11-23-2019, 12:33 AM
(This post was last modified: 11-23-2019, 12:51 AM by Drunk Monk.)
I started posting about this on the GoT thread (http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomFor...8#pid34838) but I covered my GoT point and I'm still working on my nitecap so I'll continue here.
WW was disappointingly small. I was hoping to hang with some friends but the timing didn't work out so we missed and I flew solo. Covered it all very quickly. Probably did a half dozen laps of the entire floor just to feel like I was at a comic con. Didn't find a single thing that I wanted. Not one thing. I would've jumped on a nice Baby Yoda but it's too early. Well, I take that back - Dragon Song Forge had some sweet katanas but those were way out of my price range and I need another sword like I need another T-shirt. Not even any decent pins.
I did enjoy a tasty Carribbean dinner at Ollie's, just down the street. Almost splurged on the ackee and salt fish but that was like $19 so I opted for the much less expensive veggie patty which was quite delicious especially with their hot sauce. You know it's a crappy con when the best part is the food. It was old downtown Oaktown tho, where there are some decent eateries.
Granted it was Friday so slow, but I'm not bothering to go back and already cut my press wristband. There were a few has beens in has been alley. Honky Tonk Man. Greg Brady. Some other WWE diva who was there for an interview then vanished. Kato Kaelin was the MC trying to fire up the crowd for some live music performances but it was like a dozen people at the most watching at any given time. He clowned me a bit when I came in - asking me who he was and then taking the mike away before I could answer. For a fleeting moment I thought I'd grab a selfie with him for that, but then I was like, Kato? Really?
Anyway, I got like 15 mins of interview with 3 vendors plus a few dozen mediocre pix, enough for a web article in my continuing Kung Fu of Comic Cons series. I just do it for the press pass and to sniff out any trends that I could capitalize upon. I got a good lead on selling fans to belly dancers from the DSF rep, which makes me want to follow up on a sword dance piece I proposed to a pro belly dancer acquaintance some time ago. I've always had a thing for belly dancers and have fond memories of notching those crappy kastanes we used to sell at AFS for belly dancers. That DSF rep may have been BSing me (some of his comments were very questionable but I'll run with them for the piece because of that old Liberty Valence quote - y'all know what I'm talkin bout).
WW was disappointingly small. I was hoping to hang with some friends but the timing didn't work out so we missed and I flew solo. Covered it all very quickly. Probably did a half dozen laps of the entire floor just to feel like I was at a comic con. Didn't find a single thing that I wanted. Not one thing. I would've jumped on a nice Baby Yoda but it's too early. Well, I take that back - Dragon Song Forge had some sweet katanas but those were way out of my price range and I need another sword like I need another T-shirt. Not even any decent pins.
I did enjoy a tasty Carribbean dinner at Ollie's, just down the street. Almost splurged on the ackee and salt fish but that was like $19 so I opted for the much less expensive veggie patty which was quite delicious especially with their hot sauce. You know it's a crappy con when the best part is the food. It was old downtown Oaktown tho, where there are some decent eateries.
Granted it was Friday so slow, but I'm not bothering to go back and already cut my press wristband. There were a few has beens in has been alley. Honky Tonk Man. Greg Brady. Some other WWE diva who was there for an interview then vanished. Kato Kaelin was the MC trying to fire up the crowd for some live music performances but it was like a dozen people at the most watching at any given time. He clowned me a bit when I came in - asking me who he was and then taking the mike away before I could answer. For a fleeting moment I thought I'd grab a selfie with him for that, but then I was like, Kato? Really?
Anyway, I got like 15 mins of interview with 3 vendors plus a few dozen mediocre pix, enough for a web article in my continuing Kung Fu of Comic Cons series. I just do it for the press pass and to sniff out any trends that I could capitalize upon. I got a good lead on selling fans to belly dancers from the DSF rep, which makes me want to follow up on a sword dance piece I proposed to a pro belly dancer acquaintance some time ago. I've always had a thing for belly dancers and have fond memories of notching those crappy kastanes we used to sell at AFS for belly dancers. That DSF rep may have been BSing me (some of his comments were very questionable but I'll run with them for the piece because of that old Liberty Valence quote - y'all know what I'm talkin bout).
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