1) Kathleen was in one piece: As anyone who’s read her blog knows, Kath was in an auto accident. Fortunately she’s fine, albeit a bit achy and bruised. Upon learning of the accident Friday, I immediately headed home, rendering me unavailable for the Marvel autograph session and also the Mondo Marvel panel. I left word at the Marvel booth, but somehow they didn’t get the message to panel moderator Jim McCann. On stage he noticed my absence and wondered aloud where I was. When one of the panels whispered in his ear what had happened, a startled Jim said “Oh my God!”…right into the open microphone, causing some degree of confusion and alarm for the audience which he quickly had to undo.
2) The Gordon Lee trial being dismissed: As reported elsewhere, the CBLDF announced on Friday that Gordon’s lengthy trial nightmare has been tossed.
3) “Tigerheart” presence: Between the 3-day passes with the book cover, the galleys giveaway, and the posters, Del Rey’s push for my Peter Pan pastiche was a thing of beauty.
4) Our seder: We had a nicely sized hotel room that enabled us to have some friends over to celebrate the first night of Passover.
5) Saturday evening: After the seder, Kath and I went party hopping. The Marvel party was incredibly well attended, although insanely cramped. We wound up at a bar hanging out with the Robot Chicken gang, with me playing ping pong against Seth Green. He won 21 to 14, but considering I haven’t picked up a ping pong paddle since my early 20s, that’s not bad.
6) Constant stream of fans: At my artists alley table, I had a constant stream of fans. In the words of Eeyore, thanks for noticing me.
7) Got some neat stuff.
8) Caroline sat at my table making countless drawings of the water horse from the film of the same name. She would announce that they were priced anywhere from “six bucks” to “twenty seven bucks.” Not that she knows denominations; people could give her a dollar and she’d be thrilled. She made over thirty dollars which she then spent at the Mattel booth on toys from the film “Cars.”
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