I said that the Fish Grill chain in Los Angeles serves clam chowder. What was I thinking? It's a Kosher chain. They don't have shellfish on the premises. What they have is a great fish chowder that actually reminds one of clam chowder. Thanks to Geoff Klein for catching my blunder.
Also, I said in the previous posting that I was bad at plugging my work here. Kurt Busiek informs me that I'm even worse than I thought I was. He writes, "I don't think you mentioned your participation in the finale of Steve Gerber's Dr. Fate story, either." He's right. When our pal Steve Gerber passed away, he'd written (or helped write) seven parts of an eight-part story that was running in DC's book, Countdown to Mystery.
Rather than have one writer write The Ending to Steve's story — which almost certainly would not have finished it off the way Steve would have — editor Joey Cavalieri asked four of us (me, Gail Simone, Mark Waid and Adam Beechen) to each write An Ending for that issue, thereby quadrupling the chance that there'd be something in there close to what Gerber would have written. This issue came out a few months ago and I was proud to be included, saddened that it had to be done.