{"id":396,"date":"2009-04-05T18:08:22","date_gmt":"2009-04-05T08:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/?p=396"},"modified":"2009-04-07T16:16:55","modified_gmt":"2009-04-07T06:16:55","slug":"emerald-city-comiccon-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/2009\/04\/05\/emerald-city-comiccon-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Emerald City ComicCon &#8211; Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First day of comic con is over and I&#8217;m exhausted. All the joints in my legs, including my hips, ache. Standing in a line for five hours is not fun. It was probably closer to four hours but I&#8217;d been standing and walking on a concrete floor since 10am with only small breaks.<\/p>\n<p>However, expect a few new additions to my CAF gallery when I get home.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t go overboard with the purchases but I did buy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicartfans.com\/GalleryPiece.asp?Page=1&#038;Order=Date&#038;Piece=449083&#038;GSub=70551&#038;GCat=0&#038;UCat=0\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"go look, it's cool\">this<\/a>. I&#8217;m kicking myself now for not buying another piece that Dustin Nguyen had in his folio but I didn&#8217;t want to spend too much money on the first day. I did pretty well, I got seven new pieces today but only spent money on two of them. Not too shabby!<\/p>\n<p>Hhhmm&#8230; what else? Well, I talked to some interesting people, got a hug off Matt Wagner, Jimmy Palmotti remembered who I was again and gave me a hug and I hung out with Richard Starkings. (I&#8217;m such a name-dropper!) Funny how I managed to squeeze all this in when I was also standing in line for Barry Kitson.<\/p>\n<p>I was stupid. George offered to let me go in front of him for Barry&#8217;s list and I said no. Eugh. So dumb! But it was the right thing to do as the Arizona crew had pretty much gone straight to Barry&#8217;s table while I&#8217;d ambled over to Tim&#8217;s. If I&#8217;d had any sense I would&#8217;ve gone straight to Barry&#8217;s and gotten at the top of the list. It doesn&#8217;t really matter. I enjoy hanging out at Barry&#8217;s table and it&#8217;s not like I&#8217;m permanently stuck there. Like I said, for someone who was supposed to be standing in a line, I got an awful lot of stuff done. I&#8217;ve lined up things for tomorrow (including a sketch from Bruce Timm &#8211; finally!!). Right now I&#8217;m contemplating whether or not to try for a fast past from Tim. Haven&#8217;t decided as yet but I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m interested in doing the dash when the doors open.<\/p>\n<p>This evening I had the most wonderful dinner with Tim&#8217;s parents. They were gracious enough to invite a very select few over and I was included. His parents are simply fabulous and Roger, Tim&#8217;s dad, is a sensational cook. However, I think I horrified him when he told me to make sure I got some green beans he&#8217;d prepared to go with the pasta and I said that I can&#8217;t stand beans. Such simple food but it was so tasty I went back for seconds and I never do that. The conversation roamed across so many topics &#8211; although I&#8217;ll admit to getting lost when the discussions about basketball, football, baseball and hockey started.<\/p>\n<p>It was a great evening and I feel honoured to have been included. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First day of comic con is over and I&#8217;m exhausted. All the joints in my legs, including my hips, ache. Standing in a line for five hours is not fun. It was probably closer to four hours but I&#8217;d been standing and walking on a concrete floor since 10am with only small breaks. However, expect a few new additions to my CAF gallery when I <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/2009\/04\/05\/emerald-city-comiccon-saturday\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Read More &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[8,2],"tags":[117,118,68],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":405,"href":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions\/405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}