{"id":813,"date":"2003-07-18T20:12:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-19T00:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=813"},"modified":"2023-02-10T08:14:30","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T13:14:30","slug":"comics-sports-auctions-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=813","title":{"rendered":"Comics, Sports, Auctions &amp; More"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Yesterday I told you that <strong>&#8220;The Shield&#8221;<\/strong> was being developed as a comic by <strong>IDW Publishing<\/strong>. <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">\u00a0With the right team, this comic could really rock!<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><strong>Steve Niles<\/strong> [<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0971977526\/craizabls\/002-5019288-9248823\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #cc0000; font-family: arial;\"><strong>Guns, Drugs and Monsters<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">] is teaming with <strong>Rob Zombie<\/strong> to write a new comic called <strong>The Nail<\/strong>. It&#8217;s <\/span><span style=\"color: #cc0000; font-family: arial;\"><strong>the story of satanic bikers<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"> and all the mischief that they can get into on any given day. The story is scheduled to begin in early <strong>2004<\/strong>. I like <strong>Niles&#8217; work<\/strong> so I&#8217;m going to keep up with this.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><strong>Orson Welles&#8217; Oscar<\/strong> from <strong>&#8220;Citizen Kane,&#8221;<\/strong> regarded by many as the best movie ever made, is expected to fetch between <strong>$300,000<\/strong> and <strong>$400,000 <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><strong>now that it is up for auction<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">! You just know that <strong>Big Beatty<\/strong> would love this since he&#8217;s a <strong>big Welles fan<\/strong>. [Maybe he&#8217;ll sneak in a bid&#8230; then we could call him <strong>&#8220;Bid Beatty.&#8221;<\/strong>]<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><strong>EAGLE, Colo<\/strong>. (Reuters) &#8211; Basketball star <strong>Kobe Bryant<\/strong> was <strong>charged today<\/strong> with <strong>sexually assaulting<\/strong> a <strong>19-year-old hotel employee<\/strong>. In a statement, <strong>Bryant said<\/strong>, &#8220;I am innocent of the charges filed today. I did not assault the woman who is accusing me. I made the mistake of adultery. I have to answer to my wife and my God for my actions that night and I pray that both will forgive me.&#8221; <strong>Kobe<\/strong> had one of the best reputations in the league&#8230; I guess he should ask for forgiveness from the young lady as well. However this turns out it is sad for all involved.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">If you don&#8217;t want to bid against <strong>Big Beatty<\/strong> for<strong> Orson Welles&#8217; Oscar<\/strong>, you may want to try bidding on<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/scoop.diamondgalleries.com\/scoop_article.asp?ai=2975&amp;si=123\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #cc0000; font-family: arial;\"><strong> some personal items which belonged to JKF<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">! <\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><strong>BERLIN<\/strong> (Reuters) &#8211; A <strong>German court<\/strong> fined a man 1,350 euros ($1,500) for <strong>attempted blackmail<\/strong> after <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">he gave himself away<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"> by giving the intended victim his bank account details for the cash transfer. Another criminal mastermind who slipped up!<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><strong>LAS VEGAS<\/strong> (Reuters) &#8211; Outraged by a <strong>Las Vegas company<\/strong> that claims to offer men a <strong>chance to stalk and shoot naked women<\/strong> in the <strong>Nevada<\/strong> desert with <strong>paintball guns<\/strong>, women&#8217;s groups and government agencies were scrambling to <strong>find a way to shut down<\/strong> such <strong>&#8220;Bambi&#8221; hunts<\/strong>. Now what will <strong>Big Beatty<\/strong> do to pass the weekends?<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Okay, so you don&#8217;t want to bid on <\/span><del><span style=\"color: #cc0000; font-family: arial;\"><strong>Orson Welles&#8217; Oscar<\/strong><\/span><\/del><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">, and you don&#8217;t want to take a shot at <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/scoop.diamondgalleries.com\/scoop_article.asp?ai=2975&amp;si=123\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #cc0000; font-family: arial;\"><strong>JFK&#8217;s stuff<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">&#8230; how about plunking down on a<strong> 40-year-old, handmade prototype<\/strong> for the <strong>G.I. Joe<\/strong> action doll that&#8217;s <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">set for auction, with a <strong>record minimum bid of $600,000<\/strong>?<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"> I&#8217;d take a shot at it but if I won you&#8217;d have to call me <strong>G.I. Owe<\/strong>!<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><strong>MELBOURNE, Australia<\/strong> &#8211; In a rushed <strong>grab-and-run robbery<\/strong>, two men with a sawed-off shotgun <strong>stole two bags of garbage<\/strong> from a gasoline station attendant. Police say they have no idea why the men grabbed the trash, but assumed <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">they thought the bags contained money<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">. One can never understand the mind of a criminal genus.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><strong>PANAMA CITY, Fla<\/strong>. &#8211; <strong>Jurors<\/strong> who were <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><strong>mooned by a defendant<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"> needed only <strong>30 minutes<\/strong> Thursday to<strong> find the man guilty<\/strong> of armed burglary and aggravated battery. Cornell Jackson, 29, punctuated his insanity defense by loudly hooting &#8220;cuckoo-cuckoo&#8221; and then dropping his pants to moon the jury on Wednesday. How do you &#8220;hoot&#8221; &#8220;cuckoo-cuckoo&#8221;?<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I told you that &#8220;The Shield&#8221; was being developed as a comic by IDW Publishing. \u00a0With the right team,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trivia","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31823,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions\/31823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}