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New York Comic Con 2010 and New York Anime Festival 2010.
October 8-10, 2010.
But I have no idea who she is.
With some time spent enjoying the beach, the RUSH concert over, and some time spent indulging my geekdom, it was time to head out.
Uh-oh, shit just got real. Started developing my own films in my bathroom. First time I've ever tried this, I feel I have entered a whole new realm of geekdom. Absolutely gob-smacked that these actually came out, was half expecting the whole roll to come out blank. Deep joy! Somehow way more satisfying than seeing an image instantly pop up on a little LCD screen!
EOS 300v + 16-35mm 2.8L II + Fomapan 100 developed in Rodinal
Trying not to look down.
New York Comic Con 2010 and New York Anime Festival 2010.
October 8-10, 2010.
Outlining/diagramming my final paper for Culture, Law, & Politics of the Internet. It's kind of amusing that the only words in focus are Google and Eraser.
When I saw Wil's blog entry about the Wil in the Wild flickr pool, I thought "Great! I loved THDOOL, this is my chance to show it". I had dreams of taking a clever, dramatic picture that demonstrated how much this book means to me.
Of course, having an infant in the house changes things, so I downshifted from creative to "just shoot it already", but that introduced anxiety. My books are either on shelves alphabetically, or they're stacked in piles all over the house. "What if THDOOL was just thrown in some dusty corner?" I thought. "Worse yet, what if it is shelved next to something inappropriate or crappy? What if it's next to <gasp!> Michael Crichton???"
I grabbed my camera and rushed around the house trying to find this precious gem. Imagine my relief when I found it, alphabetically between Vonnegut and Wiesel (ignore for now The Color Purple, that's not my fault). Appropriately enough, there's also Sci-Fi (The War of the Worlds), biography (The Right Stuff), and geekdom (Mastering Algorithms with Perl). Satisfied with the resting place of My Little Chunk of Wil, I clicked the shutter.
Why such concern over such a small book? I got THDOOL to write a review of it, having enjoyed Wil's blog. What I got, while not my favorite book, was nonetheless the only book I've ever read that has ever touched me so personally.
Wil and I are roughly the same age. We grew up (for a while at least), in strikingly similar circumstances. Here in my hands was a book, written by someone famous, yet he could very easily have been my next door neighbor and, I suspect, my best friend.
I feel like such a fanboy for writing this. After all, Wil's, well... Wil. He's Wil Effing Wheaton, for Crusher's sake! And me? Despite similarities in tastes, early childhood lifestyles, and disappointment in Star Wars toys, I grew up to be... just me.
Thank you, Wil, for the memories and for the stories. Keep writing, there are many days where WWdN is the one happy moment in an RSS reader full of crap sandwiches.
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New York Comic Con 2010 and New York Anime Festival 2010.
October 8-10, 2010.
Who says you need to wear a Doctor Who costume to a Doctor Who convention? I have reached that level of geekdom where I will cosplay a character from a podcast whose appearance is never described. The costume is based entirely on fanart. Luckily, fandom's love for Welcome to Night Vale is so large that I got recognized by oodles of people.
Unfortunately the only picture I got of myself in my Cecil costume was this mirror selfie, which had terrible lighting that I could only partially fix during editing.
Note to my mother and anyone else curious: the tattoos are temporary.