2011 Chicago Con report (Sunday part two - David solo, the David & Joe Show, pt. 1)

[elderwitty]

First of all, I'm sorry for the ridiculous number of photos (actually, I'm not). There will be a total of about NINETY, but I can't help it - they're just so damn photogenic! (Be sure to stay tuned to the very end, wherein Joe Flanigan is apparently smuggling tobacco products.)


David Hewlett

This will be the lamest report ever, because I remember next to nothing. He was cute, and clever, and charming, but it’s all a blur. I’m counting on the transcript (my next assignment) to jog my memory. I’ll link it from here when it’s done. (It may be weeks, especially with the upcoming job hunt.)

He asked how many of us had seen Conan, and was surprised when it was so few. Someone shouted, “Because we’re here!” to clear it up for him. :grin:

















I do remember that someone asked what he’d change if he had a time machine, and he said he’d prevent Joe’s birth. Then he changed it to being at the birth, but raising him as his own feral child. And suddenly there were chocolates flying over the screen from backstage. Say it ain’t so, Joe! (That’s just a vicious waste of sweet goodness.)






Good David Jeckyll


Bad David Hyde (I want to see him play a villain.)

Shortly thereafter, Joe joined him onstage, bringing us to

The David and Joe Show

They were asked to pose by the Stargate segment. David did a bendy, and Joe started to straddle it, but decided to mime peeing on it/David instead.


Posing at the Gate. He's slinking right at us!




I don't remember why Joe was laughing, but David's reaction was plainly, "What are you on?"


Joe's rebuttal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "No, really. I'm asking what you're on."





They told the familiar (but funny) story of a grumpy David driving home, with Joe and Jason coming up behind in Joe's truck. Jason decided to moon David at a stoplight.


David in his happy eco car, unaware of the ass approaching alongside.


"What is that? OH, MY GOD!!"


"And I see Flanigan's laughing face behind the ass."


"And you can't unsee something like that."






Alert!Joe is alert.







Don't worry, there's more to come.

Comments

[scarlettandblue.livejournal.com]

Oh how I wish I had been there,
or baring that, how I wish someone had filmed the whole thing and put it on youtube!!!
You are so luck to get to these things,

Plus from your earlier post about the photos you are the queen of guile and cunning outsmarting those con people and getting your personal stuff anyway. And just think, you probably saved millions of David and Joe's gorgeous brain cells from dying of boredom sighing all those dull, non personal photos!! It's like a public service that's what it is

QoCaG

[elderwitty]

I think I'll have everyone refer to me by my new acronym from now on. The Queen of Cunning and Guile. I like it!

You mean, like the DragonCon people did with their guests' panels? To entice more people to come and spend money at their event? (Which is how I got hooked.) You crazy, sister!

It's only my second con, but I'm hooked! The best part was meeting in the flesh lots of folks I know from the ether. I hope to see you at one, one of these days.

Well, I didn't get my name on all of them, but I think the interactions are worth far, far more. (And I've always been weird, so that stuff just comes naturally.) That was the very idea - give them a break from the same eight photos of each of them that were on sale in the vendor room! (Also, I'm not usually able to find something that suits me in anybody's regular stock, so I thought I'd better be proactive and just supply my own.)

Thanks for the new moniker!

Re: QoCaG

[scarlettandblue.livejournal.com]

Well your majesty
the S&B emporium of Majestic Monikers is glad to be of service.

Sadly I doubt I'll ever get to a con
And I would probably be all tongue tied and stupid and blush like crazy (not an attractive look for a person of my advanced years!!)
Plus I'm only a secret SciFi nerd (and an even secreter LJ user) and I don't have a buddy like you have to go with, and I'm not so sure the ones in the UK are always as good.

I'll just have to be content to watch from afar...or on youtube (sigh)

*at least that bit where The Flan pee'd on the gate is up now ;-)

Re: QoCaG

[elderwitty]

:does the royal backwards hand wave:
Thank you.

Dude, I was 45 at my first one. I got tongue-tied and blushed and said stupid stuff (I insulted Joe's appearance [to his face] by leaving four important words out of a funny comment), but still had a great time! If you come over here, you'll have a buddy exactly like me (ME!) to go with, but I'll bet there are plenty of folks who go to the big one in England (Asylum?) who'd be willing to meet up. I have yet to meet a congoer who's unhelpful or unfriendly.

I hear ya, though. I do a lot of vid watching. How do the people who go to lots of cons get the time off work? Or the money

HOMG, that was hysterical. Sadly, I missed it live through crowing over getting that bendy!David photo. Still, I've watchd the replay many times. Thank goodness for the secret video society. :D

[foxe (from livejournal.com)]

If you search youtube, there are two videos that I found, one of them talking about the mooning incident, and one of them posing next to the gate (including Joe pretending to pee on it!). I don't recall what they're titled, but I think I searched for "chicon 2011" or something like that.

vids

[elderwitty]

Ooh, I didn't realize the mooning one was up. That's such a funny story. :D

Off to look for it.

[scarlettandblue.livejournal.com]

Thank you for being so kind as to offer this info, after I left this comment I did manage to find a couple of youtube posts.