I went to Stitches West yesterday and dropped a fair bit of money on some delicious yarn:
(That’s not even all of it, there is a beautiful pink/red skein too). The Noro sock yarn perfectly matches my Noro scarf I made last month. I will be making socks until I die. Hurray!
Today I went to Wondercon with Sam and Mark. It’s fun to go, to reaffirm that I am not as nerdy as I think I am. Not even close.
A Wondercon tradition is that I lose my swag bag given at the door. I got distracted by the Wacom booth – they were demonstrating the Cintiq, and I got to try it, it’s really cool. I have a pressure tablet that I use to draw on in Photoshop, and a Cintiq is like that, only you are drawing on the computer screen. It’s so effin’ awesome! Anyway, I am pretty sure I lost my bag there.
But I remembered to bring my camera, and while I didn’t document that much, I did meet my goal of documenting the existence of Boba Fett and Friends:
Good times, people, good times.
So, we sat in on two panels – the Disney panel, where they previewed Prince Caspian and Wall-E (new Pixar) – both look pretty good. Then, the Fox panel, which previewed Shutter (yawn – another Japanese horror remake a la The Ring or The Grudge) AND THE X-FILES MOVIE featuring David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson’s first con appearance ever.
The X-Files fandom is beyond ridiculous, but I suppose all fandoms are. It was just a pretty cool panel with Mulder and Scully and Chris Carter eating a sandwich and discussing their favorite episodes. They didn’t really talk about the new movie except to say that it also starred Xhibit and Amanda Peet.
Next time I will actually make a Jayne hat and wear it like the nerd I think I am (but am not, not even close).
