When she did an appearance at the San Diego Con, Sarah Michelle Gellar recited a top ten list of why she had never attended the con before. Does anyone have a link to it or can just list it?
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Posted by Peter David at August 6, 2004 05:42 PM | TrackBack | Other blogs commentingI don't know all of them but I know among them were
"I never had a ride before."
"I’m still trying to make sense of the whole Spider-man/clone story."
"I’m already married to the world’s biggest comic book geek."
"There is not enough merchandise with my face on it."
Going to see if can find the rest (yes I'm bored at work)
Here's a link to the whole transcript:
http://www.smgboard.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=15174&st=525
And here's the actual transcript:
Crowd member: I have a question. First of all, thank you so much for coming out. This is so cool Sarah. My question is, why have you never been here before Sarah?
SMG: You know, it’s an interesting question, and I figured I’d be asked that. So last night…I want you guys to know…a little nervous about this, so I wrote a list. I figured I would give you…sort of David Letterman style…the top 10 reasons why I’ve never been here.
[Crowd laughs]
- So picture it…first season of Buffy I’m asked to come, and then I said “You know what? I’m still waiting for the last of the image guys to return to Marvel.” I mean think about it…does Todd McFarlane really have anything else to do?
- Next year…totally ready to come. Two words: Phantom zone.
JB: That says “tied” [points at her list].
SMG: Yeah, well no this was another reason, and one of them was that I never had a ride before. So if anyone is going back to Los Angeles and has an extra seat for me tonight…
[Many people in the crowd show they’d be more than happy to oblige]
just let me know…
[Someone says something that Sarah and Jason both find amusing. Can’t hear a thing on the tape, but their reaction shows that something was said.]
- Next year I was coming, and then I missed it because I was sitting at home still trying to make sense of the Spider-Man clone story. If anybody wants to help me with that…later too.
- Next year…totally ready to come. And then after “Dark Knight Strikes Again”, I swore I am done with comics. I’m sure I’m not the only one.
- Next year I said I was gonna come and then you know what? I’m gonna wait for the next real issue of Ben Edlund’s Tick comic. And I’m…hey…I’m still waiting….
- Next year I thought, you know what, I am going to hold out for a rematch in the Peter David, Todd McFarlane debate. [Not enough comic geeks in the audience to appreciate this] Apparently I might be the only one waiting for that.
Number two: I was gonna come, but then I thought you know what...I am already married to the world’s biggest comic geek so why do I need to come to San Diego?
And the number one reason why I’ve never been here, is you know what? There just is not enough merchandise with my damn face on it.
And there you have it.
[Big cheers for the non-comic references. And with the others, the portion of the crowd who did get the references could be heard]
J.
On a completely irrelevant note, thank you Peter for telling me how I can get around typekey's glitches!
Peter David vs Todd McFarlane rematch? Heh.
The first time was brutal, classic case of battle of wits where one person's unarmed. You just wanted Peter to put Todd out of his misery. (Altho I'm sure Todd making more money than some small nations doesn't compensate from mentral / verbal drubbing he got that day. Yeah, that's the ticket.)
-- Ken from Chicago (who awaits Patrick Daniel O'Neill vs Rob Liefeld-er, PDO's interview of RL, to see if in the past decade whether Rob had found out if a comic book "editor" is more than merely a "scheduler")