Bloody hell, I started this thing a year ago!

Wow, what a wild series of accomplishments I've made on here in that time. I think it's exactly the right time to reflect on the many wonderful and splendid things I've done here such as...uh...um...well there's...Here have some George Takei being awesome to distract you while I think of something!





In all seriousness though, I will admit, I haven't posted very much on here, this will be my 31 post to this blog, implying a post rate of 0.59 posts per week. Now as to why this is, there are a number of reasons I could drag out in order to explain this, but ultimately, they're all going to be excuses when the real reason would ultimately be laziness. With the ending of the exams shortly though, I intend to become more active with my posting (whilst still intending to keep the same level of quality content). Possible posts forthcoming include

• More "I'm Batman!" and "Holy Shit Christopher Walken!"
• A planned trip to London Film and Comic Con 2010 (Shatner is a guest)
• My thoughts on the portrayal of Artificial Intelligence in films over the years

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.