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- 14:53 Pajamas ftw! twitgoo.com/abhhg #
- 14:57 E-A-G-L-E-S! ...EAGLES! twitgoo.com/abhic #
- 15:28 Mom's appatizer table, I love the cheeses and the cookies. :) twitgoo.com/a9wt2 #
- 15:45 Chilling drinking a guinness, about to sit down to ham and turkey :) #
- 17:28 @Bearlio damn! They look pretty damn tasty! But what's the mince consist of? #
- 17:43 Rankin and Bass christmas specials are probably one of the greatest traditions we have :) #
- 08:04 Christmas Cheeses: Why the fuck would you put onion flavor in cheese? What is wrong with you? #
- 08:21 @atticwindow blech! It's unnatural I tell you, unnatural! #
- 08:48 @Bearlio I can understand in soup, but in a dip that goes on bread? Bleh #
- 09:17 @Bearlio I'm going to chalk this up as an acquired taste, like scrapple, but with cheese. #
- 09:18 Now, the chocolate covered cashews I can dig into :) #
- 10:26 Yay, I love a good red. There is nothing more awesome than drinking before noon! twitgoo.com/a8b6h #
- 14:01 @Bearlio it's a local thing, after they finish with all of the good meats of the pig they make a meat patty out of the "scraps." #
- 14:03 The vice president of the company is doing little red riding hood on kareoke, yup we're all trashed now! #
- 14:15 @Bearlio it really is an acquired taste, if made right it's tangy and awesome. But yeah, people can and do make a mess of it. #
- 14:21 Heather's version of Santa baby was Sexy as hell! For all that shyness she's got some pipes! #
- 16:29 @jadedwish I got a little bit of it on my phone, about 45 seconds, but the audio blows. Still, it was dead sexy! #
Overall, I think this was a good convention for all involved. Certainly for Friday Knights it was a good con, and I believe it was a good con for Zkon itself. If the con didn’t sell out, it had to damn near be sold out. The place was packed with people. I know that the weekend badges were gone in the first few hours of the first day. Little Mike (Twerp) barely got his two day pass, and he came early with Ganz (who was running the first panel of the show) . The programming was packed to the brim with panels, videos, and guests that made me want to flea my table several times to check them out. Also, it doesn’t hurt that my table was sandwiched between two of the best artist to be next to. So all in all, for me at least, this was probably the best overall convention I have ever been to.
Even though it wasn’t part of the convention proper, it was great going out with the Geeks Next Door on Friday night for Cheese Steaks. I’m going to talk some people and see if next year if we can have a meet up with staff/guests who want to attend and go out and get Cheese Steaks. Since Tony Luke’s was voted the big winner for “Best Cheese steak” that is where we’ll probably go.
There were a few things that while they didn’t ruin my experience they did throw me for a loop. I got stuck in a situation I would have rather have not been anywhere near, involving a friend, security, and his daughter. I did not come out on top at the end of that situation. I had a girl walk in on me in the bathroom whilst I was standing at the urinal. The hotel staff was rude, and a few of the guests didn’t quite understand the personal space limit. (Some guy kept wrapping his arms around Becky at one of the concerts. Yeah I know, I’ve done worse to Becky, but there is a big difference between horseplay with a friend and invading the personal space of a stranger.)
As for Friday Knights: well, financially we pulled Otakon numbers with less time and people (and competition.) We saw a lot of old friends, made a lot of new friends. One of the greatest things about our tables in an anecdotal sense is when events like a little English girl comes up to our table on the second day because she couldn’t wait to show us her 3.5 edition Drow Ranger (yeah I know, but when I was young I wanted to play Drizzt too!) character sheet that her friend’s dad designed, that she decorated with Elven runes. That kind of experience is the reason I do the art tables. Granted, the money was good this time, but not every time. So having an RPG fan come up to me and gush over their character, or their game, or their worst crit fail, is worth a lot more than the dollar. As long as we make enough to cover our costs, I’m happy.
Panel-wise: Ganz opened up the convention with his kungfu panel, and oddly enough he got to close the con with our FK panel. Both of which did pretty well, but because of their timing (the first panel of the show, the last panel of the show) the audience that we usually get wasn’t there. We still had a good crowd considering, so the panels were pretty solid. Jessi and Gabi did this super panel on Sunday that packed the main events hall. The Iron artist panel went over very well, and it seemed perfect for those two. It was a very mid-day con family-friendly panel, and it looked like the attendees had a lot of fun. Especially considering that we were afraid no one would show at the panel. It was also the emergence of the food faeries.
I’ve dubbed them that because they walked into that panel, through artist alley, and into our other panel handing out hand-baked food and bottled water. The food faeries were much appreciated after the weekend of talking, schmoozing and partying. Anyway, that was my wild weekend, there is a hell of a lot more. Everything from the shoutout from Coswatch to the Concept Galaxies amazing game, we had a mighty good time, and I hope everyone else did too.
As for next year, I expect they’ll be in a bigger place, I really think they should do it in the Valley Forge convention center. As for us, we’re working on new panels, bigger panels, non-webcomic related panels, and webcomic related panels. We have every intention of having a table once again, and hopefully we’ll be guests once again.
- 09:52 I'll never get over being amazed whenever I walk by someone I don't know at a con and they are wearing my shirt. #
- 07:28 On the way to Zen-kai-kon! Although I'm tweeting from the car! (To the sound of on the way to rhode island) #
- 12:12 Con is sold out. Table is doing well. Zenkaikon is becoming a primere con. Strike the word becoming. :) #
- 13:02 Somebody cut their finger on the edge of our table because a staple was sticking out. This makes me angry #
- 14:31 I am now part of the carmen Sandiego game! Find me at the table, and see what I ask you to do for her money :) #
- 16:52 I love cons! I love my con friends! I love meeting new people at cons! #
- 19:42 What happens when film nerds get into anime. #
- 19:46 @BexMW @jadedwish the panel that I'm sitting in. #
- 19:49 In fairness at least these cats don't have this Japan is better than America tude. #
- 20:44 It was a good panel, those guys are just so...art-studenty! #
- 21:55 All alone at the table. Watching the girls go by #
- 00:10 At the con confessional with Jeesus. #
- 08:21 @StefwithanF read facebook update, help Brother-in-law. #
- 08:22 @Bearlio absolutely! see Firefly, and then watch Serenity. Then if you can see Dollhouse. All good shows by Wheadon!! #
- 08:56 @StefwithanF Thanks, kiddo! You Rock! #
- 13:43 @Bearlio you should throw on an episode of Angel and Firefly as well. Go all whedonesq! #
- 16:19 @bearlio absolutely! A lot of people think Firefly is whedon's best show. Better than both Angel and Buffy. It's kind of starwars though. #
- 13:38 @LauraKRobinson I can't properly answer that question in 140 characters. #
- 08:09 My phone sucks! Expect the wrath of a thousand tweets today! #
- 08:11 @BexMW Sunday from 1-7 #
- 08:19 Why do I always get spamy twitter friends? I need more twitter friends that aren't trying to sell me something, or info mine me. Fuckers! #
- 08:42 Stairway to heaven is playing at work. I still don't get what's so special about that song, Robert Plant sounds like he is dying. #
- 11:00 @BexMW you can come down whenever you want babe! if you want to do the Star Trek thing come down on Friday by 6. wemight gosee movies onsat #
- 14:36 @BexMW going to see 9 and district 9 #
- 10:34 @fifthnocturne: Dig hole. Pee in hole. Fill hole. Stop acting like little girl. :P /joke. #
- 08:21 Ha! I'm back on Twitter!! for the time being anyway. Working on the game, maybe I'll twitter stuff from the game tomorrow. #
- 08:32 @LauraKRobinson should be, I think every one should tweet in character. That would be awesome! #
- 08:56 @LauraKRobinson dude it takes like two minutes to sign up. There is no reason why we couldn't. Except for resistance... #
- 09:01 @LauraKRobinson lol, that'll make me a cheap magic-item whore. #
- 09:19 @LauraKRobinson oh. hmm, that would be pretty shitty though. "Sign up for twitter or no sword + 3 for you!" I'd be the Sword Nazi. #
- 09:32 @jadedwish That's ashame, it could have been fun, but you don't know. #
- 10:23 @LauraKRobinson you have like the special cheese for the gravy though, right? if not, this will not do... #
- 13:57 I love the framers market by my work! But I always have to make willpower saves just to keep from buying up the place. #
- 14:01 @BexMW ugg...FARMERS market....sorry about that. #
- 14:10 @StefwithanF A friend of ours is coming over who is Vegan so we are being nice hosts. #
- 14:48 For all of you single ladies out there, follow the link for a real catch! bit.ly/oetj5 #
- 15:14 @BexMW yeah, there are actually people out there like this. #
So with how awesome the con was over the weekend, and believe me it was full of win, the highs this week were high, but the lows were really fucking low. Last night ended with very little accomplished and Gabi and I just kind of cuddling on the couch watching Avatar. I’m lucky to have her, even with stubborn-as-a-horse attitude and strong personality. It’s one of the things that’s keeps me attracted to her, and keeps our relationship strong. Now if she could just take a punch better. (For those of you with no brain, that last sentence was a joke.)
I wanted to check out Avatar because of how good I was told it was, and really, it is that good. It still falls prey to the usual American stereotypes however, (i.e. one of the male protagonists can’t wrap his head around the possibility of female warriors, etc.) Those things can sometimes get a little played out in American storytelling. I did like the fact that the show is not afraid to show war and death and the consequences that seem to follow those events. It starts out with a pretty impressive body count from the word go.
- Mood:
blank - Music:The Gas Light Anthem: High Lonesom
- 13:46 @LauraKRobinson you should turn your phone on so I can get ahold of you. #
"Campus rape ideology holds that inebriation strips women of responsibility for their actions but preserves male responsibility not only for their own actions but for their partners’ as well. Thus do men again become the guardians of female well-being."
- Mood:
pessimistic
- 09:15 @LauraKRobinson Welcome :) but I don't know what I did... #
- 12:25 @LauraKRobinson I'd be happy to just live at a never-ending anime con. Anime cons are better than the woods! Better than Japan as well. #
- 08:14 it rained all weekend, now I'm sick. I'll either get better or worse throughout the day. #
- 08:57 The worst part about these geek fests is packing to go home :( #
- 22:32 It was a good con. I lost my keys, but I always lose something at cons. The after con dinner was off the hook! #
- 22:58 Conventions always bring up conversations about othe conventions. Zenkaikon, Katsukon, otakon, etc. #
- 23:01 No spoilers! Bex! #
