my dinner with mistersleepless

[rone]

I lie, i lie; i had dinner with palecur, rjray_rss, and erikred, the last of whom drove us from downtown Oakland (after we BARTed up from Fremont) to downtown Berkeley last week for a last-minute booksigning by Warren Ellis at Comic Relief, which is in the process of being evicted and thereby searching for a new location.

(Now that, kids, is a run-on sentence.)

We arrived at Comic Relief just a couple of minutes before Warren bounded in. As fate would have it, i ended up first in line. Rory the Man at CR broke out the free candy. Warren was as charming as he could be, given that he had a cold (i was as tongue-tied as a teenaged girl — what a dork). He signed my copy of Hellblazer: Haunted and heartily endorsed my acquisition of Dean Motter's Mister X Volume 1 (after all these years, i know where Robert Reimann got his mr x persona; in many ways, he expanded and improved upon Motter's design). There's a panel in Mister X which is reproduced full-page in Transmetropolitan (i noticed when i first saw it that it had a Hernández Bros. look and feel). Unfortunately, my copy of MXV1 has two misprinted pages, so i need to harass the publisher so i can get a proper copy to replace it.

It's not every day you manage to have a picture taken when you're flanked by two of your favorite writers (and please ignore the gigantic mold on palecur's cheek; it's a science experiment).

Comments

[ikkyu2.livejournal.com]

You guys are all truly beard-tastic.

[palecur.livejournal.com]

two of your favorite writers

Awww. I guess I have to actually write something now (damn, I have some fresh stuff on the PDA I wanted to show you on the BART, but I totally forgot about it. I'm seeing you on the 14th, hopefully there will be EVEN MORE material then.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Well, it'll be nice to see you on the 14th, but the game is off. 21st OK? I'll send e-mail.

[omarius.livejournal.com]

You look smugly evil and Mr. Ellis looks a little afraid. What did you do to the man?

[waider.livejournal.com]

Do note that you can't see either of the MIGHTY RONE'S hands.

[agentelrond.livejournal.com]

I'm just amused by the thought of Mr. Ellis bounding in.

[mrbalihai.livejournal.com]

That pointy little goatee of yours is really quite satanic...in a pleasantly bohemian sort of way...and your brother has an air of Ron Jeremy about him, I must say.

[pennyhill.livejournal.com]

(Now that, kids, is a run-on sentence.)

It's not so much a run-on sentence as merely a sentence that is over-accessorized. While it easily could be chopped up into smaller bits like a corporation after a hostile takeover, it has all the proper punctuation, although it could use an extra "is" in the final clause, but that's more a preference than a requirement.

This is a run-on: A run-on sentence would feature two sentences fused as one they are easy to spot.

Any more grammatical misdiagnoses from you and I shall pull out the whip. STOP GRINNING!