"State of the Pappy" Dept.:

My hot tub appearance on ED THE SOCK is Sunday at 11:30 PM.


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"Brushes With Fame" Dept.:

I was part of a special WE LOVE FRANK CHO episode of ED AND RED'S NIGHT PARTY this weekend, and got to spend some quality time with the LIBERTY MEADOWS creator and all round pretty cool guy in question.


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"The Stuff I Find At Work On YOU TUBE" Dept.:

Billy Van and "The Home Team" run through a rather difficult charade in their customary manner (mind-breakingly-fast, but never faked) on the classic Canadian game show PARTY GAME (circa 1975). Fellow Canucks will notice Dave Broadfoot of the original Royal Canadian Air Farce troupe on the couch.


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"Unbelievably Small World / Name-Droppery" Dept.:

It turns out that not only does the former colourist of Dale Keowen's PITT comic shop at our store, but she's the current girlfriend of "High School Confidential" singer and Rough Trade group founder Carole Pope. They both just left our store ( Read more... )

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Despite my whining for more sleep and the like, I had a stupendous 4 days or so, concerning the Toronto Paradise Comic-Con and the SHUSTER AWARDS.

One of the highlights was "An Evening With Warren Ellis", where the writer of PLANETARY and TRANSMETROPOLITAN waxed philosophically about everything from Terrance McKenna and chronological bifurcation ( Read more... )

Brushes With Fame Dept.:We get a lot of comic-book professionals into our store, partially for political reasons (they don't like some of the management at some of the other shops all that much), partially because of our location (two or three of them have studios just down the street from us here or used to live nearby) and partially because the ( Read more... )

(... well there is the whole roundness thing, but...)

"Brushes With Celebrity" Dept.:

I just met Jewel Staite with her husband Matt Anderson and sold them some comics (he's a big X-Men fan, y'see).

Who's Jewel Staite?

She looks like this:


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Ken Finkleman isn't the jerk he plays on T.V.

Well, he wasn't to me, anyway.

That might not be saying that much, now that I think about it.

He also loves vintage issues of ESQUIRE, but who doesn't, really.

So I'm standing in Dragon Lady on a Saturday night in the Summer of 2000 pricing some stuff and putting it away and listening to a 60's soul station on the radio and a friendly looking guy comes in with his girlfriend. She starts looking through the old LIFE magazines and celebrity stuff and he asks me if we have any boxing stuff. I show him the ( Read more... )