ComicCon HOOOO!

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[Guest]

Okay, wotsa booth bunny?

Booth Bunny = Scantily clad young women of particular proportions who stand around particular booths attracting geeks with sex they will never get, posing for photos, and basically associating with whatever product is at the booth.

Sort of the con equivalent of the slinky blonde sliding on the hood of the new model car.

There is also the occasional Booth Fluff = a scantily clad GUY of particular proportions serving much the same purpose. Sometimes Booth Fluff is in a superhero costume.

There is NEVER enough booth fluff at a con.

 

[Salvor-Hardon]

Okay, wotsa booth bunny?

the models they hire to work the booths at conventions. Comic and computer convention booth bunnies have it worse, and I feel sorry for them in a way in that geeks are trying to hit on them and failing miserably and they can't out rightly say "fuck off loser".

 

[artisticbiguy]

the models they hire to work the booths at conventions. Comic and computer convention booth bunnies have it worse, and I feel sorry for them in a way in that geeks are trying to hit on them and failing miserably and they can't out rightly say "fuck off loser".

I don't generall take booth bunny or booth fluff photos, Sal. Neither are of particular interest to me. If I do take "people shots", they are either of people we know or of con-geeks in costume.

 

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[Salvor-Hardon]

I don't generall take booth bunny or booth fluff photos, Sal. Neither are of particular interest to me. If I do take "people shots", they are either of people we know or of con-geeks in costume.

I so need to down to ya'lls place for dinner one night!

 

[artisticbiguy]

okay kids, here are the photos. Don't whine at me about the subject matter, I take pictures of what I find interesting!

The SciFi Channel Booth
http://www.abguye.com/literotica/comiccon/scifichanel.jpg

The WB Booth
http://www.abguye.com/literotica/comiccon/thewb.jpg
http://www.abguye.com/literotica/comiccon/thewb2.jpg

SpiderMan
http://www.abguye.com/literotica/comiccon/spiderman.jpg

A really cool metal alien sculpture!
http://www.abguye.com/literotica/comiccon/alien.jpg

ConGeeks in Costume!
http://www.abguye.com/literotica/comiccon/stormtroopers.jpg
http://www.abguye.com/literotica/comiccon/supergeeks.jpg ​

 

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[Salvor-Hardon]

NICK FURY!!!! Some one actually went as Nick FURY! OH AWESOME!!!!!

 

[artisticbiguy]

NICK FURY!!!! Some one actually went as Nick FURY! OH AWESOME!!!!!

That was only "Day 1" Sal.... most of the good costumes don't come out until Saturday. Have faith, we will see a lot more interesting stuff (and photo it) as the weekend progresses. We have to be at the con each day so I am sure there will be a lot more stuff to come

 

[rgraham666]

Ooo. I like the Electra babe.

 

[Guest]

NICK FURY!!!! Some one actually went as Nick FURY! OH AWESOME!!!!!

Down boy, down!

That's why you have to hit DragonCon. You LIVE near it and you never know what you will see when you go. Just standing in the halls can fill up hours of time with joy

 

[Salvor-Hardon]

Down boy, down!

That's why you have to hit DragonCon. You LIVE near it and you never know what you will see when you go. Just standing in the halls can fill up hours of time with joy

Sorry but Nick Fury is a hero of mine.

Yeah I'm thinking Dragon Con is a must this year, but wife is going beacuse some of her friends are going so I may do next year.

 

[Guest]

Sorry but Nick Fury is a hero of mine.

Yeah I'm thinking Dragon Con is a must this year, but wife is going beacuse some of her friends are going so I may do next year.

It's large enough a con that you could easily wander free and never ever see her

 

[Remec]

Down boy, down!

That's why you have to hit DragonCon. You LIVE near it and you never know what you will see when you go. Just standing in the halls can fill up hours of time with joy

*nod*
I keep telling myself I'm going to go one of these years. I just hear too many good things about it, plus I'm beginning to have a fairly good-sized base of people from the Gran March I know. That always helps make the roleplaying fun, when you can run in mods with characters already known to you.

But there's so much else going on also. One of my friends here is still being given grief for going over to the dark side 'cause several people stepped out onto a smoking balcony and found him making out with one of the costumed fans. She was dressed as Darth Vader. *g*

 

[JamesSD]

the models they hire to work the booths at conventions. Comic and computer convention booth bunnies have it worse, and I feel sorry for them in a way in that geeks are trying to hit on them and failing miserably and they can't out rightly say "fuck off loser".

Most comic/video game/board game geeks are pretty shy around women. They ogle, might ask to take a picture, but from what I've seen, at least from working at GenCon, where the booth across from us had Booth Babes, they generally aren't harassed.

Personally, I'm impressed if the company actually trains the booth babes so they can talk about the product being promoted. Even if it's just memorizing two or three sentences, at least they're promoting the product with something besides just looking good and being female (GenCon had what seemed like a 4:1 male to female ratio at least of attendees, I imagine ComicCon is somewhat better)

 

[Guest]

Often the autograph areas of cons depress me. You see all those people who you used to really like when they were on TV or movies....15 or 20 or even 30 years ago, and now they are making their living $20 at a time signing their pictures and talking to fanboys and posing for photographs, making nice with total strangers, marketing their past. Today I saw Richard Hatch, Marc Singer, Erin Gray, and the women who played "Cissy" on Family Affair.

For those who are more current and popular, you see the exhaustion in their faces as they sign picture after picture, book after book, smile, shake hands, try to be nice to the blurring crowd of faces passing in front of them. Each of those faces wants to be noticed and remembered, made special through contact with this icon. Some few enjoy the attention for a while, but the sheer number of people to meet and greet is overwhelming, each wanting a little piece, that they have to shut down just to survive.

 

[JamesSD]

Often the autograph areas of cons depress me. You see all those people who you used to really like when they were on TV or movies....15 or 20 or even 30 years ago, and now they are making their living $20 at a time signing their pictures and talking to fanboys and posing for photographs, making nice with total strangers, marketing their past. Today I saw Richard Hatch, Marc Singer, Erin Gray, and the women who played "Cissy" on Family Affair.

For those who are more current and popular, you see the exhaustion in their faces as they sign picture after picture, book after book, smile, shake hands, try to be nice to the blurring crowd of faces passing in front of them. Each of those faces wants to be noticed and remembered, made special through contact with this icon. Some few enjoy the attention for a while, but the sheer number of people to meet and greet is overwhelming, each wanting a little piece, that they have to shut down just to survive.

I would agree. It's a little like prostitution, you feel bad for both parties.

Richard Hatch was never really famous for much of anything. I don't even know who the other people are. I'm guessing they were never more than B-list at best? Maybe they're before my time. I'm honestly shocked what people are willing to spend their hard earned money on.

 

[3113]

I'm honestly shocked what people are willing to spend their hard earned money on.

Dude, ya gotta spend it on something. Granted, one should spend it on a good retirement fund, and things like a roof-over-head, health insurance and a college fund for the kids *should* come first, but I don't think this is any worse than (stereotyping here) than the woman who buys tons of shoes or the guy who spends it all on an enormous entertainment center. Or, for that matter, sports fans buying expensive tickets to games, signed sports jerseys, etc.

And we writers can't really bite the hand that feeds here. It's because people get attatched to characters that they read book after book about such characters. So this particular obsession/addiction of loving certain characters--and by proxy the actors who play them--works for us writers as well.

That very human ability to empathize and connect with ficticious characters keeps us storytellers in business.

 

[artisticbiguy]

I would agree. It's a little like prostitution, you feel bad for both parties.

Richard Hatch was never really famous for much of anything. I don't even know who the other people are. I'm guessing they were never more than B-list at best? Maybe they're before my time. I'm honestly shocked what people are willing to spend their hard earned money on.

Marc Singer was the total hunk hero of the Beastmaster series, as well as the V television series. He was just lust worth for YEARS. He's looking rough these days in the face, but the rest of him looks well maintained and I'd honestly say physique wise he looks tiers above most of the geek fans who are 30 years younger than he is and have never seen the inside of a gym.

Erin Grey was one of my early female lust objects... she was Wilma Dearing in BuckRogers in the early 80s, and then on SilverSpoons in the late 80s early 90s. She still looks great and it doesn't look "artificial".

Honestly they are both higher rated/successful actors than Hatch... and Hatch is a pain in the butt from what I hear from con goers and from my own limited exposure to him... he's a one-hit-wonder who has never gone away.

As for spending hard earned money... I don't see the $10-$20 expense of a signed photograph as being anything overly odd. Considering the rediculous amounts of money people will send on simply going to the movies, on having satelite TV with 250 channels of which they possibly watch 20, and on having the latest tech when they haven't even put their present tech to strenuous use... this once a year spending at a Con is just a drop in the bucket

 

[3113]

Convention update: Just had a LOVELY dinner with Bel, Mal and ABG at one of San Diego's jewels: Extraordinary Desserts.

Yes. The desserts are extraordinary. Just take a look at the website pictures and descriptions. In fact, the food is fairly light so that there's room for their amazing desserts. Mal did not partake, however, but ABG feasted on a Tiramisu cake (that's not tiramisu but rather a chocolate cake flavored with coffee and coffee frosting)--and ended up with two slices by accident (the second one he allowed Bel, our host, to take home with him). Bel went for a chocolate cheesecake (I believe), and I had a chocolate-truffle loaf--a chocolate pound cake with a wonderfully rich ganache topping.

Paradise on earth

 

[JamesSD]

Dude, ya gotta spend it on something. Granted, one should spend it on a good retirement fund, and things like a roof-over-head, health insurance and a college fund for the kids *should* come first, but I don't think this is any worse than (stereotyping here) than the woman who buys tons of shoes or the guy who spends it all on an enormous entertainment center. Or, for that matter, sports fans buying expensive tickets to games, signed sports jerseys, etc.

And we writers can't really bite the hand that feeds here. It's because people get attatched to characters that they read book after book about such characters. So this particular obsession/addiction of loving certain characters--and by proxy the actors who play them--works for us writers as well.

That very human ability to empathize and connect with ficticious characters keeps us storytellers in business.

Well, I'm a hobbyist when it comes to writing, quite far from being a professional, so there's no real hand that feeds me issue.

I guess when I've been to Cons my thinking has always been "Man, I could buy x, y, and z for the price of that signature!"

I do think that buying tons of shoes or an enormous entertainment center, performance sports car, etc, are foolish uses of money. But I was raised to be very conservative with spending and saving, something that's paid off for me.

 

[artisticbiguy]

Convention update: Just had a LOVELY dinner with Bel, Mal and ABG at one of San Diego's jewels: Extraordinary Desserts.

Yes. The desserts are extraordinary. Just take a look at the website pictures and descriptions. In fact, the food is fairly light so that there's room for their amazing desserts. Mal did not partake, however, but ABG feasted on a Tiramisu cake (that's not tiramisu but rather a chocolate cake flavored with coffee and coffee frosting)--and ended up with two slices by accident (the second one he allowed Bel, our host, to take home with him). Bel went for a chocolate cheesecake (I believe), and I had a chocolate-truffle loaf--a chocolate pound cake with a wonderfully rich ganache topping.

Paradise on earth

and I will point out that I went for 3 power walks today (one hour each) in order to afford the calories of that ONE slice of cake (very yummy, but nothing close to tiramisu)... that second, well... it was NOT comming home with us so I was happy to donate it to the cause of appeasing the babysitter (aka: Bel's MiL)

 

[Belegon]

E.D. is always wonderful sweet stuff and great coffee and tea...but never had eaten a full meal there before...it was quite good. Ususally we eat somewhere else and just hit their for the end of the evening. ABG & Mal also enjoyed some of the light non-alcoholic drinks, as did I. 3113 was the one who was smart enough to suggest starting with some of their assorted dips and the olives and tomatoes...that worked wonderfully.

On the way back to drop off Mal/ABG at the hotel we stopped at the Shakespeare for a nightcap and ended up being there talking and laughing for three times the half-hour we intended...

So great to have the three of you here...I'm enjoying it immensely...

 

[artisticbiguy]

For Sal

okay here are two babes in constume.... SHEESH, the things I have to do for my friends!

http://www.abguye.com/literotica/comiccon/booth-babe.jpg & http://www.abguye.com/literotica/comiccon/zatana.jpg​