So what's new then?
Well nothing actually.
I'm steadily eating up the pages on the "Hot Gates into a comic story" idea and my buddy, The Chee, wants to do it whether Dani can sort out something with one of her friends or not.
Which is mighty Welsh of him, actually.
I'm off now for the whole weekend, which is nice.
A party tonight and tomorrow followed by a Sunday of rest and recuperation on the sofa being tortured by my kids.

I'm sorting out an outline for a short story set in WW1. Nothing definite yet but it's on the tip of my cerebral lobes and I'll splurge it out onto a page sometime next week… sounds a bit naughty that doesn't it?
Only to the dirty-minded, Reg.
Oh.
OK, whatever, catch you again.
Reg :-)

Nothing to add today.

I wish somebody would mail me with some good news...
literally speaking of course.

Reg :-/

So here's the plan.
You know about the 300-Spartans-go-vampire story that I scribbled down.
Well a mate of mine is a graphic designer, who is itching to do a graphic novel.
It was originally intended to do it for 'Division' but the time involved in changing a 140,000 word novel into an elongated comic book was too daunting to really consider.
We played with the thought every time we were whammoed together but it never went any place further than the drunken drawing board.
However, The Hot Gates, as it's called is only 10,275 words. A far more promising project, with closer horizons and a tighter play.
It's a job that could be accomplished in his spare time and not get in the way of his career.

So The Chief, (The Chief of Beers, what a stupid nickname. We also call him The Chee, which is even stupider.)
As I was saying, the Chief is willing to put The Hot Gates down in comic form.
However, I don't want to mess the boy around. It would be far better to find a publishing firm who deal in this type of literature first and then put it to paper.
That's where my friend Dani comes in.
When we first mentioned putting Div. of the Damned into comic form, Dani said that she knew two comic book publishers personally.
"Well," said I, "do you think they'd be interested in this?"
"I don't know" was the reply. "I'll have to find out."
And that's where it all sort of drizzled out.
Anyway, I've asked her again if she's still in contact with these comic book dudes and I'm hoping against hope that she say's yes.
I can't tell you how much I'm hoping here, lol.

Whatever, now you know.
Have a good one, whatever it is you're doing.
Reg J

I've spent the last couple of days thinking up clever one liners for the tracklist on the CD the band is recording.
The idea is to have a line, couplet or saying that connects to the song, under the name of the track.
For example :

The Excorcist
In the cold, lonely churchyard I slipped in the blade, and sang praise to the heavens for the soul I'd just saved.

The song is about a man killing innocent people who he thinks are possessed. There's twelve tracks and therefore twelve of these lines.
One of them, though, is "doin' my 'ead in" as they say just south of the Watford Gap.
For the track 'Zealot' I used the line :

"Man is never more resolute and fulfilled than when he's killing for his God."

Now my question is, have I unknowingly plagiarised this line?
My mate/buddy/pal Adam, (guitar player in the band) reckons it sounds familiar, which is both annoying and worrying at the same time.
Annoying because if I have somehow copied it from some other text then I'll have to bin it.
Disturbing because it means that senile dementia really is unfolding its kraken-like tentacles over my drink addled brain.
I really hope that is not the case.

Any takers on this one?

Reg :-/
(worried)
PS. If it sounds familiar but you don't have the quote for me then I'm going to use it. It's not on Google or Yahoo so...

So, Sunday.
Normally a day of rest, today I'm going to sort out my second satellite dish so I can receive BBC, ITV and Sianel Pedwar Cymru. Not that I speak Welsh but a couple of sentences a day will make me remember my Gran and Taid who used to use Welsh to curse in front of the children. The unfortunate thing was that we kids knew all the Welsh swear words and it always sent us into raptures to hear our grandparents swearing so openly thinking nobody else knew what they were on about.
So that's that then.
Tee, to your question about the names in The Hot Gates; they're all actual characters from the battle of Thermopylae. The only one I made up was Caturnes because there was no record of the names of Xerxes' oracles.
That's it for today folks. Have a nice weekend.
Reg J