Explain To Me How This Works
Irregular Webcomic creator David Morgan-Mar (PhD, LEGO®©™etc) had lunch with me on Saturday (a leisurely Belgian meal with some rather nice beer, and a long discussion of sport, American vs Australian politics¹, and radio astronomy), then immediately he headed to the airport and:
Straight off 24 hours of economy class flying, across 10 time zones, and do I go to sleep?
No, I draw comics!
Meanwhile I went home on a local train and decided it was too hot to mow the lawn. That, in turn, put me so far behind on things that needed doing over the weekend that just a tiny amount of friction in work today has put me solidly in the weeds, timewise. Lesson here: do not compare yourself to Australians, productivity-wise or any other wise; they are hardened in the crucible of a continent that wants to kill them and will beat you every time.
So if I’m to get anything written for you today, it needs must be brief:
Kris Straub’s Candle Cove — perhaps the ur-creepypasta — is, as we know, heading to TV as the first season of the Channel Zero anthology series. We also know that stories of this webcomic or that getting developed, or optioned, or whatever, frequently come to naught but a check (hopefully substantial) to the creator for the right to try to make something.
And sometimes they actually happen:
.@SyFy has cast Paul Schneider and Fiona Shaw in new horror anthology series #ChannelZero http://bit.ly/28IvZSX @nickantosca @Uptomyknees
Casting means that contracts exist, means that money is actually being spent, that it is almost certainly less risky to move forward and make a thing than to cut and run. Per the attached story at Variety, we can expect to see Candle Cove this fall — call it four to six months from now, hopefully in a suitably scarifying fashion. And that’s some pretty good news for a Monday, even one where I’m behind.
Spam of the day:
Finally! Natural Way to Destroy Sinus, Mucus, Throat, and Cough Problems
While I have some of those problems, they are well controlled by this spray medicine I received from an actual doctor. Kindly keep your Roto-Rooterish body horror-inducing devices that they don’t want you to have.
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¹ I was aware that Australia is in election mode right now, and being a parliamentary country, will have the entire thing wrapped up quickly. I was not aware that the present government are such dicks that after the election they may provoke another legislative crisis which could cause them to have a second entire national election before we are done with our current campaign and hopefully see the back of what Charlie Pierce so aptly refers to as a vulgar talking yam.
It was a most pleasant lunch, thanks for meeting me! Sorry I messed up your lawn mowing.
The drawing comics thing was mostly because I landed at 6:30am, and didn’t want to go to sleep lest I then be awake all night and stuck in NYC time zone for another whole day. Oh, and I needed to get a strip done for this Wednesday. :-)
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