SDCC & All the Weirdness

Back home & its raining - this is reality.. The plastic sunshine trip of SDCC wore off over 9+ hours on the plane - but I'll be getting flashbacks for a while - especially some scenes, like the last half hour of Paul Kaiju's house party - when things got weird with a green inflatable reindeer and a gorilla suit..

The trip began with a burger in Nibblers - a downtown LA diner - which happens to be situated right next to Union Station where we caught our train down to San Diego..

This was the first of a few uncanny events. The timing of customs releasing my package from Tokyo ( thanks Mori-san :) as well as a series of bizarre numerical co-incidences led me to believe the Marriot ( hotel of Matt, Jesse & Ralph - whose mystical power & facial hair gives them a suitably Arthurian style ) may be situated directly on a Ley line..

The con itself has an unreal feel at the best of times - where else would you see Adam West, LL Cool J & Rowdy Roddy Piper all in the same day ? - but this one was extra weird..

I've got a lot of people to thank. Don & Paul - thanks for all your help getting my stuff there and to Ralph ( amazing to finally meet you man - you are at least twice as crazy as I thought you'd be :) & Holly ( who took SDCC by storm ) for the totally amazing work on our collaborations..

Thanks also to the bloggers who posted my stuff from near & afar - especially Andy, Phil & Kirkland..

I don't see nearly enough of my good friends Rob & Luc these days - so was a bonus to be able to hang out with them - was great to see Marc again ( thanks for the CD - gonna listen to it today ), toy conoisseur Dr Kent and old Hasbro friends John, Vickie & Angus..

In truth I really shouldn't have been there at all but I'm so glad I was.. If this does turn out to be the last time Matt Doughty & Jesse Moore take a booth at SDCC I would hate to have missed it. My thanks to Matt & Jesse above all others.. Jesse it was great getting to know you better & Matt - you never cease to amaze me - your creativity, your generosity, the number of burgers you can put away.. Actually I think its not the hotel - its you the power flows thru man !!

Finally extra thanks to my travelling companion Ali - the Niquil Ninja - who made a lot of new friends & stayed out of jail..

I don't know if I'll make it back to SDCC - I hope so - but if I don't - I'll take this. I've been to three SDCC's now & this was the best..

#4937 forever