At least a hundred thousand people have been waiting to register for next year's Comic-Con International and the folks who run that fine institution have been working to make that happen. The first couple of attempts to open online registration crashed due to overload...and now they think they have a set-up that will work. They're going to start by giving it a limited test run.
This Wednesday, December 15, one thousand badges will go on sale at 8 AM Pacific Time...only one thousand. If you want to take a stab at getting one or two of those thousand, go read this page and don't wait 'til Wednesday to read it.
If you try and don't get in, don't get irate. It's only a small percentage of the passes that will be available. I have every confidence that the convention planners will solve the problem. They always seem to be able to solve problems, which is one of the many things that impresses me about that whole operation.
Hey, remember when GSN (the channel formerly known as Game Show Network) used to run vintage black-and-white episodes of What's My Line? and I've Got a Secret in their overnight lineup? Well, they seem to be back on the schedule starting tonight. Thanks to Gary Emenitove for letting me know about this.
Michael Hiltzik pens what seems to me like a very fair 'n' accurate portrait of Arnold Schwarzenegger's run as Governor of California. The laws of this state make it nearly impossible to solve its problems and Schwarzenegger failed to do the impossible.
This should not be a cause for joy or an "I told you so" for anyone. A lot of people are suffering because the situation is bad and getting worse. I read articles by people who seem to be praying for Jerry Brown to fail totally because, you know, he's a left-wing Democrat and it's awful when a left-wing Democrat makes things better. I don't understand that attitude at all.
December 12, 2010
