Stuck Inside of Mobile

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Stuck Inside of Mobile

With Bill Jackson

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Actually, “Stuck” has been continuing over at the Haymaker APAzine. The last one was Volume II, Number 10. I guess this would be Volume I Number 15, if you continued from the original sequence. For a few issues, I called it “Alabama Bound”, which still means “Stuck Inside of Mobile”.

Some articles intended for The Times ended up over there: they saw Gravedigger and Captain Alabama, as well as a horde of colloquial monsters, such as the Mobile River Monster, The Wolf Woman, and the ghost at Cry Baby Bridge (that will end up here very soon). I never got the chance to do Stardust or Fire Ant, Opossum or Haint. I re-worked The Glob to 5^th Edition specs, and colored his picture. I re-worked Htrae, a cubical planet that was in the “lost” last issue of The Times, and The Enarians and Homicide were updated and expanded for EZHero.

I’ve done some art for EZHero and Digital Hero, as well as a module for Mutants and Masterminds entitled “Escape from Alcatraz”. I am supposed to do the illustrations on another M&M module called something like "The Field Guide to Super-Heroes". Sometime I still think I might draw comics when I grow up, then they kill off Captain America and I think "What a pile of reeking (censored)!"

I have also been supplying art for the online SF 'zine Planetary Stories. It is mainly "gosh-wow" pulp-style SF, but if you like that kind of thing (and I LOVE it), look it up (there is a link to a links page on the AC Times page)

I became a grandfather in December 2005. Brianna Adaire Jackson-Floyes is her name. She shows no artistic interest yet, beyond eating crayons, but does show a remarkable ability to dismantle anything, including those things that cannot be dismantled. It may be a mutant ability, or just something that babies do.

My father, who was given two years to live in 1998, has shown his contempt for the medical profession by steadfastly refusing to die. My mother is stuck on a walker, but she is hoping to get a scooter to get around. My brother and I have discussed putting flashing light and a back-up alarm on it to cut down on the pedestrian fatalities. It isn't that she is a bad driver, it's just that people had better keep out of her way.

I am unemployed again. I worked for Southeast College of Technology/Remington College for three years, but was laid off in a "downsizing". My job was split between three people, one of which was also laid off. I also worked for Denny Manufacturing, Photoshop to draw a path around a picture for a laser cutter to follow. They encase a photograph in acrylic and use the laser to cut out the picture and make a 2-D "statue". While I am ambivalent about the product, the grandmother appreciation factor is through the roof.