Back in the saddle again, before being knocked back out. Work was taking all of my time from writing. Met with Adam last week and got some new direction on our TV projects, and we’re getting closer to having stuff ready to pitch. My latest book is back on track, however briefly, fully outlined, half written, and ready to finish. And Hit and Run is out for a round of agent submissions, so keep your fingers crossed that we can make this all work out…

I’ve got some good marketing ideas for Hit and Run, but I’ll wait until the agent replies come back before revealing future plans.

Aleks’s photo business is really picking up now, and for me, things are ready for a major shake-up. Big changes coming. In two weeks, I’m visiting my family in Cheyenne, with a possible bonus trip to Mt Rushmore/Crazy Horse. When I get back, it’s nose-to-the-grindstone time. I’ll be updating more frequently by then. With more substance than monkeys with firearms. I promise. Although, for a piece put together in five minutes from my desk at work, you can’t beat the M Team for comedy.

Yeah…
http://echosphere.net/star_trek_insp/star_trek_insp.html
For a healthy dose inspiration, Star Trek Style…

Take THAT, Corporate America!

More to come this weekend…

Special forces got a new addition today…

I swear, eventually I’ll get back to regular posting, but it’s been 12 and 14 hour days at the office since July. There’s a lot coming up on the blog, including ComicCon 06 and my adventures with a (peaceful) chimp IN A TREE! I was in habitat with a gorgeous lady…you’ll see…

In the meantime, have you ever seen anyone look so bad-ass in a pink terrycloth shirt?

Here’s a perfect pitch for a new action drama for the fall, RIPPED from the headlines…

First, the real news:
MSNBC News Services Updated: 7:02 a.m. PT Aug 2, 2006
NEW DELHI, India – They say it takes a thief to catch a thief, but India’s Delhi Metro has hired a monkey to frighten off other monkeys from boarding trains and upsetting passengers.
In an effort to keep monkeys out of the New Delhi subways, authorities have called in one of the few animals known to scare the creatures — a fierce-looking primate called the langur, the Hindustan Times newspaper reported Wednesday.

The decision to hire a langurwallah — a man who trains and controls the langurs — came after a monkey got into a metro car June 9, the newspaper reported.In that incident, a monkey boarded a train at the underground Chawri Bazaar station and reportedly scared passengers by scowling at them for three stops. It then disembarked at Civil Lines station.

Passengers had to be moved to another car while staff chased the dexterous creature, causing delays. The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation says it hopes the new hire will avert a repeat of that episode. “It started working about a month ago and since then we’ve not had a single incident,” said Anuj Dayal, a metro spokesman.

The langur handler is being paid a retainer of India rupees 6,900 ($160) a month, and “he will be called whenever there is a monkey problem,” Dayal was quoted as saying. “There are too many monkeys,” Dayal was quoted as saying. Langur monkeys are similarly employed around the grounds of parliament and some government buildings in New Delhi.
© 2006 MSNBC Interactive

And now…

In 1996, a crack commando unit of langurs was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn’t commit. These monkeys promptly escaped a maximum security stockade to the Indian underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if there are small monkeys menacing people on your mass transit system, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire…the M-Team.

They drive a kick-ass van to the subway, and freeze frame as they roll out the back, guns blazing.

Whad’ya think?
I SMELL MONEY! LET’S SHOOT THIS PUPPY!!!

You know you want one!

I find GW’s sense of world politics interesting. Hezbollah is playing their music too loud, and George W. thinks good neighbor Syria should tell them to knock off that shit. Drunken Texas block party meets the UN.
I also love Bolton’s comment that this will be over in a nanosecond if Lebanon turns the two Israeli soldiers back over. What will he say if they turn them over and follow up with another rocket attack? Or if Israel presses their offensive? Or if the soldiers are handed over piece by piece? Does anyone in the administration have a remote grasp of the intricacies of foreign policy?
Do they really think “do what we say, not what we do” is an effective leadership strategy?

Also, a couple of things to worry about…
If the cruise ship coming in to rescue US citizens is attacked or destroyed, it will be linked back to Iran, and then the gloves come off. Or, if Israel pushes into enemy territory enough for Iran to get nervous and strike back, our gloves come off.
You know what? Here’s my prediction:
The gloves are going to come off. You’re going to hear rhetoric about not wanting to get involved in a foreign war, then rhetoric about destroying those who would harbor and aid terrorists, then rhetoric about bringing democracy to Iran, Syria, and Lebanon…
Have we heard this before? Will people fall for it again?
What do we tell our troops in Iraq? Good four years, guys, here’s to four more in an even more vicious environment?
As Fox will tell you (in a fair and balanced way) World War III has begun and we should seize the chance to attack Syria and Iran. In a sense, I would hope it happened so we could bring about a final resolution to the conflict. The problem with final resolutions is that they look like Auschwitz and Buchenwald, Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
GW got us into this mess, and his way of getting us out is to wade in deeper.

Mostly correct, although there is probably a little Jekyll & Hyde with Bert/Oscar in there…

You Are Ernie

Playful and childlike, you are everyone’s favorite friend – even if your goofy antics get annoying at times. You are usually feeling: Amused – you are very easily entertained You are famous for: Always making people smile. From your silly songs to your wild pranks, you keep things fun. How you life your life: With ease. Life is only difficult when your friends won’t play with you!

Friedman that is…
If you’re reading this in Texas, please PLEASE vote this man into office. We need more true independents out there, and Kinky is about as independent as you can get!
See his ad here…
And visit him online here!
Sure, it’s Jesse Ventura style campaigning. But it’s HONEST! Painfully so, and isn’t it nice to hear a candidate speaking from the heart, not from poll results or talking points?
Plus, best of all, the aforementioned webtoon ad features…

CHIMPS!!!