Transformer talk.

If you'd like to hear me being grilled for an hour by a pair of fans from the UK about Transformers, TMNT, Star Trek, and other exciting chitchat and behind-the-scenes stuff, click here.

Fool Your Friends! Confound Your Enemies!

Ever wonder whatever happened to the old Johnson-Smith Catalog? You know, the one with the X-ray specs and fake dog poop? It grew up and mutated into this unbelievably awesome website, where you can buy handerpants and yodelling pickles and paintings of squirrels in their underwear! Check it out!

Botcon

I'll be on a panel of Transformers writers at Botcon tomorrow (Sunday the 31st) in Pasadena along with my good friend Bryce Malek, and my archenemy Flint Dille. (Actually, Flint's a friend too; I just always wanted to have an archenemy.)

I probably should have posted that exciting news a few days ago. I post it now in order to drive the blog entry directly below a little closer to oblivion.

I gotta get me one of these...

At last, I can convert my old, obsolete Beta tapes to new, obsolete HD-DVDs!

Okay, so it's really one of many great April Fool's jokes on ThinkGeek.com. My other favorite: The Kenner EZ-Bake Disc Drive!

Thanks to Scott Sava for the heads-up.

Nintendo: The Early Years

They started in a Frank Lloyd Wright building, apparently.

This is my desk.

(Click on images for full-size versions, if you must.)
Stare really hard at the above picture. Then get a knot in your stomach about all the bills you have to pay. Voila! Now you know what it's like to be me! (Don't thank me all at once.)

(Above) On the platform, L to R: Extremely tiny Godzilla; four "Soul of Bullmark" gashapon toys from Japan depicting Ultraman monsters; Star Trek communicator (with phaser behind it); Radio City Music Hall; "Wizard of Oz" ornament that talks, moves, and other obnoxious things. On the desktop, L to R: Red and blue Seagate drives (one has all the video I've shot in the past 10 years on it, the other has my complete music collection); another Ultraman monster; mini R/C K-9; a piece of asphalt from King Philip Road on Cape Cod; a white rock from Chagrin Falls, OH; sonic screwdriver; Italian blue glass doodad from the 1950's.

(Above) The left side of the desk is getting crowded, what with all the Doctor Who stuff, Galactus, a couple of Enterprises, Mechagodzilla, and giant flying turtle Gamera (the friend of children everywhere), etc.

(Above) Yeah, I'm re-reading Salinger. (I'll find a use for the orange hard drive someday.)

Davros sez: "You -- will -- work -- HARDER!!!"