Fearsome on his way into Comic-Con stops at Kong’s hand as he lay after his death.
Artist’s Alley, rows of artists that you can watch, talk to and purchase directly from.
Island fever
Princesses
Common everyday folk
Large scale cosplay
Humorous cosplay
Disasterina
Stan Lee
Thor
Just because
Redrum
Over the top cosplay
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Wow.
Walking in at 7:30 this morning
Morning Comic-conners gathering across the street
Fearsome with his pal Spidey
Mother Theresa & Pope John Paul Comics …who knew?
Expensive comics
Nice backside
Robin
Camping out for tomorrow morning’s panels in hall H. Yup that’s asphalt in the sun but at least it’s waterfront on the bay.
Street Cosplay
A Viking’s funeral procession
Oops, looks like they picked up a stray Jesus
Damn Zombies
What Comic-Con is really about, sharing ideas, skill and knowledge
Fun Cosplay
Nice backside has a Nice frontside too
The Walking Dead autograph signing
More Walking Dead autographs
Just because
Pebbles and her dad Fred
Austin and a couple of his girls
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Amazing!
Decending the escalator to convention floor.
The Walking Dead
Damn Zombies and their stinkin’ breath
ABC’s Once Upon a Time
Warner Brothers
Mattel & Lego
Star Wars
Fearsome tries on a mask
He tries on another mask
He settles on and purchases the Skyrim mask.
Skyrim
Comic-Con Viking Beards
Today’s LA Times featured this ARTICLE about Comic-Con’s famous Hall H, the most important room in all of Hollywood. If you definitely want to see Stars, you can see them in Hall H. In all of my trips to Comic-Con International I’ve never made it through the doors of Hall H. Comic-Con has yet to start and right now there are people camped out waiting for Hall H to open tomorrow morning. Hall H is the largest panel meeting space at Comic-Con, but it only holds 6,500 people and daily attendance at Comic-Con is merely 130,000. If I attend a panel, it’s in a smaller meeting hall with lesser known personalities and no overnight waiting lines.
Comic-Con for me is the convention hall floor. People watching nirvana. I’ll be there soon, say around 4:30 pm this afternoon, to grab my spot in line for the official opening of Preview night at 6:00 pm.
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Fuzzy Beard
It’s almost here…
Nicely embossed little box…
Filled with an all four day pass including Preview Night!
It’s been a long wait since that final day last year. Nerdvanna is almost upon us! This is gonna be good! You can check out the schedule of events HERE.
Any readers have a special request from the inside? Let me know via comments and let’s see what Fearsome can do.
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After our enjoyable visit at the National Gallery it was time for our appointment at The African American History Museum.
National Museum of African-American History & Culture
Definately an amazing museum and wonderful addition to the Smithsonian, this museum is worth the visit. Still being the new kid on The Mall it was packed and tickets hard to come by. We enjoyed it immensely, but we will make a point to come back at a later date when it isn’t so crowded and can be enjoyed as a Museum of its caliber should be. I know they have a lot of people waiting to get in and that tickets are limited in number, but I think they could do better limiting the number of tickets issued to an even smaller number.
Contemplative Court Waterfall Fountain
The Contemplative Court Waterfall Fountain was worth the trip itself alone. Overwhelming. Fearsome had some tears to catch as I began to sob. Cleansing.
Jackie Robinson #42
Fearsome had more tears to catch as I choked up over Jackie’s jersey. One can see the faint reflection of Fearsome’s San Diego Padres hat in the glass just above the shoulder to the right of the Jackie’s face.
Jackie Robinson is truly an inspirational man of honor. Integrating baseball was not an easy task. Jackies strength was in his own personal restraint and self discipline. Fearsome highly recommends the movie about Jackie’s life. The movie is simply “42”. Jackie is one of Fearsome’s heroes.
Beard Smorgasbord
Beth Ditto …inspirational vocals …stunning video
Happy Pride Y’all!
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Let’s start this weekend Beard
It’s officially Pride weekend in here in beautiful sunny San Diego California!
Given we live in a state with three major cities, Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco, Pride celebrations are spread out in order to allow celebrants the options to be able to celebrate more than once and not have to choose between. There are also celebrations on other weekends in various smaller, yet just as important, locations such as Long Beach and Palm Springs. Having our many California celebrations over numerous weekends also allows tourists from to catch a Pride celebration while traveling through California if they so desire.
My first ever Pride experience was in Seattle back in 1990. The city where I grew up didn’t have such a thing and my travels through east coast cities back in the 1980s never seemed to coincide with one. I haven’t missed a Pride since that first one in Seattle and my official relocation to the West coast.
For me Pride has so many more meanings that just being gay. Pride is love. Pride is joy. Pride is acceptance. Pride is understanding, forgiving, righteous, brotherhood, sisterhood, humanhood, sexuality, sexual identity, identity, political, non-political, peace, justice, black, white, brown, yellow, red, giving, gratitude, sharing, respect, service, caring…Pride is a place to just simply be yourself. Just be.
A tune from my dance floor days before that first ever Pride celebration surprised me on Sirius XM Studio 54 today. A tune that I had probably not heard since seeing Pamela Stanley perform it live during RSVP Cruise Lines 10th anniversary party in Puerto Vallarta back in 1996, which was probably about the 10th anniversary of the tune itself. A tune that seems perfectly appropriate to kick off another absolutely fabulous Pride 2017 weekend in lovely San Diego.
Happy Pride Y’all!
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