Bill and Ted's Excellent Inception

I miss Bill and Ted style comedies, they're so re-watchable. Now all we have are the Hangover type. Why so serious?

OK! OK! I'll talk about Comic Con

I really must say that I liked the convention center design a lot. This shot I took coming down the elevators is so sci-fi!

Honestly I think I'll break up my "coverage" a bit since it would be an unnecessarily long post. I don't have as many pictures as I thought I did. I'm pretty sure it's because my camera sucks. It has this problem reading the memory card. Talk about a MAJOR flaw.

Comic Con grew on me. Let's just say that early on the first day I could hardly wait to go home, and by the end of Saturday I was almost wishing that I had booked another night. Next year I'm sure.

I didn't know what to expect from Comic Con. Last year I went to AnimeExpo in LA and felt really really out of place, but I'm guessing it was mostly because I don't know Anime. I'm at least conversant in Superheroes. There weren't as many costumes as I was expecting. I was told that in previous years there were more, but that's cool. I don't need to see too many out of shape people in spandex anyway.

This guy was freaking cool though!



The "Floor", where all the booths are, was HUUUGE! And crowded. Waaay too crowded for the likes of me. The side of the hall that had all the major media players was of course more crowded than the other end of the hall because that's where all the cool stuff was. I did manage to accidentally catch a glimpse of the True Blood cast as I was walking by the WB booth. I like the show a lot, but I'm not about to stand in line for a couple of hours or more to get them to sign a shirt. Ugh. In fact I refused to stand in any line, which meant that I didn't get much swag, but I'd throw most of it away anyway.

I spent more of my time upstairs in the conference rooms listening to random panels. I got to listen to Charlaine Harris (Author of the Sookie Stackhouse Series, aka True Blood). She was pretty awesome if I do say so myself. And I attended a watercolor Master Session with Jill Thompson (my pictures of which are gone. &*$%# camera).

What I found most interesting was just observing the crowd and the different types of people. I really liked going to panels where I knew none of the "famous" people and just trying to see what the difference in attitude and purpose between them and their fans.

Fandom confuses me. How do fans see the object of their obsession and how does the receiving end see their work? What is it that allows one person to become successful in their chosen medium and another a wanna be? As someone in the middle with the potential to either fall back into wanna-be land or over to the blessed few succeed and shape culture it fascinates me. I just want to be able to understand both sides. I guess it's the writer in me.

Enough for now. Tomorrow I'll talk about how awesome it is to know Goofy. :P

Dark Matter & Dark Energy

Ok. But the bear argument can just as easily be used for a proof of God. And the whole invisible multiple universes having gravity that permeate the membrane of our universe thing, though cool, sounds pretty ridiculous given the fact (and it is fact that this point) that we have no "evidence" of them. Wait what? You mean that athiests are espousing theories as proof that there is no God for which there is no evidence?

There's a lesson here. Can you figure it out?

This isn't to say that I think the theories are wrong, but it does seem to me to be just a tad hypocritical. And even should they prove multiple universes, it in no way disproves a maker because everything must have a source. Isn't that one of those fundamental laws of physics? And what about that whole, "the simplest explanation" thing?

Just saying.

Tomorrow I'll talk Comic Con, but first a message from our sponsors.

t-shirt

I was going to try and be all clever like I always am, but I'm quite bored of being vague and slightly cryptic all the time.

I painted a Compass Rose on a t-shirt I've had lying around for 2 years.

Why?

I'm going to Comic Con and I like playing games with time...sort of.

I was going to write Where is Mercator? on it but I decided not to. Mostly because I ran out of time.

To a few this will make sense, to the future it will make more sense. It's kind of like seeding the future with cool intentional Easter eggs.

Ugh too tiered to think. Have to get up early.

See you on the flip side.

"earthwork" movie trailer

read about this in the kc star. local film maker i think. looks great. the actor is fantastic, i just saw him in "winter's bone".

wait...

Its been how long since my last post?

No wonder I've only had 7 visits in the last month. lol. I guess I should laugh, it surely isn't worth crying over. Now, if that number is the same in say 3 months, THEN I'll start freaking out, cuz I'm screwed.

I'm going to have to get this ball rolling...