Locked in here writing today. I have some half-finished blog posts but lack the time to bring one to completion so I'll post a rerun in a little while.
Since some of you asked: My shoulder is doing better. I dunno if it's the shot of cortisone I got in it or the physical therapy I've been receiving. The pain could even be disappearing slowly the way some pains just disappear for no apparent reason. This one started for no apparent reason so maybe that's how it stops. Or it could be some combination of those remedies. I'll just be glad in a few weeks when it'll be gone, at least if the current trend continues.
As the author of the Garfield-Grumpy Cat crossover comic books, I feel a sense of loss to hear that Grumpy Cat has left us at the too-young age of seven. At about the time I did that, I made a personal appearance at an event with an awful lot of kids who were that age. I can't think of too many things I've ever done or could conceivably ever do that would have impressed that crowd more than that I was writing something about Grumpy Cat. Hope she cheers up in at least some of her remaining eight lives.
Yes, I've heard that the Renault company in France has made some live-action commercials using the characters from the Saturday morning animated series, Dungeons & Dragons. People who know that I was involved in that series are writing to tell me that…and in a volume greater than the number of votes that some announced candidates for the Democratic Presidential Nomination will receive. Whenever the finished commercial is posted to the 'net, I will link to it.
Please Note: I did not create or design those characters. I did name one of them and yes, I know — there are folks who claim creator credits because they thought of one name. I don't do that and if I'm not saying I created the show, you shouldn't be saying I created the show. My actual credit was "Developed for Television by…" which means I took a whole lotta stuff other people had done and rearranged and winnowed and refined and rewrote until it was in a form CBS would buy.
59 days until this year's Comic-Con International convenes in San Diego…which means that folks will probably begin camping out soon to try and get a seat in Hall H. Do you know that though I have never missed a Comic-Con, I have never set foot in Hall H? A couple of times, I have been asked to be available as a back-up moderator for some event in there and then not been needed. If I ever am, I'm going to have to find out where it is…and also hope that I don't need to get in line days and days and days early to be allowed in to do my moderating.
I'm many episodes behind in watching the installments of Fosse/Verdon that have accumulated on my DVR so I haven't been commenting on the show here. When I catch up, I will. Don't tell me how it ends.