Over one year later...

Anyway, I just attended the 2nd NYC Comic-Con at the Jacob Javitz Convention Center over the weekend. Needless to say I'm pretty tired but all in all it was a better con than the one that was held last year. Everytime I go to one of these, I say to myself that it's going to be the last one and I'm getting too old for this sort of thing, but I usually end up at one sooner or later. I find this odd because as much as I like my hobbies I really have a large amount of contempt for my fellow fans. It doesnt matter whether its RPG's or comic books thanks to the internerd I get to see more of these people speak thier minds under almost total anonymity, and 80% of the time they come off like cynical, bitter fanboys, usually sexist, occaisionally racist, mostly stupid. Especially on places like Newsrama, which is a comics site. For RPG's, it's RPGnet for crass behavior and for gronard bitterness and RPG pedantry it's ENworld.org. Of course every now and then it's worth going to these places becasue they are good places to find out about things that you wouldnt normally find elsewhere, but my GOD, the nitpickyness and the utter stupidity of some of the people.

I really need to remove those places from my bookmarks, but they keep callin' me...

I'll post more pictures from the con when I can. For now I'll just post my picture with the cheerleader from Heroes, Hayden Panettiere. She seemed personable, really sweet and obviously cute (yeah she really does look that cute in person). She's also, really young. I think that she's 17, so any impure thoughts were followed by severe guilt and a mental image of me roasting in the hottest fires of HELL.
It's a strange little picture as I'd been at the con since 5am (that's a story in itself) and the picture was taken at the end of the day (around 7:30pm). I was afraid to get too close to her because I thought that I might stink. I gotta say though, that compared to some of the test subjects walking around the con that day (I'm looking at you cat-piss man, who sat next to me on the floor near the Dabel Brothers booth...JESUS CHRISTMAS man. BARS OF SOAP. USE THEM.) I probably smelt like roses...

Like I said, more pictures later...