#35 - Comic Con! (Page 1 of 2)

I've been going since 2008.  I won't be going this year because I'm saving up to go to Hong Kong for the Lantern Festival. 

  When I went last year, I basically decided to just go with the flow and sorta let things happen rather than go in with any sort of set schedule of "i'm going to hit this panel at this time."  So, I was walking toward the convention center and I walked up to the Top Gear display they had on the sidewalk.  Got a nifty lens cleaning cloth from them after filling out some form for a competition they were having that weekend.  Didn't think anything of it afterwards, until I got a call from the Top Gear Producer the next morning telling me that I had won the contest and me and one other person could go to this party that Top Gear was hosting in one of the hotels near the convention center.  My buddy and I went to the hotel and got to shake hands with Kate Beckinsale, she's tiny by the way.  We go to the party, have a good time.  When we leave the party towards the evening, we run into Fricking Mark Hamill!! 

  Now I've made it a point not to get star struck at these things, I mean these are human beings just like you and me.  They all feel the urge to go to the bathroom every now and again.  But this particular time, I got a little start struck.  Mr. Hamill had his back to me and I simple said "Mr. Hamill?"  He turns around and has a almost look of horror/confusion on his face.  "Could my friend and I possibly get a picture with you sir?"  "Oh, yeah sure that's not a problem."  So we got pictures with Mr. Hamill.  He even did the Joker laugh for us!

SDCC is still on my bucket list.  Crossing fingers for a week off next year, not only for Comic Con, but to see all my west coast peeps again (damn I miss you guys).

I have been to a few small Star Trek conventions.  When I was in middle / high school a company used to hold them at a local hotel back home.  I got to meet Gates McFadden, Brent Spiner, and Armin Shimerman.  The only real story I have from any of them was going to my first.  I had never been to a con, but I figured I needed to get there early.  So I rode my bike the eight and a half miles there the night before, hoping to get a good spot in line.  But there was no line, and the hotel staff told me I couldn't just camp in the hallway outside the room.  So, I just sat outside all night, eventually falling  asleep.  When I woke up I found that a line had indeed started to form, so I took my place, confident that I would get right in.  Turns out they sell tickets to this sort of thing in advance, so by the time I got in it was already packed.  It was pretty cool though; I bought all kinds of silly things.  One of those was where I got my hands on bootleg copies (from the laserdiscs I assume) of the widescreen (remember when those were hard to find?) extended cuts of Alien and Aliens.  I also got a bootleg of what I thought was some sort of Star Wars behind the scenes / making of feature, which turned out to be The Holiday Special.  I did not watch it.

That actually sounds more appealing to me than SDCC.  I'll have to check that World Science Fiction Convention out sometime...

Poor guy. We're like Lennie. We just love him too hard.

I can think of one of my friends who would love that kinda thing.  THe Scientist part sounds cool, but I don't like parities all that much...

This

Trey, that is amazing!

I'm skeptical. We have loads of video evidence suggesting that Trey does not own shoes.

Not sure if it's a shoe... Hoof?

That would suggest that Gabe is a wereleg. Are werelegs even real? What kind of hit dice do they have?

I always pictured Trey as a senmurv. When I first saw the Justin.tv videos, I was like, 'Who is that guy on the right talking with Trey's voice? Where is the rainbow-colored eagle wolf?'

Plus, when I heard that Trey had dated Eve Plumb, I was like, 'Yeah, totally. She would date a senmurv.' It all seemed to fit.

/never meet your heroes
//except Brian