So if I’m going to watch any Republican convention coverage, I’ve realized that I have to wash it down with some Daily Show right afterward.
There’s not really much of substance I can say about the whole thing that isn’t articulated better by millions of other bloggers and folks having conversations all across the country, [...]

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Watched the Hillary Clinton show this evening, and wow, I gotta tell you, she did a pretty good job.
Okay, better than pretty good.
I have not been her biggest fan, but man this was a speech almost designed to go “See? I can be President. Or at least a good vice president.” Crafty. Very, crafty. [...]

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One of the things that resonated the most listening to Warren Ellis speak in Chicago is how he consciously avoids meeting other people that he admires professionally because he’s known so many people that have been burned by meeting their idols and have been disappointed, so much so that the person’s art doesn’t hold anything [...]

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I’ve been in a weird pseudo-funk lately.
There’s nothing wrong, I’m just…feh. Very feh.
Watching a lot of movies lately, like Death race 2000 (hilariously bad), The most recent two Bourne movies (fun, Matt Damn should play Captain America), the Deaths of Ian Stone (okay, forgettable), the Cottage (really well done and funny) among others. [...]

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Due to some incredibly personal and devastating personal issues, I’ve been flying solo at the store for the past few, and it looks like I’ll continue to do so for the next week or so. I don’t mind it, per se, because I know how hard this is for Tony, but its exhausting being there [...]

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I think the worst thing about losing the shit on your hard drive is all of the things you take for granted that you had on there. Bookmarks to places that you found that were fun or interesting, or in my case, my list of agents that I’ve queried and what my status is with [...]

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I’d like to say “Chicago was a blast!” but I can’t really say that since I wasn’t really in Chicago. I was near Chicago, we drove through it on the way to the airport, where the convention was being held, but we didn’t get a chance to actually see and be in Chicago.
The convention? [...]

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