Reading: Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons.
Music: Strike Anywhere
TV/Movie: The 7-percent Solution
Link o' the Day: Johnny Wander

I'm in the interesting position of writing an introduction to the autobiography of a known liar. Okay, in the interest of full disclosure, I puit myself into the position. I heard this friend was writing an autobiography and, when I finished wiping the foam from my lips, I immediately started bullying him and his publisher for "I knew him when" intro-writing rights.

Nothing is set in stone yet, but it looks like I got the job. But as nothing is set in stone, I'm going to be maddeningly coy and not reveal any names. It's not to protect the innocent--there are no innocent--but more my personal superstition about counting my words before they're hatched. (Or eggs to that effect.)

The problem is that Friend X is a professional liar. Yes, that means he's a storyteller of some stripe and, like any good thing, it can be taken too far. In all the years since he's gone pro, I've yet to find any biographical info attached to any of his works, interviews, web pages, what-have-you that were one hundred-percent accurate. Hell, it was hard to find some that were fifteen-percent accurate.

He can't be blamed. He likes to have fun, and no one has bothered to call him on it. And his fantastical bios have become something of a trademark. In real life, he's a fairly truthful fellow. And an interesting one. I've already written one draft of this intro and it was well received. I'm going to be fine tuning it up until press-time, whenever that will be.

Here's one amusing thing that will probably not make it to the final cut:

I like to play this little game with him that he's not entirely aware of. He, like me, is a huge movie buff. He can even be blamed, partially, for my own movie buffdom. (It's a word!) But he can be amazingly contrary. If I like a movie. He hates it. If I don't care much for a certain flick, then I must be nuts, according to him, because it was brilliant.

You get the idea.

So I like to note which movies he likes, wait a few months, then claim to like that same movie (even though I likely didn't) and he will invariably claim that said movie is a steaming pile of excrement. I never call him on it. It's more fun to see the look of recognition in everyone else's eyes that say, "You got his number on this one."

Eh. A small amusement. I'm not worried about him reading this and queering the trick. He is also very suceptible to the old Jedi-mind wipe. He'll forget it before he's finished this next sentence.



Yeah, I'm a good friend.

And "Buford," if you're reading this...*waves a few fingers*...this journal entry has been about Pokemon.

Pokemon.

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Speaking of writings, my mock interview with Venture Bros. fan Harry "Action Dude" Hamhock of Bedford, Texas will appear in this week's special Venture Bros. edition of Christopher Garcia's fanzine The Drunk Tank. I'll post more on this after the issue hits the net.

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Today's link goes to a newish webcomic called Johnny Wander by Yuko Ota and Ananth Panagariya. (You might recognize Ananth from the excellent webcomic Applegeeks. As for Johnn Wander, the "About" page says:

Johnny Wander might be about life after college, being a kid, growing up and all the people you meet and all the things that happen in that brave new world.
Or it might be about something else entirely.

There are only 17 strips up so far, so it's still trying to find its groove, but it has a good pedigree and will likely be a webcomic to watch.



Cheers!