Where Does the Time Go?

In case you're wondering, the reason this blog has updated so seldom the past few weeks is that became Managing Editor at www.comicbookgalaxy.com, and not only does it consume a good deal of time reading and kibitzing on all the content that comes in (thankfully it's a very solid group and they only make a typo here and there, nothing major), but I write the entries for the home page blog, which kind of exercises my blogging muscles. Also, I'm trying to get a little more sleep, because the lack of it was making me even moodier and more demented than I usually am. It's pretty useful, sleep.

I finished Irregular Joe #5, and hey, someday this may mean something, when it's actually drawn and published and all that. As it is, I hope to start on #6 very soon, probably late this week, but need to finish the revisions to this book essay, which is fairly intensive, as the editor asked me to change the focus of it from one character to another (the book is about a certain superhero team, and I'm but one of many essayists exploring aspects of the team). I was writing about a particularly lame character and why he fails, and after reading it, the editor said I should focus instead on the character who ends up being a really important villain, and how the other one always falls short in comparison to him. It's pretty fun and challenging, but difficult.

Met two interesting women when my friend and I crashed another friend's party last week. One was a nice, attractive, bright woman, and the other was a dead ringer for prime era Anna Nicole Smith, just a beautiful face, voluptuous body, and really awful personality. It's honestly hard to say whether I would have pursued her more had she not continued to divert all conversation to her past relationship with a Major League Baseball player (I was still interested after she proceeded to urinate while talking to me, my back turned as she used the guest bathroom with the door open), but I'm glad she did, so hopefully I can pursue the other woman, who, whether she's a match for me or not, at least is in the ballpark (no pun intended).

This weekend was quieter, just good times with the kids. I had a great time buying clothes for my daughter, actually. My first couple attempts at it were sort of tentative, but surprisingly, Target had all kinds of cute, inexpensive things, and lots of outfits already complete, so it was pretty easy. I also bought her a Barbie Doodle Pro, which is kind of like an Etch-A-Sketch but with a stylus, and at breakfast (she brought it along, my son brought his new GI Joe Sigma 6 Storm Shadow figure)she asked me not only to draw Mommy, but to draw her with her boyfriend. That was a fun picture, believe me. I told the subject about it later and we both had a laugh. I mean, you kind of have to, right? I wouldn't mind using this in a story sometime.