{"id":8153,"date":"2015-07-14T22:51:53","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T05:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=8153"},"modified":"2015-07-14T22:54:21","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T05:54:21","slug":"winning-at-comic-con","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=8153","title":{"rendered":"Winning at Comic-con."},"content":{"rendered":"

I just started going back to the gym again, so pardon the excessive rambling. I\u2019m going to blame it on Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness and the fog of fatigue.<\/p>\n

I actually went to San Diego Comic-Con, twenty-nine years after I gave up comic books cold turkey. It was an expensive addiction and I\u2019m fairly happy to have given it up. I\u2019ve lapsed, but mostly with graphic novels. In Japan I followed the series F<\/strong>\u00a0and Tsurumoku Dokushin Ryo<\/strong>\u00a0and that wasn\u2019t cheap (dozens of books) but I\u2019ve stayed pretty clean since. But Comic-Con isn\u2019t about comics any more: it\u2019s a media event.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t really go to<\/em>\u00a0Comic-con. I was just there for an ancillary event – Aisha Tyler\u2019s (Podcast) Listener Appreciation Event. I also checked out the open events around the con like NerdHQ and just walked around checking out the costumes. I came to a realization in the multitudes \u2014 I\u2019m happy that I only dislike crowds and they don\u2019t make me anxious. After that I wasn\u2019t nearly as bothered.<\/p>\n

I only took three pictures which, really, shows you what my goals were for my (kind of expensive) trip. It was $750-ish for the flight and a hotel.<\/p>\n

An In-N-Out Double-double animal style with animal style fries:<\/span><\/h4>\n

\"IMG<\/p>\n

A Triple IPA at Stone Brewing Taproom:<\/span><\/h4>\n

\"IMG<\/p>\n

And meeting Aisha Tyler!<\/span><\/h4>\n

\"2015<\/p>\n

Guess which geek was the first in line to get a signature and also to get a seat to her podcast recording? She\u2019s a pretty in person as on TV and a great actress: you can\u2019t see her thinking, \u201cWho is this weird Asian dude?\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s my latest adventure. I hope I can have some more soon as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just started going back to the gym again, so pardon the excessive rambling. I\u2019m going to blame it on Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness and the fog of fatigue. I actually went to San Diego Comic-Con, twenty-nine years after I gave up comic books cold turkey. It was an expensive addiction and I\u2019m fairly happy to have given it up. I\u2019ve lapsed, but mostly with graphic novels. In Japan I followed the series F\u00a0and Tsurumoku Dokushin Ryo\u00a0and that wasn\u2019t cheap (dozens of books) but I\u2019ve stayed pretty clean since. But Comic-Con isn\u2019t about comics any more: it\u2019s a media event. I didn\u2019t really go to\u00a0Comic-con. I was just there for … Continue reading Winning at Comic-con.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8153"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8156,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8153\/revisions\/8156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}