Category Archives: San Diego Comic Con

Nerd Prom 2009 – Impending Doom

Friday is when things start to get serious at Comic-Con. The jet lag has finally begun to fade after two straight nights of slamming into the “I don’t care what the clock says, I’m your body and I say it’s … Continue reading

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Nerd Prom 2009 – Abandon All Hope

Last year we were able to roam around in this condition, taking inappropriate pictures of each other rubbing up on statuary and giggling at the rubes. This year, we stumbled around in a mean funk, mutteringthings like, “Unbelievable,” “Reprehensible”, and “Must… not… stab.” [read more at link] Continue reading

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Nerd Prom Pregame 3 – Impending Doom

Being my fourth year at the San Diego Comic-Con, I have learned that, for good or ill, the airport and airline experience is an inverse bellweather for how the entire experience will go. So I should have known that we were fucked. Continue reading

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Nerd Prom Pregame 2: With Great Vengeance And Furious Anger – A Comic-Con Guide

San Diego Comic-Con starts tomorrow, and my girl and I are at ground zero in preparations for attending. We fly out in less than twenty-four hours, which means we are at apogee of a high-speed burn of collecting the media players, laptop computers and 4 milligram nicotine gum I’ll need to keep me stupified enough to avoid being jerked out of the airplane in zip-tie handcuffs by air marshalls for a laundry list of charges including Disabling a Smoke Detector and Attempted Suffocation of an Airline Flight Attendant… which technically is also disabling a smoke detector. [read more at link] Continue reading

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Nerd Prom Pregame: Killer of Saints, Part 1

At a daily capacity of 125,000 people, that means that on any given day you want to attend Comic-Con, you’re competing with journalists, bloggers, wanna-be artists, movie producers, Nicholas Cage, and 90,000 other people with unfocused eyes and agendas no more than three degrees of separation away from “I needs to touch Bruce Campbell’s sweat so’s I can get my yiff on.” [READ MORE AT LINK] Continue reading

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