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This past week, I had one of the most surprising things in my short career happen. I woke up to a stack of e-mails NOT advertising “Viagara.” Well, those were there as well, but, in addition to those was a about twenty or thirty “Congratulations!” e-mails. I’m usually pretty up on why people are congratulating me, but this time I was baffled. It turned out Elk’s Run was in last week’s Entertainment Weekly, and we got an “A.”
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Meltdown are quite possibly the country's top-sellers of my books, they go through a ginormous stack of 'em every month, I can barely keep up with their reorders. They've been very good to H&B, and now, they want to be really good to you. Check em out.
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If you want to see two of the coolest cats in comics going crazy (damn I'm an alliterating fool) check 'em out tomorrow night. Free Beer, too, I hear. Go to www.meltcomics.com for more info.
While doing research for the new book, someone recommended I go back and spend some time with Homicide. I've seen episodes here and there, but never really got into it (it was on during my 'no interest in TV' phase.) Anyways, I gotta say, this is far and away the best cop show I've ever seen. It's 10x the show that NYPD Blue could ever hope to be, and it even manages to edge out The Shield and Hill Street Blues, which are each the best of their era. The show manages to be both irreverant and poignant, the acting is stellar, and the structure is just... breath taking.
The best of it all tho, is the "Three Men and Adena." It's the climax of one of the main throughlines of the first season, and it comes down to two detectives who hate each other having one last chance to break the man responsible for the major murder they're following. It's a full hour of nothing but interogation and it's positively mesmerizing. It's the perfect example of how doing things by the book and formulaic might be safe, but it's not art. This is a work of art.
If you're a fan of Bendis' Powers or Brubaker and Rucka's Gotham Central, you owe it to yourself to check these DVD's out.
I blew out my shoulder last week, and typing is a huge pain in the ass, so I have to limit it to deadline oriented work only.
It's almost all healed up, so, y'know, back and regular soon.
It's actually pretty good. There's three key moments that are just heinously awful, but, aside from those, it's a pretty good time. The first time I've ever wanted to go and watch the next movie after walking out of a prequel. Speilberg saved it, methinks.
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Sort of a Mars Attacks!-The Game, only it seems to actually deliver on it. Their setup was great, a little 50's diner with a UFO crashing into it.
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Rockstar Games had a pretty cool setup, about a dozen semi's painted up with decals for all the new games. For some reason you couldn't actually walk around by them, or play anything, which was stange, but the big steel fences and trucks made a striking visual.
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The best game of the PS2 generations gets a sequel that's EVEN BETTER.
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It's remarkable because it manages to be both tremendously dark, and overwhelmingly bright at the same time. Sort of like the Universal Citywalk at night. It was hellaciously crowded both days I went, so the pictures were all taken on the move. Hence the shitty, shitty cell phone quality.
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Here's a short couple of pictures from my day at E3, I was actually running around talking to people, and didn't really have time to take too many pictures, but, here's a few.
This is the first thing you see when you come in, sort of the quiet before the storm.
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It's like my days of non-diabeticism are back! Tastes almost exactly like Coke, or what I think Coke tastes like. It's been a good 3 years since I've had actual Coke, aside from the occasional restaurant fuck up.
This has gotten the Josh seal of approval.
For what it's worth.
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I have a germ phobia, and keep bottles of Purell squirelled away all over my house and car. I'm probably gonna have to ride the train next week for E3,and thought of being in that steel fucking bacteria breeding ground is already makin me nervous.
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Dina.
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You'd think'd I'd look happier.
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