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October 29, 2004
Random Stuff
World Series Letdown
I was curiously numb to the notion of the Red Sox winning the World Series. I suspect some of that was the natural let down of the first two rounds, both being very exciting for NL and AL fans. Being an NL fan, I was truly rooting for St. Louis and was disappointed that the four games lacked tension, drama or good play. The mystery to me and the rest of the fans is what happened to the Cards? They won 105 games, crushed Los Angeles, out slugged Houston and then rolled over to play dead.
No pitching, no hitting, no wins.
Let Boston enjoy their victory and their broken curse.
Halloween
With Halloween on Sunday, DC decided that today would be a fine day to celebrate. Our third floor lobby, which already resembles the rooftops of Gotham City, now looks like the Scarecrow came by. We have a costume contest this afternoon but already people have been parading in their finery. So far I have seen a convincing Hagrid, a malnourished Alan Moore, a delightful Professor McGonagall, and a cross-dressing Zatanna and Zatara. Even Regina, our temp receptionist, is decked out as a bumblebee.
At 4, DC will have a bit of a Halloween party with games and the like. I’ll be manning the Trick or Treat wheel where people will give it a spin, do what the wheel directs and receive a treat.
It breaks up the routine and brings everyone together which happens all too rarely given being spread over five floors.
Rob revisits his punk Hobbit costume from last summer’s Shore Leave masquerade when he supervisors the all-day horror film fest at the community theatre. That should frighten the kiddies.
Work
Been another very productive week. My big project has shaped up nicely and these last two days have been spent tidying up other projects already underway and brainstorming new things. The sheer variety of what I do is one of the best things about the job. Another is the variety of people I come into contact with.
Spencer Beck, the wonderful art dealer, managed to get Jim Aparo to contribute some thoughts to the big project, something I was unable to do. And Spencer did it because he agreed with me that Jim’s words should be there, along with those of Neil Gaiman, Jerry Robinson and others.
John Wells, Mark Waid and Bob Rozakis are pitching in to help me track stuff I need – it’s good to have friends you can rely on.
Then as I was on the seventh floor I ran into Mark Buckingham, over from the UK. I haven’t seen Mark in so many years I didn’t recognize him, but thankfully he knew me. Mark and I worked years ago on The Hacker Files a book that should have done better than it did. His work today on Fables, though, is a delight.
Posted by Bob Greenberger at October 29, 2004 02:01 PM
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Hacker Files certainly did deserve to be a better sales performer than it was. As one of the readers who followed it, start to finish, it still bugs me to this day.
Posted by: Dwight Williams at October 30, 2004 11:43 AM