mention that I'll be signing EARTHLIGHT, my Tokyopop original graphic novel, this Wednesday, November 15th, at Jim Hanley's Universe in New York City, 33 4 West 33rd Street (around the corner from the Empire State Building), from 6:00 to 8:00 PM. Also signing: J. Torres, Matt Manning, and Chuck Satterlee. More info at the link in the title.

Come on out and let me hear a good Monster Force howl.

I'll be back soon with a stupid Bizarro joke. Promise.

Update

My earlier entry Tell Me Again About Your Fascinating New Blog sounds sarcastic and I didn't mean it that way. I probably shouldn't have used the word fascinating. Come forward and plug your mystery blog without fear, mystery blogger! (Wait, that sounded a little bitchy too. Oh my God, I can't turn it off!)

Links Of Fury

COMIC COMES TO LIFE, HASSLES THE MAN: V "visited security check points at the White House, the main Treasury, IRS and Justice Department Buildings and the Capitol... to deliver the People’s Petitions for Redress of Grievances relating to the Government’s violations of the war powers, tax, privacy and money clauses of the Constitution." [Thanks losthawk!]

SOUNDS OF SANTORUM: Valued commenter Bubba G. Russo sent in loser Rick Santorum's iPod playlist:

It's Over- Boz Scaggs
Blue Christmas- Elvis Presley
Everything I Have is Blue- Smithereens
Blue Hotel- Chris Isaak
Minority/ Good Riddance(Time Of Your Life)/American Idiot- Green Day
Left For Dead- Crazy Horse
He's Gone- Grateful Dead
I Got The News- Steely Dan
So Lonely- The Police
Gone For Good- The Shins
Serves You Right To Suffer- John Lee Hooker
Since You've Been Gone- Rainbow
There's Never Been Any Reason- Head East

This has to be a depressing time for Santorum, so he should probably confine his listening to...

POZ, OR POSITIVE MUSIC, i.e. "music of any style that conveys positive or constructive messages," an upsetting new non-trend I found on...

THE ODIOUS "GOOD NEWS" SITE by former CNN teleprompter reader and presumed Limbaugh fellater Daryn Kagan, which launched, fittingly, on...

John Layman's birthday!

Tell Me Again About Your Fascinating New Blog

A couple of weeks ago, one of you fine frequent commenters sent me an e-mail hinting that I might want to use this space to plug your fascinating new blog. And I do. But in the meantime your email vanished from my inbox and I forgot which one of you wrote to me and what your new blog is about. All I have left is this nagging feeling that once again I've disappointed somebody somewhere. So please send me another email and I'll plug away.

Don & Out

Hart Seely mourns the loss of his meal ticke-- uh, great subject, Donald Rumsfeld, in today's Los Angeles Times.

Link

Seely's Rummy book

Dennis The Menace Meets Fight Club

More here, via Monkeyfilter.

Gates Of Hell

Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern writes about Rummy's replacement, Robert Gates:

Unless Gates’ years outside the Beltway have wrought major behavioral change, Gates will bend to the wishes of Cheney and Bush and avoid taking stands on principle... Those of us who had a front-row seat to watch Gates’ handling of substantive intelligence can hardly forget the manner in which he cooked it to the recipe of whomever he reported to.

The Cheney-Gates Cabal
tompaine.com

Not Pictured: Uncle Fester Santorum

Via Slog

Happy Retirement, Rummy

There are few things that bring satisfaction,
Like joy for a job that's complete.
When you look up and see that it's finished
And you get up and stand on your feet.

You look over the task that you've worked on,
And reflect on the struggles it held
You feel like an axe-wielding woodsman,
Staring at the great tree he just felled.

It must be that way on completion
Of a grand and substantial career.
You can look back at so many victories,
Spanning over so many long years.

Think of all of the times you succeeded,
In making a sale you thought lost.
And how much it made your pride soar,
When you gave the good news to your boss.

It was from your good example
That I took leave of some of my fear
And entered the wide world of selling
Which has proved to be a great career!

I'm inspired to know of your endurance
Keeping at this for thirty three years
Your persona must be quite magnetic
To get through to so many ears!

In some ways this event is prophetic
A harbinger of things to come
Though if I managed to reach that point too
I might get there feeling very numb!

Our company loses a weapon
Against which there is no sure defense
For when you work your magic upon them
They give up all their dollars and cents!

Companies can create the best products
And at everything else be quite grand
But without a great sales force behind them
They might just as well sit on their hands!

So we're firm in our hearty acceptance
Of all those things you've seen, been and done
And now that your work days are past you
It's time to get out and have some fun!

We expect to hear from Ben and Jerry
And those folks at the Haagen Daz works
For they've heard that you will be retiring
And think ice cream sales will see a big spurt!

No doubt Las Vegas people are happy
That your time for gaming will increase
And the golf course is likewise excited
Thinking that your duffing will not cease!

But unlike them we're all feeling sorry
That we'll see you much less than before
But you'll be in our thoughts very often
You're a person that's hard to ignore!

Wishing you all the best!

Happy Retirement!

© www.poemstogo.tv

News From Home

And in Syracuse, New York Democrats denounced a Republican member of the Common Council for trying to deter people from voting for Dan Maffei, a Democrat challenging Republican Rep. Jim Walsh.

“Ryan McMahon, a Republican on the Common Council, showed up wearing a Maffei sticker in the polling place and started trying to convince people coming into vote that they were at the wrong polling place," said an email from the New York State Democrats.

GOP and Dems Trade Vote Fraud Charges
Chicago Tribune