Hey all! Quick note to let you know I made it out to the Big Apple okay. The Anonymous Blogger is a great host so far -- despite what some of his posts might lead you to believe about his attitude, he comes across as a pretty nice guy. He can't compete with the giant mechanized T-Rex in the Manhattan Toys 'R' Us, though. That thing is my new best friend.

Yeah, it's retail, and retail sucks, but I would work in that store forever (well, maybe not that long) just to be close to the T-Rex. All hail the T-Rex.

Ave T-Rex. Ave T-Rex. Ave T-Rex.

Ja for now! 🙂

Ave T-Rex.

Alrighty folks, this is my last message before I shut down the machine. If I can post from NYC, my next post will be from there! If not, I should/hope I'll have access to e-mail, so feel free to drop me a line to check in and whatnot. If I'm not back in a week, something's wrong, so direct all vengeful feelings towards The Anonymous Blogger. Post nasty comments or something. I dunno.

Ja ne, minna-san!

BOOYAH! Scary-Crayon is updated! In addition to those two pieces I gave blog readers a sneak-preview of this morning -- A Crayon Haiku #16 and Crayon Poetry Corner: Resident Evil 2 Edition -- you can now satisfy your weird food cravings with two new Foodstuffs selections -- THE SANDWICH THAT PETRIFIES THE GODS and Turtle Spew. The former is by far the most fearsome, though I have a feeling that many folks will go for the latter, especially with the TMNT tie-in. Oh, and Caren should like Turtle Spew as well. It's got oatmeal in it. 🙂

Hopefully those will keep folks entertained for the next week, since I leave for NYC early in the morning! I'm not sure if I'll be able to update the blog or answer e-mail and such, but we'll see. And I plan on getting in one more post before I shut down the PC, so I'll see you then. Ja!

Okay, with the exception of the modifications to the main and archive pages, everything's all set for today's massive Scary-Crayon update. Unfortunately, I've got to get ready and hurry off to work, so I won't be able to update until I get back, but we're definitely on track to have that up around 6 or 7-ish. (more...)

Yep, another for the pile -- this one for my short piece entitled "Mold Country". It's funny how these fiction rejections tend to come back within days of each other, whether I sent them out at the same time or not -- it's like the editors of various rags conspire to make sure I get my rejections right together in order to discourage me from wasting their time with further short story submissions. I fully expect to have that third one in my possession before I leave for NYC. Hell, there's the mailman... maybe it's out there RIGHT NOW! We'll find out in a bit.

Ja for now.