NYCC
(crossposted to dA)

I had a fantabulous trip to NY for NYCC. On Thursday, me and my friend Chris showed up in the city around the same time - 5a. We worked out of 30 rock all day, and were joined by Cstone out of Boston. That night I shot a CBLDF event, and met the web person from Intermixi, Lawrence. We took him along with us to join my hacker crew that was hanging out at DBA. Shara from scifi was there, david moon from uni, jo and sean hastings i finally got to meet, kubla, tendency, signine, tommee pickles was there from LA, and dan kaminsky from seattle. and there was a kitty cat in the bar!

the next day was NYCC, so ran into lots of people and took about a zillion photos. i ended up eating a super fancy dinner with dekker dreyer and his friends, a bunch of cast from this awesome looking new show called emissary. Salmon at Smith & Wollensky, followed by a sugarrush dessert- a chocolate basket filled with a fluffy cream thing, swimming in cream and raspberry sauce. My NY guide that night was a comedian named Rob, who oddly knew Tommee Pickles, and that totally tripped me out. Then at dinner, Dekker's wife knew my friend Andrew Bell since high school, about as long as I have, which also totally tripped me out. (she knew him from the bbs scene and i knew him from irc). crazy crazy small world. some other people who were there were the chief from battlestar galatica, someone from saw, someone from smallville, and the voice of ben10 and superman, and a fun photographer from adult swim. id have to look up names but they were fun to hang out with. we actually had two 5Ds at the table so i got to play with them - WANT BADLY. OMG. *drool* i worked a bunch that night, which made my boss suprised and happy in the morning.

saturday lagomorph called me to wake me up, and i shot at the con and that night i ended up at a cosplay burlesque show. before the event, i had no idea if cosplay burlesque was a good idea or not. Ladies and gentlemen- it is an EXCELLENT idea. if you have a chance to see this crew at any convention, go to the event. It was absolutely hilarious.

sunday morning i finally saw falcon, who was in town from vegas and staying at tendencys house with me (we had drastically different schedules). that night i finished shooting the convention and got to see the CBR skybox. afterwards i tracked kubla down and he took a small group of us on an incredible gaastronomical new york adventure that involved the best milkshakes in NY at BRGR, marscapone and cherry rice pudding at rice to riches, a vegan chinese feast at buddah bodai, drinks at lolitas, a $75 bathroom visit at hotel of rivington, cheap drinks at a 70s themed bar called Welcome to the Johnsons, and lastly, a trip to my favorite pizza place in NY, Artichoke.

Monday I worked from 2park and go to chill with David Moon and Steve Apple a bunch. Ate at "Brother Jimmys Burger Shack" which was delicious. Then I started feeling really really really sick, and slept/worked all night and had super yummy wonton soup. sometime in the middle of the night, there was a big car chase outside my work (and real close, walking distance, to my house in LA), so i watched the live video feeds of that with dave and jonah.

i fly home in a couple hours, feeling a tiny bit better. i got to go to almost all of my favorite places, and saw many of my favorite new yorkers =)