The Daily Delaney

Look, I love comics. I love myths, I love heroes, villains, destiny, escapism, allegory, creativity... I love stories! I love what they say about us as a species, that the moment we live in is more valuable than we know, that sometimes, to understand who we are and what we are capable of, we have to dress ourselves up in funny clothes and  paint ourselves into a big story on a huge canvas. Then, maybe, we can look back and go ... "Oh, right... metaphor. The heroes and villains are us, what we could be and what we should never be." There are two big corporate comic publishers (there are lots of small ones, too!), DC and Marvel. I like'em both, but I have a soft spot for DC, the home of Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman and all the spawn of the Justice Society/League over 75+ years of publishing. Marvel is great, but they always tried to be set in the now. DC has a sense of history... this hero led to that hero, maybe by family, maybe by inspiration, but eventually you...

Exorcist : The Beginning Ex-Father Merrin finds faith through re-possession and almost gets laid   Friday Foster Just type random words... If you put Pam Grier in it, I have to watch it   The Raid 2 : Berandal When there's no escape... how you'd solve any problem... kung fu in a car! Age of   the Dragons Steampunk Moby Dick With Ahab Danny Glover!   Who thinks this shit up?  

So my brother-in-law works in TV in LA and sometimes he gives me a heads up on what's coming through the network pipeline. Apparently, one broadcast  network in particular has looked at the success of a cable  network, and their own successes with spin-offs and revivals and decided to go all in on a popular trend... Here is their proposed Saturday line-up. This week on "The Walking Jed"- As Jed leads his family to Hooterville, Ellie May wonders how much longer she can hide Grannie's condition, leading to the most harrowing "Aw, Pa, can't I keep her?" scene ever. Meanwhile, at Green Acres, Mr. Drysdale comes face to face with a problem money just won't solve and Ms. Hathaway finally admits her true feelings to Ralph. And at The Shady Rest, Uncle Joe? He's moving kinda slow. CBS/Saturdays 8pm/B&W/Flatt&Scruggs on "The Walking Ted" - Lou is forced to admit that he can't keep the newsroom gang together anymore, Sue...

Soooo... Last week was an impromptu trip to New York City, the place of my birth! Definitely a best of times/worst of times situation. My birth father, Jerry Delaney is not doing to well (hint: if you smoke, knock it off! Looking cool now is not worth what you're gonna face in 40 or 50 years.) And I haven't seen my Mom in a couple of years and my brother Glen in even longer and I had a good week at the Coins and if I booked the right flights I could stretch 2 days off into almost 4... so Goodbye, Moderate Dampness - Hello Freezing Cold Midtown Traffic!   I took the red-eye out of Sea-Tac on Tuesday night, which got me across the country in four hous and had me landing at JFK just after sunrise.   Where I almost immediately get picked up by this guy...   That's right, the inimitable John Salatti. I called him thinking he'd be in DC  and found him in West Babylon. Instant Wingman! (just add coffee) An hour of wandering around Queens in the Mike...

pictured - Learn To Be Still I've been away for a bit. It's been a hell of a summer. Really. But I hope to be posting more regularly here... there are many important things to talk about... like which film was better... Star Trek Into Darkness or Man Of Steel? That's a trick question. They both sucked. But that is a post for another night... Tonight, I invite you to three events... This Weekend... ISS AQUAH SALMON DAYS! I'll be in booth #76, on Front St. just north of NE Alder . I'll have new wearable goodies and several of my new garden pieces!   pictured - When you're going through hell... keep going!  Until Oct. 13, you can find my work at City People's  Garden Store as part of their annual garden art sale! And then... as if that wasn't enough, I'll be showing at  The Best Of The Northwest  November 14-16 More to come...

Here's my new video! This is a look at my new work for the Armadillo Christmas Bazaar. If you se anything you like, drop me a line and I'll put it aside for you!

This weekend, I'll be doing the Salmon Days Festival in Beautiful Downtown Issaquah! (That's about half an hour east of Seattle as the traffic sputters.) It should be a good show, weather permitting. It's been raining like crazy here the last week and a half, but the people who are always wrong about the weather here insist that we'll have a nice weekend. I'm keeping my flippers crossed. So come on down, see my new display and check out the fun things I've been doing with my new supplies... Booth #76... on Front Street between NE Alder and the "Go Fish Food Court"!