McNuggets and Mid-July

Hey, Everyone!

I had chicken McNuggets for lunch today. We ran out of food to have for lunch and my paycheck hasn't come yet, so we thought to ourselves "What's something SUPER CHEAP that we could eat..." As it turned out, McNuggets were a "safe" fast food option. I was excited. I hadn't had a McNugget since A Bug's Life was in theaters! (Don't ask me how I remember that). Not exactly a "healthy" choice (especially since I'm trying to lose weight!), but it was cheap and it did the trick.

Anyway, moving past what I had for lunch today...

I interviewed Paul Grimshaw of House of Secrets and Art of Fiction fame(?) last Friday. Here's a blooper pic from our interview session:

Paul started cracking up when Amy (HoS worker) wouldn't stop taking pictures of us

Paul's going to be my "Mr. September" for my "People I Know" interview series on my Official Website. For those of you who don't know, the "People I Know" series is a collection of mini-interviews (5 questions each!) with various amazing writers, freelancers, and entrepreneurs I've met over the years. I post these interviews on the first Wednesday of every month. So be sure to keep an eye out for those!

I've also been very busy with my job at WebTalk Radio. And I'm still writing dog-related articles for Sarasota Dog, Bradenton Dog, and New York City Dog. Annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd... I've been working on a couple writing projects of my own. One of which should be ready to show off/sell by the middle of next month. I'll keep you posted!

That's all for now!

--Lauren*
http://littlezotz.com

Free Comic Book Day

For those of you who didn't know, today was FREE COMIC BOOK DAY! It's an event that happens every year on the first Saturday in April.

Ramiro and I went to the following places:
House of Secrets
Halo 13
Legacy Comics

And here's our loot:

Here's what Ramiro & I got for Free Comic Book Day:

Fraggle Rock/Mouse Guard
Blondie/Classic Comic Strip Action & Adventure
FAME: Lady Gaga/The Puppy Sister
War of the Supermen
G.I. Joe
The Oni Press Free For All
YOW!
Fractured Fables
The Tick
DC Kids
Bongo Comics Free-For-All
Sonic the Hedgehog
Archie's Summer Splash
Owly and Friends!
Iron Man & Thor
Iron Man & Nova
X-Men Second Coming: Prepare
Toy Story
Doctor Solar Man of the Atom + Magnus Robot Fighter
The Amazing Spider Man
The Invincible Iron Man
Shrek/The Penguins of Madagascar
Atomic Robo + Neozoic and B13x
Artifacts/Magdalena

I put a "/" for the ones that have "another" comic when you flip it over.

We also got a one-of-a-kind comic that a local artist drew. Pretty neat. Good haul. I've read almost half of them already. Most of them are pretty lame, but there are a few that are actually really good like The Tick comic and YOW! and I also liked Owly and Friends. :)

We got the bulk of our Free comics at House of Secrets (they're the BEST!), but they had run out of the Lady Gaga comic so that's why we went to Halo 13. And then we just got carried away and went to Legacy Comics. Which only had the Artifacts comic left over from the morning swarm... but that is where we got the original comic from the local artist (so that worked out well in the end).

Hope your Free Comic Book Day went just as well or better!

--Lauren*

Halloween & Such

This is sort of a companion piece to Ramiro's wonderful LiveJournal entry about Halloween weekend. (Mostly I just wanted to show off my EC comics too...). For more details about how I spent the weekend, you can just read his entry (it has lots of pics too!).

Halloween weekend was a blast. My "little brother," Vincent, was having a show with his band Corpse Candy on the 30th and I finally got to see them perform! It was very exciting (and LOUD) and I was very proud. :3
I went to the Corpse Candy show with Ramiro (who did their amazing album cover). We got to go to IHOP after the show. Scrumptious!

(I got my hair cut a few weeks ago by Jaz at VOUS Hair...)

One of the very best things about Halloween and Halloween weekend was going to House of Secrets and Eddie Brandt's Saturday Matinee. I love those places. Especially HoS (EBSM can honestly be a bit overwhelming). If you're in the area, you simply must stop by!

At House of Secrets, Ramiro was able to add to his collection of EC comics. I was very excited by this because I'm a huge fan too. Actually, my stack of comics used to be even larger than his but I ended up giving the bulk of my collection to Vincent (of Corpse Candy) when he was a small child (obviously warping him--in the best way!--for life).

Here's what I have left of my EC horror comics:(Those Tales From The Crypt TV show DVDs were fun to watch over the weekend, too!)

I also have a few EC oddities that aren't in the horror genre:(That's right, EC Piracy comics weren't just made up by Alan Moore. They're real!).

Halloween itself was very chillaxed. Lots of trick-or-treaters at my parents' house (over 50!) and Ramiro & I came over and helped carve pumpkins...

(You can click on that to make it bigger)

And that's pretty much it. Good times.

Oh, and for those of you who are interested, I got a note from Children's Hospital today saying that they received the money I donated. :)That's all for now.

Until next time...

--Lauren*