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Patrick Stewart wearing a teenage girl's bathrobe, shaking his booty, and singing Oingo Boingo's "Little Girls" was more beautiful than I ever could have possibly imagined. American Dad can suck for the rest of its godless existence, it has given us this glorious sight that I shall treasure forever.

Small Press Expo is today! The biggest convention for independent comic publishers, the kinds of people who print their comics with a xerox and have ink-stains in places you really don't want to see. Plus Harvey Pekar! Maybe I'll get him to sign my DVD of American Splendor!

Some people go to conventions and meet artists to amass a collection of original art. Sometimes these people have particular themes to their collections. I've seen whole personal collections of professionally done Star Wars scenes, Batgirl, even Mister T. Time was I used to do a whole collection of my favorite characters, Two-Face and Hal Jordan Green Lantern. However, as SPX is all about independent publishing and whatnot, trying to get a drawing of a mainstream character like Harv or Hal isn't quite as... we'll say feasable. So I'm gonna see if I can't start a new collection.

I'm gonna see if I can't get a collection of as many artists as I can depecting Bub and Johnny Go. I'll start with Batton Lash, mayhaps the idea will amuse him. This is the guy who did Archie Meets The Punisher after all.

So let me run this one by you guys. I'm skeptical.

Mom called me up to tell me that one of her co-worker's husband, who's a cop, called to tell her that the police are all in full force this weekend? Why? Because according to the cop's wife, he said it's initiation weekend for the gangs (as Mom put it, the "cribs" and the "bloods"... I didn't know we even HAD crips and bloods here, much less outta LA). He said that according to their info, the gangs drive around with their headlights off. If some other helpful driver flashes their lights to let them know, the gangsters are instructed to kill everyone in that car.

Now...

That's what my mother said the wife said her husband said. All things considered, I'm not exactly ready to buy all this. She said she said he said that the cops aren't making an official announcement on this because they don't wanna cause a panic. Ok, so has anyone heard anything sorta like this at all? Even if it's not true, which I don't think is that likely (I mean, I never exactly thought of Wheaton as a hive of scum and villainy), but it's still so bizarre a thought that I wanted to bring it up.

Just is case, though, I'm not gonna flash my lights at anyone this weekend. Why poke fate in the eyeball, right?