Today I dropped into the Star Trek Convention at the Sheraton Wall Centre downtown for a few hours. It was totally ridiculous and fun. I only had time to stay for 2 events: the auction and the Q&A with Armin Shimerman.
The auction was outrageous. There were people in that room who dropped $500-$1000 on vinyl banners of Shatner and Nimoy etc. I’m all for nerdy crap but in the words of Shatner on SNL — “get a life.” I can think of a dozen things off the top of my head to do with $1000 besides buy memorabilia. Yes the price tag included front of the line privileges at the autograph table with the stars, but still. How about buying a kid a text book? The whole scene was extremely entertaining but I had to shake my head.
The next event was a talk with Quark from Deep Space Nine. Super nice guy and he performed a bit of Shakespeare for us. I wanted to get my $20 worth so I went up and asked him about acting through the ferengi teeth. Jar Jar Binks was there. Yeah, that’s right.
Oh and I met with Duncan and Sonja and we stole some peoples seats. At least for a while.
And in other sci-fi news, earlier in the morning I went with Mike to the workshop of Chris who is making our spaceship wreckage for the “20 Minutes of Oxygen” video shoot. It’s going to be awesome.
I’ll be at Raw Canvas Gallery downtown today around 8pm for a reading from Spaceship Zero the Roleplaying Game (yes, I’ll do all the character voices) and to sell you my books, t-shirts, CDs and misc. What do you think of that?
I received my contributor copies of the two Dresden Files RPG books today and they look great – very slick, and some good colouring of my original b&w art.
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