Another Day at The Con

I woke up from another night of sleeping on the floor. We showered and got ready. This time, however, Jon drove down to The Con. We ran into my brother, Andrew, and Glen right away. I ended up accompanying Andy & Glen on a little trip in search of good booze and smokes. We walked by the memorial obelisk and through the Circle on our venture.



We found a cigar shop with a nice walk-in humidor where they got smokey treats. If I knew my ass from a hole in the ground when it comes to cigars, I probably would have bought a good stogie. Then we went to a liquor store which had a scotch selection of extraordinary magnitude. Andy bought a $50-$60 bottle of the stuff while Glen bought Basil Hayden. We stopped in the nearby mall where Andy bought a hip flask and had it engraved with his initials. Then it was back to Andrew's room for a fill.





With a full flask, we hit the vendors again with Andrew and I both sporting cameras. We saw some great costumes and a lot of hotties. Here's some highlights,

First we have this chickie in the schoolgirl outfit. She was like 6'4". Oh, I sported wood. How could one not with that skirt and those stockings?:





We just saw this hottie waving a sword around so we had to take snaps.







I thoughts of a triple-stacker Palmer sandwich with these 3:





There was a Batman statue too:





Here's some of the folks from the video production company that did the DVD I bought called "The Gamers". It is supposed to be a nice piece of gaming fan video. I haven't watched it yet, however. The 2 guys acted in it but I'm not sure what the hottie, Frankie, in the middle did. She was a cutie!



This gal was really friendly:



And so was this one...



until Andrew made the mistake of saying, "Nice costume!" to which she replied with a scowl, "It's NOT a costume!" I thought she was gonna kick his ass. Let's see...there was a fuckload of anime for sale.



Plus there was some really creepy porn.



But I opted for Jesus Christ, Serial Rapist which had a tagline of "First he nails you then he NAILS you!". The DVD case had all these pics of naked women on crucifixes. I've watched bits of it and it's horrible. The guy who made it was either trying to be pretentious or is just plain fucked in the head.

Leaving the vendors area, we came to Cardhalla where people take all the free game cards they get and build stuff:



We went upstairs to look for a Cthulhu game I could join and encountered a life-sized chess game, of sorts.



Seven o'clock soon neared and Marv and I head over to one of the hotels to hear a lecture called "Principle of Medieval Cooking". You can get an mp3 of it here. it was really fucking cool! Many myths that we held were shattered. For instance, in Marv's campaigns, our characters step into a tavern and have mutton with our mead. Uh uh. They ate mostly chicken. And they used saffron all the bloody time! I have to pay a year's salary for a microounce of the stuff and those jokers in medieval England and France put it in everything. I believe it was the most common seasoning behind salt. And then there was the chicken brittle story. The lecturer talked a bit about how cookbooks were transcribed and that various errors became introduced as the books were copied. So one day, he decided to try a recipe for pine nut brittle that included, of all things, chicken. Not knowing whether it was a mistake or some exotic recipe lost to we modern folk, he tried it and found that the former was indeed the case. The recipe was annotated, "If you want candy, then omit the chicken." At the end, we got to sample some quince jam which was excellent! The instructor was Daniel Myers and his website is Medieval Cookery. Methinks I am going to have to try out some of the recipes there!

I can't recall what we did that night. I know we missed the Cthulhu rally which, I heard, really scared a couple cops last year. We probably met up with Charles and Jon and found Glen & Andrew at a local brew pub owned by a gaming nerd called The Ram. Good beer, mediocre atmosphere. At least they had Spaceballs playing on the big screens. Much better than the Alcatraz brew pub. Their beer was OK but it had a lame high-end chain store atmosphere to it. Truth be told, most of us had an early gaming session to attend so we didn't stay out too late.