Out on the Floor
I enjoyed some of New York Comic Con today, having volunteered at a table to get in free, though it was tainted a bit by Food Stamps calling for an interview with me today while I was in the Javits Convention Center, where it turns out there's almost no AT&T cell coverage. She called four times and I didn't hear a single one. When I came home, then there was a paper in the mail saying the date and time of the phone interview. So Monday I have to call and try to reschedule. They better consider the "I had no prior notice and I was somewhere with no phone reception" a compelling enough reason to consider me fairly.
But! The Venture Bros panel was hilarious. Doc Hammer and Jackson Publick didn't have any new footage to show yet, so they just took questions and riffed on things, like all the old women who live in the building Hammer lives, their guesses as to what sex act a Rusty Venture is (and which VB character they'd like to give them one), phrases Hammer never wants to hear again (kept on a list in a little pink cell phone).... While riffing on phrases and words he never wants to hear again, Doc Hammer mentioned "wow factor." Asked if it's okay if Tim Gunn does it, he said that Tim Gunn can say anything he wants to.
Jackson Publick: "What about Nina Garcia?"
Doc Hammer: "Her too."
Jackson Publick: "What about Heidi?"
Doc Hammer: "No."
Jackson Publick, as Michael Kors: "She looks like a stripper at a harlequin convention!"
Jackson Publick and Doc Hammer simultaneously: "We watch a lot of Project Runway."
(Btw, Jackson Publick often sounds somewhat like Dean Venture without trying to.) I was the only person who laughed, though, when Doc Hammer, asked if he has any enmity with Voltaire, claims that when Voltaire is drunk--I laughed already--he talks about his love for him. (Years ago Voltaire hosted two goth events I attended, and he got ever drunker as the nights went on. Had to be led to the stage.) Man, I really should remember more of the riffing than I do. It was really funny. I didn't know that Jackson Publick and Doc Hammer first worked together on The Tick.
The Robot Chicken panel was great. They all came out wearing headbands with adorable furry kitty-like ears. Including Macaulay Culkin. Seth was wearing black and gray striped fingerless gloves to match his gray and black ears. Previews for the new half season starting on the 23rd and then the new season starting January that has the 100th episode look epic. One of the guys showed off a little Seth Green that a fan had made by I Am a Stuffed Animal.Com, joking he'd use it as a voodoo doll. A few people joked that it was actual size. (Poor tiny Seth Green.) One questioner started going off on skits he'd like to see, at which point the panel answered, "You realize that now we can't use any of those? This isn't a pitch meeting!" I wish I could have stayed 'til the end but Venture Bros started rather late and ended late, which made Robot Chicken late, so I had to go back to the table I was manning. I dance with the people who brought me. *g*
Four people came to me and said, "Those are TARDISes on your shirt!" One guy who brought it up asked me who my favorite Doctor is. When I answered, "Tom Baker," he high-fived me. Another crowd consisting of a few Amys, a female Doctor, and Madame Kovarian admired it too. Someone asked if I bought it at the con and was disappointed that I didn't.
I couldn't get into the Mark Hamill panel because they hit capacity. It looked like a few hundred people were on the line and who knows how many people were turned away.
But! The Venture Bros panel was hilarious. Doc Hammer and Jackson Publick didn't have any new footage to show yet, so they just took questions and riffed on things, like all the old women who live in the building Hammer lives, their guesses as to what sex act a Rusty Venture is (and which VB character they'd like to give them one), phrases Hammer never wants to hear again (kept on a list in a little pink cell phone).... While riffing on phrases and words he never wants to hear again, Doc Hammer mentioned "wow factor." Asked if it's okay if Tim Gunn does it, he said that Tim Gunn can say anything he wants to.
Jackson Publick: "What about Nina Garcia?"
Doc Hammer: "Her too."
Jackson Publick: "What about Heidi?"
Doc Hammer: "No."
Jackson Publick, as Michael Kors: "She looks like a stripper at a harlequin convention!"
Jackson Publick and Doc Hammer simultaneously: "We watch a lot of Project Runway."
(Btw, Jackson Publick often sounds somewhat like Dean Venture without trying to.) I was the only person who laughed, though, when Doc Hammer, asked if he has any enmity with Voltaire, claims that when Voltaire is drunk--I laughed already--he talks about his love for him. (Years ago Voltaire hosted two goth events I attended, and he got ever drunker as the nights went on. Had to be led to the stage.) Man, I really should remember more of the riffing than I do. It was really funny. I didn't know that Jackson Publick and Doc Hammer first worked together on The Tick.
The Robot Chicken panel was great. They all came out wearing headbands with adorable furry kitty-like ears. Including Macaulay Culkin. Seth was wearing black and gray striped fingerless gloves to match his gray and black ears. Previews for the new half season starting on the 23rd and then the new season starting January that has the 100th episode look epic. One of the guys showed off a little Seth Green that a fan had made by I Am a Stuffed Animal.Com, joking he'd use it as a voodoo doll. A few people joked that it was actual size. (Poor tiny Seth Green.) One questioner started going off on skits he'd like to see, at which point the panel answered, "You realize that now we can't use any of those? This isn't a pitch meeting!" I wish I could have stayed 'til the end but Venture Bros started rather late and ended late, which made Robot Chicken late, so I had to go back to the table I was manning. I dance with the people who brought me. *g*
Four people came to me and said, "Those are TARDISes on your shirt!" One guy who brought it up asked me who my favorite Doctor is. When I answered, "Tom Baker," he high-fived me. Another crowd consisting of a few Amys, a female Doctor, and Madame Kovarian admired it too. Someone asked if I bought it at the con and was disappointed that I didn't.
I couldn't get into the Mark Hamill panel because they hit capacity. It looked like a few hundred people were on the line and who knows how many people were turned away.