A BIRTHDAY DINNER

My Birthday is coming up and for the last thousand years, my wife, Miche, has taken me out to dinner just the two of us (or 3 depending on how old the kids were).

My restaurant of choice is “The Keg”. Who doesn’t love steak?

But there is a catch, for some strange mysterious reason, every single time I go into a Keg, something happens to screw up our meal.

Last night was no exception.

Miche ordered: A Teriyaki Steak, cooked Medium, baked potato and a Caesar salad, no croutons.

I ordered: A Filet Mignon, (at which point I was asked if I would like to KEG SIZE it, which I agreed), baked potato and a Caesar salad.

What we got was: A Teriyaki Steak NUKED to Death, and a New York Sirloin Keg sized.

So both were sent back and within seconds I got my right steak (Un keg sized becasue Filet’s don’t have a Keg size), and then the manager comes over to tell Miche that they ran out of her steak.

But to make it up to her they gave her her choice of anything on the menu on them. So she had the BLUE CHEESE FILET MIGNON.

She said it was good, I won’t touch anything Blue cheese.

SO again we went to a Keg and were given a free entrée.

It’s not like I am trying to get free meals.

Oh and just to clarify this happens at ANY KEG we have visited.

FANEXPO 2006 REPORT: PART 3 – ETHAN VAN SCIVER

I met Ethan Van Sciver (again). He is always a great guy to hang with. Of course I put my foot in my mouth as I gave him all my Green Lantern Comics to sign and gave him stuff he didn’t do to sign. (Whoops).

Since I love his Art sooooo much I was willing to pay $25 bucks for a sketch. While I was waiting at his table, I started talking to a little girl and her mother. The daughter was really started getting into comics, just like her dad. The mother was telling me how her husband had sold ALL of his comics to buy her an engagement ring. Now that’s love! So while we are waiting the person in front of the three of us finished getting her sketch of Superman, and then payed her $25. The mother had no idea that the artist’s charge for sketches, so when it is her turn she satarts to say. I had no idea you were charging for a sketch and Ethan said,

“Kids don’t pay for sketches!”

Ethan is a great guy, and he did a killer Plastic man sketch for this kid. I got a very cool Guy Gardner sketch.

(Scans to come later.)

The show overall was Ok. If it wasn’t for the artists and writers I wanted to meet. I probably would not have gone.

So let’s see if they can make me come back next year.