My geeky day

[owlmoose]

It's the stormtroopers of the 501st Legion, a SF-based fan group invited to march at the last Rose Parade. They were everywhere, in and out of costume. Nothing quite like the sight of an Imperial Stormtrooper, in armor but with the helmet off, eating a slice of cheap pizza to drive home the fact that you are surrounded by geeks. And surrounded I was...

...at Wonder-Con, the local annual comic book convention, which SE and I attended today. I've been to Alternative Press Expo a few times, but I've never been to one of the mainstream cons before, and it was a very different experience -- tons of people in costume, lots and lots of vendors, a handful of publishers, and only a few artists. Probably the most interesting connection I made was with a bookseller, who had a volume I wanted for the library and had been unable to find easily online. Mostly, though, I wandered, browing the selection of bookstores, toy sellers, music and DVD stores... I'm lucky I walked away spending as little money as I did! A couple of science fiction books, an issue of Geek Monthly (a new magazine I'm quite curious to get a close look at), The Dream Hunters by Gaiman and Amano, and some soundtracks: Advent Children, FFVII Piano, and the score to the Death Note live action film, which I picked up totally on a whim. Listening as I type this, and it's a quite nice instrumental set, moody, very Death Note. I kind of want to see the movie now.

Afterwards, we decided a little refreshment was in order:



Samovar is a local tea place with tasty sweets and savories and an excellent tea selection. So we sat outside and ate our cookies and drank our tea and read our comics and it was perfectly lovely. Later, a pack of friends joined us for dinner, then followed me home for creampuffs and Okami. Altogether a more than pleasant way to celebrate my impending birthday, and I feel fortified for the stressful week of work and rehersal that is likely to follow.

Comments

[sirea1182.livejournal.com]

I've always wanted to go to a convention, we have Connecticon every year but I'm always too strapped for cash to go. And I'd want to cosplay, but don't have the time/money to make a costume (or improve my Aeris one). But it sounds like you had a great day! It must be the Storm Troopers :p

BTW, Happy Birthday! :D (saw it on ff_press)

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

Don't Storm Troopers make every day better? ;) I still have never been to a straight-up sci-fi con, which I would also like to do sometime. Just for the experience. There's one here called Baycon every Memorial Day weekend, and I keep telling myself that this is the year that I'll make it, and then I never get around to it. Maybe this year...

[giandujabird.livejournal.com]

I wonder if ComicCon in San Diego would be "just the same, but bigger," or if that larger convention defies such a description.

Btw: Oh, pretty blue site!

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

It's a good question. I should ask the student I know who attended both.