Monday, July 28, 2008

Comic-Con is Hilarious.

Couple more notes before my brain completely ditches them.

Everyone who walked around the Gaslamp Quarter this weekend saw those two guys dressed as Mexican donuts. Not sure what they were promoting! Everyone was largely ignoring them. I found them too silly to be offensive. As we walked by the donut guys, Mark said something to me [unfortunately I don't remember what]. My response was, "I DIDN'T LOOK DIRECTLY INTO HIS HOLE!"

Then Mark told me a quick one about a friend of his who worked at an amusement park as a suited up character. I guess she once mentioned that she was tired from smiling all day and he wondered why she bothered to smile for photos at all if she was wearing a mask anyway. Maybe it was instinctual whenever she saw the camera through the mesh mouth. I thought it was a nice thought thinking that a person inside of the suit could be happy enough to smile. I always imagined they were hot in those things and resentful and I felt bad for them. That's why I'm always nice to those people. I mean, besides always trying to be a nice person...Let's not get into whether I am or not. I'm doing my best.

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I was quickly passing through the independent publishers' booths on the exhibition floor. There was a bit of a lull in foot traffic through that row, so I was using it to cut through. Two facing booths were engaged in some kind of competing silliness. The only part I caught was a man wearing a fez shouting out, "AIR SAXOPHONE!" Then suddenly prancing about and making saxophone sounds while miming the playing of an instrument. It happened so suddenly that I was startled and quickened my pace to get out of there! I laughed about it later and regretted not getting a photo of something so great.

1 comment:

Blue Lass said...

My cousin used to be in charge of costume characters at a county fair, and she told me people are really mean to them -- punch them and stuff. What kind of person wants to punch a big piggy? I'm always happy to see them, although I don't want to be hugged or anything.