July 2, 2007

• We are back from BOTCON!  (or Boston depending on whom you talk to )  Still trying to get unpacked, organized and rested but it was a fun vacation.  Pictures are coming soon so until that happens here are a few teaser thoughts of the past few days:

  1. There are some passionate Transformers freaks err fans out there.  It’s almost a way of life it seems.  I wonder if those who have Christ as their savior are as passionate as these people are.
  2. At least a quarter of the people there are overweight.
  3. It could have been me (I doubt it but I’ll at least say it) but a decent amount of the fans have some serious BO issues. 
  4. I kept on having flashbacks of Chris Farley’s SNL “do you remember” skits.
  5. There are some bitter, bitter fans who also happen to be a tad B-otchy if you know what I mean.
  6. During a panel with David Kaye, he asked the group where they traveled from which allowed responses by the fans.  One fan’s method of emphatically raising his hand reminded me of Horshack from Welcome Back Carter.  A split second after I started to chuckle I realized that I had conscientiously attended this convention and I was part of the group people listening to David Kaye. 
  7. I heard several people state they were unemployed but still had to come to Botcon because IT WAS BOTCON!
  8. I kept on hearing this while I was there “It’s a Transformers convention, there aren’t any girls here!”  In reality about 5-10% of the group were females (sorta like the females that were in my Computer Science classes ) and from what I gathered some were mothers, some were girlfriends/wives forced to join in, those genuinely interested in Transformers and then those that were just plain scary.

  Yep, it was a fun and interesting past few days.

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