Yet Another Creation Con Report - The Pre-Con

[webbgirl]

Apologies to those of you who have read any number of these reports already...but tough.  I'm doing my own.  Read, don't read...your choice. *vbeg*

My trip started with a train ride from San Diego to Los Angeles.  The very first part of the trip started with a drunk man on the train ride from San Diego to Los Angeles.  He evidently found something highly amusing in some brochure he was reading.  He was literally cackling for a good half hour or so.
Anyhoo, when I got to Los Angeles fra_hulettaes was kind enough to pick me up.  We had lunch in Chinatown.  It was your typical Chinatown restaurant.  It had some cool 40's and 50's decor going though.  Food wasn't bad.  We browsed through a couple of stores and then decided to head off to Little Tokyo in search of manga.  castalie , I blame you for this. *g*  Since we didn't know any titles to look for off hand, we left empty handed.
Oh, I should mention that while we were on our way from Chinatown to Little Tokyo my cell phone rang.  It was Coco (you'll hear much more about her and the rest of the gang of nomads later).  She was wondering where fra and I were.  I explained that we were still downtown and going shopping.  It was about 1:30 or so by this time.  I heard a lot of giggling etc...in the background.  They had started in on the beer and liqour without us.
We went to fra's house after Little Tokyo to pick up a few things.  Another phone call. 
"Yes, we're on our way."
"How on your way?"
"We're on the freeway."
"Which freeway?"
The natives were getting a bit feisty at the hotel by this time.  We finally arrived, I got all checked in.  Found my room (which I would marry if I could) and then went to find the party.  It turns out that our lovely friends (Coco, Gategrrl, Ann, Shirley, Dreamerlady and Dreamerlady's hubby) had been having quite the fun time without us.  The neighbors had already pounded on the walls to get them to be quiet.  It was only quarter to 4 in the afternoon.  Hmph...killjoys.  While we were there the phone rang.  It was the front desk stating they had gotten complaints about the noise.
Coco: "Was it the people next door?"
Front Desk: "We've had several complaints."
Ooops.  We decided to head out for dinner a little early.  We went to Mooses.  It was, well...Moose's.  It's a bar with food.  On our way there we had a lovely shuttle driver.  Never did learn his first name.  Fra dubbed him 'Slave'.  He liked that a lot.  This was after he made the HUGE mistake of joking that we could watch porn on the tv in the shuttle van.  Fra announced 'Only if it's gay porn.'  He paused, left the shuttle, then came back and announced that he in fact was gay.  There were comments about writing gay porn and him acting some of it out or staring in a movie...The guy was quite the trooper.
The dinner was fun. We met up with other SG fans.  There were about 30 of us.  Even a couple of token husbands in the mix.  We squeed and fangirled and talked really loud.  Had our pics taken with a blow up doll of Thor.  It was a great time.
When we left, we shared the shuttle ride back.  Same driver.  This time he posed with Thor and actually decided to show off some of his gay porn talents by going down on Thor.  Yes boys and girls, there's photographic evidence of this out there.  I did speak to him later and he was a little hurt that Thor didn't call him the next day.  (hussy)
We eventually piled into DJ's room and watched one of the funniest, most god-awful and drool-worthy movies ever made.  Sumuru.  MS sleeveless....GUH!!!  Lots of collagen injections and jiggling implants too.  And WTF was the hamster or gerbil on his chin?
Needless to say...we laughed, we commented, we got a visit from security.  New motto for the SoCal group (now known as 'Fandom Nomads)...'We've been kicked out of better places than this.'  We expect there will be more evictions in our future.  We're completely incontrolable.
My room was evidently the sound-proof one.  We moved the party back there for a short while and no one heard a thing.  Should have just started off there.
Star had the brunch in the morning (still kicking myself for passing on that) so we called it an early night. 
The con itself...next report.

Comments

[nebt-het.livejournal.com]

Okay..so out of the loop...what is this Sumuru I keep hearing about? Even Michael seemed to wish it gone?!

[frahulettaes.livejournal.com]

See, you, Nebt, are the one person out there I was talking about who hasn't seen this. It's a movie that MS made in South Africa during his year off from SG. It was truly, madly, deeply horrible and yet it was sooooo delicious. I nice mix.

[webbgirl.livejournal.com]

It's a bad (but really funny) German B Sci-Fi movie. Michael looks like he's wearing a hamster on his chin in it. Lots of cleavage, lots of collagen, lots of silicone.

But MS wears a tank top and carries a gun, so it balances out in the long run.