Stars and Cars
Aug. 20th, 2013 01:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vovatSaturday (well, the whole weekend actually, but we only went on Saturday) was the twenty-fifth Monster-Mania Convention. I'm not even sure how they're counting these anymore, but I know ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bethje and I have been to all of the ones in Cherry Hill but one. Guests this time included Christopher Lloyd and Carrie Fisher, who aren't really horror-related, but were still fun to see. When my dad first got a VCR, two of very few movies that we had were the original Star Wars and Back to the Future, so I've seen both plenty of times. Danny Glover, Malcolm McDowell, and Terry Kiser, the guy who played Bernie in Weekend at Bernie's, also did question-and-answer panels. And George Romero revealed once again that he's a total hippie. I'm still not sure why zombie speed is an issue that comes up so frequently, but I've never been big on zombies anyway. I noticed the Angry Video Game Nerd in the audience (I think he asked Lloyd a question about Roger Rabbit), and at another point I was a few seats over from someone in a Mystique costume. She was there with her son, but while he was also in a costume, it was not Nightcrawler. I always used to dress up for Oz conventions, but I haven't been to one of them in years, and I don't think a horror convention audience would recognize somewhat obscure Oz characters anyway.
After the convention, I found out that two of the lugnuts on one of my car wheels had come off, and I still don't know how. If someone had taken them off, I suspect they would have gone ahead and taken the whole thing, no? If they fell off, I suspect it was due to the dealer not putting them on tightly enough when I had my tires changed. Apparently one of my headlights is loose, too, although it does still work. Anyway, we tried to find some replacement nuts, but to no avail. It wasn't like I even needed a repair shop, just the parts. Because of this, we didn't get back home until around 4:45 AM, and I had work at 7. So that wasn't fun, but I guess I've recovered from it after sleeping for over twelve hours. I should probably go to bed again soon, actually. Why can't I ever get caught up with the stuff I read on the Internet? I'm sure part of it is that I get distracted by new things, like original songs based on Nintendo games and their music.
bethje and I have been to all of the ones in Cherry Hill but one. Guests this time included Christopher Lloyd and Carrie Fisher, who aren't really horror-related, but were still fun to see. When my dad first got a VCR, two of very few movies that we had were the original Star Wars and Back to the Future, so I've seen both plenty of times. Danny Glover, Malcolm McDowell, and Terry Kiser, the guy who played Bernie in Weekend at Bernie's, also did question-and-answer panels. And George Romero revealed once again that he's a total hippie. I'm still not sure why zombie speed is an issue that comes up so frequently, but I've never been big on zombies anyway. I noticed the Angry Video Game Nerd in the audience (I think he asked Lloyd a question about Roger Rabbit), and at another point I was a few seats over from someone in a Mystique costume. She was there with her son, but while he was also in a costume, it was not Nightcrawler. I always used to dress up for Oz conventions, but I haven't been to one of them in years, and I don't think a horror convention audience would recognize somewhat obscure Oz characters anyway.After the convention, I found out that two of the lugnuts on one of my car wheels had come off, and I still don't know how. If someone had taken them off, I suspect they would have gone ahead and taken the whole thing, no? If they fell off, I suspect it was due to the dealer not putting them on tightly enough when I had my tires changed. Apparently one of my headlights is loose, too, although it does still work. Anyway, we tried to find some replacement nuts, but to no avail. It wasn't like I even needed a repair shop, just the parts. Because of this, we didn't get back home until around 4:45 AM, and I had work at 7. So that wasn't fun, but I guess I've recovered from it after sleeping for over twelve hours. I should probably go to bed again soon, actually. Why can't I ever get caught up with the stuff I read on the Internet? I'm sure part of it is that I get distracted by new things, like original songs based on Nintendo games and their music.
