Hey, I had to tell you all about my fucking amazing weekend. My friend Amy from ILM was doing a convention up in Columbus and invited me up to the pre-Con party. It was actually at a comic book shop after hours called the Laughing Ogre and was only for the convention people and the guests. There were a few people from Buffy and Angel there, but I didn't really know who they were. One guy's name was James and he played somebody named Clem, there was a guy named Andy (I can't remember his character's name, but he's a green guy with horns who owns a bar), and a guy named Mark who played Gooslug or Grooslug, something like that. All the girls followed these guys around all night. Ted Raimi was there as well which was really sweet. He's probably best known for playing Jockser (sp?) on Xena and Hercules, but he is also brothers with Sam Raimi and has appeared in every single one of his films (The Evil Dead series, Darkman, the Quick and the Dead, A Simple Plan, For the Love of the Game, The Gift and last but not least Spiderman.) I got to meet Sergio Arogones (legendary Mad magazine artist), John somebody (who played Timmy on Lassie) and two Playboy playmates named Julie and Jennifer. Ok, I'll admit I did throw a little game at the Playmates and got completely blown off, but how many times in your life do you get to party with Playmates and get a chance like that? From Star Wars, I got to meet Julian (General Veers) and Ken (Admiral Piett) again from Empire Strikes Back (I met them at a party in Indianapolis last year. They are wonderful guys and perfect English gentlemen).
Amy got me a guest pass for the Con the following day, which pretty much gave me free reign of the place. Amy had to work all day signing autographs and stuff so I just wandered around. The Con was mostly comic books, so there wasn't much for me to do, but I did meet a lot of really cool people and they did have a private bar for the guests that was free. I didn't realize it at first, but the badge she gave me was the same as the badges all the artists and actors were wearing, so I constantly had people asking me who I was and what I did. After a few drinks I started telling people I was one of the Jedi in EpII and I even signed a few autographs. Probably go to Hell for that one.
The highlight of my weekend was sitting at the bar and looking over and seeing Marv Wolfman, Len Wein and Dick Giordano sitting next to me. These guys are Legends in the comic book industry and wrote more shit than I could ever list here. They were true gentlemen (not like a lot of the younger artists and writers who looked and acted like rock stars) and we had a great conversation about the Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter and Star Wars.
Andy from Angel hosted a karaoke party last night, but weather was getting bad so I decided to head back early....
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Amy got me a guest pass for the Con the following day, which pretty much gave me free reign of the place. Amy had to work all day signing autographs and stuff so I just wandered around. The Con was mostly comic books, so there wasn't much for me to do, but I did meet a lot of really cool people and they did have a private bar for the guests that was free. I didn't realize it at first, but the badge she gave me was the same as the badges all the artists and actors were wearing, so I constantly had people asking me who I was and what I did. After a few drinks I started telling people I was one of the Jedi in EpII and I even signed a few autographs. Probably go to Hell for that one.
The highlight of my weekend was sitting at the bar and looking over and seeing Marv Wolfman, Len Wein and Dick Giordano sitting next to me. These guys are Legends in the comic book industry and wrote more shit than I could ever list here. They were true gentlemen (not like a lot of the younger artists and writers who looked and acted like rock stars) and we had a great conversation about the Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter and Star Wars.
Andy from Angel hosted a karaoke party last night, but weather was getting bad so I decided to head back early....
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