tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-345837502024-03-14T09:37:42.714-07:00Things I Wish I'd Thought of SoonerGrumblings and Observations:
Gerry Conway's personal blogGerry Conwayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06380961867035049231noreply@blogger.comBlogger140125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34583750.post-23536683254997097822014-01-14T08:52:00.001-08:002014-01-14T08:52:15.242-08:00Fox TV's "Gotham" and My 2010 Pitch to DC for "Arkham Academy"Ideas are a dime a dozen, it's often said; what matters is what you do with them. In that spirit, I felt a little frisson of déjà vu when I read the most recent revelation regarding the plans for the upcoming "Gotham" show on Fox TV. Why? Because back in July, 2010, I proposed a Batman-based mini-series to DC Comics called "Arkham Academy," which was intended to explore the Gerry Conwayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06380961867035049231noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34583750.post-60431973672430471742013-08-24T09:21:00.001-07:002013-08-24T09:29:04.979-07:00Why "revealed religion" can't be trustedAn article in today's New York Times prompts this post. (Here's the link.) Briefly, a well-known conservative Catholic who's written strongly against gay marriage has reversed himself and said, well, maybe he was wrong. There are probably those who'll attack him from the right as a man of weak principle, and there are undoubtedly people from the left who'll praise him for his change Gerry Conwayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06380961867035049231noreply@blogger.com2Valley Village Los Angeles34.156221 -118.393341tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34583750.post-64585679648240449992013-07-28T15:41:00.001-07:002013-07-28T15:43:51.701-07:00San Diego 2013Many many many thanks to the wonderful folks who honored me as a guest at San Diego Comic Con this year. A grateful tip of my Dodgers' cap to Janet and Beth in Guest Relations - particularly Beth, who helped my daughter Rachel achieve her dream of seeing Jennifer Lawrence in person at the Lionsgate panel. (And the Fox panel, too, of course.)And thank you, everyone, for the Inkpot award.I haven't Gerry Conwayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06380961867035049231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34583750.post-62275323774034806392013-04-19T16:10:00.001-07:002013-04-19T16:10:21.046-07:00The Need to BelieveSitting in a coffee shop, overhearing a conversation about the Boston Marathon bombing. As of now there are two announced suspects, one dead, the other being pursued. Information is spotty but what we have been told indicates the people involved were alienated, operating alone in a sad and violent and muddled "political" act.
And of course, the talk I'm overhearing involves the "probability" Gerry Conwayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06380961867035049231noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34583750.post-91965716546519447582013-04-12T08:53:00.001-07:002013-04-12T08:53:33.707-07:00The loss of secretsI'm in Montreal for the next twenty or thirty minutes, until I board a train for Toronto. I've been here two days, but it's been so cold I haven't seen as much of the city as I'd hoped. (The truth is I'm a bit tired from traveling a lot the last couple of weeks and I've embraced the cold as an excuse for some down time.) But the cold did give me an opportunity to experience something I might not Gerry Conwayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06380961867035049231noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34583750.post-15161016906401237352013-04-08T10:00:00.001-07:002013-04-08T10:06:07.801-07:00I love train travel, and here's whyMostly, because it's slow.
Most people would consider this a negative, but most people are in far too much of a hurry to get nowhere in particular. Life speeds by and the destinations we seek are far less interesting than the journeys we take to get there. Traveling by plane short circuits the best part of the journey, which is the sense of traversing space and time, going from here to there, Gerry Conwayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06380961867035049231noreply@blogger.com0Norwalk Norwalk41.07926 -73.438802tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34583750.post-26443807466430559072013-04-08T06:23:00.001-07:002013-04-08T06:23:33.227-07:00Travelin' man mini-review of "The Place Beyond the Pines"I haven't forgotten the implied promise in my previous post to continue a discussion of "Big Dumb Movies." For the last couple of weeks I've been in Family mode, accompanying my daughter on a series of college tours ranging from New Orleans up to New York, and haven't had the time or energy for a Big Think post. (Actually I'm considering a Big Think post about college tours before I get back to Gerry Conwayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06380961867035049231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34583750.post-75969523987861673402013-03-24T11:44:00.001-07:002013-03-24T11:44:34.121-07:00Big Dumb MoviesStep into the Wayback Machine with me, Sherman, and take a trip to the ancient era of 1982, when yours truly and his writing partner, Roy Thomas, were briefly Warm in Hollywood.
Thanks to a script we'd written for Ed Pressman (which would eventually become the less-than-we'd-hoped-it-would-be "Conan the Destroyer") Roy and I enjoyed a momentary notoriety as the go-to screenwriters for Big BudgetGerry Conwayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06380961867035049231noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34583750.post-13209950076430529452013-03-20T12:16:00.001-07:002013-03-20T12:16:33.732-07:00The B-Movie Time MachineA few nights ago I watched a B-movie adaptation of Richard Stark's "The Seventh," called "The Split," starring Jim Brown, and released in 1968.
Not a great movie, though it has its moments. (It also has a phenomenal cast: Ernest Borgnine in his pre-Wild Bunch "muscular" phase; Warren Oates; Jack Klugman -- Quincy! -- as a ruthless getaway car driver; pre-Bonnie & Clyde Gene Hackman; James Gerry Conwayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06380961867035049231noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34583750.post-83786358409311798892013-03-07T12:53:00.001-08:002013-03-07T12:53:32.651-08:00Writing for a living is Hard, and other Obvious ObservationsI'm one very lucky son of a bitch.
I recognize this, believe me. Most people never have the opportunity to fulfill any of their childhood dreams, but I've been lucky enough to fill many, if not most, of mine. It helps that my childhood dreams were relatively modest (though at one point I did want to be Robin to my dad's Batman, a notion which for some reason he didn't embrace with an Gerry Conwayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06380961867035049231noreply@blogger.com3Valley Village Los Angeles34.156708 -118.389879tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34583750.post-5152137562322467472013-02-19T10:24:00.001-08:002013-02-19T10:24:00.763-08:00The sadness of the "Green Lantern" movieMaking movies is hard.
This is obviously not a newsflash for anyone remotely conscious, but it's important to remember, as William Goldman put it so aptly, no one ever sets out to make a bad movie. (Even Uwe Boll thinks he's doing something good.) Like a well-written villain, bad movies are the product of what appear to be, from the inside, good intentions. In the case of "Green Lantern" those Gerry Conwayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06380961867035049231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34583750.post-49209275948802241962013-02-17T12:21:00.001-08:002013-02-17T12:21:37.177-08:00Book Review: "The Score" by Richard Stark (Donald Westlake) The first time I encountered Parker, he was almost extinct.This was in the early 1970s, near the end of Parker's original run of novels. I picked up "Plunder Squad" in hardcover, which in hindsight was not the best introduction to the series. For one thing, it was longer than the average Parker novel. For another, by the time of "Plunder Squad" Parker's self-identification as a loner and a Gerry Conwayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06380961867035049231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34583750.post-87897625063294836452009-11-14T07:36:00.000-08:002009-11-14T07:37:45.376-08:00Where I Am NowI do most of my commenting and posting these days on Twitter and Facebook. Find me there atwww.twitter.com/gerryconwayorwww.facebook.com/gerryconwayGerry Conwayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06380961867035049231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34583750.post-57023931648038154942009-09-19T00:25:00.001-07:002009-09-19T00:25:41.180-07:00The Longest Way 1.0 - one year walk/beard grow time lapseCool.Gerry Conwayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06380961867035049231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34583750.post-42131642946242811122009-07-15T09:01:00.000-07:002009-07-15T09:02:21.257-07:00OlympiansMy daughter is a big fan of these books, and she's gonna go crazy for this:
Gerry Conwayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06380961867035049231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34583750.post-65609432116372106632009-05-21T11:48:00.001-07:002009-05-21T11:48:54.947-07:00BrunoOh, yeah.Movie Trailers - Movies BlogGerry Conwayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06380961867035049231noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34583750.post-5454996434162216022009-05-14T09:25:00.001-07:002009-05-14T09:25:41.279-07:00StareI love absurd humor.Gerry Conwayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06380961867035049231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34583750.post-41946099738222822472009-05-09T21:22:00.001-07:002009-05-09T21:22:50.283-07:00David After DentistEmmanuel Kant couldn't have put it better.Gerry Conwayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06380961867035049231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34583750.post-78858144664513288622009-04-27T12:22:00.001-07:002009-04-27T12:22:11.937-07:00Just Likin' This Photo of My LadiesKC RC photo Originally uploaded by Gerry ConwayGerry Conwayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06380961867035049231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34583750.post-91144452672025274882009-04-13T07:33:00.001-07:002009-04-13T07:33:36.038-07:00Add me to the listof millions of people who apparently love this video.Gerry Conwayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06380961867035049231noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34583750.post-65294768382449640682009-03-31T08:45:00.001-07:002009-03-31T08:45:21.390-07:00Hit and Run'Bout sums it up from my point of view.Gerry Conwayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06380961867035049231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34583750.post-53512873121094766082009-03-21T09:33:00.001-07:002009-03-21T09:33:06.443-07:00What's in the Box? Wow, is this cool or what? Nice work for an amateur film. Gerry Conwayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06380961867035049231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34583750.post-67741576294644337842009-02-13T08:31:00.000-08:002009-02-13T08:32:45.784-08:00The Second The Camera Stopped, Muffy Ate HimGerry Conwayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06380961867035049231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34583750.post-81057181155721414202009-01-31T09:42:00.001-08:002009-01-31T09:42:29.733-08:00Time lapse of a baby playing with his toysHilarious!Gerry Conwayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06380961867035049231noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34583750.post-84851329884077861852009-01-28T16:41:00.000-08:002009-01-28T16:50:14.973-08:00I Am So In Geek Heaven Right NowYou may have heard, our new President is a collector of Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comics. If you do the math (uh, let's see, he's 47, and most kids reach their peak interest in comics around age 12, which leads me to suspect he read Spider-Man thirty-five years ago, which would have been 1973, which means... OMG, he knows I killed Gwen Stacy!) you'll realize the Spider-Man stories he Gerry Conwayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06380961867035049231noreply@blogger.com3