The Official K Chronicles and (Th)ink Website

*PARDON THE LATE UPDATE..
..the Blogger site was down…

*THE BOSTON APPEARANCE IS SET!!
I’ll be at my favorite east coast comic spot, Million Year Picnic (99 Mt. Auburn St. Cambridge) on Thursday, June 8th @ 6:30pm. Git yer ass out there and say hello!!

*COMING SOON!! NEW WEBSITE PAGES!!
I hope to add some new pages to the website, including specific pages from each of my books for sale. Sketchbook pages. Paintings. And a page describing my lecture and slideshow stuff more extensively. I’d also like to post some sort of guest book/ mailing list thingie so folks can sign up and stay up-to-date on what’s happening with me comics-wise.

*X-MEN; THE LAST STAND..
Bryan Singer (director of the first two X-Men films) is sorely missed here. Fill-in director Brett Ratner is a hack..And this movie comes off more like an expensive T.V. episode. It just jumps around all over the place and never feels like a movie with a story. Even the mutant-on-mutant action isn’t done very well.

Eh..there’s a coupla good things: Wolverine gettin’ tossed up through ceilings is fun..And when Kelsey Grammar stops talk ing and starts fighting, it feels pretty good. But that’s it. There’s a part where fire-engulfed cars are being tossed and after the first few..man it was just lame. And the most powerful character spent most of the movie just standing around, looking dazed..I’m sure everyone involved was shocked that this movie made so much money in the first weekend.

Shoulda known it was gonna be bad after Ratner sent out a holiday card with him dressed as Wolverine with the cast. Hack!!

Meanwhile, the trailer they showed of the Bryan Singer directed Superman Returns finally started to show what they spent the $300 million on. I’m looking forward to it.(Although Lois lane doesn’t look plucky enough)

Oh..If you go to see X-Men, stay after the credits…

*EMAIL OF THE WEEK..

Dear Keith,

I don’t know how to do this without inflating your ego…well, it’s a well deserved inflation…you’re good. You’re damned good. No, you’re great. I especially loved your poetic Bush-as-cheerleader rhyming piece (What’s that spell?). That was way beyond merely brilliant. Thanks for saying it all, and in the way that you do.

—T.

*”DVD COMMENTARY” ON MY SPARK PIECE..
If you’ve seen my 10-min. documentary piece on KQED’s Spark TV show, you ain’t seen everything..I recently recorded an audio commentary track that will offend and amuse you..take a listen here:

http://www.kqed.org/arts/people/profile.jsp?id=4530