Friday
went down to a venture bros. panel while I waited for the band to arrive. very entertaining. Doc Hammer and Dana Snyder were taking questions. lots of people dressed up including a Grand Inquisitor and a Brock Samson (guy did a deadon impression).

the band didn't get in until three in the afternoon (well, half of 'em. the other half didn't get in until five am). so we set up the booth and started catching up. met the people who do Cemetery Surfers. apparently they own a venue/liquor store up in Columbus, MS.

caught up with Doc and the roomies and went up to Steak & Ale to eat. went back to the booth late and hung out for a bit longer. finally closed up and I got Lita's autograph and preordered her band's cd and picked up a couple of Calabrese cds.

the panhandling laws haven't affected the bums much.

Saturday
Doc and I caught another Venture panel (this one was just Doc Hammer)before heading down to Artist Alley. checked out the alley and the dealer room and exhibitor halls before heading back down to the booth. no Vigils. no Brereton. Eric Powell was there, but was booked up on sketches.

hit the booth and we started working on promoting the show that night. fixing up labels with the time and location onto the Bury Them Deep promo cards and handing them out around the Hyatt. later on, Lyle and I went through all three damn hotels handing out show promo cards.

the rest of the band came down and we caught up a bit while everybody got settled. a couple of guys who work at Adult Swim came by the booth to get some cds (I don't remember their names but they work on Aqua Teen and Squidbillies) they did the show and it went off pretty well. lots of people having fun. I saw Lita was there, checking it out. also ran into a guy from myspace who had posted after I posted that they'd be playing. chatted with him for a sec.

so we took the merch back to the booth and then went out partying. drank and went around until all the parties were being shut down at five am by the fire marshall. went back to the room to crash.

Sunday
went to artist's alley to pick up some autographs and a few back issues (I hardly ever get back issues at cons. but I wanted to look around a bit this time). back to the booth for a bit and was still exhausted. I drank three energy drinks that afternoon and still almost passed out at the table when we went to hooters a little while later.

back up to the booth for a bit to hang out some and Eric Powell actually came by to check it out and Lyle gave him some cds. (Lyle had taken Steve Niles some cds earlier). so after that, I just said my goodbyes and went back up to the room to crash out. we got up at ten and loaded up the trailblazer and hit the road.