NO TIME

No time to post anything today. Instead, enjoy the following:

EAR WORMS

On the way home from the convention, I was listening to Dr. Dean Edell, and he was talking about "ear worms". Those are the songs that you have stuck in your head, and you can't get rid of them. On day like today, where everything goes nice and easy, I often have this one running through my head. It's a nice, pleasant ear worm.





What is the music that goes through your head? What is your "Theme"?

WONDER CON DAY 0

Yesterday, Mark and I loaded our cargo van to the brim with vintage comics, bargain books, toys and Pure Here shirts.

I got up at 5:30 this morning, and got on the road before 7:00. I picked up Mark at his house in Hayward, and continued on to San Francisco. We arrived before 9:00. Within a few minutes, they let us drive underground to the convention floor. We grabbed a couple of pallets and started loading them up. As soon as we were done, a forklift operator took the pallets to our booth. We started setting up the booth. By 12:30 I decided that we were pretty well set up. We covered everything up, and called it a day.

Now it's 3:00 pm. I'm back at my San Jose home, relaxing in my sweatpants. I gassed up the van, and just enjoyed a delicious sandwich at Eric's Deli. It can be really hard setting up at shows, but today went really smoothly. I'll be relaxed, and ready for tomorrow. I'll be back with a report, and pictures.

If you are going to the show, look for us in the 1000 isle, right by the front. Make sure to say hi, okay?

WONDER CON

That's where I'll be this weekend.

STOUT!

I had a fantastic time at our William Stout signing on Saturday. William is not only one of the greatest artists alive, but he is one heck of a fun guy and interesting storyteller. He does a lot of work on movies and music projects, as well as the occasional comic book. He's worked with Arnold Schwarzenegger several times. Some time I'll have to recount his amazing stories about Arnold that he told me.


William did some fantastic drawings for the lucky attendees.


Here's one of the people that showed up to this event. It's Kirk Durfey. Some of you may know him from when he worked at Comics and Comix in Palo Alto in the 1980s. He worked with Teresa Marovich who we profiled a while back. It was nice to see Kirk again after all these years.


Here's a shot of me, Bill, and John Fleskes, the publisher of Bill's great new book.

I don't know what the next Lee's Comics event will be, but make sure to attend. These things are not to be missed!

NEW BROOM

I've got an idea for a new product: The Slumdog Broom. It sweeps everything!

I'm happy about Slumdog Millionaire winning all those awards, as it was my favorite move of the year. Well, that and Wall-E. Two fantastic films, in a very good year for films.

IF IT TAKES FOREVER

Watching the Oscars here. A guy just won in an obscure category, and rattled off his long long list of people that he wanted to thank.

When he finally finished, the band walked him off with "I Will Wait for You." Very funny if you know the song. I wonder how many people caught it. Not many, I bet.

"If it takes forever I will wait for you
For a thousand summers I will wait for you..."