San Diego Comic-Con 2012 ADVENTURE TIME!

I just got back from the SDCC. This was an odd year, as I'd almost decided not to go, but I wanted to help with our costume group's skit, so I made the prop and headed on down. I pretty much coasted the con: I did the masquerade and had the usual ton-of-fun with the AGSMA crew, then on Sunday I breezed through the dealers room and left the con at about 2pm. I was back in plenty of time to get the dogs from the doggie-gulag.


Full Flickr Set Here

As always, I am amazed that the convention can get bigger and bigger each year. It's just too much, really. Yet, there's still a ton of fun to be had and plenty of eye-candy. The convention has spread out from the convention center: there are now lots of events taking place off-site, including the zombie crawl and zombie obstacle course and similar distractions.

I got passes for two friends who were newbies to the con: seeing it through their Lemur-wide eyes was refreshing. To them it was THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH! A real-world Wonderland. So that was cool.

This year our group did an Adventure Time Mashup. The show has a huge following (heaven help anyone asking what time it was at the con). AT is the closest thing I've seen that matches up with "The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show" as being "adult"-- with writing that is as suggestive and clever and subtle as the Jay Ward show.



I got to make Lord Monochromicorn, the gender-bender opposite of Lady Rainicorn. Plus, I got to hold Cake!

The skit went off well. There were no catastrophic failures of my puppet (thank Ghod). We got "Most Humorous" (an award we have always coveted) and an industry award for "Audience Most Popular".

Here's the skit itself:

San Diego Comic-Con 2012 ADVENTURE TIME!

I just got back from the SDCC. This was an odd year, as I'd almost decided not to go, but I wanted to help with our costume group's skit, so I made the prop and headed on down. I pretty much coasted the con: I did the masquerade and had the usual ton-of-fun with the AGSMA crew, then on Sunday I breezed through the dealers room and left the con at about 2pm. I was back in plenty of time to get the dogs from the doggie-gulag.


Full Flickr Set Here

As always, I am amazed that the convention can get bigger and bigger each year. It's just too much, really. Yet, there's still a ton of fun to be had and plenty of eye-candy. The convention has spread out from the convention center: there are now lots of events taking place off-site, including the zombie crawl and zombie obstacle course and similar distractions.

I got passes for two friends who were newbies to the con: seeing it through their Lemur-wide eyes was refreshing. To them it was THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH! A real-world Wonderland. So that was cool.

This year our group did an Adventure Time Mashup. The show has a huge following (heaven help anyone asking what time it was at the con). AT is the closest thing I've seen that matches up with "The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show" as being "adult"-- with writing that is as suggestive and clever and subtle as the Jay Ward show.



I got to make Lord Monochromicorn, the gender-bender opposite of Lady Rainicorn. Plus, I got to hold Cake!

The skit went off well. There were no catastrophic failures of my puppet (thank Ghod). We got "Most Humorous" (an award we have always coveted) and an industry award for "Audience Most Popular".

Here's the skit itself:

San Diego Comic-Con 2012 ADVENTURE TIME!

I just got back from the SDCC. This was an odd year, as I'd almost decided not to go, but I wanted to help with our costume group's skit, so I made the prop and headed on down. I pretty much coasted the con: I did the masquerade and had the usual ton-of-fun with the AGSMA crew, then on Sunday I breezed through the dealers room and left the con at about 2pm. I was back in plenty of time to get the dogs from the doggie-gulag.


Full Flickr Set Here

As always, I am amazed that the convention can get bigger and bigger each year. It's just too much, really. Yet, there's still a ton of fun to be had and plenty of eye-candy. The convention has spread out from the convention center: there are now lots of events taking place off-site, including the zombie crawl and zombie obstacle course and similar distractions.

I got passes for two friends who were newbies to the con: seeing it through their Lemur-wide eyes was refreshing. To them it was THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH! A real-world Wonderland. So that was cool.

This year our group did an Adventure Time Mashup. The show has a huge following (heaven help anyone asking what time it was at the con). AT is the closest thing I've seen that matches up with "The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show" as being "adult"-- with writing that is as suggestive and clever and subtle as the Jay Ward show.



I got to make Lord Monochromicorn, the gender-bender opposite of Lady Rainicorn. Plus, I got to hold Cake!

The skit went off well. There were no catastrophic failures of my puppet (thank Ghod). We got "Most Humorous" (an award we have always coveted) and an industry award for "Audience Most Popular".

Here's the skit itself:

July 4th, 2012 Oakhurst, CA

Apache was getting a little squirrelly from all of the bangs and pops of the locals setting off illegal fireworks, so I wanted to escape with them to a place that was -quiet-.

Friends here had some good suggestions, like high-fire danger areas (they're really strict about fireworks), a remote forest, Canada, etc., but the best was an invitation by Iisaw to visit the ranch.

I packed up dogs and some grilling meat and set off for Oakhurst.


Full Flickr set here

Best 4th Ever.

Dogs had a wonderful time getting filthy daily (and sometimes twice and thrice daily). I worked off points hiking around the ranch. And it was -quiet-

Thanks again, Carol and Iisaw!

July 4th, 2012 Oakhurst, CA

Apache was getting a little squirrelly from all of the bangs and pops of the locals setting off illegal fireworks, so I wanted to escape with them to a place that was -quiet-.

Friends here had some good suggestions, like high-fire danger areas (they're really strict about fireworks), a remote forest, Canada, etc., but the best was an invitation by Iisaw to visit the ranch.

I packed up dogs and some grilling meat and set off for Oakhurst.


Full Flickr set here

Best 4th Ever.

Dogs had a wonderful time getting filthy daily (and sometimes twice and thrice daily). I worked off points hiking around the ranch. And it was -quiet-

Thanks again, Carol and Iisaw!

July 4th, 2012 Oakhurst, CA

Apache was getting a little squirrelly from all of the bangs and pops of the locals setting off illegal fireworks, so I wanted to escape with them to a place that was -quiet-.

Friends here had some good suggestions, like high-fire danger areas (they're really strict about fireworks), a remote forest, Canada, etc., but the best was an invitation by Iisaw to visit the ranch.

I packed up dogs and some grilling meat and set off for Oakhurst.


Full Flickr set here

Best 4th Ever.

Dogs had a wonderful time getting filthy daily (and sometimes twice and thrice daily). I worked off points hiking around the ranch. And it was -quiet-

Thanks again, Carol and Iisaw!