Mushroom Soup Wednesday

Not much posting today and I'm afraid it may be like this through the weekend. I'll be around but not often.

A brief policy statement: I get lots of requests from folks asking me to plug Kickstarter, Go Fund Me or other endeavors that endeavor to raise money. Some of these are from friends. Some are from total strangers. A few do a bad job of pretending that they've ever had any use for this blog. One casual acquaintance wrote me the other day that he religiously reads newsfromme every day and also enjoys seeing Carolyn and me at Comic-Con (which she didn't attend the last few years of her life) and hopes to see us both again there next month.

You know, I don't mind people saying to me, "Hey, I know we don't know each other…" I do mind them pretending we're bosom buddies because they want something. Every time I've been in a position to hire writers or actors, I hear from a lot of close friends I never knew I had. There's a strong "How dumb does he think I am?" factor at work here.

I also sometimes get messages that seem to think I run a free public service where you send me your press release and I print it.

For some reason the requests come in clumps — one or two a day for a week or two…then suddenly, a whole bunch all at once. Today, I've had twenty-seven. Some are surely worthy causes. Others are things that I can't recommend because I haven't seen them or don't know much about them beyond what their marketers tell me makes them indispensable. I don't know what to do with all these so for the time being at least, I'm not going to do anything.

People…I don't even use this blog to promote my own projects very often. I don't think I've mentioned the last twenty comic books I had out. Why do you think I want to promote every single thing you do?