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Post by shaxper on Feb 19, 2015 20:03:41 GMT -5
Last minute request. Neal Adams is coming to Cleveland for Wizard World and is in need of people to work his table, selling prints for him. He needs two people on Friday and two people on Saturday. You would need to be there for the entire show, and (I believe) he's paying $15 an hour, plus providing you with free access to the convention. I realize this is very late notice, but they are in need of people, so if you can make it, PM me right away! Sitting next to Neal Adams AND getting paid...I'd drive pretty far for that privilege  |
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Post by Randle-El on Feb 19, 2015 22:15:31 GMT -5
I'd probably be down for that if I lived closer. I'd even do it for free -- well, free in that I pass on the money if I could get a sketch out of it in exchange!
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Post by thwhtguardian on Feb 19, 2015 22:46:31 GMT -5
What a terrible time to live 640 miles away from Cleveland! Same here, I'd kill to be able to do this. |
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Post by shaxper on Feb 19, 2015 22:58:40 GMT -5
I should also add that a bonus perk (albeit a small one) would be meeting me in person if you work Saturday |
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Post by Jesse on Feb 20, 2015 5:07:41 GMT -5
This is the first time ever that anyone has regretted not being able to go to Cleveland in February!
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Post by DE Sinclair on Feb 20, 2015 10:34:40 GMT -5
Damn having a job and living 3 states away. I would have enjoyed that. At least after the first 10 minutes of stammering and stuttering because it's Neal-frickin-Adams.  |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Feb 20, 2015 11:11:46 GMT -5
It would be a bad idea for me to meet Mr. Adams. The subject of science might come up!
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Post by shaxper on Feb 20, 2015 11:12:35 GMT -5
It would be a bad idea for me to meet Mr. Adams. The subject of science might come up! Yikes. I've found his responses to detractors on his youtube channel more interesting than the videos themselves! |
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Post by DE Sinclair on Feb 20, 2015 11:38:10 GMT -5
It would be a bad idea for me to meet Mr. Adams. The subject of science might come up! I'm gathering he has non-standard views on science? I seem to recall something about that, but as I mentioned elsewhere, memory can be fickle. |
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Post by shaxper on Feb 20, 2015 11:54:10 GMT -5
It would be a bad idea for me to meet Mr. Adams. The subject of science might come up! I'm gathering he has non-standard views on science? I seem to recall something about that, but as I mentioned elsewhere, memory can be fickle. He argues for a theory in which the Earth is slowly expanding, as I understand it. I'm sure I couldn't do the argument justice if I tried, and I don't have enough knowledge to be on one side of the fence or the other, but it doesn't appear that anyone in the scientific community takes his views seriously. Whether that makes him Jor-El or L. Ron Hubbard is, I suppose, in the eye of the beholder. |
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Post by DE Sinclair on Feb 20, 2015 12:44:30 GMT -5
I'm gathering he has non-standard views on science? I seem to recall something about that, but as I mentioned elsewhere, memory can be fickle. He argues for a theory in which the Earth is slowly expanding, as I understand it. I'm sure I couldn't do the argument justice if I tried, and I don't have enough knowledge to be on one side of the fence or the other, but it doesn't appear that anyone in the scientific community takes his views seriously. Whether that makes him Jor-El or L. Ron Hubbard is, I suppose, in the eye of the beholder. If the Earth were expanding, with all the people who've been up in space all these years, wouldn't someone have noticed? Maybe he could be Jor-El Ron Hubbard? |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Feb 20, 2015 12:54:23 GMT -5
I'm gathering he has non-standard views on science? I seem to recall something about that, but as I mentioned elsewhere, memory can be fickle. He argues for a theory in which the Earth is slowly expanding, as I understand it. I'm sure I couldn't do the argument justice if I tried, and I don't have enough knowledge to be on one side of the fence or the other, but it doesn't appear that anyone in the scientific community takes his views seriously. Whether that makes him Jor-El or L. Ron Hubbard is, I suppose, in the eye of the beholder. Neal doesn't seem to grasp that a cool idea that fits the facts is not enough to open a new field of inquiry. It must also come with some testable hypotheses, and these must then be verified. To wit: I could claim that cars function because under the hood there is a metal block that channels the Flash's speed force. The metal block tends to dissipate as infrared radiation into Mr. Mxyzpltk's dimension, but thanks to the power of Henry Ford's supernatural familiar, the gasoline we pour into the car replenishes the metal. That way, as long as there's enough gas in the tank, the speed force can flow and the far can move. These claims fit the facts we can observe. Naturally, the automotive industry won't even give me the time of day if I try to convince them that I'm a visionary and that their complicated models of internal combustion engines are a lot of hogwash (especially if I call them stubborn, stupid and naive in the process. Even more so if I further claim that many of the industry's engineers agree with me but don't dare admit it). John Byrne spoofed Neal's views on the exapanding Earth during his Fantastic Four run; Neal was represented as a Walt Disney-like character named Alden Maas (which is an anagram for... awww, you guessed). |
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Post by Rob Allen on Feb 20, 2015 15:47:47 GMT -5
Can I skip the going to Cleveland part and the meeting Neal Adams part, and just get the money?
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Post by crazyoldhermit on Feb 20, 2015 16:16:31 GMT -5
I was at the front of a line waiting to get into a con when Neal Adams walked past and into the building. I was too starstruck to say hi. I don't think anyone else there recognized him.
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