Much delayed by the transfer to the new platform, but finally online — some of my thoughts on the making of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic #33. Enjoy. I’m still in the process of getting something together on the KOTOR RPG Campaign Guide — and I expect the file will be amended as time goes on, as I’m still remembering things that went into it. (It was almost …
Living in Wisconsin, a state much coveted by politicos this season, my and my neighbors’ telephones have been ringing off the hook with pollster calls for a good long while. (Our district’s congressman, Steve Kagen, actually rang up one of my friends the day of the second bailout vote to chat for ten minutes on how he should vote.) There is also the biannual yard sign battle going on, part …
Following yesterday’s theme of odd stuff I’ve run across recently — regard the following video, one person’s explanation of the lyrics on the closing credits of WKRP in Cincinnati… Personally, I am pleased that ‘KRP is back on “the new WGN” — even the current, original-music-ripped-out version. (Something has to take up the slack from TVLand, which continues to amble about in search of something other than its original programming …
Now that the site is mostly restored — and using the better blogging tool that Blogger provides — my intent was to begin blogging more frequently. However, this runs against a trio of countervailing forces: one, I don’t have a lot of time — and two, I can’t always talk about what I’m working on. This leaves everything else — which is where problem #3 comes in: I don’t always …
Or they should be — even the nonfiction pages. Whew!
And it only took the better part of a month, but FarawayPress.com 4.0 is finally about done. The only things that need to be added are the pages for the non-fiction books, and there may be a few odds and ends still missing. But the production notes for everything should now be there. And, no, I regret that does not include notes yet for the RPG supplement or KOTOR #33. …
In the brushes with candidates department… tomorrow’s vice-presidential debate brought to mind a lot of the different folks I got to interview when I was a student journalist. As a reporter — then editor — for the University of Tennessee Daily Beacon, I interviewed a pretty diverse list of people, from soap opera actor Michael Swan to comics creator Mike Grell, who I would later follow on Iron Man. There …
And my second Star Wars short story has gone online on StarWars.com for members of the Hyperspace fan club: “Interference.” It’s an unusual tale set during the weeks after the Mandalorian invasion of the Republic — and one that allowed me to imagine what the attendant propaganda war would be like. (Answer: one-sided!) If you’ve ever heard the recorded propaganda broadcasts of Lord Haw-Haw and Tokyo Rose, you’ll find something …
Sorry, Mets fans — but it’s been 26 years. Congrats to the Brew Crew — you’ve brought a tear to Bob Uecker’s eye.
Well, I’d said all along that my Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic series had a variety of roots stretching back into the Tales of the Jedi days — both before and after — and we’ll see some of them this week when issue #33 goes on sale. I’m still wrangling with getting stuff back on the websites, so my production notes will appear in a few days. I …