{"id":17288,"date":"2009-07-18T07:21:14","date_gmt":"2009-07-18T11:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=17288"},"modified":"2014-12-29T17:53:01","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T22:53:01","slug":"dreaming-of-tony-isabella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/18\/dreaming-of-tony-isabella\/","title":{"rendered":"Dreaming of Tony Isabella"},"content":{"rendered":"

I dreamt this morning that I was visiting with Tony Isabella<\/a>, a comic book writer and editor I first met a very long time ago. To give you some idea as to how long, I’d never have gotten my job at Marvel Comics without him. (There we are below in a Marie Severin<\/a> caricature originally published in an ancient issue of Marvel’s fan magazine FOOM<\/i><\/a>.) <\/p>\n

In the dream, I was hanging with him in a hotel room, where we were accompanied by a couple of PR flacks I’d never met before. We chatted for awhile, catching up, and then Tony playfully said, “Hmmm … I wonder where I’m going to find someone to finish this aliens story I don’t have time to write?” Which was his way of asking whether I would take over a project he couldn’t complete.<\/p>\n

I told him it sounded good to me, and then those corporate types jumped in, clarifying with the details. It seems I’d misinterpreted when Tony had spoken of lower-case “aliens,” because this was no tale of random aliens I was needed to tell, but rather some sort of continuation of the film Aliens<\/i>. For some reason, they also thought it important to mention that there be no music in whatever I wrote, that these aliens did not have that art form. Since it had never occurred to that they would, that didn’t bother me.<\/p>\n

The dream ended with Tony and me sitting and talking, just two old friends who haven’t seen each other in an awfully long time filling in the missing years.<\/p>\n

\"MarieIsabellaMe\"<\/a><\/p>\n

In a later dream, I was in a phone conversation with Michael Dirda<\/a> while he was in Cambridge and I was at home, and I was recommending what bookstores he should visit while there … as if Michael would ever need advice from me on where the best bookstores are!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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