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San Diego Memories

in Community by jon

Wednesday, July 20, 2005 - 11:07 AM

Lots of great stuff happened at Comic-Con; far too much to go through all the details, so here are some of the highlights. I'll add more as repressed memories surface.
  • Rich sabotaged our speech patterns almost immediately, insinuating 133t-speak into our brains and causing a complete collapse of lingustic skill.
  • Pontus taught me that the national drink of Sweden is a pint of Vodka with a splash of Red Bull.
  • I once again learned that smoking is bad for you when Jeff got to snuggle with Matt Groening while I was out having a cigarette in the back of the convention center not having a cigarette.
  • I fell in love with Tycho all over again.
  • I was tackled by Seth Green's handlers as I was trying to hand him a PMR shirt. They then took the shirt and shoved it in their pants.
  • I gave Scott a hug after what must have been a dozen or so single-malts (twelve being the number of scotches I need to hug a man).
  • Director Bryan Singer and screenwriter Michael Dougherty stopped by the table to chat; we are expecting Bryan to option the rights to the Goats movie any minute now. Any minute.
  • Dean Haglund, the Lone Gunman with the stringy blond hair and thick-rimmed glasses, drank with us until 4:30am and then handed us cards from some guy who sells Topps collectibles or something.
  • I got to say the words "SPACE DILDOS" into a microphone really loud at my panel in front of about 300 people. Ted Slampyak cut me off about a hundred times and is a tremendous dick. Kristofer Straub, Dave Kellett and Bill Barnes, on the other hand, are all stand-up guys.
Thanks to everyone who stopped by the massive, well-oiled Dumbrella table, and howdy to all the new readers who found us this week.

UPDATE: My apologies, but I simply am in no state to write, and I don't want to push it -- these strips are too important to crap out something half-congealed. I will be back in full form on Monday after a weekend of sleep. Thanks for your patience. Megagamerz will continue to run on Thursday and Friday.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Bryan Singer was accompanied by an entourage the size of Wisconsin; providing security for the party were some hard-core MIB-style secret-service types, glancing about nervously, on the lookout for evildoers. Black ties and jackets, earpieces, sunglasses, the works. I bet these guys could tell you where Osama rents DVDs from.
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SPACE DILDOS (Score: 3, Pathetic)
posted Wednesday, July 20, 2005 - 03:24 PM (#28522)
What was the context of the "SPACE DILDOS" utterance, if i may ask, please?
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Re: SPACE DILDOS (Score: 3, Insightful)
posted Wednesday, July 20, 2005 - 03:54 PM (#28523)
In Response to Teledildonix (#28522):

You are SO predictable.
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Re: SPACE DILDOS (Score: 3, Intriguing)
posted Wednesday, July 20, 2005 - 03:57 PM (#28524)
In Response to jon (#28523):

I confess that I am also intrigued by these dildos from space.
 
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Re: SPACE DILDOS (Score: 3, Compelling)
posted Wednesday, July 20, 2005 - 05:05 PM (#28526)
In Response to gtyrrell (#28524):

I confess that I am also intrigued by these dildos from space.

Maybe they are not dildos FROM space, but dildos designed for space, or painted to look like space.

Or perhaps merely spacious. Or do I mean specious?

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Re: SPACE DILDOS (Score: 2)
posted Wednesday, July 20, 2005 - 09:28 PM (#28532)
In Response to Teledildonix (#28522):

Space Mommy needs to get off somehow, Teley.
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Re: San Diego Memories (Score: 1)
posted Thursday, July 21, 2005 - 02:12 AM (#28541)
"I will be back in full form on Monday after a weekend of sleep"

Sleep? And you call yourself a Goats forum poster...
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Re: San Diego Memories (Score: 2)
posted Thursday, July 21, 2005 - 02:35 AM (#28542)
In Response to grjohnston (#28541):

He calls himself a forum poster? I did a search for that, and found nothing relating to Jon...
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Re: San Diego Memories (Score: 3, Insightful)
posted Thursday, July 21, 2005 - 09:51 AM (#28548)
these strips are too important to crap out something half-congealed.... Megagamerz will continue to run on Thursday and Friday.

Why do I get the feeling that Megagamerz is actually improved by half-congealed out-crapping?
 
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Re: San Diego Memories (Score: 1, Troll)
posted Thursday, July 21, 2005 - 10:50 AM (#28551)
So how long haven't you been smoking?

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Re: San Diego Memories (Score: 2)
posted Thursday, July 21, 2005 - 02:33 PM (#28558)
Rich [dieselsweeties.com] has posted some shots from the convention here [dieselsweeties.com].
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Re: San Diego Memories (Score: 2, Informative)
posted Friday, July 22, 2005 - 03:33 PM (#28589)
In Response to jon (#28558):

As it turns out, monkeys ARE very furious.

The bodyguards from the con were actullly somewhat pouty over the mention of Bryan and Mike, and no breathless impassioned account of their "Blackhawk Down" style "spec-ops' on the floor. no shit..

*ahem*:
"wow."
  (repeat as needed until full irony is achieved)

  Thanks again for the shirt, Dude.
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Re: San Diego Memories (Score: 2)
posted Friday, July 22, 2005 - 11:15 PM (#28593)
In Response to todd_ludovico (#28589):

Wait, so they were upset about me leaving that bit out? Or that I mentioned it at all?
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Re: San Diego Memories (Score: 2)
posted Monday, July 25, 2005 - 11:46 AM (#28605)
A couple of great pics here [livejournal.com] on Jeff's LJ.
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Re: San Diego Memories (Score: 1)
posted Monday, July 25, 2005 - 02:38 PM (#28610)
Well, going on current experience, if Brian Singer decides to make a Goats movie, EA Tiburon will probably make the Goats game, given that we're doing a Superman game right now...
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Re: San Diego Memories (Score: 1)
posted Monday, July 25, 2005 - 05:47 PM (#28614)
In Response to jon (#28593):

Oh, the guards LOVED that you noticed them (hard not to, I thought), but they were pouty that you didn't mention them in print!

I didn't realize bodyguards needed any press beyond the press of the crowd...

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Re: San Diego Memories (Score: 2)
posted Tuesday, July 26, 2005 - 01:01 PM (#28619)
In Response to todd_ludovico (#28614):

I will rectify the situation immediately.
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Re: San Diego Memories (Score: 2, Funny)
posted Tuesday, July 26, 2005 - 02:15 PM (#28620)
In Response to jon (#28619):

And so you have! This will certainly improve these fellows cachet in the Condition Orange circles they move deliberately through.

One of the guys is actually leaving for his Secret Service training in a few weeks. The other is just probably just gonna stick around and watch for backpacking foreigners.

(btw: Osama was an Inaugural Member of ThreatFlix. Check it out. I found the selection to be a bit narrow...and the delivery methods? Sheesh!)
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Re: San Diego Memories (Score: 2)
posted Tuesday, July 26, 2005 - 02:53 PM (#28621)
In Response to todd_ludovico (#28620):

One of the guys is actually leaving for his Secret Service training in a few weeks.

I didn't think Whitney Houston was still single...
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Re: San Diego Memories (Score: 1)
posted Tuesday, July 26, 2005 - 07:42 PM (#28623)
In Response to zamphir (#28621):

"I didn't think Whitney Houston was still single... "

Well, she's not,

So he'll go
But he'll know
He'll think of her every step of
the way

*oo. touching. i got goosebumps. ah, no. that's a rash. sorry.*
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