Punk Smurf pens a bilingual blog

So, last Friday my copy (#378) of Terry Moore’s “Strangers in Paradise” Omnibus FINALLY arrived. Robyn, Terry’s wife sent it off on October 1st, Dutch customs started processing it on October 7th.

Flemish friends of mine received theirs shortly after. Unfortunately it was damaged (they later found customs tape, so the packaging’s been tampered with). I didn’t have mine a week later. Nor two weeks later. I stopped joking about customs officers reading my copy; by then I was worried and frustrated what was taking them so frickin long?!

Well, finally on Friday the 23rd it arrived. In good condition:

And earlier today John Barrowman’s “I am what I am” also arrived in good condition

Yesterday, I received a Click-N-Ship® notification by Robyn Moore (that’s Terry Moore’s wife) stating that my copy of the omnibus is going to be shipped off. Woo-hoo - I can’t wait to get my hands on it!

(Here’s another recently published interview with Terry.)

My friend Derek showed me the preview of a comic called Phonogram Comic:

I like the graphics.

Let me start off this post with two recent interviews with Terry Moore in which he talks about Strangers in Paradise and Echo. This one’s interesting for Francophones as it is in French, and in this interview Terry also discusses translating his works to the big screen.

Late last night I found this article on scholars (!) studying Bruce Springsteen - who celebrated his 60th birthday earlier this week - at a weekend event. As a fan I would have attended it if I could, but the idea of actual scholars studying the man… Wow.

Another article that caught my attention was one on US spoof shows. I’m all for that as it shows people’s obsession with celebrities on one hand, and it also shows how ridiculous celebrities’ lives are; just because Britney and Paris are famous doesn’t mean they’re flawless and their lives are automatically more interesting than our own. (Think about it: whenever they screw up, it’s in front of the entire world - and I don’t envy them for that!) I can’t wait to see an episode of “Popzilla”. The article reminded me of a long running BBC show called Spitting Image (I think it was aired in the 80s and 90s) where -British- politics got spoofed. I was a little too young to get all the jokes, but I can imagine it certainly gave the Brits food for thought. I just occurred to me: remember the Genesis video to “Land of confusion“? Those were all Spitting Image puppets!

Staying on British soil: actor Colin Firth has won an award for his portrayal of a gay professor in “A single man”, directed by fashion designer Tom Ford. (Colin got the cute guy in “Mamma Mia!”) I like Colin. He seems like a down to earth kinda guy to me.

In the meantime Iran - amidst all the controversy of another nuclear plant (I do NOT like their President, let’s get that straight) - may allow trans marriages, according to this. Let’s just wait and see, eh.

Also late last night, as I was surfing the web, I noticed just then my Flemish friend Michael Vincent gave me credits on his site. (Check it out; it certainly is worth it.) Wow; I only helped him translate some pages into English. Nothing major. Thanks, dude

Terry Moore fans on the Strangers in Paradise forum have been talking about this for a couple of days after Variety.com published news on Terry’s 6-figure-deal. Ain’t It Cool followed closely, as did AfterEllen.com (people not familiar with Echo can read up on the main story line there).

Whether or not fans will actually see Echo on the big screen, I think it’s great news! Go, Terry!

Het is geen geheim dat ik een groot fan ben van Strangers in Paradise van Terry Moore. Nadat hij het verhaal tot een eind bracht is hij een andere serie begonnen: Echo. Mijn Vlaamse vrienden Kathy en Michael lieten mij weten dat Terry in oktober naar Gent zou komen, maar ik liet hen weten dat ik verstek moest laten gaan omdat ik aan de andere kant van de wereld zou zijn. Helaas…

Toen ik terug was uit Java liet Kathy mij weten dat ze een verrassing voor mij had. De eerste gedachte dat door mijn hoofd ging was… Nee… Of toch? Ik durfde het niet te hopen.

Gisteren ontving ik eindelijk het pakketje, met de inhoud. En die was beter dan ik had kunnen dromen Dank je wel, Kathy. Thank you, Terry, for the awesome sketch of Julie.