Perhapablog
Friday, December 28, 2007
oh, the snow...
okay...hey, everybody! and happy new year's eve!
woke up this morning with every intention of posting this first thing this morning--trouble was, we had no power. for about 6 hours. just came back on and so here is the post and, below, the answers to the "five on friday".
the power was out due to a beautiful snow storm that snuck up on us last night. well, it snuck up on ME--my dad had been saying that they were calling for it all day and warned sharon and i as we were going out for a nice romantic pre-new year's eve dinner at one of our favorite restaurants, anthony's. we weren't out late, but on the way home the snow had started, giving us that cool star wars lightspeed effect as the snow came at us. it really didn't look like it was sticking though, so we weren't worried about any possible accumulation.
this morning, seven inches and no power.
here're some pics.
and here are some of jake enjoying the snow!
and here is kayla enjoying the snow...
hope you're enjoying the snow--wherever you are!
and here, the answers to your
"five for friday"
1. who was the author of such books as galapogas, breakfast of champions, and the sirens of titan?
kurt vonnegut jr.
2. what young actor's earlier roles included having an arrow shoved through his throat in the first "friday the 13th" ?
kevin bacon
(johnny depp was in "nightmare on elm street")
3. what is the drum-like name of the circular membrane that act as a frog's ears?
the timpanic membrane
4. who was the only person to speak in mel brooks' "silent movie" ?
legendary mime, marcel marceau
5. match the 70's comics artist with the book/character he's best known for.
(sorry if some of you are too young...)
1. mike grell e. green lantern
2. curt swan c. superman
3. dick dillin a. justice league of america
4. irv novick b. flash
5. jim aparo d. brave and the bold
smell ya next year!
todd
a bit disappointed...
okay...i had a whole 'nother blog prepared for today, one that i put together yesterday in advance as i was supposed to be heading toward craig's house today so that sharon and i could have a little christmas of our own with the rousseaus. though we talk on the phone everyday (sometimes twice), i haven't seen the guy in months and am dying to see trish, the johnny, and to see how big my little goddaughter has gotten. and my buddy, oz. we were both really looking forward to it...
unfortunately, my brother--jake's usual babysitter, is going away himself for a couple days and my back-up jakesitters backed out. so we had to cancel. sad.
so here i sit.
i guess i'd better get some work done.
perhapanauts update--man, craig and rico are doing some AWESOME work on the annual--it's almost done! it's so cool to get the pages and see craig bring your ideas to life, but then the two of us become even more excited as rico starts to send in the colors, making everything real, making everything pop! we are so lucky to have that guy on the team! thanks, rico!
here's a random photo of the week. it's a squirrel in moscow. i really don't know why it's ears are so big, but it's pretty cool. do we have squirrels with ears that big? we should get some.
alright. here are your
"five for friday"
1. who was the author of such books as galapogas, breakfast of champions, and the sirens of titan?
2. what young actor's earlier roles included having an arrow shoved through his throat in the first "friday the 13th" ?
3. what is the drum-like name of the circular membrane that act as a frog's ears?
4. who was the only person to speak in mel brooks' "silent movie" ?
5. match the 70's comics artist with the book/character he's best known for.
(sorry if some of you are too young...)
1. mike grell a. justice league of america
2. curt swan b. flash
3. dick dillin c. superman
4. irv novick d. brave and the bold
5. jim aparo e. green lantern
that's it. i'm out.
smell ya later!
todd
Thursday, December 27, 2007
back to scary...
okay...so in looking for more of those "scared of santa" photos this year, i came upon the one below and...it just creeps me out...! yikes!
sometimes photoshop can be used for evil! man, that's just a scary face! for some reason, it reminds me of some of the made-up storybook characters in laurel and hardy's "babes in toyland" (aka "march of the wooden soldiers" 1934)--another long time christmas classic that i forgot to mention last week and haven't caught on tv in years. (maybe because people finally realized that a lot of the make-up effects were terrifying!) i guess back then they were just so excited to create life-sized cats and mice and pigs that the fact that there were human eyes glaring our from those fuzzy faces wasn't as unsettling...
there were boogie men in it too--i remember being kinda scared...
another dubious holiday classic--i remember seeing this as a small kid back in the early 70's--was this masterpiece! you can't go wrong when you put santa up against an invasion of little green men. 1964. crazy!
well, on to other things.
it's comforting to me that we--our little perhapa-family here--were able to offer well-wishes to one another and to enjoy the spirit of the season together, but now that we've covered to peace on earth/good will toward men part. let's get down to it...
whadja get?
i mean, i know we prob'ly all got clothes of some kind, and maybe that was your favorite present, but as this is a forum for all things paranormal, comic book, movie, music, books and magazines, etc. let's hear it, perhapa-gang! whadja get?
lemme know~~
smell ya later!
todd
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
twelve days
okay...
alison sent this to me and even though i still don't know how to create a link, it is well worth your precious holiday time to cut and paste this and see a wonderful, beautiful, funny, and simply amazing rendition of the twelve days as you've never seen it before!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Fe11OlMiz8&feature=related
thanks, alison!
merry, merry, everybody!
smell ya later~
todd
Monday, December 24, 2007
merry christmas eve--scared of santa
>okay...
as we all settle in for a nice cozy christmas eve,
i thought i'd sign off with a last "scared of santa" gallery
and a wish of peace and love to all of you.
merry christmas.
todd
Sunday, December 23, 2007
the (christmas) spirit of film
okay...
so far sharon and i have watched it's a wonderful life and santa claus is comin' to town, rudolph, and a charlie brown christmas, .we saw year without a santa claus, how the grinch stole christmas (we even had the crappy jim carrey version on the other night as we wrapped presents). and last night we watched a new favorite that we found last year, a christmas wish (aka the great rupert-1950-), the story of a poor family that believes they are being sent money from above when the squirrel that lives in their wall starts issuing out $100 bills that the scrooge-like neighbor is squirreling away under his floorboards. it's not really that great and jimmy durante's old vaudeville jokes actually hurt, but the harryhausen-esque animation on rupert, though brief, is some beautiful old-timey movie magic.
we are waiting to watch (the original) miracle on 34th street tonight or towmorrow and ya gotta save a christmas story until a day or two before...and then, thanks to tbs, a little bit here and there all day on christmas!
the one that i made my own tradition about ten years ago--well, with the help of dani--is to watch a christmas carol on christmas eve. and it has to be the one from 1951, in black and white, with alastair sim as the most perfect scrooge there ever was! oh, sure, patrick stewart and george c. scott have turned in some excellent performances as the old skinflint--and i thought magoo was brilliant in his own 1962 version. but it's not half as scary, half as meaningful, until you see sim take ebenezer through his range of emotions in this classic british version. this is christmas--and the best film to fall asleep to on christmas eve...
this should not be missed...
so that's my run-down--what do YOU hafta see for the holidays? and have you gotten to see it yet?
see ya tomorrow!
and smell ya later!
todd
Friday, December 21, 2007
happy, happy, happy holidays!
okay...
as most people have monday off and most people check this blog out from work, for some, this will be the last blog you see before christmas and, while i will still post something on monday--and prob'ly a little post or two over the weekend so check it out--let me take this opportunity to wish you all a very happy, joyous, and peaceful holiday. it's in the air this time of year and i hope that you will find it in your community, in your friends and family, and in your hearts. i love this time of year and i love the magic that it brings; the caring and the compassion and the love. would that we could keep it all year 'round.
God bless us everyone.
i got these photos months ago and wanted to save them as a kind of gift for christmas.
i think they're just great.
and, not to ignore our kooky paranormal perhapanaut side this holiday season (for some reason i have been transfixed with the biography channel's new paranormal state and ghostly hauntings all this week while wrapping presents and making my christmas card. good creepy stuff. check it out...), here's a little holiday yarn from your true tales to keep you glancing in that dark corner under the christmas tree...
Face-to-Face with an Elf
by K.T.
My story begins with my toddler's sighting. In October of 2003, in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, I was out playing on our patio with my 2½-year-old son when he stopped suddenly and asked me: who was the little man sitting on our stone wall? I looked where he was pointing and saw nothing... but the area looked different somehow (shimmery?). I asked him where this man was and he again pointed to that spot and said, "There! Oh, he left now." He seemed so sincere and matter of fact (and the area then looked "normal") that I got a little spooked.
Later, in January 2004, we were again outside playing, this time with my husband, when the most beautiful snow began to fall. It was just coming on to dusk and I said I wanted to take a quick walk in the woods and my husband would watch our son while I went. Anyway, I started through the woods and was somewhat perplexed by how different everything looked. Hard to describe, again shimmery is first word that comes to mind, but I attributed it to all the snow.
As I rounded a bend in the path, I came face-to-face, about three or four feet away, with a little elf-looking man peering right at me from behind a tree. The path takes a nice uphill, so even though he was only about 3½ to 4 feet tall (I later measured tree) we were eye level. I could see his face, neck and one hand (holding onto the tree). It was almost a stereotypical elf: long, pointy ears, long funny-shaped nose, very long fingers and pointy cap. However, it was wearing red clothes and hat, and its skin appeared to be a very light lavender color. I let out a startled "Ooh!" and it jerked back and disappeared; not behind the tree, but literally just disappeared into thin air. At that point I took off and ran the whole way back to my house, I was just so unnerved (and full of adrenaline!). That is the last we ever saw of any "little men," but something I will never forget.
so merry christmas!
happy hannukah!
happy kwanza!
happy festivus!
i'll be back on monday--and maybe before...
but i'll definitely
smell ya later!
todd
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
picture day
okay...
as christmas approaches and i rush to get presents sent out (on time!) and christmas cards sent out (on time!) and about a thousand other things that i should be doing, i find myself talking to mike and my mom--the two people i am missing the most this holiday season--and keeping them a part of my frantic activities. mom is helping me with gift choices, mike is making me laugh. yes, this is s'posed to be the season of brotherly love and kindness and reaching out to one another with joy and good cheer but four (i'll call them large) jolly people shouldn't congregate in the entrance to target! i mean, stopping short to talk to someone in the mall is dangerous at best, especially at this time of year, but if ya gotta stop, pull to the side folks! these four formed a huddle that blocked things entirely! and they were unconsciously shifting as we tried to get by! while sharon and i (and about 6 other people who just couldn't get around) laughed as inconspicuously as we could, i could hear mike's building bray inside my head and it made it all the funnier.
so, mike...
i got an 'e' the other day from spider-man fan, tellos fan, and HUGE mike fan, vicki tierney, who was sweet enough to send me pictures of her own personal tribute to mike. while matt and i have just been amazed at the incredible (and in some cases a little too touching) pieces that have been sent to us by countless talented and compassionate artistts, vicki's testiment to mike is one that is hard to beat.
as you can see.
and, in the spirit of christmas, and even moreso, the spirit of mike, i offer the following;
Fish Story
apparently, this young buck was a mile and a half off the florida coast swimming to who knows where.
near total exhaustion--no doubt that he would have very shortly drowned--he was caught and brought aboard this fishing boat.
"He was sooo tired and was glad to get into our boat and rest!
And yes, we turned him loose when we got back to shore. Just try beating this Fish Story!"
how wonderful that these guys spotted the deer and then took the time--i'm sure it was hard--to get the little guy up and in and back to shore!
merry christmas!
gotta run!
smell ya later!
todd
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
a tuesday extra!
okay...
as my very good friend, walt, mentioned in the comments section the other day, we--meaning THE PERHAPANAUTS--are featured on the back cover of this month's westfield catalog, along with the chance to get a copy of the upcoming PERHAPANAUTS ANNUAL #1 signed by the very guys whose names appear in the title!! woo hoo! plus, westfield's got a special double cover deal on the book to guarantee that you get both the lovely craig rousseau cover as well as the cool, awesome mike allred cover!--so check it!
go to
www.westfieldcomics.com
for more on that little dealio!
gotta go wrap sharon's stuff before she gets home...
smell ya later!
todd
Monday, December 17, 2007
holiday rush!
okay...
hope YOU had a good weekend!
racing around like crazy yesterday and today as i realize how close christmas really is! i've actually done pretty well cleaning and shopping and decorating (well...sharon did a lot of the cleaning...), but i haven't even finished my christmas cards yet and there are gifts that need to be mailed off to nick and other far off relatives. gotta get goin'!
my question to you is; how you doon'?
shopping done? in the spirit? what are you doing to make things festive?
as i said in the comments on friday,
i really thought that these quotes were going to be easy.
i guess sometimes we convince ourselves of something and then just go with it.
here are the answers to the
"five for friday"
"quotes"
1. who said the infamous words, "we will bury you."?
russian primier nikita kruschev
2. whose last words were "either this wallpaper goes or i do."?
oscar wilde
3. in 1994, on weekend update, norm macdonald announced that two actors were in "a heated competition in the Academy's controversial new category: Best Retard." who were the actors and for what movies?
tom hanks in "forrest gump" and jody foster in "nell".
4. "imagination is more important than knowledge."
albert einstein
5. "no matter where you go, there you are."
buckaroo banzai
that's it for me!
i gotta go!
smell ya later!
todd
Friday, December 14, 2007
and the best...
okay...
the other day i went on about the worst christmas present i ever gave. got a lot of personal comments on that and a lot of great responses. thanks to everyone who shared their own frustrating fathers stories. i guess that evoked some memories here and there that weren't really the happiest of holiday memories. sorry 'bout that.
so to correct that and get us all heading in the merry direction again, here's the best gift i ever gave.
slippers.
big fluffy yellow ones.
to my mom.
i think i was about 11 or 12 and had started working mowing lawns and odd jobs that summer and fall and was so proud to be able to spend my own money, that i had earned to buy my family presents for christmas. probably more like 12. of course, dad was that problem--i think that's the year i did get him some kind of wacky tool; a telescoping rod with a magnet on the end to pick up stuff that had fallen down behind the workbench. my brother, probably some toy on his christmas list that was within my (limited) range. and mom...oh, my mom...
my mom was my best friend, especially at that time in my life, me being shy and, y'know, sensitive. she was an incredibly compassionate person and could read me like a book. we communicated very easily--sometimes telepathically--and she had no problem telling me, very simply, that what she would really love from me for christmas were a pair of slippers. her feet were always cold, she told me, and some nice warm slippers would make her feel so good.
so i went hunting, in my then very small town, for the warmest, warmest slippers i could find.
this being the seventies, it wasn't very long before i came upon, in one of the more trendier shops (very conservative town was rhinebeck...), the biggest, fluffiest, yellowest, warmest looking slippers i ever saw. sure, they looked like they had just been amputated from the end of big bird's drumsticks, but they looked so warm.
now, my mom was pretty conservative too--even in her own home where no one would see her--and these were definitely not any kind of slippers that she would pick out for herself. and when she opened them...
...she looked at me and beamed, her face so full of love and appreciation, and she thanked me and kissed me and hugged me and tried them on and hugged me again and she wore those huge freaky (awkward) yellow slippers for years until they fell apart and i was so happy that i had made her so happy. and her feet warm.
"five for friday"
"quotes"
1. who said the infamous words, "we will bury you."?
2. whose last words were "either this wallpaper goes or i do."?
3. in 1994, on weekend update, norm macdonald announced that two actors were in "a heated competition in the Academy's controversial new category: Best Retard." who were the actors and for what movies?
4. "imagination is more important than knowledge."
5. "no matter where you go, there you are."
have a great weekend!
smell ya later!
todd
Monday, December 10, 2007
ghosts of christmas presents
okay...
a week or so ago, over on the perhapanauts forum, my pal, matt (wieringo), started a post called "best and worst christmas gifts". and i cringed. what an excellent, excellent topic! what a great way to get into the spirit of the season with friends--and we are all friends here, right...?--sharing happy memories of childhood christmases and holidays past? i had a wonderful childhood (many say i haven't left it yet...) and i have LOADS of memories of some of the great loot santa brought each year! magic tricks and spy kits, creepy crawlers and incredible edibles, toy trucks and bikes and a krazy kar!! (my brother got a big wheel...i callled it a "big deal", that krazy kar was ass!) cool board games and drawing toys and comic books! and later stereos and albums and video games...
it's been a wonderful life...!
but matt (wisely) covered all the bases, and while i could fill up the list in the "best gift given" and "best gift received" categories, and had no problem finding one or two to put in my own "worst gift received" spot, the one that made me cringe was..."worst gift given".
man, my dad was so hard to buy for.
dads are all hard because they are more impulsive that any other living creature. when they see something they want or need, they buy it. right there. on the spot. no waiting, no considering. sold. done. my dad was this way. so was yours.
so at christmas time, it was futile.
so hard to buy for.
oh, we would ask him what he wanted...
and he would tell us.
the same thing.
every year.
socks and underwear.
but...but...but...
i always wanted to get him something really GREAT! something he'd love! something that would surprise him and be just what he wanted but hadn't said so. something that would surprise him and make him light up.
okay, i'm sure that, on some level, i was seeking approval. we all do at that age. my dad was not the most demonstrative guy in the world, having grown up in the john wayne era, and i was a young--some might say sensitive--kid trying to wow this guy who did SO MUCH for us, whom i loved more than i could say. i was so sure that just the right present would make him see how i felt, how much i appreciated him. and so i slowly and systematically sabotaged myself trying to find the one present--the key!!--that would unlock the door to my dad's buried emotional side. year after year, i struggled to find that treasure, giving my dad bizarre and unneeded tools--that long rod with the button on the end and a little claw on the other to pick up things that have fallen behind the workbench--stupid t-shirts (my dad never wore t-shirts) and books that he wouldn't read. my frustration eventually became anger and as the days til christmas ticked away, i would become mad at my dad for being such a tough nut to crack...
this went on for years.
in final fury and exasperation (i was only 14 or so and a rebellious teen after all...), for christmas of '76, i bought my dad the most horrible gift i've ever given to anyone, the one that STILL makes me wince, the single most popular poster of all time. i bought my dad the farrah fawcett poster.
(i don't know why. i wasn't hot for her. i mean, she was gorgeous and that bathing suit was just great and at that point i had never seen nipples in real life, so...)
and my dad....my dad never watched the show, never made comments about her, or ANYONE on tv or in movies, never even LOOKED at another woman besides my mother. he did not have calendars or posters in his workshop. WHAT WAS I DOING?!?!?
to psychoanalyze a bit, a shrink might tell me that, especially as a young man trying to bond with his father, i DID become enraged and tried to hurt him with a present the total opposite of who and what he was. or maybe i was trying to tell him, see, i'm a man now and we should like these things and talk about it. or i don't know...
i was embarrassed and upset by the gift even as i was handing it to him. this man who had worked so hard to provide for us and i was giving him a gift that was going to make us all uncomfortable. but what could i do...? he opened it. he said, "oh" and "well, thank you." and set it aside to move onto something else, something more traditional and acceptable. i felt sick to my stomach for the next hour or so. i'm feeling it now, again, as i relive the memory.
one of my deepest regrets. not for what the present was, but for what it represented.
but we do these things.
the next year, i bought him some socks and underwear.
he was delighted.
i'm grown up now, or so they tell me. i've learned to respect and understand my father's feelings as an adult and now as a friend. he has grown too and we can talk about these things now and both of us have learned to express our feelings about each other and to each other without embarrassment or awkwardness. with love. my mom's passing two years ago has now made us even closer and i'm not trying to win his approval with that perfect christmas gift anymore. i'm past that.
this year we're gettin' him a big screen tv. : )
don't tell him...
smell ya later!
todd
Friday, December 07, 2007
kc carlson
okay...
hope you had a nice weekend and are getting into the spirit!
sharon and i watched "it's a wonderful life!" last night...
what are you watching ...?
so, i've mentioned my pal, kc carlson, here a few times--and posted his responses to the "five for friday" once or twice since something in his computer won't allow him to register with blogger (and for those of you who can't or don't want to do that, please remember that you can still send your comments to me at todd@perhapanauts.com and i'll be happy to put them up for you!). kc is formerly from wisconsin--a state very near and dear to my heart--is a former editor from dc comics--guiding, among others, superman and the legion to new heights in the late 80's and 90's--and, as i have been finding out over the past few months, an INCREDIBLE musicfile!! holy crap--this guy knows EVERYTHING!!
kc also writes various articles and essays for many of the cooler on-line comics sites and magazines.
so, as we have been trading things back and forth, one of things kc threw my way was a link to his latest column at westfieldcomics.com, the topic, as you will see, being comic book collecting. or rather, the manic obsession that has gripped us all at one time or another as we hunt down our elusive four-colored treasures! go check it out--it's a wonderful story told by an excellent storyteller!
kc's column at westfield comics--
http://westfieldcomics.com/store.cgi?LoadPage=feature&LoadPageType=2&LoadPageNo=181
and
here are the answers to the
"five for friday"
1. which godzilla foe looked like a giant turtle?
gamera
(though my buddy, bill nolan, points out that gamera was the top monster at a rival movie company and that he and gozilla never battled--but they did at the box office!! : )
(no? sorry, bill--you're right...)
2. originally, lucky charms featured only four marshmallow shapes; orange stars, pink hearts, yellow moons, and green clovers. in 1979 a fifth shape was added. what was it?
blue diamonds
3. what is the name of the publishing company responsible for the amazing modern masters series featuring insights into the lives and careers of comics legends?
twomorrows
4. what time is it?
in the words of yogi berra when asked the time by mickey mantle, "you mean now?"
5. name five of the real people who have appeared in the perhapanauts.
joann defile
brian mulcahy
khial forges
scott weinstein
rico renzi
trish sheehan
dr. michael o'neil
dr. baldev das
jeff mccluskey
craig and me
(plus, while the cast of "scrubs" appears in second chances, but i wasn't counting them because it's actually their characters rather than the real people. but we can count them too...)
gotta fly!
smell ya later!
todd
Wednesday, December 05, 2007
"hey, laughing boy--they want more!"
okay...after the startling and bizarre snake-in-the-manifold post of wednesday, i though that i would point out that my friend, heather, is not really about all that kinda gross, macabre stuff but a friend who knew that I would find it fascinating. and i do. that's just a weird story...
and, of course, i do feel sorry for that snake...
in actuality, heather is an incredible animal lover who has dogs and cats and years of horseback riding and training (and winning awards!). she is a former veterinary tech who recently went back to school to become a grade school teacher. the e-mails she usually sends me are more like the one here below that she sent me on the same day as the snake one. i was gonna save this 'til we were a little closer to christmas since it says so much about the world and the wonder that goes on all around us, but, here it is. enjoy!
After the horses moved on, the doe came for her fawn. So all is well in case you were wondering.
in other news; it seems that, with the announcement of The PERHAPANAUTS move to IMAGE and the release of the TELLOS COLOSSAL (not to mention what i am now referring to as "mike's ultimate publicity stunt"...) *, i have been doing a whole pant-load of interviews over the past few months. sad to do the sad ones, but thrilled to be doing the happy, exciting ones (and big thanks to joe keatinge at IMAGE for showing us how publicity is done right!), i offer you this latest interview by miguel rodrigues over at indycomicsnetwork.com
http://www.indiecomicsnetwork.com
it is a phone interview, which i usually don't like doing. and this is why. i think miguel did an excellent job with the interview; great questions, miguel! and they were certainly in depth and different from the generally standard questions i tend to get in interviews...but man, shut me up. i don't like telephone interviews because i can't edit myself--there are a lot of "uhhs" and "ummms" and "y'know"s. and man, do i ramble on and on and on...! listening to it, i yelled at myself "holy crap! will you shut up!" anyone who's met me knows that i go off on tangents of tangents on top of tangents. in a written interview i can go over what i said and edit things so that i don't sound like so much of an idiot. jeez! i think this probably coulda run half the time--next time, miguel, you gotta shut me up.
on another note...and another link; my (our) good pal, scott weinstein sent me the following link saying that he knows we've all seen 'em before, but they just never get old. thanks, scott! i love 'em! and while bill watterson was given many awards and praise during calvin and hobbes' wonderful run...just brilliant! gorgeous! genius!
http://www.angelfire.com/wa/zzaran/calvin.html
okay, you monkeys--you suffered through alla that. here are your
"five for friday"
1. which godzilla foe looked like a giant turtle?
2. originally, lucky charms featured only four marshmallow shapes; orange stars, pink hearts, yellow moons, and green clovers. in 1979 a fifth shape was added. what was it?
3. what is the name of the publishing company responsible for the amazing modern masters series featuring insights into the lives and careers of comics legends?
4. what time is it?
5. name five of the real people who have appeared in the perhapanauts.
that's it for now!
have a great weekend!
get in the spirit and do something nice for yourself.
smell ya later!
todd
* i suppose, to some, that this might sound a bit crass and unfeeling. but no. if nothing, mike had a phenomenal sense of humor, one that closely mirrored my own, and we believed that there was something to be laughed at in everything. and we would. it was and is mike's sense of humor that actually helps me through the times when i am sad and grieving him the most. when image editor, eric stephenson, told me that the tellos colossal sold out, but that we really couldn't guess what sales would be like on a second printing because mike's death through off the statistics, it was mike's voice i heard in the back of my mind saying, "y'know, unless YOU die too...! come on, toddzilla--it's awesome here!" the "ultimate publicity stunt" reminds me of the bugs and daffy cartoon where they're on stage and trying to outdo each other and daffy ultimately blows himself up. heh. we were a lot like them.
Tuesday, December 04, 2007
morbid curiosity
okay...as things move ahead around here toward both christmas and the debut of the perhapanauts at image, i am doing everything i can to get work done and the holidays started! the decorations have come out--but are not yet up. (sharon and i were gonna put sharon's tree up this past sunday for kayla 'cause she loves to climb and play in it, but we instead had to go to a small, but nice, comic show that had completely slipped my mind...) watched some of rudolph last night and plan on watching it's a wonderful life and a christmas story very soon!
going christmas shopping tomorrow and should have my card done in about a week.
still dunno what to get nick or my dad. my two dads. stupid dads, huh?
ya never know what to get 'em, 'cause when they want something, they go out and get it.
so, gettin' all christmas-y.
but that doesn't mean that my obsession with creepy stuff, paranormal stuff, cryptid stuff, and bizarre stuff just gets shut off, shut down, tuned out during the warm, traditional holiday festivities, no.
that's always on.
so when my friend, heather (hi, heather!!)--who reads this blog each week but never comments--sent me the e-mail/article below, i just had to share. i'll warn ya that's it's a bit graphic, but you're gonna look anyway...
A guy in St. Louis was driving to work on
Hwy 144 when he heard a 'pop'! .
He thought it sounded like a flat tire,
though his ride wasn't affected.
After pulling over, checking the tires and
finding them intact , he opened the hood
to look at the motor. Before the hood was
even all the way open he jumped back
in shock and knocked his head on the
partially opened hood, unable to believe
what his eyes were seeing!
Nobody was going to believe this!
You sure wouldn't have either!
Fortunately, a coworker with a camera
recognized him along side the road and
stopped to see if he could help.
Scroll down and check out the attachment photos to witness
for yourself the source of his amazement.
Now, this has to be right up there at the
top of the list of unusual but verified
'Reasons I was late for work'!
How'd you like to find this under your hood some morning?
so, not to leave you hanging on that grossness, here are a couple of nice holiday pictures to get you in the spirit and humming carols under your breath.
that's it for today!
i am outta here!
smell ya!
todd
Monday, December 03, 2007
ifanboy.com
okay...hope everyone had a great weekend!
lots to talk about but i'm putting alla that aside to getcha all to head on over to ifanboy.com for a truly wonderful and heartfelt tribute that connor and ron put together for mike, with interviews and input from such luminaries as our pal, augie de blieck (jr.) from augie's pipeline over at comic book resources, marvel editor extraordinnaire, tom brevoort, and, well...me. it's a real celebration of mike as a person, as an artist, and as an honest-to-God comic book icon!
www.ifanboy.com
love ya , mike--and miss you so much.
thank you, ron--for the great interview and the wonderful words.
smell ya later!
todd
Saturday, December 01, 2007
weekend update!
okay...
just thought i'd jump into your saturday (if there are any of you who actually check this blog over the weekend's...) and letcha know that, thanks to joe keatinge, allen hui, and drew gill at image, there is a cool new banner flying over newsarama dot com this week!
yeah, that's right.
you might have to hit "refresh" about eleventy times--they've got a lot of ads goin' on right now--but your patience will yield you the dynamic new PERHAPANAUTS banner that announces the premiere of the annual in february!
and reminds you to order yours NOW!
thank you.
you may now return to your exciting weekend!
smell ya later!
todd
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