The Coffeespy

If I may step out from behind the Coffeespy mask for a moment, I will try to explain the dearth of new material.

Several of the readers already know I’ve been working hard (harder than usual, at least) on a work of fiction. When this occurs, I stop reading the work of others for fear of subconsciously adopting their style and I also have to get in the proper mindset of living, eating, and breathing the characters’ lives. So from 5am to 10am or so, I have dominated a soft, cushiony seat at Starbucks and churned out around 10 manuscript pages per day.

After rocketing up to 95 pages, I realized I hadn’t outlined the middle very well. So I came home and wracked my brains trying to figure out how to get a political activist organization pitted against the forces of robotic talk show hosts to slowly escalate their battle (stop laughing, this is serious stuff). Unfortunately for you, this makes it very hard for me to connect the world of comic books to the world of comic politics.

I’ve had quite a bit to say about the comics I’ve been reading, but my fear is that too many comic book posts will lose some of the connections I’ve come to cherish on my blogroll (particularly Common Sense Political Thought and IT(L)TIE). I’m not sure if they could justify leaving a comic book pundit on their rolls. Others, like Skalduggery and Life on the Installment Plan, I believe would keep me on their rolls even if I started publishing recipes using Spam, the meat-like product, as long as I made it slightly witty.

Then, out of nowhere, WordPress pooped on all my articles. I have wonderful A^’s sprinkled throughout the entire thing and my old theme won’t work with the new version. Finally, it looks like I will be starting a low paying, thankless job where I’m told the real reward is the work itself. Always be suspicious when they tell you your compensation is, in part, the work you do…

So the challenge is trying to balance all these things without admitting the entire situation is probably entirely fueled by my neurosis. And that’s where the title for this entry came from.

So… in order to keep on top of things, I will put out a couple of posts tonight, one I’ve been holding for Friday Calf-Blogging tomorrow, and then pretty much be publishing random musings on anything that catches my eye for the foreseeable future. At some point, and even sporadically until that point, I will return to the comic-poli-blog niche because, really, no one else will.

Just so you know I haven’t lost it, here is a completely inappropriate, out-of-context interaction between Batman and Robin:

Well, I clicked on the automated “Upgrade WordPress” button and it has done something screwy with the formatting of EVERY ARTICLE and disintegrated my blogroll.

I’m not a tech guy of that level so…

…I dunno. We’ll see how I feel about this in the morning I guess.

How do I feel right now? If WordPress were Batman, I’d be the cat:

This morning, all retrievable data on Fred Thompson was fed into the Internet BS Machine.  Within microseconds, the task of matching the undeclared poll-slayer was complete.

Internet BS Machine Match:

Just like Batman’s utility belt, Fred Thompson could have the perfect device for every situation… or he might just be an empty piece of practical ornamentation.  Who knows?  Both men lead double lives, one in the public eye and the other in pursuit of “law and order.”  Rimshot, please.  The other obvious similarity is that when most voters imagine the pair as the President of the United States, the next thing they think is, “it could be cool… or it could really, really suck.”

Fred Thompson has been a senator, making a run at the White House a “Return of the Dark Horse” if you will.  “Return of the Dark Knight” is arguably one of the finest Batman tales ever told.

Where Batman will come in handy to Fred, though, is with his ability to show up in the last panel of a Justice League story and reveal that he’s already planned the defeat of their enemies, moved everything they need into place, and only has to throw out a few one-liners and let nature take its course.

If Fred is going to wait until the last second to spring his election engine upon the currently campaigning cadre, he will need something tailor-made to pull off an election upset.  Hopefully the Dark Knight has the kryptonite Fred will need to weaken the Last Daughter of Kryptonsas.