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The comic convention season kicks off tomorrow with the SPACE show in Columbus, Ohio.

Here’s some info:

TONIGHT
PANEL presents Unmasked an art show at Monkey’s Retreat (1202 N. High Street)
8-11 pm

TOMORROW
SPACE at the Aladdin Shrine Complex near Easton
10-6 pm

TOMORROW NIGHT
Unmasked Part 2 at Momo2 (2885 Olentangy River Road)
8-11 pm

SUNDAY
SPACE at the Aladdin Shrine Complex near Easton
10-5 pm

I’ll be at table 106 near the rest of the PANEL folks. We will be debuting PANEL: Work, the 11th volume of the anthology. I will also have Jury Rigged Comics #3 for the first time.

See you there.

Labels: space, unmasked

posted by Sean McGurr at 10:54 AM

 
Two days better than a three-day weekend and one day better than a four-day weekend, the five-day weekend—an example of which I will be taking this weekend—is a joy for the working man or woman. The fiver, as I like to call it, offers a substantial break from the workaday world. It is long enough that you can travel most anywhere in the country and still spend a significant time at your destination. The shorter weekends make a longer distance trip not worth it.

The fiver is best wrapped around a weekend; take one or two days on either side. In this way, not only do you get a five-day weekend, but you are also getting two short work weeks, which is always a plus. If at all possible, coordinate your fiver so that one of the days off is a holiday and you don’t have to use your leave time.

Now you may ask, “If the fiver is a day better than a four-day weekend and two days better than a three-day weekend, how awesome must a six-day weekend be?” The answer is “Go back to Europe, you lazy socialist pig.” This country was not built by layabouts and idlers. If you want that much time off, you should have become a college professor. If you are going to take four additional days off, just spring for the fifth and take a whole work week off.

As the new year approaches, do yourself a favor and plan for at least one fiver in the next twelve months. You deserve it.

Labels: five-day weekend, highly recommended

posted by Sean McGurr at 10:19 PM

 
With the Mitchell Report making news yesterday and steroids seemingly everywhere, many athletes are saying that they thought they were taking flaxseed oil. Flaxseed oil also was confused about its uses and made the following statements during a recent Congressional steroid hearing.

“I didn’t realize that I was applied to Barry Bonds’ muscles in 2001 to help him hit a record 73 home runs. Rather, I thought that I was being used as a traditional finish for the wood stocks of rifles.”

“When injected into the buttocks of Yankees’ slugger Jason Giambi, I was under the impression that I was being mixed with oil paint in order to provide it with more gloss.”

“As Marion Jones ingested me during her training regime prior to the 2000 Olympics, I thought I was being applied to a bicycle to take advantage of my rust inhibiting properties.”

“Because I do not transmit electricity, as some commercial wood sealants do, I assumed that Sammy Sosa rubbed me all over his body in an attempt to protect himself from being electrocuted, not to be the only man in Major League history to hit 60 home runs in three seasons.”

“There is no chance that Tim Montgomery used me to help him become the fastest man alive. I oxidize easily and can become rancid when I’m not kept cold.”

Labels: flaxseed, humor, steroids

posted by Sean McGurr at 10:12 AM

 
A few days ago, I finished reading Joe Hill’s 20th Century Ghosts, and I can’t get the stories out of my head. From a romance on the set of George Romero’s Dawn of the Dead to the title story, a classic ghost story, and from a superhero story with a twist, to the most unsettling story I’ve read in years, “My Father’s Mask,” there isn’t a dog among them.

Hill’s influences are obvious—Ray Bradbury, The Twilight Zone, any number of horror movies, and Hill’s famous writer father, Stephen King—but the stories never seem derivative of any other work. Rather, they are all engaging, and even when I had a feeling I knew what was going to happen next, I still kept turning pages to see how it would all turn out.

Joe Hill also wrote a Spider-Man story, “Fanboyz” in Spider-Man Unlimited #8 illustrated by Seth Fisher, and has a comic series, Locke and Key forthcoming for IDW.

Pick it up when you have a chance.

Labels: 20th Century Ghosts, highly recommended, Joe Hill

posted by Sean McGurr at 11:06 PM

 
Last week I was a runner-up on Overheard in New York's Headline Contest:

When Jesus Met Mary Magdalene

Chick: I just don't really like running through the Hasidic neighborhoods in my sports bra...
Guy: Uh-huh.
Chick: It makes me feel uncomfortable.
Guy: Yeah.
Chick: So I don't think I'm going to do that anymore.

--Bogart & Moore St, Bushwick

Overheard by: Erin

Headline by: TWWS

Runners-Up:
· "But I'm Still Wearing My Swastika Thong." - Craig should be working
· "Do I, Uh, Know You?" - clash
· "I Didn't Hear Anything but 'bra'" - 6th Floor Blogger
· "I'll Try Yarmulke Pasties Instead" - Katie
· "Too Many Guys Trying to Challah at Me" - Rottin' in Denmark
· "Topless It Is" - Sean McGurr


Click here to see the new Headline Contest

via Overheard in New York, Nov 15, 2007
posted by Sean McGurr at 10:33 AM

 
When I was in New York City last month, I did my best to try to hear a goofy quote to submit to Overheard in New York. This was the best I could do, but it was featured as a Wednesday One-Liner yesterday:

Man: I don't trust upstate food anymore.

--Cab line, JFK

Overheard by: Sean McGurr

Labels: overheard

posted by Sean McGurr at 6:17 AM

 
Runner-Up Again
Another Overheard in New York runner-up for me. I'm not even that proud of this one.

I'm not looking at you. Your bored son is masturbating.

Father: Is he asleep over there?
Mother: Yeah, he's dozing. [Looks at other son.] Are you asleep, too?
Son #2: I'm bored.
Mother: He's always bored. I must've been bored when I made him. [Stands up and leans on father's knee and starts humping.] I'm bored, I'm bored[yawns], I'm bored.
Father: That guy is looking at you.
Mother: So? He doesn't look boring like you.

--Queens-bound F train

Overheard by: That guy on the F Train

Headline by: Jason

Runners-Up:
· "Charles and Diana Ride the Subway?" - Shawn
· "Most Priests Aren't That Exciting" - Brock
· "They Don't Call It the F Train for Nothing" - Sean McGurr
· "This Is the Express Train: From Boring to Whoring" - Sim Etrias
· "Try the Middle Leg....it's Less Boring" - nicky c.


Click here to see the new Headline Contest

via Overheard in New York, Sep 3, 2007

Labels: overheard

posted by Sean McGurr at 10:12 PM