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[prog]

Hectic last couple of days. A lot of interference that is neither bad news nor really what I want to be doing. I think the next few days will be clear.

I finally wrote SCAT about The Gameshelf and where the hell it and I have been since 2006 started. I feel bad that it took me so long; I guess I was semi-consciously waiting for them to ask me about it first. I'd probably still be waiting if Joe the Director hadn't indirectly suggested this morning that I drop them a line.

I see Joe a couple of times or so a month, when he or his boss call to offer me a gig crewing a show for city TV. I did two today, which was a boo-boo, and part of the interference I mention. I don't mind getting up early to earn $45 by crewing a half-hour talk show -- quite the opposite, in fact. But I should have declined the opportunity to double it by spending over two hours in the evening tromping around the high school, helping to cover a student art show. This sapped energy reserves already depleted by my not sleeping much, and I spent the rest of the night on my couch reading comics.

(Arguably I was also being a good manager by simultaneously holding court and having lengthy conversations about work with the Andys. But I was still doing it on the couch with a comic book in my hands. It's very Web 2.0.)

The comic, BTW, was Planetary, which I borrowed from rikchik. Wow, I love it, and I hope there's more. And it's also yet another late-1990s comic I'm getting around to reading only now. You know, I don't think I've read a single book-format comic that was published after 9/11, except for uhusted's, which I've never written about because I am awful and now she's disappeared from LJ and alas. (Actually do any mutual acquaintances know why her LJ went away? Speaking of people that I should write, huh.)

I like "The Four" from that book, and the idea of villains who don't seem so much mu-hu-ha-ha evil as merely Randian. But for these guys, with great power comes great objectivism, and the line between that that muhahaism may get a bit blurry from certain points of view.

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[modpixie.livejournal.com]

is "joe the director" the guy who works on the rock candy show and kind of looks like jake gyllenhaal? i know of him and lee. they're good people.

[prog.livejournal.com]

Yes, it is that Joe! And I never noticed the Gyllenhaal connection. In fact I still don't but that's OK. :) Yeah, he and Lee are great... what little TV stuff I have done would have not existed without them.

Rumor has it that talks about restarting the Rock Candy Show will commence this month...