This is gonna be a long one. Sit back.

This past weekend I hit up NYC with my friend Roseld. Our mission… to see Mike P, Evilbuddha, Zell, Steve and some of Roseld’s NYC friends. With them to attend the first ever NYC ComicCon and to spend a day filled with fun and laughter. Seems easy enough right? Well, sorta… and we did that… sorta… but I’ll tell you what, I really feel like what happened was the best thing I could ever have hoped for!

Since I was heading to NYC overnight on Saturday, I might as well make a weekend of it and go to visit my good friend Mike R on Friday night. Mike R lives about half of my way to NYC so the plan was set. Friday night went off well. Work got in the way at the end of Friday and I had a phone call I was planning to take @ 6pm that never happened but I got my ass to his place around 8, we had dinner and alot of good hanging out and Mac geekery and I got a decent nights sleep and headed out on Saturday.

Saturday I met up with Roseld and we headed to the Jacob Javits center. We got there way head of the scheduled time to meet up with Mike P and Evilbuddha. This is when we got the first bad news of the day. No more tickets being sold to the event. Gah! We didn’t have tickets. A quick call to Mike P, who made more calls, remedied that situation, he found 5 tickets at a nearby comic store and we were set. Shortly there after Evilbuddha showed up and we settled in to wait for Mike P and Company.

The convo was brilliant. Roseld and Buddha are both RoboGomos and they had no problem doing just that. I sat back and watched two friends engage in passionate converstation about a shared topic, and relished in it. I’ve not had the best success in mixing friends and this was going pretty good so far. We did all enjoy watching all of the people who were “dressed” up for the event. What took the cake was “Boximus Prime” a guy who was dressed in cardboard boxes made to look like Optimus Prime. It was riotous, especially since some of the boxes had grease stains on them from whatever was originally packed in them.

Mike P called and told us to come up and get in line with them. Cause the line was huge to get in. We all headed out to find then and the first suprise of the day… we ran into Scott, my best friend Vu’s boyfriend. I never really met him before and to be honest I was so focused on getting where I was getting that I didn’t even see him til he stopped me. I said Hi and introduced him to Roseld and Davis and then went off looking for Mike P. Woulda been nice to have a few more minutes to chat but I was on a mission.

When we caught up with Mike P, we were in a HUGE line. Oh well waiting with friends is better than waiting alone. After about 20 minutes and more than a one convo about leaving, a very strange looking man came around and told us the show was closed down. The fire marshall did it. He wasn’t official so we didn’t believe it. Until the guy in the red comic con tee came around, it was official. No getting in today. Seems they sold tickets without dates on them and everyone showed up today. We were now in the line to either get a priorty admission bracelet or get our money back. Guess which we had to choose? At first I was really bummed, but the day proved that to be a waste of time. I had so much fun with my friends that I ended up not caring.

We hit up Image Anime, lunch at Mustang Harry’s, met up with Zell, Steve and Roseld’s friend Wally at the Apple Store in SoHo (gawd I want the MacBook Pro now), lost Steve and Evilbuddha on our way to the Nintendo World store and Saint Pat’s Cathedral (and like Lestat, I did NOT burst in to flames when I entered), picked up Roseld’s friend Nomi (Showgirls anyone?) and had dinner at Sammy’s Noodle Shop (who knew cold noodles were so good!). After a dinner where Zell and I played too much Animal Crossing to be polite, we lost Nomi and Zell while we headed off with Wally to visit Ty’s. It was sooo cold walking around. The wind was blowing so hard and Roseld did not have a hat or gloves. My coat was no where near adequate for the weather. We were screwed. After one beer at Ty’s we decided to head back to our hotel. The night was hardly over as Roseld and I recorded not one but two podcasts. We however got hardly any sleep as we sat up for hours and hours chatting and shooting the shit! I was so tired driving home the next day.

It was a great weekend! If you want you can hear more about it by listening to my podcast.

To Roseld, I want to say thanks so much for being such a wonderful travelling companion, Mike P and Evilbuddha, thanks so much for taking a day that coulda been a disaster and making it so memorable. And to Zell, thanks so much for your company and your Animal Crossing Wisdom!