Category: status

Gorgeous day out here. Still cold, but bright, with spring scents in the air. And allergens.

Distinct lack of airplane trails, this morning, though. Reminding me of the summer of the Icelandic volcano.

Decided to continue using the Do Button to post a proof of life to Twitter in the mornings. I was going to stop when retiring from social media post-show, but people seem to like them, and it guess it doesn’t hurt to see something familiar on your feed in the morning right now.

Inbox 25, which is not good, and probably a sign of the times. Filed a BATMAN’S GRAVE script last night, so I’m on to development writing this week. Fun.

Turning off news notifications because it’s all the same news. Still haven’t started the newsletter. Inbox finally under 20. Lucky I already filled the office with films and music, right? Postman showed up at 7am (bastard) in blue nitrile gloves. Studios, networks and publishers shutting down. Going to be an interesting season. Hi. All is well.

Can’t keep up with the speed of messaging today, so I’m going dark. If you’re messaging or emailing, you’re in a queue, sorry.

THE BATMAN’S GRAVE 6 came out yesterday, which I didn’t properly memorialise because I was too busy writing future issues of THE BATMAN’S GRAVE. Which I’m also doing today, and also probably Friday, before giving myself the weekend to do development on other stuff, before I go back into HEAVEN’S FOREST. Regimented days.

Please admire Bryan Hitch’s world class work on this book. Please also observe that it’s coming out like clockwork — next month is a pre-planned and pre-announced skip month. Bryan is putting out work of this shocking quality, easily the equal of anything else he’s done in comics, like a machine.

Last night before bed I was reviewing and clearing materials on another show I’m attached to, because this is how my days go now. Something new every hour or two. Kel said to me the other day, “you’re in your happy place,” and while I would personally never agree that I experience human emotions — 1000mphclub is fast and chaotic and demanding and I’m not hating it. Content distant hermit.

Inbox at a bullshit 22.

Slightly more springlike out here today, but we’ve been fooled before. Inbox 15. Big BATMAN’S GRAVE day today. Which is funny, as issue 6 is out today. One month break following that, and then we do the next six. Time to throw some Bela Tarr on the big screen and some Phurpa on the speakers and get it done.

Antibiotics and hand sanitiser: all the coronavirus supplies you need. Self-isolate with CASTLEVANIA Season Three!

Already sent a dozen emails and set a phone conf time for next week. I have at least one phoner this afternoon, so I need to get a bit of this script done and then go out for supplies then phoner then cause dinner then back to script while fielding emails and messages and picking at a couple of things I have on deck for development this week and wow I’m going to need more coffee

Inbox 15. Protip: on web-based Gmail, drag your Spam and Bin folders down below the fold in the left hand panel so you can’t ever see them. They take care of themselves, and it requires you to make a specific effort to go in and check them, reducing the number of procrastinatory whim-clicks you make inside Gmail.

Well, the show is well and truly launched, and is currently sitting at 100% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. It’ll be a while before we find out from Netflix what kind of position we’re in, though I’ve been told by others that the show has been either top 5 or top 10 globally this weekend. Anyway. It’s out in the world, and I move on to other things.

Filed a HEAVEN’S FOREST script draft over the weekend, and today I get into BATMAN’S GRAVE and some development work on two other things, and a pile of HEAVEN’S FOREST concept work that I have to review and annotate. Inbox 14. Currently in that period of confusion where North America has gone to daylight savings time but we here in the seat of civilisation have not. We invented time, people. You don’t get to just change this shit on me.

Newsletter is out early as I have a script on deck that I absolutely have to push through today. Still eating relatively cleanly — last week ramped up quite dramatically and energy and health are going to be somewhat paramount for a bit because I don’t get any time off for another three weeks (I plan to hit the off button, unplug and go dark for a long weekend to get some recovery in).

Show launch seems to be going well, but it’ll be a while before we have any data or news. Always a tricky time.

I’m up, already scheduling and making notes. Inbox is at 16, and I’m at the desk all day today. Yesterday turned into a big email day, setting several things up for later in the year. Moving things from the Pending board to the Work On Deck board, sliding off social media post-show launch (apparently that’s going very well, somehow) and eating painkillers for breakfast. Good morning.