Another Boo at the Zoo is in the books, and it was another good time, aside from my currently withered drawing hand. It's like Dumbledore after wearing the ring. I'm a little wired, though, and have some randomness rattling around in my giant brain cavity, so I thought I'd share.
The Zoo is between half an hour and an hour away from my house, depending on traffic and what day of the week it is. It was on these prologed Zoo trips that I got hooked into podcasts. I always love listening to the Comics Pants guys. They do a topic, rather than current news, focused show. It makes them a little more timeless, so I can save it to listen to anytime during the Zoo trip. Their podcast is a recorded version of those sometimes silly, sometimes sublime conversations that you get into at comic conventions.
I'm also a huge fan of the This Week in Tech network. This Week in Tech is a great podcast in and of itself, and This Week in Media covers a lot of interesting stuff. That includes the upcoming writers' strike which is becoming more and more likely to impact upon my day. And yes, that's a veiled reference to some of those things that I Can't Talk About, but isn't it good to know there are still such things churning in the background?
The Zoo is a fun for a bunch of reasons, but one of the big ones is the people. The kids are fun, and a lot of the parents are, too. It's fun joking around with everyone. My current favorite was when my Zoo-assigned assistant asked me if I wanted some coffee. I said "hells, yeah" and he asked "What do you take in it?"
"Cream, sugar, and Bailey's." Oddly, the Zoo had no Bailey's.
I ran into an acquaintence of mine from high school, Mike, and his two lovely kids. I also worked with Mike at the News-Herald, and then we both left, he to become a golf pro and I became a full-time freelance cartoonist. Such chance meetings are a nice bonus of doing the Zoo thing.
Most of my weekend was Zoo based, but I did get the chance to see 30 Days of Night with the Mikes Cubed on Saturday. I haven't read the IDW series, but thought it was a decent movie. There are a couple scenes where people who should be running aren't, and I think it's missing at least one crucial bit of dialogue. It's not a spoiler (I wouldn't do that) but how does Josh Harnett's character never ask his brother exactly how he escaped the bad guys.
All right, that's weekend wrap up. Hopefully I'll have some art eye candy to post soon.