Two men are having a conversation while riding on horseback, as you sometimes do.
AMBERSPATCH: Sorry your team had a rough night yesterday.
BELLOWTON: My own fault.
BELLOWTON: I watched the game on TV. When they won the day before, I was listening on the radio. Lesson learned! Radio ONLY tonight.
AMBERSPATCH: I know these superstitions are...CRUCIAL. But wouldn't it be NICER to watch it on TV?
BELLOWTON: "SUPERSTITIONS"?
BELLOWTON: Was it ME, one person, watching the game on TV from miles away, that CAUSED the wild pitch that let their runner score? Of COURSE not. That's silly.
BELLOWTON (now leaning in extremely closely): It was ALL OF US, COLLECTIVELY, doing NOT ENOUGH things right. I am going to DO MY PART so I don't have to LIVE with the GUILT!
AMBERSPATCH: Okay!
BELLOWTON: Does ONE VOTE swing an election? You still VOTE, DON'T YOU?!
AMBERSPATCH: OKAY!!
Look, it's not that it makes sense. It's that it wins games. I think, anyway. I've never really tracked it.
The computers tell me it was 20 years ago, June 9, 2006, that I arrived in New York for my first-ever comic convention as an exhibitor, MoCCA.
It was an important trip for me, a milestone in what would go on to become my career.
I wrote a little reminiscence on Patreon (free/unlocked) — including a first-since-then reprint of the photocomics I made at the time, documenting the trip!
Read the rest here: [ 20 Years Ago (In Photocomic Form) ]
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