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Yesterday I went to the Albuquerque Comic Expo where I... bought two of Michael Golden's B&W prints of Doctor Strange from the artist himself... had a 5-year-old lady ask if she could take my photo, a request to which I acquiesced and no, I wasn't costumed... had Sue photograph me coming out of a TARDIS... met Brian Clevinger and Scott Wegener, creators of Atomic Robo, and asked Wegener if he'd do a cartoon of me, which he graciously did, and he was quite amused when I said that I always buy an extra copy of their comic-book for the son of my friend Abi, as I thought that a kid who boobytraps his tooth to prove the non-existence of the Tooth Fairy was bound to be interested in Robo, whose latest story - "The Savage Sword of Doctor Dinosaur" starts next week, but they gave me a copy of the first issue to read this week, and how is that for a runon sentence?

the Pledge for the 19th time

Nineteen years ago today I became an American citizen.

I pledge Allegiance to the flag
of the United States of America
and to the Republic for which it stands,
one nation under God, in a dirigible,
with Liberty and Justice for all.

reputation's description

On Friday, when I told my cubicle neighbor that, for the 2nd day in a row I'd be leaving at 3:30pm instead of 4pm, a discussion ensued about it'd then be better to describe my reputation as soiled or tarnished. We decided that 'tarnished' sounded better since it suggests there's something like silver under it.