Posted by Colleen on Aug 11, 2010 in
Comic Con We spent a lot of the day inside of Ballroom 20. We wanted to make sure we could see the Women Who Kick Ass and True Blood panels and had learned our lesson from the missed Psych panel the day before. We started off the day at the Hawaii 5-0 panel with Daniel Dae Kim and Grace Park. It was really fun. Grace Park kept dropping BSG spoilers all over the place and DDK had only just started watching it! Then he threw in his own little Lost/Jin spoiler for her benefit since she’s only on Season 2 of Lost. It was hilarious. We all got t-shirts that said “I got lei’d” on them afterward. Jay interviewed DDK & the H5-0 people in the press room beforehand and that video should be on the old nuDia.tv (now Jay and Jack Productions) feed if you subscribe to it on iTunes.
Here’s a picture from the panel:
I headed over to Ballroom 20 after the H5-0 panel and met up with Clif while Jay went to the Matty Collector panel. I really wanted to see the Bones panel at 2pm. The Caprica panel was going on when I got into Ballroom 20. Clif switched places with Jana after it was over and I switched places with Michael for the Big Bang Theory panel which looked like it was a lot of fun! Barenaked Ladies sang the theme song on stage to start the panel off. I met up with Jay during this time and we went into Ballroom 20 at 2pm courtesy of the fabulous Melody just in time for the Bones panel woot! There was even a special appearance by the author of the books that the show is inspired by, Kathy Reichs. PS I just finished “Deja Dead” & really liked it and started the second Temperance Brennan novel “Death Du Jour” last night.
After the Bones panel, we grabbed a bathroom pass and headed to use the restrooms then briefly check out something Jay wanted to see in the Exhibit Hall. Along the way to the booth (Matty Collector or Entertainment Earth or some of those), we saw that David Zayas (Angel Batista on Dexter) was signing autographs. I decided to stop and get in line for that while Jay headed onto his booth. Well in typical Jay luck, guess what happened within one minute of us separating? EMILY DESCHANEL BUMPED INTO HIM! Literally. The cast of Bones was rushing by to get to a signing at the Fox booth and he “got in their way.” No one was harmed with Sharpies but it was still so NOT FAIR. I was just a tad jealous. The only person I ran into that day on the floor was Tom Sizemore and he was kinda gross and sweaty and also an alleged woman beater so that wasn’t really nearly as cool. At least David Zayas was super nice to meet!
After our little field trip outside of Ballroom 20, we went back for the Women Who Kick Ass panel with the beautiful Elizabeth Mitchell, Anna Torv, Jena Malone, Ellen Wong and Mary Elizabeth Winstead. Honestly, the panel was good BUT I was put off a bit by the fact that Jena Malone talked nonstop and wouldn’t let anyone else get a friggin word in. I honestly do like Jena Malone as an actress (love Saved!) but I would have rather had heard more from Mitchell and Torv. Just a personal preference that I know Jay shared with me as well.
Finally, it was time for the True Blood panel. Hooray! The panel was great, the moderator was great and the cast had great chemistry up there. I have to say that Kristin Bauer (Pam) was particularly funny up there (Question for the cast: “What is it like working with the animals on set?” Bauer: “Well Skarsgard isn’t so bad once you get used to him…”). Denis O’Hare also was quite chatty (in a good way) and True Blood author Charlene Harris almost stole the show with her quips. You can always tell who wants to be up on stage at the panels and who doesn’t and TB’s cast definitely was more along the “into it” lines. It was a complete contrast from Showtimes’s Anti-Heroes panel the day before.
By the end of the panel, we were definitely ready to go home. We had survived Day 2 of Comic Con, although this chair at the end of our row didn’t seem to fare so well:
We made the mile walk back to our crappy hotel room (I really, really loved the walk but hated the room. I’d stay that far away again but never, ever again at that hotel). After quickly freshening up, we changed and headed back out to Tivoli’s for the Jay and Jack meet-up. There was a ton of people who showed up despite the fact that it wasn’t promoted too heavily on our ends. There was even grilled cheese with bacon (my personal fav) and children (Isabel and Mini-Michael Cera). Honestly, I want to throw a million more meet-ups, that’s how much fun I had. I’ve been yakking for a while now, so I’ll just leave you with some pictures from the meet-up and stay tuned for Saturday pictures:
Tags: Anna Torv, David Zayas, Elizabeth Mitchell, Jay and Jack, Jena Malone, San Diego Comic COn, The Lost Podcast with Jay and Jack, True Blood
Posted by Colleen on Aug 8, 2010 in
Good times,
Picture Post I owe you all a recap of the Friday, Saturday, Sunday of Comic Con and of our trip to Disneyland BUT I had to interrupt to post this picture from our engagement party last night:
He effing did it again!!!
Posted by Colleen on Jul 23, 2010 in
Comic Con So yesterday began the madness of full day Comic Con. I milled around in the hotel for a little while as Jay went to get some of his Mattel things and then went to meet up with him and Clif in line for the Tron panel in Hall H. Sadly, we didn’t get in but we did get really close and we met Amy (@Nerderific) while we were in line, so that was pretty cool. After they closed the line off for Tron, Jay & I decided to walk back to the hotel to drop off all the Mattel bags (Jay) and change out of flip flops and into better shoes (me). I had already walked about a mile and a half yesterday morning in search of a bigger purse to buy. I know. Why did I need to go shopping during Comic Con? Well, I had a bigger bag to hold all my shit but I left it in Raleigh without even thinking. I actually consciously looked at it while I was straightening up and thought, “Oh, let me throw this in my closet before we go.” haha, oh well. I managed to get a kick ass Vera Bradley bag for 50% off at a store I found in Seaport Village. Sidenote: Seaport Village is really nice. I don’t know why none of us have ever ventured over there during one of these Cons.
Anyway, after we walked back to our hotel, we headed straight back to the Convention Center and into the Sails Pavilion for the live Jay and Jack Podcast. (It’s kinda weird to write this post right now and not have to put #ComicCon or @jayandjack lol.) We tried to stop for lunch but every place was too crowded and we realized we had to stop by Hall H to get the mics from Clif. So at 1:30pm, the day “started” with the live Jay and Jack podcast. Ralph, Ryan and Jen were there to talk:
Alirio’s son, Nicholas aka Mini Michael Cera also graciously lent them his talent to appear as a guest:
…before changing into a pirate.
After the live podcast, Jack decided to go home while Jay and I decided to try to get into Ballroom 20 to see the Psych panel, Showtime’s Anti-Heroes panel, and the Dexter panel. We didn’t get into the Psych panel, which is something that I really wanted to get in for so I was pretty bummed out to be honest. Luckily we were joined in line by Cesar and his lovely wife Ann so we had some nice company. We waited in line for 1 hour and 40 minutes and I thought that we were going to miss the Anti-Heroes panel too but thankfully we got in JUST as they dimmed the lights to start it. I really wanted to see the Anti-Heroes panel because my longtime love interest David Duchovny was there looking like a hot mess which was totally okay with me. Also on the panel was Mary-Louise Parker and Michael C. Hall, and showrunners from Californication, Dexter, Nurse Jackie, and Weeds. I have to say that MLP (who is absolutely gorgeous) and her showrunner were kinda…weird…in how they answered questions. A showrunner named Linda from Nurse Jackie was absolutely hilarious. I love it when the panelists are enthusiastic because it makes me feel like they want to be there with us. I felt kinda bad though for MCH and DD because they kept getting the same questions over and over again (”How do you feel about people still seeing you as Mulder?” “Do you approve of your character’s habit of killing people?” were asked at least 3 times each.)
Finally, it was time for the Dexter panel. We saw a preview trailer for Season 5 and holy shit it’s just as intense as the season 4 finale. It picks up right where it left off. In attendance was Michael C. Hall (Dexter), Jennifer Carpenter (Debra), James Remar (Harry), and 3 producers. This panel was really fun. The moderator was awesome (he came out wearing one of the Dexter slice-mark blood tattoos that they’ve been giving out here) and the cast was funny. The moderator actually made a great joke about Deb’s boyfriends (spoiler alert?). He said to Jennifer Carpenter, “I feel as though being one of Debra Morgan’s boyfriends is just like wearing a red shirt on Star Trek.” He got huge laughs and applause and then said to the audience, “Now that’s a Comic Con joke right there!” All in all, it was a great panel and I can’t wait for Season 5 even though we don’t have Showtime and won’t get to see it for a while anyway lol.
After the panel, we were out of energy so we met up with Clif and headed down to Fred’s for one more time where we were met by Kelly Jo, Desiree, Michael, Adam, and briefly by Steph, Skylar, Morgan, Mike and Rob. Two nights of Mexican food in a row was giving me a pretty bad stomachache and I was wiped out from all the walking and standing we did so I was totally okay with us calling it an “early” night again.
Tonight is the Jay and Jack meet-up at Tivoli’s and I really hope that a lot of people come since we didn’t really do a good job of getting the word out there this time. For now, I’ve got to rush off to meet Jay who is in line for the Hawaii 5-0 panel. I hope I’m not too late since I just got out of the shower and I have to be there in 15 minutes. Yikes. Better run tigers.
Tags: Californication, David Duchovny, Dexter, James Remar, Jennifer Carpenter, Mary-Louise Parker, Michael C. Hall, San Diego Comic Con 2010
Posted by Colleen on Jul 22, 2010 in
Comic Con So yesterday started the first day of Comic Con - Preview Night. Woo-hoo. So yesterday, Jay & I left our crappy McCrappy hotel & headed up to start up a now yearly tradition: In-N-Out Burger for lunch before badge pick up.
We met a whole bunch of people there, including Jana, Clif, Ryan, Jen, the Media Junkyard crew (Chris, Rob, Boston & Robin), Robin’s wife Bree and Alirio & his family (Christine, Mini Michael Cera aka Nicholas and baby Isabella). There were a lot of us sitting inside that In-N-Out and it was just as fun and delicious as always:
After In-N-Out, we headed to the Convention Center to pick up our badges and wait in line for the Exhibit Hall. Jay really wanted to get some exclusives from Mattel as well as the Jacob & Man in Black figures from the Entertainment Earth booth. I was in charge in getting the figures and I have to say it was a great success.
The big thing in the Exhibit Hall was the actual Ecto-1 from the movie Ghostbusters. Needless to say, Jay was in absolute heaven:
We decided to skip the premiere of Nikita that was airing last night and head out to our old joint of last year, Fred’s, a Mexican food restaurant on 5th & Island. There were a big group of us here, too: me, Jay, Ryan, Jen, Jana, Clif, Rob, Kolkie, Boston, Robin, Desiree and her daughter Skylar, Steph Smith and her daughter Morgan, Adam, Mike (@Renmiked) and Michael aka The Friendly Communist. We also ran into Kim, Joe and their crew too, which was a pleasant surprise. We had a blast, as usual.
We headed back to the Media Junkyard hotel room after Fred’s but I’ll admit that I was dead on my feet. I hadn’t slept well at all on Tuesday night after we got to our hotel and saw how much of a fail it was and realized how much I ruined not only mine & Jay’s hotel experience but Jana, Clif & Nick’s as well and then cried myself to sleep over it haha. As soon as I sat down in front of the fire pit (yes, their hotel has a fire pit, 2 hot tubs and a pool on a 4th floor roof), I knew it wasn’t going to be a late night for me lol. I don’t have any pictures from that part of the night. Jana, Jay & I walked back to our Crappy McCrappy hotel and I promptly passed out.
UPDATE: The live podcast with Jay and Jack is today at 1:30pm in the Sails Pavilion!
Tags: San Diego Comic COn
Posted by Colleen on Jul 9, 2010 in
Comic Con True Blood Q&A and David Boreanez at the Bones panel.
Friday’s Comic Con 2010 schedule: http://www.comic-con.org/cci/cci10_prog_fri.php
Also on Friday night, Jay and Jack are going to have a meet-up at a bar and potentially a live podcast. This is for anyone who couldn’t make it to their panel on Saturday and anyone who likes to watch me get drunk (kidding…). In case you didn’t get it yesterday, I AM SO EXCITED FOR COMIC CON!
Tags: Jay and Jack, San Diego Comic COn
Posted by Colleen on Jul 8, 2010 in
Comic Con Since 2007, July has been my faaaavorite month of the year because of COMIC CON! I love it. I love the programming and the showroom and meeting tons of new people and making new friends and seeing old ones and a week in a gorgeous city and really just everything about Comic Con. Some of my best memories are from Comic Cons past.
So now the countdown is officially on because the THURSDAY SCHEDULE HAS BEEN RELEASED! Woot! Geek advent has begun and the Eve of Comic Con is upon us. Hip hip hooray! I’m so giddy that I’m squeeing at my desk at work.
Here’s the link to the schedule online: http://www.comic-con.org/cci/cci10_prog_thu.php
HOORAY!
Tags: San Diego Comic COn
Posted by Colleen on Jul 4, 2010 in
Good times,
Jay Glatfelter 3 years ago today, July 4, 2007, Jay and I were texting and he told me he was going to take me on a date when we both were in San Diego, CA for Comic Con 
We went on July 27, 2007 and ch’viously it all ended up okay so woot. Also on July 4, 2007 the phrase “CAB COP!” (for all my former MetroBuzz listeners :D) was born hahaha.
Pics/video from today’s fiestas will be posted tomorrow.
So I’m blogging from my apartment complex’s pool right now. Jay and I decided yesterday to invite a few friends over to bbq for the 4th of July since this was the first year I’ve ever not had plans. Usually I’d go to my great aunt and great uncle’s house for the best family 4th of July party ever and go spend some quality time at the Bing family party but since I’m spending my first 4th in Raleigh (last year we drove up to NY), I didn’t really have any plans. So now I’m staking out a table, grill & lounge chairs two hours early while Jay prepares his world famous “Jaygers”. I’m literally the only one here so I feel kinda silly and pretty bored lol. I was supposed to go swimming at the gym at 9am but those plans got messed up when we had the brilliant idea to save a spot amidst the fierce crowds of the pool. Yeah, good plan Jay and Colleen. Meh.
At least I’m still so slow with the iPad touch screen that it took me 15 damn minutes to poke out that last paragraph lol.
So while I wait for Clif, Sara, TJ and Kristin to arrive, I’ll run down what’s been going on. Jay & I finished the 2nd season of True Blood and started the 3rd. We are also trying to download season 4 of Dexter so we can watch that before Comic Con too. TB 2 was pretty awesome and by “awesome” I mean “Alexander Sarsgaard or however you spell his last name is hot and good choice Alan Ball giving him more screen time.” I would like to see a season where Tara isn’t acting crazy though bc I liked her a lot in season 1 and I’m super excited for the Sam storyline they’re setting up with his family (keep in mind that we’ve only seen the first ep of 3 so far so no spoilers).
I went to the beach with Sara and Kristin yesterday. We left at 7:30am to try to avoid the crowd at Wrightsville Beach but by 9:45am when we finally got there, parking was already nonexistent and douche bags were already out in full force. We drove around for 45 minutes and still no parking which sucked. We did get a spot at long last only to have some giant asshole come up to Sara and start screaming at her to “get out of that spot” and “leave” so he could have it. It was a public parking spot but in front of someone’s house that he must’ve known & been told he could park there. I was all for saying “fuck you, we got here first” but with crazy people, who knows so we left. We were so angry after that exchange that we decided to drive down to Carolina Beach and test our luck there. That luckily worked out way better for us and we had a fabulous time. Although I was wearing a strapless bikini top with string ties on the bottom and unfortunately I got slammed by a wave and had several, shall we say, wardrobe malfunctions. I pulled the top up quick enough for only Sara to get a good view and was relieved until I realized a split second later that all was definitely NOT right. Somehow the bow had come untied. Oh but not only untied but completely come undone. It fed thru a little tube of fabric - like the strings in a hoodie - and the knot that stopped it also came undone so i couldn’t even do a quick fix. I held myself together/up and did a small walk of shame out of the ocean. I’m glad that again, Sara was the only one who saw anything and it wasn’t the front lol. Kristin was a rockstar and able to fix it after about 15 minutes of trying. So that’s my embarrassing oops moment of the day!
Ok, my wrist hurts from my ghetto way of typing & Jay should be here soon to relieve me so I can get myself together for a half hour before they arrive. I hope everyone has a safe and happy 4th of July or if you’re not American, a wonderful Sunday!
Tags: 4th of July, Carolina Beach, Dexter, True Blood, Wrightsville Beach
Posted by Colleen on Jun 28, 2010 in
Harry Potter,
Movies I never like/watch the movies when they’re in theaters but I may have to make an exception:
The first Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows looks really awesome.
Tags: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Harry Potter trailer, JK Rowling, Movie Trailers, Movies, Rupert Grint
Posted by Colleen on Jun 26, 2010 in
Uncategorized I’m so sad. Jay and I were at the flea market this morning and the Wake County Animal Shelter had a mobile unit there. There was a 5-month old beagle puppy there who caught my eye. Naturally, after like 10 minutes of me oogling, the volunteers brought her out for us to play with. Then they put a leash on her and had us take her for a walk around the flea market.
We totally bonded.
But alas, reason won in the end and after some discussion, we gave her back. She was so good with the other puppies. We copied down her ID # so we could track her. However, finances and space in the apartment and the fact we have to leave for San Diego in 3 weeks all played a part in our decision. It was really tough to leave this puppy there. A bunch of dogs were brought our way but this is the one we clicked with.
After we got back from the gym, Jay brought it up, “So how close were you to bringing home that puppy?” To me, this translated to, “So I kinda want this dog a lot but don’t want to be the one to make the decision.” I was right. I brought it up to my grandparents when I spoke to them and to my mom when I talked to her. My grandma’s attitude was, “You’re so young and you travel a lot and having a dog who needs to be taken care of isn’t fair.” My mom, who was blessed enough to be the one that Strider choose to go home with back on April 5, 1999 at the North Shore Animal Shelter, simply said, “They’re so cute and it’s very difficult to say no when it feels right.”
So we discussed it all day and we told everyone about the puppy at a work BBQ I had tonight. Jay said the decision was up to me and I just couldn’t get the image of that adorable little girl giving me a big sloppy kiss on the forehead out of my head. So I went online to the Wake Co. Animal Shelter website and found that she did find a home today after we left. It says, “Adoption Pending” after her name (Flora but she was found as a stray 2 weeks ago so to us, Flora was only the name that she was given, not her real name).
On one hand, I am so happy and relieved that Flora may have found a permanent home and owners to love her and treat her right but on the other hand, I am so sad that it could have been with us. I just can’t help but think, “Well, Strider choose Mom and he was the most perfect dog in the entire world for me, Katelyn, Christie, Mom & Dad for 10 years. Can I really use logic over emotions right now?” I guess I can but I hope that little Flora ended up in the same situation that Strider did: a family with children, a yard, and plenty of love to go around.
Tags: Wake County Animal Shelter
