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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dreeble" data-source="post: 617492" data-attributes="member: 7322">ConsHeya: A couple decades ago a friend and I were on our bikes in a mall (actually standing on the pedals because riding them in the mall wasn't allowed) and Mickey Rooney (I think, one of those old (really old) actor guys) said, "My kangaroo can ride his bike better than that!" At a CreationCon Leonard Nemoy was hyping his movie (he directed, that is) "Holy Matrimony".  He practically showed us the entire movie in clips.  He kept exhorting us (the audience) to see it.  I felt bad because it seemed pretty obvious that (except for the suck ups) the vast majority of us had no interest.  Someone asked if he'd ever direct another Star Trek movie and he went into this thing about the stories he wanted to tell versus the stories Paramount (or whomever) wanted to tell. Went to a Neil Gaiman midnight reading at a ComicCon about 5 years ago.  He's got an incredible voice.  Probably mostly the fact that American's dig that British accent, but still. At the ComicCon the year before last my old college roomie and his girlfriend went as Colonial Marines from Aliens.  He had a Pulse Rifle (heavy as hell when I carried it for him) with nice body armor and stuff (he was sweating like a pig that day).  His girlfriend was dressed as a pilot (Spunkmeyer was the chick with the mirror shades, right?).  He had made tons of USS Sulaco baseball caps (I've got two) that he sold to people on the Aliens newsgroup and gave out a bunch to Frost (also played the Aryan bad guy in Shawshank Redemption), Vasquez (also played the stepmom in Terminator 2), the black guy (there was a black guy in Aliens?  Hehe), and one other actor from the movie.  They really digged my friend's costume.  Good folks.  The guy who played Garibaldi was also at that ComicCon and they were gaga over him. I went to the Larry Elmore booth and got some stuff.  The guy who took my order opened it up and started signing his name and I was thinking, "Um, why is he messing up that book?"  Then I realized it was Elmore himself.  Woo! At this last ComicCon I met Rick Detorie, the guy who does the comic strip One Big Happy.  Ultra nice guy.  Also met Tycho and Gabe from Penny Arcade.  Plus Batjew, the only one of them who actually looks the way he's drawn (or was drawn since they've apparently had a falling out).  Keith Parkinson signed some stuff I got from him and when I said that he and Larry Elmore were my favorite artists he said, "High praise indeed." in a droll voice. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  Almost met Phil Foglio but I was getting a wee bit tired and left.  Did learn that new XXXenophiles are on the way.  Yay! Ah, memories.  Good times!Take care,Dreeble</blockquote>

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