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The State Of Comics It’s really sad that the comics industry is still a “niche” market. The business has never had a better time, in terms of great stories and imaginative writers. Now, more than ever, comics are writer-driven. Gone are the days when comics would be popular because of the hot new artist or […]

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After a little shopping around, I’ve setup the home and pest inspections for this Saturday at 9 AM. Hopefully, they’ll find nothing wrong with the house. Next up is setting up the mortgage. I’m probably going to go with Cendant, but need to get some good quotes and Good Faith Estimates from DCU and FFIG.

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Kitty sent me a link to a real funny website – check it out here.

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Green Arrow: Quiver by Kevin Smith, Ande Parks, and Guy Major “Hero coming back from the dead” type of stories are lame. They did that with Jean Grey, they did that with Superman, and they did it to whole other bunch of characters that it just gets plain boring. When somebody dies in the superhero […]

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Tornadoes and Cruises It’s always depressing to come back to work after having a three-day weekend (I took Friday off). Hopefully, nobody will bother me too much today. I’m just not in the mood for it. A tornado passed through our area yesterday. Thankfully, it wasn’t really in our immediate vicinity and the tornado path […]

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Whitney Chase We got word on Friday from Eva the Realtor that our offer was accepted by GMAC (the relocation company working for the sellers). Now it’s time to begin the process of getting the house inspected and applying for the loan. We’ve got 15 days to do the former and 10 days to do […]

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Pittsburgh Comicon Had a good time today at the Pittsburgh Comicon. Quite an experience and sight to see….. more strange folks than the Cantina on Tatooine. We actually saw a stormtrooper and a guy dressed as Green Lantern. Besides the comics folks, some Playboy Playmates (like Petra Verkaik) also had booths set-up there…. further evidence […]

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End of an E-heads Era Inq7.net has a story regarding the replacement of Eraserheads lead singer and rhythm guitarist Ely Buendia by Fatal Posporos’ Kris Gorra (a woman!). The E-heads are my second favorite OPM band (next to Parokya Ni Edgar) and this will be the end of an era. Will this mean that the […]

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The Counter-Offer and The Carpenters We called up several people last night and got a fairly unanimous opinion that the deal we’re getting is almost the same as what we originally offered. We’ll meet up with our realtor tonight and go over the counter-offer. If it looks good, we’ll sign it and get the ball […]

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The House-Hunt Saga Continues… Our agent was able to speak with the sellers and as expected, they counter-offered. The counter offer is not bad though, basically they’re asking for $3,000 more than our offer, but in return, they’re going to chip in $3000 (possibly more) towards the closing costs. Right now, that seems like a […]

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