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Chicago and such
Dec. 5th, 2011 05:32 pmJust realised that I hadn't written anything in LJ since I got back from Chicago, which is mostly the fault of concrud (almost gone, hurrah! I can speak again! Eating no longer painful!) so here is something that bears the vaguest of resemblance to a con report:
1 - OMG ACTION FIGURES. I've gotten a bit terrible at them lately as I've gone all completisty. Generally I buy all the classic ones (though there's a couple of rather important ones still missing, mostly due to HUBRIS and HINCHCLIFFE HATE and my refusal to buy bloody Magnus Greel and Mr Sin except now I'd really like to finish the K-1 and have ALL THE FIGURES but it's like £30 now, goodness sake. Anyway - ) but am more selective with New Who because exploded Cassandra and Faceless Granny exist. Except there were a whole load of figures for just $5 each in the ChicagoTARDIS dealers' room so there was a small accident and I now have a lot more bewildering figures. Including Faceless Granny but that's okay cause she's played by Margaret John who was Megan Jones in Fury from the Deep and therefore awesome. Mmm, justifications.
The Krillitane look great though. Rubbish CGI villains on the telly, but excellent action figures.
2 - I had turtle soup. Only a little bit, but still. Twas a new and exciting thing to me. It was at an awesome New Orleans-y (I think? I get confused about America) restaurant and I was told that it was a snapping turtle raised on a turtle farm and that it'd totally take my fingers off and so it was okay to eat it cause EVIL FINGER STEALING TURTLE. Except all I could think of were all those nature documentaries of the wee baby turtles trying to make it to the sea before they were eaten by scary birds and I WAS THE SCARY BIRD. It was delicious though, but I don't think I could eat it again.
3 - Totally managed to get to A Whole Panel. It was Mark Sheppard's and he was great. Fun, entertaining, dead good at playing to the audience - basically everything you want from a con guest at a panel. I had a bit of a chat with him at one point and I still don't know exactly what to say about it. He is amazing though. But he is not getting to fix Scotland.
4 - COSTUMES. Oh, I love costumes, and the people who make them and the people who wear them and it's a kind of joy I don't get from anything else fannish cause I've no desire to either make a costume or wear one but I'm SO GLAD the costuming people exist, whether they're wearing a breathtakingly spectacular Idris dress or drawing tally marks on their faces. (I LOVED THAT. It's like putting a fez on your head, except better.) Also there were Occupy Gallifrey signs and quite a few River in the US people but A SAD LACK of Amy Ponds. Or possibly that's just in comparison to the vast flocks of Amys at Gally. Mostly I think there should be more costuming at ChicagoTARDIS, yes. Because there were WHOLE MINUTES in the lobby on Saturday night where not a single costumed person walked by. Forshame.
5 - The people were quite good. Especially you. Unless you weren't there, in which case, you were less good. Alas.
1 - OMG ACTION FIGURES. I've gotten a bit terrible at them lately as I've gone all completisty. Generally I buy all the classic ones (though there's a couple of rather important ones still missing, mostly due to HUBRIS and HINCHCLIFFE HATE and my refusal to buy bloody Magnus Greel and Mr Sin except now I'd really like to finish the K-1 and have ALL THE FIGURES but it's like £30 now, goodness sake. Anyway - ) but am more selective with New Who because exploded Cassandra and Faceless Granny exist. Except there were a whole load of figures for just $5 each in the ChicagoTARDIS dealers' room so there was a small accident and I now have a lot more bewildering figures. Including Faceless Granny but that's okay cause she's played by Margaret John who was Megan Jones in Fury from the Deep and therefore awesome. Mmm, justifications.
The Krillitane look great though. Rubbish CGI villains on the telly, but excellent action figures.
2 - I had turtle soup. Only a little bit, but still. Twas a new and exciting thing to me. It was at an awesome New Orleans-y (I think? I get confused about America) restaurant and I was told that it was a snapping turtle raised on a turtle farm and that it'd totally take my fingers off and so it was okay to eat it cause EVIL FINGER STEALING TURTLE. Except all I could think of were all those nature documentaries of the wee baby turtles trying to make it to the sea before they were eaten by scary birds and I WAS THE SCARY BIRD. It was delicious though, but I don't think I could eat it again.
3 - Totally managed to get to A Whole Panel. It was Mark Sheppard's and he was great. Fun, entertaining, dead good at playing to the audience - basically everything you want from a con guest at a panel. I had a bit of a chat with him at one point and I still don't know exactly what to say about it. He is amazing though. But he is not getting to fix Scotland.
4 - COSTUMES. Oh, I love costumes, and the people who make them and the people who wear them and it's a kind of joy I don't get from anything else fannish cause I've no desire to either make a costume or wear one but I'm SO GLAD the costuming people exist, whether they're wearing a breathtakingly spectacular Idris dress or drawing tally marks on their faces. (I LOVED THAT. It's like putting a fez on your head, except better.) Also there were Occupy Gallifrey signs and quite a few River in the US people but A SAD LACK of Amy Ponds. Or possibly that's just in comparison to the vast flocks of Amys at Gally. Mostly I think there should be more costuming at ChicagoTARDIS, yes. Because there were WHOLE MINUTES in the lobby on Saturday night where not a single costumed person walked by. Forshame.
5 - The people were quite good. Especially you. Unless you weren't there, in which case, you were less good. Alas.
