My hair is on fire! My hair is on fire! My hair is on fire!

I recently posted that I would need to either blog regularly or quit having a blog. Here I am at work at 2 a.m. and my content manager (the way I make the DeseretNews website compelling) has stopped working. I am counting on this being a temporary server issue since it needs to reset sometimes. The point is, it gives me time to blog so here is a whole lot of little tidbits of what is going on.



I am going to Comic-Con next Wednesday, as I have for years now. I have worked for SideshowCollectibles there and helped them in various ways, including interviewing Stan Lee and Elvira. This year they faced a hotel room shortage and decided to do it without me so I am a free agent. I will be laboring intently by updating TheOneRing.net, by co-presenting a panel (scroll down to the 10:30 a.m. programming) and conducting a couple of fan-participation events in conjunction with Weta.

Blah, blah, blah - no wonder I can't blog. Everything I type is a link and I work slow!

Anyway, I will also be writing for my own co-owned Website called *drum roll* www.GeekFreePress.com. You should bookmark that site and check it often, its not full of content at the moment but, we hope to make it great and I have good people helping me along the way. I have about every possible moment of my five days in San Diego scheduled already with video games, television, movies, books, Web casts and comics. I should be talking to Felicia Day, all the voices behind SpongeBob, see Gwar in concert (ha!), attend some screenings and so forth. Preparation for the event is maddening. I am also writing for the Deseret News and gathering a boat-load of future video games stories and writing a Weekend cover for the film "District 9" which has an entertaining trailer. See below.



The point is, my hair is on fire because, that is only one of my time sinks.

We are also, still, remodeling our kitchen. I would really like to write about it, but there is no time. Short version: We haven't had a functioning kitchen for six weeks. Its uh, inconvenient. Shannon wrote about it a bit.

And, at work I am working all nights this week, which is fine, but its hard to get things done and sleep at home. A big change is coming up soon at work, really as soon as I am back from Comic-Con, so again, my hair is on fire.

My good friend Scott Iwasaki, Dnews music critic, has asked me to review the Tool concert. This came up suddenly but I am excited! Anyway, sleep is a burden and my hair is on fire. None of this is a complaint though, all of these things will eventually be for my good and are the stuff life is made of.