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[ivyfic]

Crazy-insane New York Comic Con just days away! Could there be any more celebrities going? They've got Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca), Ray Park, Daniel Logan (Boba Fett), Nicholas Brendan and the actresses who played Kendra and Drusilla, half the cast of BSG plus your usual array of comic book stars (Stan Lee, Greg Rucka, Paul Dini) plus Stephen King... It's going to be a mad house. I usually avoid the celebrities at these things because I want to avoid the fans who flock around celebrities, but that may not be possible.

I was going to do a whole post asking if anyone else is coming and telling those who wanted to come to buy their ticket NOW, but apparently, Saturday has sold out so it's a moot point. If you are going and, like me, could not find the programming schedule on the website, it's here. Hopefully they won't pull the same sort of things they did last year and tell you when you show up that you needed to have gotten a special ticket for X panel and it's too late now. Whatever. It will be exhausting, wacky fun. If you are going, let me know and I'll keep an eye out.

As a totally random aside—I hate celebrity Q&A's. Why? Because the people interviewing the celebs are my fellow fans, and they usually have fewer interviewing skills than your average NPR intern. The fans who ask questions in Q&A's generally have not done any research at all, ask questions to which the answers will be short/boring, and broach subjects that these people would only discuss in the sanctity of their therapist's office. It is excruciating for me to sit through one of these, even if it means I could get the celebrity to answer my very own question and thereby validate my existence!!!! /end rant

I have very little work and a huge freelance deadline looming. Can't you tell by the frequency of my posting?

Comments

[gryphonrose.livejournal.com]

Yes, we can tell. :)
Are you going to be there Sunday? Stop by if so.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

I will. You'll be in the dealer's room?

[gryphonrose.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'll be at the Pocket Books booth from noon to 1, and the rest of the time just roaming the floor.

[miss-pryss.livejournal.com]

You going to be there tomorrow? If so, and if you want to cross paths with me, email me and we can exchange cell numbers. It'd be fun to see you there!

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

I'm only going Saturday and Sunday. Three days in a row after even a short work week is just too much. You only going Friday?

[(Anonymous)]

as a former npr intern, i would like to take issue with your little rant - we are not all incompetents at interviewing, thank you very much :-P have fun - wish i was back east (it's a been a continual wish since i got here :-P)
-mithras

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

I'm going to say I'm basing my view of NPR interns on Ira Glass's tapes of his interviews as an intern (particularly the one where he manages to piss off several of the cast members of MASH). It's all Ira Glass. Not you at all.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Sigh. Everything about that line up sounds fantastic, and I still don't want to go. I heard the horror stories last year, and this one sounds like it has learned its lesson but added a bunch of new features guaranteed to make it more crowded and therefore less pleasant. Besides which, aside from Stephen King, who is uniformly wonderful and hilarious, I have such little faith in actors and whonot when talking about their roles or shows. Plus, the BSG crowd are awful spoilers.

I dunno. Maybe I'm not a conventioneer. I'll try I-Con, but that may be more for the company than the guest list.

[edgehopper.livejournal.com]

I went yesterday, going again tomorrow. Oddly enough, part of the reason is that I have a date for the con tomorrow. Except for the annoyingly long line to get into the building yesterday (that moved very quickly once it started moving), and the way they handled special events tickets (All the Colbert tickets ran out at 8:30 AM when only trade people could get into the building), I was quite pleased with the con setup--the floor wasn't ridiculously crowded, and I never had to wait in a line more than 3 deep for a game demo. Plus, the Wizards booth was great and lucrative (I won a free copy of Nexus Ops, a $50 value Avalon Hill board game!)