Back from Vegas; Vernon Wells is really cool.
OK I have been seriously remiss about blogging ever since I left for Vegas. I got back on Monday night and have been up to my rear in trying to reconcile and re sort the inventory, not to mention pay bills and order replacement inventory.
Also, my day job dropped a painfully bad yet critically important project in my lap, and I have a big Warhammer tournament next weekend and have to do a lot of work to get ready for that. Plus I am spending another two days in Las Vegas for a trade show I go to to look at some new t-shirts. Just when I think my life can’t get any busier, I somehow find a new, previously unknown higher gear on the gearshift and go into another level of crazy busy.
Wah wah wah. Enough whining about my ridiculous life. Lets talk about the Star Trek Convention.
First of all, it was amazing. 15,000 hard core fans, all of them extremely cool. I got to see Shatner wandering the vendor area (trailed by about 300 fan boys), hung out with some minor celebrities, and met my future wife dressed as an extremely cute Vulcan. Unfortunately, she lives on the other side of the country, has a boyfriend, and really didn’t show any real interest in my, but heck, she was dressed as an extremely cute Vulcan.
One of the minor celebrities I met was a very cool Australian named Vernon Wells. Hopefully we all remember him as Wez from The Road Warrior. If not, he was the scariest man to ever wear a Mohawk, and if you knew some of my friends from my punk rock days you would understand what level that statement puts him at. We was also in Commando. He is a great guy with an awesome sense of humor.
Turns out his wife is a big Evil Dead fan and he wanted to get her this Necronomicon shirt from the horror movie t shirt category. He was such a nice guy that I traded him the shirt for an autographed photo. You have never seen a look so intense.
By the way, Vernon reprized his roll as Wez in the movie Weird Science, which was a big part of my teenage nerd days. Really cool.
Anyway, I’ll post more about the show later this week. Overall it was a wondrous experience and I highly recommend you all attend next year. If you do stop by and say hi at our booth.
