SDCC 2009 Day 2 – Suck this blood

“[sic] x ∞” –Ethan

This morning opened with two eggs over easy, two slices of Canadian bacons, sourdough toast, one mimosa, and one cup of coffee – not to mention the small handful of cigarettes. Walking with Jamaica to the con, as she had to be at work to sign her books, I planned out my day.

I returned to the Adult Swim booth to find an employee of the company with whom I needed to discuss the submission of my own television show. I found her, and that was neat. I even introduced myself and seemed all professional.

After this exciting development in my career as a budding writer, I walked the floor looking for freebies and insider scoops. This is what I found in one word:

ifoundclipsfromgijoe,thatsethgreenisthegreenhornetandthatAMCisremakingtheprisoner.

Following the floor prowl I headed towards the “Entertainment Weekly: Wonder Woman – the woman in power in sci-fi” panel. The panel itself consisted of some guy who was an editor for Entertainment Weekly, Eliza Dushku (Bring It On, Dollhouse), Zoe Saldana (Star Trek-09, Avatar), Sigourney Weaver (Alien, Ghostbusters), and Elizabeth Mitchell (LOST, Nurse Betty). They discussed the ways in which Science Fiction has always been far more progressive as a genre, but also as a platform for the development of feminism and gender equality. It was quite an amazing experience to hear Sigourney discuss the ways in which she approached the famous action hero Ripley and how it was written to be a male character, or how Zoe discussed the ways in which film, in the recent decades, has found a way to transform the African American and Feminine discourse in the commercialized film market. That was an amazing panel.

Then I got a tall-can and a couple of quesadillas.

Woot-Woot. This is one of my favorite parts: I met Pendelton Ward (creator of Adventure Times & artist of The Misadventures of Flapjack). I had written to Pen a couple of years ago after I got a tattoo of his AT characer. He gave me a free t-shirt and recently, and limited, comic book. My heart melted a little bit.

This is the part of the segment where it gets weird.

I went to a True Blood Party, turns out all of the beers were free and they handed out several free items. Several beers later, my friends and I continued to hunt down the remaining missing pint glasses from the collection. I felt slightly tipsy, and the bartender had tattoos in his ears; Stacey had a crush on him. I continued my journey with the motley crew that I travel and we had found ourselves committed to going to a Vice Magazine sponsored GWAR performance for the new Jack Black voiced video game Brutal Legend. With an even more continuous flow of free alcohol, and exclusive clips and demos from the game, I saw numerous people, unaffiliated from the con, really drunk. Then, a friend of mine bequeathed a bit of knowledge onto me that confirmed my suspicions about nerd and geeks being better drinkers:

“You know why nerds and geeks are better drinkers? They know long division.”
Gideon

Well another amazing day had passed and it was everything I had hoped for thus far. Stay tuned daily to twitter.com/arhartman for frequent updates or check back here 24 hours from when you are reading this now. [Whoops – Ethan]

Tomorrow is…

• The Mighty Boosh party
• BSG/Caprica panel
• and taking a shot of whiskey with Warren Ellis (hopefully)

love and unicorns,
Austin <3man