Trivia Night!

A piece for the Las Vegas Weekly, in which a bunch of bookish types take over a local bar's trivia night, to their peril.

Gil Scott-Heron 1949-2011

Cop Sex

From The Stranger's "Cops We Have Loved" dept.:

Phantom Girl

Not to be confused with Phantom Lady, Phantom Girl, a.k.a. Tinya Wazzo, is a Legionnaire with the ability to phase through solid objects. She's worn a ton of different uniforms over the decades, but for my money none of 'em have had the wacky charm of this boob-window/bellbottoms combo from the late 70s.

Habs Fan Problems

HeroesCon Sketches

At press time, there's only about a 10% chance I'll be able to make it away for the Heroes Con...it'll be a last-minute decision, in any event. I always dig doing sketches for folks, and occasionally do them in advance... but advance commissions may well be the only ones I can take for this Heroes Con! So here are the details if you'd like to get one.

My sketches usually run $25 for colored pencil, or $50 for ink, on 9 x 12 Bristol board... If you're interested, I can work something up for you, have you pay via PayPal or something and if I can't make it, arrange to send it down... I'm planning to have a few new items for sale at my pal J Chris Campbell's table, so you can pick it up there! Just shoot me an email and let me know what you had in mind!

Oh, and I'll take requests up to and a week after the con...Thanks!

G is for Golden Retriever

...in this case, my own Golden Retriever, my sweet boy Puck. True, he's not a purebred, but that's what he most closely resembles, so that's what I've always called him. Puckie turned 12 back in March, which I can scarcely believe. He's definitely lost a step or two...the poor guy has to wear special grippy "kitten mittons" on his back feet so that he doesn't slide all over our tile and hardwood floors thanks to degenerating nerves in his rear end. Man, getting old sucks.

Still, he's mentally the same old Puck, and loves to bark at cats and get his mane scratched. And he still does "The Fang", which is my name for the snaggly front tooth that shows when he curls up his front lip during an especially productive scratch.

He'll always be my first baby...I love him soooo much!