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Blog 010907
A decent weekend.
First, The New England Patriots advanced a game further into the NFL play-off’s by beating their division rivals, The New York Jets. This was not a given victory from the start because the Jets coach was with the Patriots for a couple of years and was their defensive co-coordinator just last year. The Patriots will now face San Diego, one of the best teams all year and a team that has a NFL record breaking running back. Despite this, I feel pretty good about the Patriots because the San Diego coach has a history of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory when it comes to play-off games.
Saturday was good eats at the parentels. Tacos. I haven’t had tacos in forever!
Sunday I spent all day with friends playing Axis & Allies which is a board game designed around replaying WW II. The Axis (with me as Japan) won the first game. I was America the second game but our hot rolling noob had to leave. Then the drunk and I started faultering with our dice rolls. It ended in a draw because of the time but after a really fast start, it was starting to look not so good for the Allies.
Recently I’ve been following this comic book forum thread at comic book resources. In Gail Simone’s You’ll All Be Sorry forum is a thread about a comic book con promoter trying to become a comic book publisher. It’s absolutely addicting and fascinating through 271 pages. Yep. 271.The promoter, Rick Olney, apparently doesn’t pay his employees. I’m talking big names in the business like Chuck Dixon and Gail Simone who are currently popular writers that have worked regularly for Marvel and DC for years. When Dixon spoke up about not getting paid, Olney started in with all this stuff claiming Dixon was lying and had broken a NDA (non-disclosure agreement) and that because of that he will not pay Dixon. It only gets worse. A number of other creators probably numbering at least 8 publicly have stated that they have been not been paid either. Olney has stated that people making these claims are liars, or that the check was lost in the mail or that they have broken their NDA’s by stating they have not been paid and that he has his lawyer investigating the matter. He won’t even pay his former public relations person the $800.00 he owes her. And it only gets worse. He dives into making threats to people including physical violence, calling virtually any female comic creators that venture into the thread bitches or worse, and has made numerous anti-gay remarks including calling many male comic creators gay. People are now looking into his claims of him being a marine that served during Vietnam and so far nobody can find any record of him having served. Oh yeah, he blatantly lied about his non-profit organization until people investigated to find that it was never registered with the federal government.
It’s really stunning. Now it’s to the point where it’s not quite enjoyable to read the thread because Olney comes on and just posts insults but the more he posts the more people investigate him and find that pretty much his whole life is a lie. I restate once again that it’s absolutely fascinating and completely addictive following the thread. And nobody, not one single person has come forward to make any kind of defense for Rick Olney.
On lighter news, I’ve been sent questions for an interview from a columnist from Sequential Tart. This is really cool and my first official interview for the comic. I’m still working on some of the answers and I’m not sure when the interview will be posted but I’ll let you all know as soon as I know.
Disappearing for two days now. In other words – I have to work tonight and tomorrow night.
A decent weekend.
First, The New England Patriots advanced a game further into the NFL play-off’s by beating their division rivals, The New York Jets. This was not a given victory from the start because the Jets coach was with the Patriots for a couple of years and was their defensive co-coordinator just last year. The Patriots will now face San Diego, one of the best teams all year and a team that has a NFL record breaking running back. Despite this, I feel pretty good about the Patriots because the San Diego coach has a history of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory when it comes to play-off games.
Saturday was good eats at the parentels. Tacos. I haven’t had tacos in forever!
Sunday I spent all day with friends playing Axis & Allies which is a board game designed around replaying WW II. The Axis (with me as Japan) won the first game. I was America the second game but our hot rolling noob had to leave. Then the drunk and I started faultering with our dice rolls. It ended in a draw because of the time but after a really fast start, it was starting to look not so good for the Allies.
Recently I’ve been following this comic book forum thread at comic book resources. In Gail Simone’s You’ll All Be Sorry forum is a thread about a comic book con promoter trying to become a comic book publisher. It’s absolutely addicting and fascinating through 271 pages. Yep. 271.The promoter, Rick Olney, apparently doesn’t pay his employees. I’m talking big names in the business like Chuck Dixon and Gail Simone who are currently popular writers that have worked regularly for Marvel and DC for years. When Dixon spoke up about not getting paid, Olney started in with all this stuff claiming Dixon was lying and had broken a NDA (non-disclosure agreement) and that because of that he will not pay Dixon. It only gets worse. A number of other creators probably numbering at least 8 publicly have stated that they have been not been paid either. Olney has stated that people making these claims are liars, or that the check was lost in the mail or that they have broken their NDA’s by stating they have not been paid and that he has his lawyer investigating the matter. He won’t even pay his former public relations person the $800.00 he owes her. And it only gets worse. He dives into making threats to people including physical violence, calling virtually any female comic creators that venture into the thread bitches or worse, and has made numerous anti-gay remarks including calling many male comic creators gay. People are now looking into his claims of him being a marine that served during Vietnam and so far nobody can find any record of him having served. Oh yeah, he blatantly lied about his non-profit organization until people investigated to find that it was never registered with the federal government.
It’s really stunning. Now it’s to the point where it’s not quite enjoyable to read the thread because Olney comes on and just posts insults but the more he posts the more people investigate him and find that pretty much his whole life is a lie. I restate once again that it’s absolutely fascinating and completely addictive following the thread. And nobody, not one single person has come forward to make any kind of defense for Rick Olney.
On lighter news, I’ve been sent questions for an interview from a columnist from Sequential Tart. This is really cool and my first official interview for the comic. I’m still working on some of the answers and I’m not sure when the interview will be posted but I’ll let you all know as soon as I know.
Disappearing for two days now. In other words – I have to work tonight and tomorrow night.
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