I finally1 got around to reading Tony's report on BICS, over here, and was most amused to see him describing me as "comics blogger extraordinaire" in the first paragraph. It's a bit of a misnomer, really, because I don't think I've actually posted a single thing on this blog about comics of any kind, other than my own report on BICS a few posts back — where my main point about the comics I saw there was that I didn't buy any of them.
Maybe I should rectify this, and post more often about comics now and then. I did actually have plans to when I launched the new website (as I said on my "about" page), but I haven't got around to it yet, because there's not been anything that I've felt the pressing need to write about. But, since I now have to live up to this name of "comics blogger extraordinaire," I'd better start mentioning comics more often around here, hadn't I? I suppose could mention that it's 24 Hour Comics Day tomorrow, and that it's already the first birthday of LUC, so a bunch of small-pressers will be getting together in a pub tomorrow night to draw stuff and drink. Drink, mostly.
As far as the meatballs are concerned, because I know you all want to know about that, I think it's a bit unfair that Tony didn't explain where the phrase came from, because it's not like it was something I said just out of the blue for no reason. See, we were about to order dinner, and he asked me what I was going to eat, and I said, "maybe the spaghetti with meatballs." (I'd ordered the same thing in a pub a week or so before and it was really nice, so I thought I'd have it again.) Of course, Tony, being the perv that he is, thought that the mere word was hilarious and kept repeating it, insisting that I had deliberately made it sound filthy to taunt him. As if I would. He wouldn't let it go, even when I was going through other options on the menu, hence me telling him to "let the meatballs go." Which he only did when he found out I'd ordered pizza instead. Because he's a perv. (Congratulations on soon-to-becoming Mr Tracy Farrow, though, dude.)
1I tend to miss everything that I'm not following via RSS, and I only follow stuff on RSS that doesn't truncate its feed when being syndicated. So I miss a lot of stuff unless I remember to actively look for it. There are several reasons for this, but as a topic it probably deserves its own post, rather than a footnote, though.
