WAITING
FOR TOMMY
By Richard Johnston
JIM
MCLAUCHLIN: I, on the other hand, hate Nick, Joe, and,
oh.let's pick on Geoff Johns. Yes. I hate Geoff.
Gents,
l love you all like retarded brothers (Joe's line, I believe),
but please "uninvolve" me from all future e-mails in this
exchange. Just got a million of these messages, and other
crap I gotta be doing. Thanks!
[But
I was still going off on one.]
RICHARD
JOHNSTON: I may be getting my black days of the week mixed
up, but you remember Lamont pegging the value of the pound
against the DM in an attempt to keep up with the ERM, by manipulating
rates, available currency and interest rates? A Hungarian
speculator made billions out of that. Brown clearly accepts
the peaks and troughs. He's just taking off the edges of both.
Apparently
Kevin Smith is a comics fan.
MARK
MILLAR: All advised by the Bank of England and supported
by both front benches at the time. But even that's besides
the point: It all goes in waves, man.
Is he
that guy who played Hercules on TV???
[Nick
was also thinking about politics.]
NICK
BARRUCCI: ok - I'll get the President of the US to go
with National Comics Day, and we'll push reading across the
US.
Rich/Mark
- you guys handle Tony Blair.
I'm not
kidding.
MARK
MILLAR: That's genius. I know Blair a little, but am friendlier
with his inner-circle. I had a ten minute chat with Blair
about Val Kilmer as Batman (Blair excited because he loved
The Doors). We definitely should do this. The reading thing
is perfect and we get lotsa free publicity.
[Now
it was time for a proper journalist to join in.]
MATT
BRADY: Something that Mike and I talked about before he
left was looking into getting a Congressional Resolution passed,
something along the lines of making a "National Comic Book
Day." Yeah, it would be up with luminaries like National Pickle
Day, and Day Care Workers Appreciation Day, but it would be
something...
I looked
into the mechanics of proposing one to my local reps, but
couldn't figure it out exactly. I'll check into it again.
My senator is John ("I wanna be president!") Edwards, btw...
[I
decided that not enough people were talking about me.]
RICHARD JOHNSTON: This man reads comics. Hell, he writes
about comics on the internet. Yet...
MARK
MILLAR: COMICS: THEY JUST MIGHT GET YOU LAID.
MATT
BRADY:
Well obviously, he needs to move to the foreground, and stand
in front of that guy who seems to be hogging the camera with
women who could never possibly be interested in him...
NICK
BARRUCCI: Marc Silvestri on a talk show with his wife
- comics, look at the type of girl you can marry!
MATT
BRADY: Can't wait until the west coasters get in and find
this thread in their boxes...
NICK
BARRUCCI: The funny thing is, they're all flying in to
Philly Con, so probably won't chime in until tomorrow.
But hey,
in the meanwhile - EVERYBODY (Mark already did) send out the
link to as many people as you know!
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