Hallowhedon and Illness

Sorry about the lack of posting yesterday, but I didn't get back from Hallowhedon until about 3 in the afternoon, and have been slowly going down with some kind of flu-like bug that fortunately didn't really kick in until I got home.

As of now I'm running a pretty high temperature, and have lost my voice. So my real focus (seeing as every joint aches, and typing this is quite painful) is on getting well again, before providing a run through of what happened. So that will probably be Friday before I can do that.

But sufficed to say, Hallowhedon was quite probably the most fun thing I've done in my entire life,  with highlights including:

• Robin Sachs and Tony Head performing a hilarious live commentary on the Buffy episode 'Band Candy'
• Alan Tudyk performing his world famous stripper dance
• The guests riding the mechanical rodeo spider
• The various other attendees who I met throughout the event, who I'm really going to miss until the next con.

But anyway, that's only a sampling, of the fun and wacky events of Hallowhedon, look out for the next post where I detail it in full.

I'm off to Hallowhedon!

Not too much of a post today, I'm afraid, for you see I am off to Hallowhedon at The Thistle Heathrow. So, right now I'm busy packing for that as I have to leave later today and packing is not something I do with enough time to spare. Should get back on Monday and be able to post something about it then (if not, then I'll have something up on Wednesday).

Have a great Halloween everyone, and I'll view the stats of your visits later.

London Film and Comic Con 2009

I attended the London Film and Comic Con yesterday, and finally achieved one of my ambitions; namely meeting the lovely Jewel Staite:

Now without sounding like a gushing fanboy (I can already here the voice at the back of my head saying that I already do), she is such a nice person. I mean, I know she's an actress, and she was getting paid to do this but she really seemed interested in the people who were talking to her, and even remembered me when I saw her again later in the day.

Overall, I thought that the con went really well, there was a general feeling of enjoyment, throughout the day from the little kid excited because Darth Vader was wandering around, to the guy in the Xenomorph suit (who seemed to enjoy chasing after attractive women a bit too much to be considered "just doing his job").

Although I only got to meet Jewel, the other stars there also seemed to be enjoying the atmosphere. Notable examples were Hattie Hayridge looking up and smiling as I photographed her, and Tom Baker enjoying a bag of Jelly babies while signing autographs.

The layout of Earl's Court itself also tends to provide a good structure for a con, allowing lots of space for people to move around.

So that really sums up my trip, for me, the real high point was the following image:

although nearly-naked-cave-girl came a close second.