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[davemerrill]

We were driving around yesterday and I saw some sort of comic-con looking people wandering away from the CNE grounds, and I figured the Wizard thing was this weekend. Only it was last weekend. Wizard held a comic book convention three blocks from our place and nobody noticed!

I'm not the most informed citizen in the city, but I do listen to the news going to and from work, and I try to stay up on what's going on, and other than a kind of poorly informed article in the Torontoist about a month ago, it's as if this convention snuck in under cover of darkness and tried really hard to not cause any trouble or disturb anybody. Which I appreciate, actually.

We spent Good Friday putting the bed frame together. We did drive up to the York Regional Forest and did some good solid deep-woods walking. It's a nice time of year when the weather is warm enough for shorts but the bugs haven't come out yet. It lasts about ten minutes, so enjoy it! Had lunch at the other Ajisen Ramen location in Toronto - if you can handle the Asian Christian muzak (hint, it all sounds like BGM from 80s Matsumoto anime), the ramen is fan-tastic. And they go as spicy as you like, which is good when you've got a cold.

We might go out somewhere today, maybe out to the sticks. Usually I choose a direction based on some kind of vague idea or a hunch, and that seems to work out OK in that I'm always finding crazy things. On the other hand my criteria for success in these operations is pretty loose, so there may be some selection bias there. Anyway everybody have a happy Easter and eat the ears first!

Comments

[tochiro998.livejournal.com]

From what I've been reading SD has a real love/hate relationship with the SDCC, the same that Hollywood has with home video. They LOVE LOVE LOVE the money, the big fat money that's being generated, but the HATE HATE HATE that it's something as worthless and meaningless as *gasp* comic books. Not that there's that much comic book going on at the SDCC for the past 15 years or so.

SD would be much happier if it was wall to wall World Series and Superbowls and the like, and *maybe* if SDCC was just Hollywood.

But you're right, even with recent expanding Anaheim isn't big enough. Really, the only venue that could properly hold SDCC is Las Vegas. And that is a whole 'nother set of issues.

(Hollywood likes SD because it's really not an effort to truck stuff there.)

[kikaiju.livejournal.com]

SDCC should never go to Las Vegas, unless they change the dates. July in Vegas is about 30 degrees hotter than San Diego at the same time. This is not a little warmer. This is hot enough to kill people warmer.

And SDCC is a daytime-only con. There is no night side to the con, not that Vegas is that much cooler at night.

The point is, the average SDCC attendee will die in the Vegas heat. That's not going to do a lot for anyone. Except casket makers. I dunno.

Besides the "there are no rooms in SD" is a red herring. There are plenty of rooms locally in SD. Maybe not downtown but around the area. And there is no problem at all finding rooms if the range is extendted out to 90-minutes drive, a commute that is actually reasonable for a con like SDCC. People who give a damn that hard will drive that far for it.

So all people need to do is look farther out and plan better.

SDCC is just trying to get a better deal from the SD powers-that-be.