In the wee small hours of this morning, I made a telephonic appearance on Ken Gale's fine New York radio show, 'Nuff Said. I talked about Will Eisner with Ken and his co-host, Mercy Van Vlack, and we said wonderful things about the late Mr. Eisner.
At one point, I was talking about how the comic art community has reacted to his passing and I said something like, "The only person I know who isn't depressed at the news is a guy who's hoping that it will free up a hotel room for the San Diego Con."
This morning, I got up and found an e-mail from someone that included the sentence, "I have a hunch you were just making a joke but really, if this means that there is a hotel room available, who would I contact about it?"