Okay, I seemed to have massaged my sleeping hours back to normal and I got all my pressing, must-go-to-press work in so maybe things will be more normal around here for a while. It'll get tougher as we inch towards Comic-Con which begins, let me remind you, sixteen days from now. The news of what panels will occur when is supposed to be embargoed until the convention itself announces the schedule but I seem to be about the only person honoring that. In any case, they'll begin posting the schedule on their website on Wednesday and going day-by-day until it's all up.
In light of our last Video Link, a couple of folks wrote to ask me what my favorite candy was back when I ate candy. I never consumed a lot of candy but when I did, there was nothing I liked better than the Russell Stover Cashew Patty. It looked like a coaster you'd set a drink on but it was just cashew pieces covered in quite-delicious chocolate. If a law was passed that criminalized all forms of candy except that one, I would have been fine with it. Simple. Tasty. And oh so satisfying.
They stopped making them decades ago. I heard or maybe I assumed that the Cashew Patty was swept away when the Russell Stover folks started a line of low-fat, low-sugar candies. They now offer the Russell Stover Cashew Cluster pictured above which I assume is the same chocolate and the same cashew pieces, though possibly not in quite the same chocolate-to-nut ratio. In any case, I liked chocolate-covered cashews as much as I ever liked any treat but I haven't had that kind of thing in twelve years. I haven't even had my favorite cookie, though friends still occasionally buy me a sack of 'em.