My friend Erich Orser wrote a book

It's called "Young And Evil".

An epic apocalyptic pirate masterpiece with tentacles and teenage debauchery.

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Shot glass of the day #4: Arizona

Another shot glass from Arizona. This time with the state prominently displayed.

When Jesse and I went to Arizona on our big road trip, we stayed with friends in Phoenix and then drove north to Flagstaff and the Grand Canyon. We also visited the largest meteor crater in the world in northern Arizona, where they filmed Starman.

My pals Erich Orser and Rebecca Roka currently live in Tucson, and I hope to visit them out there soon. Tucson has a great goth/industrial scene, some nice bars like the Kon Tiki, and 3 decent comic book shops.

My Sandman collection

The Sandman was a DC/Vertigo comic book that ran for 75 issues. It was written by Neil Gaiman and featured personifications of Dream, Death, Delerium (formerly Delight), Despair, Destiny, Desire and Destruction. These 7 "Endless" were siblings and the oldest things that exist in the universe. It's a fantastic series, and rather than tracking down the original comic books, I decided to collect something much rarer: the hardcover first printings of the graphic novels. These books are much harder to track down than the individual issues, especially the Seasons of Mist one and the 2 Death miniseries hardcovers. Included with the Sandman books are a few more softcover trades (all first printings) which were never released as hardcover editions. These include other books either by Neil Gaiman or within the Sandman mythos:

I have the collection on display surrounded by a giant reproduction of Hieronymus Bosch's "Garden of Earthly Delights". (Thanks go out to my pals Erich Orser and Rebecca Roka for helping me convert a dart board cabinet into a beautiful reproduction of that amazing work!) 

The books are flanked by the ultra-rare large sized Sandman bookends and two porcelain mini figures of Dream and Death:

To finish off this post, here's a photo of me, Jesse, and Sandman author Neil Gaiman at Sundance back in 2005: