It is true. I didn’t buy tickets this year. I had planned on attending Saturday, one of the two days that our very own Gilgrim would be signing, but left it too long and, alas, that day was sold out by the time I got around to it.

I’m going to make a sad admission…I’ve never been to the San Diego Comic Convention. Every year, it seems, I make plans (or tentative plans) to attend at least one day, and every year I don’t go.

I really have no clue what my problem is.

I really wanted to go last year. The guest list was much more to my liking then this year’s. And even though Neil Gaiman is, at this very moment, in the San Diego area he won’t be at the Con.

Hence the stalking gear….

So if you are lucky enough to be at SDCC either Friday or Saturday, say hello to Gilgrim, won’t you. I know he’ll be pleased as punch to see you…well, maybe not punch. And after you say hello, you can purchase 50 copies of the Cemeterians trade for you and all your friends.

In any event, I know all faithful normalinauts join me in wishing the Gilgrim clan well down at SDCC.

Echo and the Bunnymen — With a Hip

It’s almost time…

Hell, maybe it is. I certainly see that the new circumstance I will soon find myself in is one ripe with the fruits that can be plundered by a comic.

Can I draw this out any longer without actually revealing what it is I’m alluding to? Probably…

I’ve hinted a couple times over the last several weeks about something that might or might not occur. Likewise I’ve complained, often and strenuously, about my current place of employ; vis a vis, how much is sucks like a lemon.

Well, last night I received a package in the mail that, once signed and sent back today, will confirm my place as an adjunct faculty member at a small liberal arts college here in Southern California.

I hesitate to mention the school by name because, honestly, if the Dean or Provost happened on this site (however unlikely) I doubt I’d make it to my first class.

What’s that? No, in fact, I am not finished with graduate school yet. I still have this final semester to get through, so in truth, I will be a graduate assistant and not a professor. That being the case, I’ve been given only two classes to teach so I’ll still need to find some other part time gig to even out the income.

The teaching thing being in Irvine, though, means that I can quit my stupid job out in the 7 level of hell known as Hemet.

Hurrah!

So, anyone know of any part time employ in the Irvine/Tustin or Corona areas?

So I’ll just leave you all with this thought. I, kilian, will be responsible for molding young minds (I’ll be teaching freshman comp). Clearly, the future of our nation is in dire trouble.

For your consideration…

KILIAN’S CAVERNOUS CAVALCADE OF CONSPICUOUSLY INEFFECTUAL FILM QUOTATIONS!

Ol’ Jack always says…what the hell.

It’s 106 miles to Chicago…

These go to eleven.

Zaphod’s just this guy you know.

Groovy

Now that’s not the sanctioned term we’re using for the symbol…just something we’re kicking around the office. But look at it. Doesn’t it…POP. Buddy Christ.

Here, he says he’s not dead.

Wait, master, it might be dangerous. You go first

So what’s a movie quote you’d get permanently seared into your flesh?

Don’t you people have better things to do then try and annoy me in round about ways? Actually, now that I think about it, I wouldn’t have anything much better to do then annoy myself if I could do such a thing…

Please disregard this complaint.

Get your vote on here…

However you may feel vis a vis, the Coen brothers, you have to respect their ability work through a variety of genres and styles. Very few filmmakers would be deft enough to make Fargo, Oh Brother Where Art Thou?, The Big Lebowski and No Country for Old Men. And I have to say that the following trailer looks to continue their run of movies that are, let’s be honest, f-ing awesome!

I suppose this matters little to anyone (including myself), but I’m finding it hard to do any work today. Oh, I have plenty to do…I’m just not doing any of “it.”

I’ve spent a good portion of today reading wikipedia articles about A Song of Ice and Fire, watching Colbert Report clips (thanks Mojo!), and trying to find any reliable rumor that the Dodgers are going to trade for Jack Wilson.

Even as the economy continues to stumble like a drunk in a parking lot at 2 am, I’m becoming more and more indifferent to this job for reasons that I won’t yet divulge. I suppose that isn’t any way to recommend myself to any would-be employers but….meh.

Against Me! - Pints of Guinness Make You Stronger

But a new trend is emerging, and this one is…well…more than disturbing.

See that one at the bottom there? What the fuck is that? OK, I’ll admit that, yes, we did produce a comic in which a character (me) went a little “GTA” in a public space. But he did so with a water gun…in his underwear…while drunk. There is no mention of actually shooting someone with a real gun, or more importantly, shooting members of any specific racial group.

If you’re coming here for racist propaganda, boy howdy are you in the wrong corner of the interwebz. I get that the vast array of “tubes” that connects everything in this, the cyberspace, works in weird and mysterious ways, but guess what happens if you put in that specific search entry (”shooting black people gta web comic” that is) in google? Normality Restored comes up FIRST! Out of 289,000 hits, no less! That’s not right. I mean, if it was just “gta web comic”, or even “shooting gta web comic” I’d be fine with that. But this makes me feel dirty…in a bad way.

Am I getting worked up for nothing over this?

The Martinis - Invisible

Now then, I’m sitting on the couch watching the All Star game go into the bottom of the 13th inning.

I try not to bring up baseball much here. Besides Tengu I don’t think any faithful Normalinauts are baseball fans, but this particular game is turning out to be rather interesting.

This is already the longest, time wise, All Star game ever played. Both teams are running out of players to use and so, one has to wonder if this game will be called a tie. Back in 2002 the game was called in extra innings because it was still tied after 11 and both teams were out of pitchers. Normally, it wouldn’t be a big deal, really, because the All Star game is an exhibition game. But for the last few years the All Star game has determined who gets home field advantage in the World Series. So you can imagine Bud is unwilling to just call it a tie. Right now it’s 1 am in New York, where the game is being played.

Both teams have had runners in scoring position in the extra innings….and now Dan Uggla has just committed his third error in this game setting a single game record for one player. I think he’s on the AL take…

It’s hard to think they (Bud, that is) would let them play this whole thing out but if they don’t, how is home field advantage going to be decided?

It’s now in the top of the 14th…

Anyway, I might be here for a while…