James Hudnall

As you may know, I am also a web developer. I was asked by the owner of the news blog Crosshairball to come up with a new site design and it’s now live. You can see it here.

Yesterday was another fun day. Caught up with my friend and former collaborator Greg Horn. We’re talking about doing a book together. Had lots of good conservations with lots of people. I wanted to see Adam Baldwin yesterday, as I know him from Big Hollywood. We have talked on the phone a few times. But he won’t be there till today, so maybe I will see him.

Then last night was the Eisner Awards dinner which is something I haven’t been to in years. So I was amazed how big it’s gotten. They had the cast of Scott Pilgrim Saves the World there and actor Thomas Jane from Hung (who was also the best Punisher, IMO) giving out awards. Jane is also a comics publisher. The highlight of the night for me was meeting Laurie Standell and Carol Tyler, two great comics talents I admire. They were both nominees this year. Laurie did last years The Imposter’s Daughter, which I highly recommend and Carol did “You’ll Never Know.” They were also awards presenters and were hanging out together, which is interesting because while Laurie’s book was about how messed up her father is, Carol’s was about how great her father was.

Once again, I got home late and only managed a few hours sleep. Now I have to head back.

I have to say, this con is the most fun I can remember having in a long time. Exhausting, but I’ve been having a blast.

I had a great time yesterday. Spent some time with Batton at his booth. Lots of people coming up saying how much they love our strip Obama Nation.

The place was packed, as usual. Lots of interesting things to see, like Odin’s Thone at the Marvel booth from the new movie.

My writing panel went really well. It was in a huge room which was full. I estimate maybe 300 people or more in attendance. They all seemed to really like it. As promised, I will be writing a post covering what I discussed after the con.

Then I went to a party thrown by my management company. I got some interesting news on projects we’re trying to set up and I had some great talks with some writers and directors. Then my old pals Brian Bendis and David Mack showed up and we caught up with each other. It had been years since I saw Brian last.

Well, that’s it for now. Off to day two of the con!

I am off to the con. I will report back here on the day’s events.

I have my writing workshop today

Thursday, July 22
4:30-5:30
Writing Workshop
Room 30CDE

Those who miss it can check back here. I will write up a post going over what I talked about. It will be a new chapter in my book, which I am editing now. Called Story Fundamentals.

I also have a big party to go to which Wired Magazine and my Hollywood management company are throwing. I may not post any updates till I get back from that.

This is one of my all time favorite spy movies. And it’s rather low budget. I saw it when I was a kid in the theater. It holds up very well, though the times have changed. What I love about it is it’s a realistic spy story. Sort of an anti-Bond movie.

If you haven’t seen it before, check it out. Very stylish and cool.

In case you hadn’t heard, the now defunct newsgroup “Journolist” has revealed a lot about elite reporters conspiring to distort the news. Not only are they fanatically left wing, they seek to destroy any dissenting opinions in the press. They even called on the government to shut down Fox News. If that isn’t fascist I don’t know what is. The collusion of corporate and government interests to suppress dissent.

Daily Caller has been doing some great work here as well as Big Journalism. Here is the latest from Tucker Carlson to give you an idea.

If you were in the presence of a man having a heart attack, how would you respond? As he clutched his chest in desperation and pain, would you call 911? Would you try to save him from dying? Of course you would.

But if that man was Rush Limbaugh, and you were Sarah Spitz, a producer for National Public Radio (update: Spitz was a producer for NPR affiliate KCRW for the show Left, Right & Center), that isn’t what you’d do at all.

In a post to the list-serv Journolist, an online meeting place for liberal journalists, Spitz wrote that she would “Laugh loudly like a maniac and watch his eyes bug out” as Limbaugh writhed in torment.

In boasting that she would gleefully watch a man die in front of her eyes, Spitz seemed to shock even herself. “I never knew I had this much hate in me,” she wrote. “But he deserves it.”

Spitz’s hatred for Limbaugh seems intemperate, even imbalanced. On Journolist, where conservatives are regarded not as opponents but as enemies, it barely raised an eyebrow.

To view someone with a different opinion with such vitriol is not the providence of objective, rational people. These are fanatics who should never have been given such an important task as writing about the news. But to make matters worse, they seek to destroy dissenting views, and even try to get the government to push their agenda. People have been saying for decades how biased the press is, now we have the proof from their own private conversations.

Thank you internet.

Comic Con starts today, but I probably won’t get there till tomorrow. I have been swamped with work the last three weeks and am almost caught up.

Here’s the schedule for my writing workshop on Thursday.

Thursday, July 22
4:30-5:30
Writing Workshop
Room 30CDE

It will be on the fundamentals of writing. The key things you need to know.

Hope to see some of you there.

The man is a straight up liar. As I have discussed many times before, his promises are meaningless because he always renegs on them. The Cato Institute has provided a helpful guide to the many flip-flops Obama has done over the individual mandate, forcing people to buy health insurance as a TAX, which is what it is. People are going to be forced in 2014 to pay for health insurance or else. This is socialized medicine. There is no “free healthcare” there never was. In countries where they have socialized medicine, people are taxed to pay for it.