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• @kmellon Prepare to be underwhelmed! #
• Announced this weekend: http://www.myspace.com/outlawterritory #
• Wrist pain means i get to take The Shield watching breaks every hour or so. See? There is an upside to crippling pain! #
• Heh. http://tinyurl.com/6n8eky #
• There's apparently a Spanish edition of Elk's Run that came out a few weeks ago... You'd think I'd know about this stuff... #
• Today's work completed, I intend to now pass out from sickness. Hooray! #

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WHY GOD WHY?

So, let's recap.  Yesterday I lost an almost finished script that's due in tomorrow.  Last night, my carpal tunnel started acting up, leading to my hands swelling so much I can't get my VERY loose fitting wedding ring off, and then this morning?  Yeah.  That's right.  I have laryngitis. I quit.

Here's photographic evidence of my quitting, with wrist braces.

Today in Twitter

• @BrianReed tells the truth. Bloom Blox is far and away my favorite Wii game of the year. #
• Finally! A record for people like me: http://tinyurl.com/6ngk6y #
• @bclaymoore Consider it handicapping for my attempts to keep up with your meteoric rise to stardom. #
• Nothing like waking up to find all of the work you did missing. Hooray! #
• I think today is a smoking day. #
• And, I'm back where I should've been starting for today. DAMN YOU iDISK! #
• Quick, someone find me a theremin. #
• Just got some Jeff Lemire pages for a Western short I wrote. They're fucking awesome. #
• I know I've said it before, but I would do almost anything to make a living writing nothing but Westerns. #

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• On an overnight trip to San Diego, staying at the Hotel del Coronado, feeling like a Richard Matheson novel. #

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• Finally. Someone has made an LP for me. http://tinyurl.com/629xad #
• Time to watch Doctor Who. Hooray for the power of the internet. #

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Today in Twitter

• Kids in the Hall was fanfuckingtastic. Go see them. #
• Today is a catchup day, as I've been swamped on nonpaid stuff all week (from jury duty to a pilot I'm developing...) #
• @bclaymoore You should check out the beta of Cultured Code's Things. If you have a Mac, that is. It's amazing. #
• @JasonCopland They had a good mix of new and old, and did their legacy proud, I'd say. It was really, really great. #
• @bclaymoore Vista made me switch. It was an expensive lesson, but well worth it. #
• WAAAA http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5764886.html #

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Please Pre-order the Josh Medors Benefit Book

I was asked by the kind folks at Boom Studios to take part in a benefit book for pal Josh Medors. It's got a GREAT line up, and I'm really proud to be a part of it. It's a tribute to Josh that we've gotten such a great lineup so quickly. Anyways info below, and if you follow the link, you can pre-order copies of the book.

PULP TALES - Benefit Book - ALL PROCEEDS will go to help Josh Medors & Family | BOOM! Studios

PULP TALES BENEFIT BOOK FOR JOSH MEDORS

Contributions by Steve Niles, Josh Fialkov, Kody Chamberlain, Tony Fleecs, Dan Taylor and more! Cover by Ben Templesmith and Josh Medors 24pgs, FC SRP: $3.99

Help BOOM! Studios support comic book artist Josh Medors, recently diagnosed with cancer, by ordering the benefit comic book PULP TALES. This two-fisted one-shot features all-new, action-packed stories by horror master Steve Niles, P.U.N.K.S' Josh Fialkov and Kody Chamberlain, '76's B. Clay Moore & Seth Peck, Capote in Kansas' Chris Samnee, In My Lifetime's Tony Fleecs, and more! Featuring a cover by Ben Templesmith!

ALL PROCEEDS will go to Josh Medors and his family.

HELP NOW AND PRE-ORDER THIS BOOK TODAY!

PULP TALES WILL SHIP SEPTEMBER! Price: $3.99

Analyzing Postcards

Long(ish) form dissection of each story from Postcards, including my story, seen here: ARTIFACT AND ARTIFICE: CULTURAL STUDIES OF THE TEXTUAL CITY: Postcards: True Stories that Never Happened

This story also invokes the idea of the city, since it is set in Paris and location is a focal point in the story – Marj wants to go home, Frank admires the skyline and calls it “paradise”, and the large last panel is Marj left alone, dwarfed under the shadow of the Eiffel Tower. Once again, here the city is an imposing, important ‘character’ in the story, where people can lose themselves or take on new identities.

Today in Twitter

• Day in, day out, the best writing advice on the web: http://johnaugust.com/ #

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Today in Twitter

• Fighting urge to go buy Boom Blox. #
• @Rantz1 is quite the little homemaker it seems. #
• I wish Atari games were like this: http://pixeljam.com/dinorun/ #
• Waaa! http://tinyurl.com/6757nx #
• So. Upsetting. http://tinyurl.com/5zt4db #
• I'm completely transfixed by the Rock-aftire Explosion. #
• @kmellon if only life were that simple. #
• Myspace has gone mad. http://tinyurl.com/6mfr46 #

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Today in Twitter

• New Elvis Costello Day! Me and @bclaymoore will be indisposed. #
• And the new Elvis Costello is pretty awesome. Probably the best since Brutal Youth. #
• @bclaymoore It's not. Only on iTunes and Vinyl with MP3 Download. #
• @remender is a pussy. I'm on six different allergy medicines AND weekly shots. My allergies can kick your allergies' ass. #
• @ivan brandon it seems that @jasonaaron only posts about Chick-Fil-A. Which makes us Popeye's entrenched folk jealous. #
• @Rantz1 I like when I call the pharmacy for refills and they keep saying, "And is this one for your wife?" "No..." "What about this one?" #
• Have I mentioned I had an unfortunate shaving accident that's left me looking like Trotsky? #
• "DON'T YOU LOOK AT ME!" #
• @JasonAaron I just tell them I'm from the future. That ends all discussion. #
• @RobLevin makes my dreams come true everyday. Or at least once a month when the checks show up. #
• @TonyLee I'm in pretentious goatee mode. It'll grow out in a week or two... in theory. #
• I really wish someone would hire me to write Westerns. Someone make it so. #
• @TonyLee I said pay me, not cost me a fortune. Very different things. #
• I bought a banjo. All of my free time is spent learning to play the hits of the 70's on it. #

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Today in Twitter

• Sleeping and then more jury duty. #
• http://riotclitshave.com/2008.05/billstickers.jpg #
• MEANWHILE AT THE HALL OF JUSTICE... Jury duty day 2. #
• Ah, the drunk sobbing juror sitting next to me. Go Liberty! #
• Someone remind me to write my rant about dissolving the current jury system. #
• @BrianReed It'd be better than being judged by the crying drunk lady who's husband is here to talk to 'this judge.' #
• Free at Last! Free at Last! Attica! Attica! Jury was approved the rest of us go home. #
• The new NIN starts with what sounds like my phone vibrating on the desk. #

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Jury Duty Day 2

Twittering my way through jury duty day 2. Follow me for more pun filled sarcasm at http://twitter.com/joshfialkov

Tom Waits Had a Crazy Ass Press Conference

Today in Twitter

• @Rantz1 I thought that said "I'm going to work at Disneyland. So... confused. #

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Today in Twitter

• See you tomorrow for FCBD. Schedule over at http://www.thefialkov.com #
• Evanier preaches on court room misconduct and Gordon Lee. http://tinyurl.com/6dhazg #
• Heading off to Amazing Comics & Cards in Long Beach for FCBD. Follow me: http://live.comicbookresources.com/ #

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Free Comic Book Day 2008 Pictures

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• And tomorrow I have jury duty. At least I'll have hot water when I shower at 4:30 am so that I can catch the bus to the court house. #
• Doing lettering draft for Alibi... I love @jerhaun so much. In a dirty way. #
• So... no hot water again... the adventure continues. #
• Sitting outside of jury duty waiting to be let in to wait some more. Civic duty! #
• Sitting in a different place waiting to serve. Juris Prudence! #
• We're on a 45 minute break. Justice Will Be Served!!! #
• With the break completed, we now resume waiting for our chance to decide the future of other citizens. #
• Lady Liberty has called. I have answered by walking down the hall to another room. #
• Lunch break inserts a pause into jury selection. The court finds you... HUNGRY. #
• At the LA court house they sell sandwiches like they serve justice. Cold and by the pound. #
• I hope I don't get selected for the trial, I'm running out of cliches, and its only the first day. #
• While justice is swift, the elevators to the 11th Floor are not. #
• And, we're back to the people's court. #
• The pee breaks ensure justice is seved, apparently. #
• Less than 1/3rd of the way through jury selection and court is adjourned. #

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Today in Twitter

• Day Two with no hot water. Ice Shower you won't stop me. #
• Extra points to the new Hulk trailer for using the theme from the 70's TV show. #
• Beware Captain Ginger: http://tinyurl.com/5a9pp6 #
• @BrianReed and @ramtower clearly missed the awesome of use of the "Walking away backwards with thumb up" music. #
• Ice Water Shower, considerably more unpleasent then you'd imagine. It's like being scalded alive with ice. #
• @NeverWanderer Hopefully we'll have hot water tomorrow, and I'll never have to do it again. Probably not, though. #
• Catching up on Pushing Daisies... it's fucking excellent. #
• That's a big piece of calamari. http://tinyurl.com/6m4yjs #
• Afternoon walk... I think I'm going to get one of them Iron Man Slurpee Cups. #
• No Iron Man Helmet cups at THREE 7 Elevens. #

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