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A Press Release For Superheroes For Hospice

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Hey Gang, got an update from Superheroes From Hospice!

 

For Immediate Release

Contact: Marketing, ltortorello@barnabashealth.org

Comic Book Donations Requested to Benefit Barnabas Health Hospice Patients and Families

New Jersey – Those forgotten boxes in your closet, garage or basement cab be dusted off to help support patients and families served by Barnabas Health Hospice. Since 2009, Superheroes for Hospice has raised more than $100k to help individuals with serious illness. The project is currently in need of the following items to restock for its next event, scheduled Saturday, May 30, in West Orange. All donations are tax deductible and donation pick-ups can be arranged.

  • Comic books (all genres)
  • Graphic novels
  • Unopened action figures
  • Artwork
  • Any comic-related items

To make a donation, contact Spiro Ballas at 973-322-4866 or sballas@barnabashealth.org.

For more information about Superheroes for Hospice and to stay up-to-date about upcoming events, visit barnabashealth.org/comics or “like” us on Facebook at facebook.com/BHHospiceAndHomeCare.

About Barnabas Health Hospice

Comfort the Patient. Heal the Family.®

Barnabas Health Hospice offers compassion and support to both the patient and family – empowering decision making, enhancing quality of life, providing comfort, and when the journey has ended, helping those who remain to cope with the loss and move forward. We collaborate with each patient’s Primary Care Physician to offer hospice and palliative care services, throughout 10 New Jersey counties, in private homes, in the hospital, or in long-term care or assisted living facilities. For more information, visit barnabashealthhospice.org. 

Needs To Read 3/18/2015

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Literature

Twilight And Fifty Shades Of Abusive Relationships – A serious examination of pathological relationships in the two related properties, with plenty of things to think about.

Video Games

Is Ageism The Only Prejudice The Industry Isn’t Discussing? – Well I’d say it does discuss it, but nearly to the level it needs to be.

Respectfully,

– Steven Savage
http://www.musehack.com/
http://www.informotron.com/
http://www.seventhsanctum.com/

Terry Pratchet, My Stepfather, And All The Stories We are

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I’m getting tired of writing these “a great influence on geek” has passed articles.  I’m tired of writing about people lost.

We lost Terry Pratchett last week. The man behind Discworld, a person who took satire into that realm of homage and exploration, a great writer, and a great person. It’s hard to explain or honor everything he meant to people.

Me I’ve got a Pratchett story that really illustrates what he did.

I discovered the Discworld books back in the 80’s, in college. I had experienced fantasy parody before, with Myth Adventures and the Ebenezum “trilogy”, but Discworld was it’s own thing. More a parody than Myth Adventures, more respectful than a simple joke, it was something different. If anything is similar to it today, it’s The Venture Brothers and Galaxy Quest.

So of course it was funy, but it was also insightful and extremely well written. Pratchett’s books were little bundles of writing lessons on to of being damned good reads. His ability to make you laugh and think with just a few words was amazing. Such enlightening twists of language, such wit, was an influence on my own writing

(The other influences, if you must know, were Grant Morrison, Neil Gaiman, and Dave Barry.)

Pratchett was there with me for decades. Always amusing, always insightful, always amazing.

Now that he’s gone, we have stories.

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