Category Archives: conventions
Introducing the New Teen Swinger: Romance Comics in the Summer of Love
Well, well, looks as though I am running par for the course in my persistent inability to update my blog and/or complete a series of posts. I do have a final post from the Comic Con about 3/4ths written. I … Continue reading
report from the san diego comic con 2009, day three
A certain kind of failure leaves Los Angeles for San Diego. You can spot them close up, the Hollywood Dream’s dispossessed. I saw it in the face of my 11am bartender– his mean eyes squinted when I ordered a Diet … Continue reading
report from the san diego comic con 2009, day two
elly showed up. That’s roughly it. Also a dog ate my hat.
report from the san diego comic con 2009, day one
The day’s first visible sign manifested as an alcoholic 21 year old girl. One of my fellow passengers. In our three hour train journey from Los Angeles, she consumed a bottle of Heineken, emptied a small flask of Yager into … Continue reading
Insanity from Above, Filth from Below: A Freaked-Out Report on the San Diego Comic Con 2008
Last summer, when I attended the San Diego Comic Con, I was struck by its blankness– there was literally nothing that required photography and nothing, after the cease of the spectacle, that was worth remembering. My sum total of purchases … Continue reading
WINTER TOUR 08: MACWORLD AND BEYOND
There was no way in Hell that I was paying $25 to go to MacWorld, but elly had a Solution. She scummed a badge off someone not in need & thus, for an hour, my name was Nicole. Not counting … Continue reading