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Wizard New Orleans -- Report

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Senormac

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An unexpected surprise was running into Roy. A two hug surprise. :cloud9::cloud9:

 

 

I arrived Thursday evening and was there Friday and Saturday and proceeded to fly out to Yorba Linda for Terry's show Saturday night.

 

Nate, I should have given you a 3rd! Sorry I couldn't stay and talk long...glad to finally meet you!

 

(thumbs u

 

Tupenny was a surprise as I had assumed he was coming Saturday evening from my communication with him.

 

Saw all the usual suspects and twas good to see you all! (thumbs u

 

Did some decent shopping there thanks to the quality of dealers.

 

There was also a father/son team who had brought a terrific collection of everything across the board (low to high grade, gold to silver) and I was lucky enough pick up a few choice books including some really high grade Nedor and Fiction House.

 

Foot traffic seemed great and all in all it was surprisingly a success. I say that because based on what I had heard about New Orleans last year, I didn't expect it to be a big show.

 

--------------------------------------------

 

Walking Canal and Bourbon in the evenings was a heck of a lot of fun. In the evenings on the way back to my hotel (I stayed at the Renaissance on TchHoulopopis or whatever it's called :pullhair: ) I would walk through the Casino every night.

 

On Thursday night after arriving I went out for dinner with robbiec to NOLA (famous restaurant where Italian Mylar dealers are now banned) and had some killer fried chicken. We walked around for the better part of the night as Robbie, who happens to be quite the historian when it comes to New Orleans, gave me a personal tour of the French Quarter. Thanks for the tour, Robbie!

 

After a good long walk, Robbie headed home and I alone took a walk through the casino where I bumped into Borock who was hitting the Black Jack table and doing mighty fine. Nice to see you, buddy!

 

I headed back to the hotel late, late Thursday night and hit the sack dreaming about how I could learn Borock's black jack secrets!

 

---------------------------------------------

 

Friday headed over to the show to see the usual suspects and decided to go it alone Friday night for dinner since most of the crew was going to NOLA's again. I decided to eat at a quaint place called Lucy's across the road from my hotel on Touche-frigging-opolous St. :censored: I'll never learn how to say it right unless I'm reading it.

 

If you get the chance, check out Lucy's. The food is terrific, the place is quaint, there is a small open air bar out back and the people are friendly.

 

Just to add my little touch of personal "con report - r1970d/VintageComics style", on Friday night after hanging at Lucy's and walking the French Quarter again, I walked through the Casino on the way back to the hotel. As I was leaving the casino, I had a bunch of muscle bound dudes make fun of me (in a nice way) and ask me if I was a musician. I joked around with them a bit and told them about the con.

 

Turns out they were pro wrestlers and one of them, who's wresting name is Luke Hawx, told me he wanted to take his 13 year old sun to the show but didn't have tickets. I managed to get hold of a Wizard rep at 2:30 AM and locate some tickets for the guy (who says Wizard does not aim to please!).

 

To thank me, the next day after they spent Saturday at the show, Luke (actually called Oren outside the ring) insisted on driving me to the airport. Long story short, Luke is a super nice, sweetheart of a guy and we clicked. It seems I've made a friend for life.

 

I boarded my plane (got a bump to 1st class and sat 2 freaking rows behind William Shatner who was also headed to LA!!!) and made a stop in Dallas before hitting LA for the night.

 

There you have it folks...my short and sweet, first NOLA experience.

 

Tupenii, thanks for the opportunity to share!

 

(worship)

 

:popcorn::applause:

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An unexpected surprise was running into Roy. A two hug surprise. :cloud9::cloud9:

 

 

I arrived Thursday evening and was there Friday and Saturday and proceeded to fly out to Yorba Linda for Terry's show Saturday night.

 

Nate, I should have given you a 3rd! Sorry I couldn't stay and talk long...glad to finally meet you!

 

(thumbs u

 

Tupenny was a surprise as I had assumed he was coming Saturday evening from my communication with him.

 

Saw all the usual suspects and twas good to see you all! (thumbs u

 

Did some decent shopping there thanks to the quality of dealers.

 

There was also a father/son team who had brought a terrific collection of everything across the board (low to high grade, gold to silver) and I was lucky enough pick up a few choice books including some really high grade Nedor and Fiction House.

 

Foot traffic seemed great and all in all it was surprisingly a success. I say that because based on what I had heard about New Orleans last year, I didn't expect it to be a big show.

 

--------------------------------------------

 

Walking Canal and Bourbon in the evenings was a heck of a lot of fun. In the evenings on the way back to my hotel (I stayed at the Renaissance on TchHoulopopis or whatever it's called :pullhair: ) I would walk through the Casino every night.

 

On Thursday night after arriving I went out for dinner with robbiec to NOLA (famous restaurant where Italian Mylar dealers are now banned) and had some killer fried chicken. We walked around for the better part of the night as Robbie, who happens to be quite the historian when it comes to New Orleans, gave me a personal tour of the French Quarter. Thanks for the tour, Robbie!

 

After a good long walk, Robbie headed home and I alone took a walk through the casino where I bumped into Borock who was hitting the Black Jack table and doing mighty fine. Nice to see you, buddy!

 

I headed back to the hotel late, late Thursday night and hit the sack dreaming about how I could learn Borock's black jack secrets!

 

---------------------------------------------

 

Friday headed over to the show to see the usual suspects and decided to go it alone Friday night for dinner since most of the crew was going to NOLA's again. I decided to eat at a quaint place called Lucy's across the road from my hotel on Touche-frigging-opolous St. :censored: I'll never learn how to say it right unless I'm reading it.

 

If you get the chance, check out Lucy's. The food is terrific, the place is quaint, there is a small open air bar out back and the people are friendly.

 

Just to add my little touch of personal "con report - r1970d/VintageComics style", on Friday night after hanging at Lucy's and walking the French Quarter again, I walked through the Casino on the way back to the hotel. As I was leaving the casino, I had a bunch of muscle bound dudes make fun of me (in a nice way) and ask me if I was a musician. I joked around with them a bit and told them about the con.

 

Turns out they were pro wrestlers and one of them, who's wresting name is Luke Hawx, told me he wanted to take his 13 year old sun to the show but didn't have tickets. I managed to get hold of a Wizard rep at 2:30 AM and locate some tickets for the guy (who says Wizard does not aim to please!).

 

To thank me, the next day after they spent Saturday at the show, Luke (actually called Oren outside the ring) insisted on driving me to the airport. Long story short, Luke is a super nice, sweetheart of a guy and we clicked. It seems I've made a friend for life.

 

I boarded my plane (got a bump to 1st class and sat 2 freaking rows behind William Shatner who was also headed to LA!!!) and made a stop in Dallas before hitting LA for the night.

 

There you have it folks...my short and sweet, first NOLA experience.

 

Tupenii, thanks for the opportunity to share!

 

(worship)

 

Very cool. Who woulda guessed Shatner flys fist class? :tonofbricks:

 

Roy, you haven't been posting much. What's going on? Boardopause?

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Roy, you haven't been posting much. What's going on? Boardopause?

 

Yeah, been taking a Boardopause.

 

I've been travelling a lot for work. Went to LA to see a few collections between Christmas and New Years (it was the only time I could view them unfortunately) and spent a week in West Hollywood after that and had a blast (I'm smitten by the live music scene on the Sunset Strip) so last week after the Yorba Linda show I decided to spend another few days there .

 

After spending some time away from here I found it wasn't so difficult to take a break and get some outside air.

 

:)

 

Either that or i realized I'll never catch greggy's post count.

 

:insane:

 

 

 

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That story looked to veer into featherkick territory, then disappointed me with a prototypical hippy ending. :sorry:

 

I think their introducing themselves to me in an amicable fashion was really them showing fear deep down of what I could throw down if I needed to.

 

:sumo:

 

Either that or they knew that tupenii would back me up and were scared as hell of facing Captain Tampa in the ring.

 

 

 

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An unexpected surprise was running into Roy. A two hug surprise. :cloud9::cloud9:

 

 

I arrived Thursday evening and was there Friday and Saturday and proceeded to fly out to Yorba Linda for Terry's show Saturday night.

 

Nate, I should have given you a 3rd! Sorry I couldn't stay and talk long...glad to finally meet you!

 

(thumbs u

 

Tupenny was a surprise as I had assumed he was coming Saturday evening from my communication with him.

 

Saw all the usual suspects and twas good to see you all! (thumbs u

 

Did some decent shopping there thanks to the quality of dealers.

 

There was also a father/son team who had brought a terrific collection of everything across the board (low to high grade, gold to silver) and I was lucky enough pick up a few choice books including some really high grade Nedor and Fiction House.

 

Foot traffic seemed great and all in all it was surprisingly a success. I say that because based on what I had heard about New Orleans last year, I didn't expect it to be a big show.

 

--------------------------------------------

 

Walking Canal and Bourbon in the evenings was a heck of a lot of fun. In the evenings on the way back to my hotel (I stayed at the Renaissance on TchHoulopopis or whatever it's called :pullhair: ) I would walk through the Casino every night.

 

On Thursday night after arriving I went out for dinner with robbiec to NOLA (famous restaurant where Italian Mylar dealers are now banned) and had some killer fried chicken. We walked around for the better part of the night as Robbie, who happens to be quite the historian when it comes to New Orleans, gave me a personal tour of the French Quarter. Thanks for the tour, Robbie!

 

After a good long walk, Robbie headed home and I alone took a walk through the casino where I bumped into Borock who was hitting the Black Jack table and doing mighty fine. Nice to see you, buddy!

 

I headed back to the hotel late, late Thursday night and hit the sack dreaming about how I could learn Borock's black jack secrets!

 

---------------------------------------------

 

Friday headed over to the show to see the usual suspects and decided to go it alone Friday night for dinner since most of the crew was going to NOLA's again. I decided to eat at a quaint place called Lucy's across the road from my hotel on Touche-frigging-opolous St. :censored: I'll never learn how to say it right unless I'm reading it.

 

If you get the chance, check out Lucy's. The food is terrific, the place is quaint, there is a small open air bar out back and the people are friendly.

 

Just to add my little touch of personal "con report - r1970d/VintageComics style", on Friday night after hanging at Lucy's and walking the French Quarter again, I walked through the Casino on the way back to the hotel. As I was leaving the casino, I had a bunch of muscle bound dudes make fun of me (in a nice way) and ask me if I was a musician. I joked around with them a bit and told them about the con.

 

Turns out they were pro wrestlers and one of them, who's wresting name is Luke Hawx, told me he wanted to take his 13 year old sun to the show but didn't have tickets. I managed to get hold of a Wizard rep at 2:30 AM and locate some tickets for the guy (who says Wizard does not aim to please!).

 

To thank me, the next day after they spent Saturday at the show, Luke (actually called Oren outside the ring) insisted on driving me to the airport. Long story short, Luke is a super nice, sweetheart of a guy and we clicked. It seems I've made a friend for life.

 

I boarded my plane (got a bump to 1st class and sat 2 freaking rows behind William Shatner who was also headed to LA!!!) and made a stop in Dallas before hitting LA for the night.

 

There you have it folks...my short and sweet, first NOLA experience.

 

Tupenii, thanks for the opportunity to share!

 

(worship)

 

Not true. We went back Sunday night because the food was so good and the waiter gave me, blazing bob and Beachbum free appetizers. I made him an offer he couldnt refuse you can say.

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Just to add my little touch of personal "con report - r1970d/VintageComics style", on Friday night after hanging at Lucy's and walking the French Quarter again, I walked through the Casino on the way back to the hotel. As I was leaving the casino, I had a bunch of muscle bound dudes make fun of me (in a nice way) and ask me if I was a musician. I joked around with them a bit and told them about the con.

 

Turns out they were pro wrestlers and one of them, who's wresting name is Luke Hawx, told me he wanted to take his 13 year old sun to the show but didn't have tickets. I managed to get hold of a Wizard rep at 2:30 AM and locate some tickets for the guy (who says Wizard does not aim to please!).

 

To thank me, the next day after they spent Saturday at the show, Luke (actually called Oren outside the ring) insisted on driving me to the airport. Long story short, Luke is a super nice, sweetheart of a guy and we clicked. It seems I've made a friend for life.

 

You were cordial enough to bring Oren & his son around to meet me on Saturday. Really nice guys at their first con. One of my thoughts at the time was if you had gone ghey, then at least you'd chosen an athletic New Orleanian to be your Tonto.

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My second goal of the weekend was to capture this fellow on digital:

 

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Didnt realize thats me in front of Bill, not the dude with the beads he got flashing, but the handsome fellow facing away from the table lol looking for Damien who was handling the Stan Lee line

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