Masi Oka (Heroes) and Nate Torrence (Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip) just did their studio presentation for the move Get Smart (which I won’t be seeing, thank you very much). We got to see a 7-minute clip, which naturally started with Masi and Nate’s characters being featured. People screamed with laughter during the clip. I, however, smiled once and…
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Marriott Hotels
You know, I’m very unimpressed with Marriott Hotels, or rather the one hosting Starfest 2008. This is supposedly a 3-star hotel but things are just not right. I already mentioned the lack of a Sci-Fi channel, but this I found a bit more annoying. Despite the fact that this is a convention weekend and the hotel is pretty full of…
Starfest 2008 – 01
After our arrival, it was time to score our rooms and then score our passes. So, we decided on some restaurant Russian roulette and ended up at Great Northern Tavern. Neither of us had been here, but it had the feel of a bar and grill joint. We were wrong. It was an overpriced joint with some normal sounding dishes,…
Starfest 2008
Well, Lepidus and I should be at Starfest 2008 as this post gets published. If we hadn’t planned this long before I decided to buy my condo, I likely would not have gone, but since the tickets were already purchased, the reservations made, and arrangements made to get the time off (since I don’t have vacation), I thought, “Oh well.…
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"Thanks" for the Hard Work
I am what’s known as an ETE — Extended Tenure Extra employee. Nearly 2.75 years ago, The Company decided to convert me from a contractor to an ETE. To put it into terms more easily understood, I went from being a bastard step-child to a step child as far as The Company was concerned. This was The Company’s way of…