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Pere Diablo

Chris — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 12:30:53 +0000

This one goes back to high school – a friend of mine created a Satanic comic book character, “Pere Diablo,” who I made an effort to reinvent – clearly inspired by Todd McFarlane’s Spawn, which was still somewhat new and revolutionary at the time.

That fat, disgusting, make-me-puke slob!

Chris — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 03:29:41 +0000

I bought a weight bench a couple of years ago. I have it set up near the windows in my bedroom, the only place in my apartment it fits.

When I work out, I’m pretty sure this is how the neighbors feel:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XjDwcoCnvY

Sometimes I get to feel like I work with super heroes.

Chris — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 22:13:00 +0000

So a high school principal in Tennessee, Dorothy Bond, was using the PA system to preach about Jesus Christ and his sacrifice. She was holding assemblies to tell her students that gay people “weren’t on God’s path” and were “going to hell.” She promised 60-day suspensions for any students guilty of same-sex PDAs. She also told female students that if they got preganant their lives would be over, and that they would end up “jobless, homeless, and living off the government.”

So then the ACLU found out, and we sent the school district a letter. Three hours later, Dorothy Bond was unemployed.

Dan Savage says: ”The ACLU means business, and they will fuck you up.”

What a way to end the week. I’ll be walking on air all the way home.

A brief visit back to the grindstone

Chris — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 13:00:18 +0000

I had a terrific little Christmas with my family, as we do pretty much every year. We tend to overdo Christmas, considering all of the “kids” are now around 30. The five of us gather around the tree and open about a hundred thousand presents that we’ve bought one another. For the last three years, my Dad has developed his very own “Deal or No Deal” home game (my Dad really likes TV – a lot) where the grand prize is $2,500. I didn’t win the grand prize (none of us did) but I did win a pretty tidy little sum that takes the sting out of holiday spending. I also got a lot of very thoughtful gifts, one of them quite dangerous: a Playstation 3.

The danger, of course, is that I will spend the next 2-12 months doing little but shooting virtual men in the head. This could have disastrous consequences on my writing career, my day job, my weight, and my cardiovascular health. Video games are one addiction I have been prone to in the past – most of my memories of 2006 were made in Azeroth, a world to which I don’t think I can ever risk going back. So this gift will require a bit of self-control.

The next couple of weeks are going to be super-busy, video games or no video games. I’m headed to NYC for New Year’s Eve, not to stand around Times Square and pee in a Big Gulp cup with the tourists, but to run a 4-mile race at midnight in Central Park, with Liz and her sister. A little less than a week after that, we’re headed to Orlando for a Disney vacation with a few friends. Oh, and for more running. I’m running the Disney Half Marathon, and Liz is running that PLUS the full marathon the next morning. It’s hard to imagine how we are going to be capable of walking around theme parks after that, but we’ll get by.

So the priority for the next few days is to get as much work done on the new novel (still untitled, despite my best efforts to come up with something) and to lose some of the holiday weight I’ve been putting on at an alarming pace. Some running and some healthy eating (rather than the all-chocolate-and-baked-goods diet I’ve been on since late November) should do the trick. After running a 1:50 in the Philadelphia Half Marathon, I’d hate to be the tub of guts guy dropping out of the Disney Half because his boobies hurt.

The most profound words ever captured in song?

Chris — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 07:44:47 +0000

“No one in the world ever gets what they want, and that is beautiful
Everybody dies frustrated and sad, and that is beautiful.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAmFTmCs3IY