We survived!

I took my oldest daughter with me to NYCC on Saturday. I had a great time. Not sure if she did though.

Some highlights included:
- Seeing Robert Culp and William Katt signing autographs. It was neat seeing Robert Culp; that jaw of his looks amazingly strong.
- Seeing Lou Ferrigno signing autographs.
- Spotting Dan Didio mugging for photos at the DC booth.
- Chatting briefly with Colleen Doran as she encouraged my daughter not to be shy and to check out her drawing books.
- Seeing the DCUO and Champions Online demos. I even got Champions Online beta code so now I can try it out. Unfortunately my video card isn't up to snuff so I'll have to be patient and try again later.
- Picking up a copy of Jersey Gods from author Glen Brunswick. It's a hoot! I'm looking forward to the next issue!
- Seeing Peter David absent from his table in Artist Alley, but his daughter picking up the slack by offering up her own drawings for sale.

I'm sure there's more I'm forgetting. I would've stayed until closing but my daughter was overwhelmed by the crowds and the scale, and the lousy parking lot where we left our car claimed to be closing at 7:00. Ah well...

More as I remember...

iPhone... Future Platform of Choice?

With recent developments in the comics distribution world, The Beat has an article on how some indie comics are being affected. Meanwhile, over on Newsarama, some indie publishers are shown following a different path.

This is really interesting to me. Now I'm kinda fired up and want to find specs for iPhone-friendly graphics. Because, really, this is the way of the future.

Warning: Geek Stuff!

This from IGN.COM: Sam Raimi offers up who he'd like to see as the villain in Spider-Man 4.

Which is funny.

Because back in the day, Morbius was matched up with the Lizard and Man-Wolf, both of whom have made appearances in their unaltered identities of Curt Connors and John Jameson Jr., respectively. Maybe the multiple villains idea was such a hit at the studio that they want to try their hand at it again? Only this time with more classic (read: pre-Venom) villains.

Whee! More action figures!

Daddy's Little Helper

My youngest daughter insists on helping me with the housework. Which means I have to do twice the amount of clean-up than I would've if she'd just kept watching "The Wonder Pets".

How does she help? Let me count the ways...
1) She uses the toilet brush to clean the bathroom floor.
2) She fills her emptied Mr. Potato Head bucket with water and a bunch of SoftSoap from the dispenser to use with the toilet brush to clean the bathroom floor, the toilet seat, and the sink.
3) She rips the sheets off of her bed and hides them.
4) She tosses all of the just-matched socks from the laundry basket to the four corners of the bedroom.
5) She draws on the walls so I have something to use my Magic Erasers on.
6) She feeds the cats with handfulls of dry food wherever they might be sleeping. On top of the armchair. Underneath the kitchen table. On the bed.

That's just a start. And yet I don't yell and I don't scream at her, even though she often leaves things worse than they were before. Why? Because when my oldest daughter was her age, I caught her using the toddler wipes to clean the bathroom and toilet seat; as she finished with each wipe, she'd drop it in the toilet. When I found her, she'd completely clogged the toilet. I yelled and screamed and chased her out of the bathroom. We had to call the plumber to unclog the toilet; he ended up having to completely remove the toilet from the floor to get to all the wipes that were still in our pipes. And my oldest daughter never offered to help clean ever again. I think it's because she's afraid of doing something wrong and I'll yell and scream at her again.

So this time I'm grateful for daddy's little helper. I teach her little by little what to do and sometimes she listens and most of the time she doesn't. It's easier to repair damage you can see than the damage you can't.

Being a Stay-at-Home Dad...

... is kind of like that role-reversal episode of "The Flintstones". Do you remember that one? It's the one where Wilma goes in to work for Mr. Slate and Fred stays home to cook and clean. Only, it's 6 years on now and my skills at cooking and cleaning have deteriorated and my wife doesn't come home demanding her brontosaurus burger as soon as she gets through the door.

Well, not as often as she used to, anyway...

Classic James Bond-villain scheme

Bilk people out of their money and throw the world's economic markets into chaos! Via Yahoo. The only thing is, he neglected to have his escape rocket ready to take him to his secret moonbase. Duh.

No estoy muerto!

Truly.

But I had a life-changing event when I watched The Daily Show with John Stewart on December 3rd. Really. I did.

See, up until then I thought that a blog would be a great way to use my time. Then I watched John Stewart chatting with Arianna Huffington. She's going on and on about the joys of blogging, how it will change your life, connect you with other people, get your voice heard, discuss your passions, etc. To which John Stewart kinda said, (and I'm paraphrasing) "If I'm blogging about stuff, won't it cut into my time creating stuff I'm passionate about?"

Pow!

I saw stars!

A shot to the forehead I didn't see coming!

And he was right.

So I've been creating stuff. Nothing to share yet, but it's a way better use of my time than, oh, I dunno, dog-piling in on the complaints about the latest Batman storyline.

Just remember, my friends...
Create, don't tear down.

And get yourself some of your favorite ice cream or something to chase away the winter blues. You deserve it.