Rich Guy Continues to Mock Justice System
Thing With Leathery Skin, Actually Not One of the Shoppers
Surfer Does Everything on Board
Woman That Wastes a Billion Dollars For Her Boss Finally Fired
Everyone Sick of Missing Plane Coverage
Rich Guy Continues to Mock Justice System
Thing With Leathery Skin, Actually Not One of the Shoppers
Surfer Does Everything on Board
Woman That Wastes a Billion Dollars For Her Boss Finally Fired
Everyone Sick of Missing Plane Coverage
Hey Bros!
Welcome to Twitter in Focus where media comes to die! Today’s contestant is half of the Key & Peele comedy duo, Key! He’s funny on the show, let’s see what he’s tweeting!
March 6th: “”Too fancy. I’m just gonna’ say 87 years.” -Abraham Lincoln #littleknownquotes”
That and “Fuck you if can’t see past my hat! This is a big theater! I’m the God damned president! You go sit somewhere else John Wilkes-Douchebag!”
March 13th: “My Mom may now feel free to freak out. http://ti.me/IEzEyt #thanksTimemag”
Don’t freak. It’s just a sizing issue with your browser.
March 13th: “This week’s new TIME cover features comedians Key & Peele. They wrote an essay on comedy writing for TIME’s annual Ideas issue.”
TIME magazine? Is that one of those manual iPads made of wood they used to have?
March 13th: “You can read TIME’s full Ideas package here: http://ti.me/1dUjLAZ #thanksTimemag”
Wow, that’s the first time I’ve seen that logo outside my doctor’s waiting room.
March 13th: “I have always been a big watch enthusiast. Thanks TIME magazine for putting us on the cover. #thanksTIMEmag”
Watches? You mean, time pieces that aren’t on a phone?
March 17th: “IN about ten minutes @JordanPeele and I will be on Inside Comedy with @david_steinberg on SHowtime. A really fun interview.”
Oh, nice. Sorry I missed that.
March 17th: “Okay I screwed that up #InsideComedy tonight on Showtime at 9:30pm PST. sorry @david_steinberg”
That’s okay. On that day, we were all freaking out of the St. Paddy’s Day snow on the East Coast.
March 25th: “Who needs dairy when there’s @NaryDairy cashew cheese? Holy Moly! Got some @Lassens #LosFeliz. Ate it up so fast got more @Erewhonnatural.”
Well, that’s definitely a unique plug.
March 25th: “Seriously this stuff is terrific. #narydairy pic.twitter.com/2ATMusSRAj”
Somebody’s getting a free case of near-cheese!
April 3rd: “Honored and thrilled to be in the same company as past Peabody Award recipients. Let the smartest dog in the world jokes begin! @JordanPeele”
Oh, nice! Did Sherman present them to you?
Okay, let’s rate Key’s tweets. I give him a 6 for Mustness, a 7 for Style and a 10 for Insanity. That’s an overall score of 7.6. Watch Key & Peele and follow key. At the very least, you’ll find out about cheese.
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Life Skills for Fanboys: Con Locations
written by Tony DiGerolamo, Copyright 2014
To further my goal of helping fellow fanboys, I have included an index of links of previous columns with their topics. Don’t take it personal, I’m just trying to help. Previous columns are indexed at the end.
Con Organizing Ain’t Easy
But one of the major factors in building your con is just like a business: Location, location, location. Too far away from the highway and transit systems, no one can find you. Too close to a major city and the facility will be out of your price range. Where’s the sweet spot?
Where it’s not
I’ve never liked convention halls for a whole slew of reasons. First, they are expensive. And while they are highly visible, they tend to cater to be corporations who put on events like car shows where money is no object. For comic book and sci-fi cons, it’s not really going to work. Anyone remember the year Dragon Con moved to the convention center? Oy. It was terrible that year in my view.
But what about the San Diego Comic Con?
Yes, what about it? In fact, what is it anymore? Can you honestly describe it as a Comic Con when every cast of every TV show arrives to do panels? Where the biggest displays are for movies? Sure, it’s a huge facility that can accommodate the traffic, but again prices are super high. One year I went, I met some fans that had to sleep in the park across the street. They barely had enough money to come into the show and they had no money to buy anything. Hardcore, but jeez. Is this what it’s come to? That same year, the restaurants also charged for electricity. What the Hell? If you ask, the San Diego Comic Con should be split up into multiple cons. Let the TV and movie people have their own weeks. Shift the comics to some place down town or get outside the city.
What is a Con?
Well a con is short for a convention and in the case of a comic book convention, it’s usually about comics and creators. The best part is meeting the creator and interacting with them and finding some great comics to buy. The problem with convention halls is that they’re too big and not very intimate. Once the room closes, there’s often no where to go, so a lot of the con just ends until the next day.
Other Cons of the Convention Center
Over priced food, over paid convention center employees, paying to park, too much security and, the worst, the room always closes.
Hotel Option
Compare that to Dragon Con where the party runs all night. I find the hotel option a much better one. Sure, the facilities tend to be smaller, but so what? Dragon Con just spread out to more hotels. One for the art show, one for costume ball and concerts, etc. Sure, the food is still going to be overpriced, but at least it’ll be high end. And most hotels are happy to accommodate guests that want to eat elsewhere. Convention Halls won’t even let you bring food inside!
Hotel employees tend to be friendlier. Over the years, I’ve had at least three incidents with convention center employees, but hotel employees? Not a one, really. Usually you’re staying there and they don’t want to upset. The other benefit is just that you’re not stuck in a giant, echo-y room with no carpeting. Hotels also tend to be located near the highways and transit systems and during down time, they’re more than happy to lower their prices for an event that will make them money.
Hotel over convention hall any day of the week, I say.
Other Options
Depending on the size and scope of the show, there’s always VFW and Fire Halls. College campuses often have facilities too. And the campus facilities are more intimate like a hotel. VFW Halls and Fire Halls tend to be more like small convention centers, but the price tag tends to make it worth it.
Thinking Outside the Box
I’ve also been at shows that were outside. Great idea, if the weather is nice. I’d love to see a convention on, say, a cruise ship. That would be fun, although a tad more expensive, I think adult geeks would jump at it. Just FYI, I am totally available to be a guest on a floating convention like that. You’ll find me at the buffet with shrimp in my mouth if you need a comic book.
Previous Columns
Obesity at Cons
The Art of Conversation
Grooming The Line Between Fans and Pros
Geek Elitism
Convention Panels
Convention Volunteers
Food Gifts Women and Cons
Get Your Room Party Together
Stop Bringing Your Kids to Cons
The Face of Geek Needs Work
Fixing the Face of Geek
Franchise Worship
Presenting Your Project
The New Image?
Stop Trying to Make Geek Cool
Rethinking the Comic Book Con
Zombie Stories Should Still Be About People
Geek Stereotypes and the Big Bang Theory
If your birthday is this week: Turns out, your surprise party is heavily attended…by actors posing as your friends! April Fool! You have no friends!
Aries: The stripper you hired will show up wearing money and demanding clothes for a lap dance. She’ll explain later that it’s her first day.
Taurus: You will be given a free haircut by the haircut gnomes, but they’ll go too far and shave your genitals too.
Gemini: The government is going through your garbage, but it’s only to make sure you’re eating right.
Lemini: You will pull a muscle. Unfortunately, the person it belongs to, hadn’t give you permission to do that.
Cancer: As a fine for your parking ticket, you will be forced to attend a Michael Bolton concert. Your lawyer appeals on the grounds of cruel and unusual punishment.
Leo: You will discover that writing down a step by step plan to steal your roommate’s girlfriend, doesn’t work if you ask your roommate to spell check your steps.
Virgo: The stars say, “Winter is Coming”. Fucking unoriginal stars.
Libra: You’ll come into some money when someone smacks you in the face with a roll of quarters.
Scorpio: You’ll be invited to play a game of cornhole, but it’s not the game you’re thinking of, so your bring your box of dildos for nothing.
Sagittarius: You will discover that filling your trunk with pudding isn’t as fun as initially promised.
Capricorn: You will back over a manatee in your driveway.
Aquarius: This week, beware of candy bars. No reason, just keeping you on your toes.
Pisces: You will have the fourth best bowl of soup you’ve ever had this week. Unfortunately, up until then, you’ve only had soup three times.
Addanac City
A Dog’s Life
Adriana Game Over
Ahoy Earth
Art of Webcomics
Bad Oranges
Bad Pudding
Beta Male
Between the Realms
Black Tail and Marz
Bunny Wiggins
Capes and Babes
Cat and Cat Comics
Center Lane
Champion City Comics
City Folk, The Webcomic
Company Man
Convenience Store Diet
Corpse Run Comics
Crooked Frame Comics
Crunchy Bunches
Dairy Boy Comics
Damn Heroes
Destroyed by Robots
Dodgy Comics
Doug Lefler
Druid City
Fart Related Comics
Fatherhood. Badly Doodled
The Flavor Razor
Frownland
The Funnicks
Game Cupid
Games Finder
Game Period
Gerbil with a Jetpack
Giving the Devil Her Due
H.I.T.
The Hero Business
Hit Girlz
I, Mummy
Java Jaguar
Ker-Bop
Kick Man
Krrobar.com
LaSalle’s Legacy
Legacy Control
Modest Medusa
Murdercake
Mythdirection
Ninja and Pirate
The Other End
OutwitTrade
Plan C
QWERTYvsDvorak
Robot Friday
Romantically Apocalyptic
SCAPULA
Skitter
Skroode
Sluggy Freelance
Sparkshooter
Spirits of Suburbia
StocktonCon
SuperBud
Tangent Artists
Teaspoon Comics
The Devil’s Panties
The Dreamcatcher
The System
The Tales of Lev
Validation
Vinnie the Vampire
Waystone
Wayward Raven
Winter of Discontent
Woo Hooligan!
Yesterday’s Popcorn
Zombie Boy Comics