Bill Cosby, because he fears getting the coronavirus, is requesting early release from the prison in which he is confined. Hey, get in line, Bill. We'd all like out of our current prisons…and you may be safer right where you are. At least you probably have toilet paper.
By the way: It's probably just me but when I hear that someone is "cosplaying," I don't immediately think that they're roaming around a comic convention dressed as some super-hero or character from Star Wars or Trek. I think just for an instant that they slipped something into someone's drink so they could criminally molest them and in so doing, betrayed the admiration and love of a nation. But like I said, that's probably just me.
I may not make these dispatches a daily thing because, first of all, a lot of my days of isolation so far have been nearly identical to one another. The main thing of interest yesterday was calls and e-mails relating to the mess that's happening due to Diamond. Diamond Distributors — the folks who disseminate most comic books and related publications — have announced they will stop receiving new product from printers for distribution starting in April. So everyone's scrambling to decide what's on, what's off, what's postponed, when things are now due, etc. A couple things I'm working on will be affected but I'm not yet sure which ones or in what way.
Otherwise, I'm just staying in, writing and talking to friends. I wonder how the folks who lived through the 1921 Diphtheria Epidemic got through it without FaceTime. When friends tell me they're bored, I tell them the following: "Think back to a moment in recent memory when you said a sentence that began with the phrase, 'When I have some free time, I'm going to…' and do that thing. You've got free time now. You may not have hand sanitizer but you've got free time…plenty of it. Do that thing you said you were going to do when you had some. If you don't do it now, it'll never get done."