Yesterday I attended Emerald City ComiCon with girlpirate. As anticipated, she is 30 points of awesome on a 10 point scale.
We saw:
-The world’s smudgiest Silver Surfer!
–goosezilla sellin’ wares and makin’ children cry!
-Unparalleled hotness!
(Jamie Bamber of Battlestar Galactica, girlpirate, and, of course, Obi Wan Kenobi) Jamie grabbed Obi Wan with the utmost poise and began making an academy award acceptance speech.
No Obi Wan, but with a spiffed up background because I couldn’t stand the total Searsification of the standard one. This. This is what I attended college for. You’re welcome.
After my picture, Jamie started cracking up because he was still thinking about Obi Wan, explaining that no one’s ever had him do that before, it was just so weird for him. I apologized for not bringing an action figure as well to normalize things, and he called after me “You weirdo!” while I departed in gleeful embarrasment.
We wandered around a bit more, girlpirate picked up a KHAAAAAN!! figurine, I ran into The Superhotness who’d just gotten back from filming The Troll for his documentary on unbookable comedians and informed me of the sad news that The Comedy Underground is closing for good on Tuesday. That sort of breaks my heart as the Underground is my favorite club in Seattle. Giggles and Mainstage don’t even come close. I’ll be there on Tuesday. I suggest you do the same, and help me bid farewell to yet another legendary venue.
We dropped in on the second half of Jamie Bamber’s panel–I stepped out a bit before the end to get some water, but unfortunately witnessed someone nigh-tongue-kissing the spigot so that nixed THOSE plans. I returned in time to hear that they were keeping the back door shut and the con attendees inside in order to ‘escort the guest out’. girlpirate reported that the girl inside was extremely overzealous about her job, shoving her palm out at people and practically shouting that no one was allowed to leave.
Overzealous ‘security’ guards make us both giggle, so when we headed over to Gameworks for a much-needed drink, we sat in the comfy chairs over by the window and enacted an experiment to see how everyday passersby would react to a palm being shoved at them.
Results proved inconclusive. Some people waved. Some people were leery of both palm and camera. Some people flat out ignored us. Some people, I believe, were intrigued by the pirate hat. How would this replicate under laboratory conditions?
The only scientific thing any of this proved is that a little booze made us BOTH feel better. Oh, science.
The ceiling… is made of Nintendo DSes.
Did anyone ask him, at the panel, what he ate in order to work his way up to Fat Lee Adama? I’m betting donuts. SPACE DONUTS.
It was a stand-in fatness, actually. Sad but true.
…Stand in?
So someone’s entire fate in life is to resemble a chubby Jamie Bamber?
As entertaining as that thought is, it is sadly not the case.
I’m not sure that you’re remembering the Apollo’s a Fatty episodes correctly. Any scene in which Apollo had his shirt off, they did not show his face. Any scene in which they showed Jamie Bamber’s face, he was wearing his uniform and thus had a “fat suit” on underneath it.
That man has – and always will be – ripped to the point of tearing. Forgive me a moment while I man-swoon.
I was wondering about that, myself! The facial fat makeup was so good, it fooled me into believing the whole thing was real.
I heard if you beat the game as Lee without losing a single round, it unlocks Chubby Lee.
It’s what I heard, anyways.
I hear that if you beat the game as both Helo and Boomer, you can play as Hera, but it’s more like a marionette as you control her via a long umbilical cord.
If there was a convention nearby and somebody had thrust their palm at me like that, I would probably mock react as if I’d been Force Pushed.
(….am I giving too much away with that?)
cheers,
Phil
AWESOME.
great science experiment. i am also getting a kick out of how the original photo background really IS LIKE A SEARS PORTRAIT!
jamie bamber is cute. but i like him cos he’s short.
Not *that* short as I am not quite a midget.
the last guy in the tan coat, I saw him earlier, he looked very sad and upset, and did not have the gamestop bag yet, so you must have made him very happy.
good job.
I’m proud of you.
I do what I can to make guys in tan coats happy. He was particularly interesting to me because even though people walking right next to the window often didn’t see us or ignored us, he was across the street and watched us the whole time.
I LOVE the picture of girlpirate with Jamie. It is just SO Sears family studio, but instead of holding a baby or a puppy, he’s holding ObiWan. Part of me really wants to put this as my computer desktop because it makes me laugh every time I look at it.
On the other hand, your background is ridiculously awful and I almost love it more.
PS- You have lost weight.
She and I both remarked that her picture TOTALLY looks like a family outing to Sears. It makes me snort with delighted laughter whenever I look at it. Just you wait until I cut theirs picture out and put it on a ridiculous ‘just married’ background or something just as awful. 😀
To be honest, I always have enjoyed the background of autumn leaves and a covered bridge… or perhaps where you put both people into a cognac snifter.
I will have to take your word for it as photobucket images are automatically blocked by my work’s web filter.
It’s two people in a snifter. Just mull upon that for awhile.
The only thing that would make that concept better would be a few lens flares and have the subjects be Mandy and Ben.
I think even they are too classy for a wedding picture in a snifter.
Which is really saying something.
That begs the question–who *does* get a wedding picture in a snifter? Also, is the glass half full?
omg that would be so awesome
So much fun.
I am jealous of your ability to insert new backgrounds lol.
*drool* Jamie Bamber *drool*
I saw him at Dragoncon last year but didn’t have the guts to approach him.
He’s very nice–chances are he would’ve talked your ear off. 🙂