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Crazy October

Filed Under Books, Elmer, Movies, My Comics, Timawa | 6 Comments

October 2008 will go down in my personal history as one of the most eventful. I’d rather not mention the more sordid events, but I can say that I was horribly sick at the start of the month. It took me more than a week to recover. A week later, my wife Ilyn fell sick with fever, coughs and cold. A week later I caught her bug and was sick again. Only now am I really recovering again, but I’m still a bit woozy from the Mucobron.

Because of this I missed my Timawa deadline. Less income this month.

The nail on the pinky of my left foot came off when I kicked a box.

Arlan Esmeña, my artist for “Where Bold Stars Go To Die” was confined to a hospital for an operation. I’m not 100% certain of it’s release at Komikon now. But I’m glad my friend is OK.

A couple of fund raising things for Elmer #4 fell through, bumming me out. Important messages I sent to people went unanswered. I’m being ignored and don’t think I don’t know it. Ignore me all you like, but in the end you still owe me. In fairness, there are messages I don’t reply to as well. Just because. Rest assured that if it’s important, I’ll get back to you eventually.

I met the unofficial “acting” mayor of San Pablo City. I got interviewed on Cable TV. My pets are featured in a local pet magazine. I learned to cook Scampi Ala Calabrese (or was that last month?) I met old friends and classmates in Facebook. Stephen Fry is following me on Twitter. And I can’t believe I’m actually corresponding with Robert Llewellyn.

I saw “The Incredibles” and “13 Going on 30″ and “Enchanted” one after the other and while I enjoyed The Incredibles, I enjoyed Enchanted much much more.

I read the The War of the Worlds by HG Wells and I thought it was fantastic. I heard the original 1938 radio broadcast of Orson Welles’ adaptation of The War of the Worlds and it’s brilliant. I saw the 1953 adaptation starring Gene Barry and I thought it was great. No tripods though. I saw Spielberg’s version and I thought the effects were excellent although I didn’t like how the aliens came to Earth. Tommygirl was tolerable. I saw a War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave starring C. Thomas Howell. It had some good ideas, but the execution was bad. By far the most faithful adaptation is from Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s League of Extraordinary Gentlemen II, which I also browsed just to reassure myself.

I saw Independence Day and and when Randy Quaid sacrificed himself it made me cry. Other things that made me cry: Nathan Stark dying in Eureka, the last episode of Three’s Company, And Extras Christmas Special 2007.

My new favorite TV show is Dead Like Me, although I discovered it 4 years after it went off the air.

I received some awesome hardcover graphic novels from France in the mail from my pal Dejan including Travis Charest’s Meta-Barons and a couple of Incals drawn by Ladronn.

When I was sick I dreamed of Martian tripods.

October 28, 2008

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6 Responses to “Crazy October”

  1. Rod Samonte on October 29th, 2008 8:09 am

    Gerry,
    Dami mong napanood. I like to watch TV shows when they come out on DVD, hehehe, then I don’t have to deal with waiting and commercials. It’s new if you haven’t seen it. Watched Heroes 2nd Season, somehow not as good as the first season. I saw a few episodes of Dead Like Me. If you like Enchanted, maybe you’ll like The 10th Kingdom, starring a still young and lovely Kimberly Williams. It’s somewhat the opposite premise of Enchanted. A father and daughter are transported from New York to a parallel universe of witches, man-wolves, trolls, evil queens, kings and kingdoms. It’s a miniseries and on DVD about 8 hours long. Can’t remember the last episode of Three’s Company. Okay ang mayor ninyo, a, hindi talagang mayor, dahil “unofficial” na “acting” pa, hehehe.
    Rod

  2. Gerry Alanguilan on October 29th, 2008 9:00 am

    Hey Rod…

    The last episode of Three’s Company saw Janet getting married, Jack moving in with his girlfriend in a room above his restaurant, and Terri going to Hawaii. They said their goodbyes to Mr. Furley and Larry and the apartment. It really was kind of sad. Ilyn watched all the episodes except that one. Being sick and flat on my back for so long I was able to watch a lot of things. :) I didn’t like the 2nd season of Heroes as well. Actually, it turned me off the series almost completely.

    Our local government is complicated to say the least. :D

  3. Azrael on October 29th, 2008 9:13 am

    get well soon kay Arlan…sana ok na sya.

  4. auggie on October 29th, 2008 9:28 am

    Rod,

    I saw seasons 1&2 of DEXTER, ayos, maganda siya, saan ka nakakita na serial killer ang bida ?
    I have seen COMANCHE MOON too, a six-hour serial. Ito yung prequel ng LONESOME DOVE ni Larry McMurtry. Early days nila Augustus McRae, at Woodrow Call, as Texas Rangers. Andito din si Val Kilmer as captain nila Gus & Woodrow. Maraming interesting characters. Si Buffalo Hump,pala ang tatay ni Blue Duck, half-breed Comanche, na naging ruthless killer at hina-hunting ng mga Rangers.

  5. Rod Samonte on October 29th, 2008 12:28 pm

    Gerry,
    Oh yeah, Janet got married. Lungkot nga nung paalaman. My favorite in Heroes is Ali Larter. She’s one of the most popular stars around, and easily the best looking in the series. Don’t know why the writers don’t give her a bigger piece of the action, instead of adding more characters. By the last episode I was so bored already.

    Auggie,
    Believe it or not I have the DVD of Comanche and I haven’t even seen it. I actually met the actor Frederick Forrest, who played Blue Duck. A nice guy, I was talking to him at an event, and I didn’t know he was the actor who played Blue Duck. Completely different from the Indian he played. He’s blonde, blue eyes, an excellent character actor to be sure, to be able to transform himself to one so evil. He was “Chef” Hicks in Apocalypse now, one of the soldiers on the boat with Martin Sheen. I’ll see if I can find Dexter in the library.
    Rod

  6. Gilbert on October 30th, 2008 9:20 am

    Ain’t that bad. I bet November will be an exciting month for you Kumpare :)