I am so exquisitely empty

This was the weekend for the most recent Monster-Mania Convention in Cherry Hill. bethje and I have gone to all of five of these conventions, although pretty much all we did the first time was check out the dealer tables. While we had three-day passes, there was hardly anything to do there on Sunday, so we ended up only going Friday and Saturday. In past years, there had always been SOMETHING other than movies on Sunday, so I have no clue why they're apparently phasing that out. After we got there, we found out that they were back to giving out the wristbands that you're supposed to wear for the entire convention, rather than the pins they had last time. That was pretty annoying, but at least we got to take them off a day earlier than usual this time around. Friday just had movies and no panel discussions, but the films usually have introductions by someone involved with them. They're SUPPOSED to, anyway. Sometimes the celebrities can't take five minutes to say a few words, which really strikes me as pretty lazy, considering that they're getting paid to be there and all. One of several reasons why I have to give props to Gunnar Hansen, who was at the second Monster-Mania Convention, is that he did an introduction to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre WITHOUT being asked. He really needs to come back to the convention. Anyway, getting back to the recent past, we saw most of The Devil's Rejects, but missed the introduction. On the other hand, we saw Richard Brooker (who played Jason) introduce Friday the 13th Part 3, but didn't stay to watch the movie, which we'd both seen before. (We'd also both seen The Devil's Rejects before, but that was worthier of being seen twice.)

( Jesus wept )

After that panel, we went to eat at Friendly's, where I had a shrimp basket that was good, and a strawberry shortcake sundae that wasn't. The cake was so hard that I couldn't eat it. I'm not sure if this is typical of that sundae, or if its badness this time had to do with our ordering them after the restaurant had closed.

And that's about it, really. For Monster-Mania, anyway. I'm probably going to write another post on other subjects in the near future.

EDIT: Oh, I forgot to mention that Coreys Haim and Feldman are supposed to be guests at the next Monster-Mania. They pretty much always advertise some people who don't come. Actually, they were saying that William Shatner was supposed to be at the most recent one, but the closest we got was Jeffrey Combs doing a really lousy Shatner impression. I pretty much knew he wouldn't be coming, though. On the other hand, I doubt the Coreys will have anything better to do, unless Michael Jackson goes on trial again.

My life is in storage

I'm going to be making a mix CD for obsessical, and I might as well ask whether anybody else wants one. If so, give me some idea as to what you do and don't want on it. I really prefer making individual mixes to generic ones, although I DO have a few ideas for themed mixes, which I might end up throwing in with the individual mixes. So, yeah, let me know.

While driving today, I saw a car with a "Boycott France" bumper sticker, which was apparently from Bill O'Reilly's Factor Gear line, as it also said, "The spin stops here." The same car had a "Cat: The Other White Meat" bumper sticker. So there you have it. Conclusive proof O'Reilly fans like to eat cats. Really, though, I don't totally understand the whole "Boycott France" thing. They didn't want to go to war in Iraq, but neither did a lot of other countries, so why single out France? Actually, O'Reilly has a new place or company he wants to boycott every other week, but France has been the big one for some time.

I packed up some more stuff (mostly books) from my mom's house, but I still have a long way to know. Probably next time I'll come over, I'll have to do what I've been dreading, and sort through my boxes of papers and such. When my dad lived in an apartment, I had a bunch of stuff that I didn't want then but thought I might later in storage. Then, when he moved, I had to take it all over to my mom's, where there wasn't really room for it. There isn't much room at my current house, either, so I'm probably going to have to get rid of some of it. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with the cheap knick-knacks I bought when I was in college. I'll probably put some of them up, and leave others packed away. I really hate to get rid of things, and on the rare occasions where I do, I sometimes wish I hadn't. I don't want to have to do TOO much more moving, though.

Okay, here are the answers to the lyric-guessing game of last week.
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DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:

1. Who wants a mix CD?
2. What is my major motivation in making mix CD's? Desire to share the music I like, an excuse to listen to a lot of cool music myself, or a simple desire for attention? Explain your answer.
3. How come I've never seen a church that identified itself as "The No Sin Zone"? It's such an obvious joke!
4. If a "boycott" is where you don't buy from someone, is a "girlcott" where you buy extra things from them?
5. Explain photosynthesis in your own words, without using the words "chlorophyll," "plants," or "magic."
6. Explain why Americans hate France in 200 words or less, without using the words "frog," "snob," "coward," "surrender," "body odor," "socialism," "escargot," or "Jerry Lewis."
7. Isn't it irritating when a list of questions contains items that are actually commands, and not questions at all? Or I am the only one who's annoyingly literal-minded enough to care?
8. Since Bill O'Reilly is so intent on introducing vocabulary words ("bloviate," "truculent," "garrulous," "popinjay," etc.), does anyone else think he should just drop the "news analyst" bullshit, and get a new show called "Bill O'Reilly's Vocabulary Builder"?
9. Should I throw out my old school papers?
10. How about those lyric guessing games? Fun? Not fun? Too hard?