Two parts of my life collided this year at Comic Con San Diego.

They have brushed against each other before, but always online, or in discussions with family and friends who know my commitments and my obsessions well.
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I didn't manage to get a ticket early enough, I missed the eBay last-minute sale (I was at work, dumb ComiCon, where I can't be on the internets waiting!), and I'm not eligible for professional registration (or so they say; I think I should be, and will look into that again for next year ( Read more... )

Just a reminder to all, I will be offline (more or less, probably more) from tomorrow morning through Sunday evening. Thanks to some lovely friends and friends-of-friends, I actually get to go four days this year! \o/ I shall be rooming with ladybrick, sarcasticval, and others; and meeting up with kalquessa and her entourage ( Read more... )

Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man’s reasonable perception into feeling. --Leo Tolstoy

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. --Aristotle

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Well, I'm off. Shan't be around the LJ (and possibly not the email, either) until Sunday night. I'm not cosplaying this year, but it should still be loads of fun.

kalquessa, I'll see you at the Stargate panel if not before. ;-)

(p.s. if anyone else is going, I'll be wearing my brand new Dumbledore's Army T-shirt tomorrow.)

But first--yeesh, work's crazy today. Finally I got to go to lunch, but it's been fix this, fix that, talk to five different people about the same dang problem multiple times.... Wow. I think I may just go home and collapse tonight. Wouldn't mind a nap right now.

On to a few more things from the Con:

( Mike McCafferty OMG! )