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Phoenix Comicon After
May 30th
(I’m going to try like hell to be positive. I really am. I’ll save my negative comments for another post.)
Picked up HellZiggy at around 1 and we had lunch and headed home to rest up for the night.
Thursday night was good. Staff was surprised at how many people showed up. The numbers were huge even though there wasn’t much going on.
Friday morning started slow for me. CJ and I reported for duty and there wasn’t much for us to do until we both moderated a panel in our last hour. Mine was anime voice actors from Texas, which out of all anime choices most matched where I figure I’m qualified so that worked. At that point we thought it was packed. HellZiggy and I met up with Jack and Oden and had lunch at Coach and Willie’s. I puttered around the vendor hall but didn’t buy anything, then wandered over to the Hyatt to stand in line for Wil Wheaton’s Rock Band. After being informed the event would start at least 90 minutes late we bagged on that and went to Kirk’s for dinner.
Saturday started about the same. Nothing to do until a panel during my last hour of volunteer time and it was one of the same voice actors, so that was easy. This is when I learned what packed really was. I stepped outside at around 11:15 and the line to buy tickets snaked around the side of the building. By the time I went to buy my Geek Prom ticket they were sold out so I angsted over that all afternoon, so I bought myself a present.
I’m not really into steampunk (it gets pretty expensive) but these are beautifully made (trust me there was a few booths with tacky crappy steampunk stuff) and gorgeous! The hands actually move. Or rather, you can move/adjust them as you wish. Go here to check out her stuff.
Turns out knowing one of the people in charge (yay being social) got me a last minute Geek Prom entry. That started out great with an okay cover band and then recordings of geeks’ favorite songs. The high point was Felicia Day jumping up on the catwalk to sing “Do You Want To Date My Avatar” alongside a young cosplay girl in a great Codex costume. After the costume competition the “prom” tanked when the next band was crappy metal screaming and electric feedback guitars. People left in droves… it was time to go home.
This morning was a drag. I was tired and achy and had to force myself to go in. I monitored an early panel and then we were released. We trudged over to the Hyatt to meet Jack’s kids and after that CJ and I gave up and left. Too tired. Too hot. Too crowded.
If you want to listen to recordings of some of the more popular panels, go to VTW Productions.
Good time, but the new venue and new staff created problems where there didn’t need to be. Hopefully next year stuff will be better organized. And Ryan will have moved to Bora Bora. Ooops, I said I’d be nice. Sorry.
Couple of quick notes:
- Hank at Coach and Willie’s was a fantastic fun server.
- Getting a 3-day pass for the light rail was a great idea.
- Got to see lots of old friends.
- I still hate anime kids. The most annoying teenagers on the planet.
- Tea Party people are very cliquey. People who don’t know what that means (like small children who want to go to said Tea Party) are treated like crap.
- Metal is not appropriate for a geek prom.
- I scored another Steamcrow book for Kira. She loves her After Halloween book so I bought her Caught Creatures.
Phoenix Comicon Weekend
May 27th
So if I seem to disappear from twitter, Facebook, here and everywhere it’s because from tomorrow afternoon through Sunday afternoon I’ll be over in Phoenix volunteering at and attending the PCC.
This is the first year I’m volunteering. I asked for mornings, but I don’t have verification yet. Maybe I’ll get an email tomorrow. They’ve got me moderating panels in anime. What do I know about anime? Other than dabbling in a little hentai, not a whole hellava lot. Should be interesting.
It will be exhausting, but fun. There’s the usual fare, plus Wil Wheaton Rock Band, a much larger space and more friends to share it all with. Last year I got to hang out at Four Peaks with Aaron Douglas some of the actors so maybe I’ll get lucky again and get to socialize outside the con. Who knows.
@HellZiggy is coming into town tomorrow and staying with me the first night. We’ll be riding the light rail downtown and I pretty much plan on that for the rest of the weekend. Getting home to sleep and shower and go back.
I’ll try to post notes as I go, but I just know this is going to kick my ass.
What a weekend!
Feb 21st
The Jonathan Coulton and Paul and Storm concert was MARVELOUS Thursday night. Absolutely and totally worth the bullshit we went through before it actually started. MadCrap MadCap Theaters is THE most horrible venue I’ve ever ever been to. It’s a testament to how much I love JC and the boys, that I’d EVER go back there again. Why would anyone want to go there? They don’t give a shit about the customers, they have extremely lousy organizational and communication skills, and I’m guessing they spend hours wanking each other off rather than cleaning up the theaters. The whole experience is practically abuse and we’re paying them to do it.
Friday night was the usual #evfn, except E and Sheila weren’t there and neither was the guy they had organizing it in their absence. So of course I take up the slack and try to make sure everyone is taken care of and the newbies are introduced around. I don’t think I did a very good job as certain people walked out. Oh well, there’s always next week.
Kira and I hung out Saturday night and this morning we wandered over to a new (for us) McDonald’s, shopped at WalMart and took the light rail to downtown Tempe (yes, I live here but I’d promised Kira we’d take the train one day) to check out #comiccreate.
And tonight I get a following notification on FourSquare (a social geolocation application) for Earl Newton! Now I’ve met the man at D*C a couple of times, and maybe he would friend me on twitter where you’re getting occasional light-hearted updates/comments from people. And maybe on Facebook which is pretty much the same thing. Likely because of my connection to Evo and less on my own merit I think. Twitter/Myspace/Facebook are places you “friend” anyone you’ve ever met and then some. But wouldn’t you only follow people on a location-based application that you might, maybe, kind of EVER thought you’d actually want to know where they are? Earl Motherfucking Newton wants to know where I am? That’s soooo fucking cool. I feel like somebody now.
And Earl? If you’re a googling fool and come across this post, please don’t explain or get freaked out or delete me or anything. This is me after a couple of drinks – FREAKING THE FUCK OUT because someone of your caliber clicked on me as a connection somewhere, that’s all. Let me have this. Carry on and I’ll never bother you again.
Oh yeah, I got paid for work I did! Actual money instead of possibilities.
What a great weekend.
