A hell of a town

Nayoung and I traveled far from our home in the sticks this past weekend and spent a few days in New York City. The main reason for going was to attend the New York Comic Con, but we arrived a day before the convention and left a day after so we would have some extra time to spend in the city.

On Thursday we landed at Laguardia airport around noon and made it to our hotel near Times Square around 1pm. The high temperature that day was somewhere in the teens, so before leaving the hotel we bundled up to ward off the low temperatures (Nayoung could hardly bend her appendages due to the number of layers). If we kept moving the cold wasn't so bad, but when we waited in line for an hour to get tickets to a Broadway show the bitting wind was brutal. The ticket line wound back and forth two times, so that after you made the first turn you were between the earlier parts and the upcoming parts of the line. Nayoung made the observation that all the people in the line were like penguins huddled against the arctic winds. The ones on the outsides took the brunt of the chill while the people in the middle still froze, but just not as severely. We decided to see Marry Poppins, and before my manhood is called into question I will state these two things for the record: 1. It's Broadway, I was going to see people sing and dace no matter what, so what difference does the subject matter make? 2. I happen to quite like the movie version of Marry Poppins, so there!

After we purchased the tickets for our evenings entertainment we decided that we needed to thaw out back at the hotel. Once we could feel our extremities again we bundled back up and set out for the night. We had dinner near the theater and then walked onto the show. My favorite part of the show was the sets. The house set was the most impressive, like a life sized doll house with the one wall removed to allow the audience a view. Most of the songs from the movie made it into the play, but usually in an altered form, usually longer or in a different part of the performance. There were a few new songs as well, but the best was still Spoon Full of Sugar and Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!

The next three days were spent at the convention and the majority of happenings there probably aren't that interesting to many people but me. However I did want to mention that we purchased some new art.

I bought a page of original comic art from my friend Sean Murphy.



We bought a print from an illustrator named Celia Calle.



We also bought a few other prints however I can't find examples of them online. The other great purchases were these two 2gig thumb drives from Mimbot.



The one I really wanted was sold out in the storage capacity I wanted and once you see this pic I'm sure you'll understand why I was upset about them being sold out...


Nayoung wanted to visit the mecca of photography lovers everywhere, the superstore for B&H Photo Video. The experience was amazing, and really needs to be seen to be believed.

So, it was a great trip and we'll see you in a year or so, NYC.

M