I went to Glamourcon for about an hour on Saturday with Mary. Honestly I felt like it was 60 minutes I'll never get back. (Definitely 40 bucks I could have spent on something better. It was a pretty miserable time. I suppose I was expecting something "larger and grander". I thought there would be more art, more biff, bam, and pow! After seeing how small the room holding Glamourcon was I refused to shell out another $10 for the Asian Expo next door.
I'm not sure what I thought it would be -but it was very disturbing to see all these women looking so hard and full of inner turmoil. It was kind of like visiting the old prostitute's home and seeing the effects that ravages of time and spending ones entire life worrying about aging and outer beauty has. Sad really. I ended up feeling really bad for these women and I'm rethinking my stance on Pinups, Playmates, and erotica in general.
On the upside:
I did get meet Gina and get see her originals. Very nice up close. Both Gina and her art.
I got caught up to issue 4 of Dark Tarot of Lee's comic. I'm pretty sure Lee had no idea who I was but he was nice anyway.
I was surprised that they were charging the artist's for table space (like $350). I've never had to pay for space at a con (I've always been a guest) and I'm completely sure that I wouldn't start at Glamourcon.
I saw Hefner sitting at a table and wondered why there wasn't a bigger line -turns there was a line on the other side of the lobby that was an hour and half wait. One mystery solved.
Mary and I went outside for a smoke and saw the Hefster heading towards his limo. At which point about 20 overweight aging hipsters ran towards him and started shooting digi photos like some kind of geek squad paparazzi. We were terribly afraid they were going to knock him down and break his hip or something.
My wife learned that all those jokes about Playmates being airbrushed and enhanced were not jokes but absolutely true. Guys kept asking her which issue of Playboy she was in? Which she thought was really funny.
So after an hour we'd seen pretty much everything and it would have taken a half hour if it hadn't been so crowded. We went up to LA to have dinner in Malibu with a friend of ours. She had just returned from a month Bali and had taken some cooking lessons in Balinese cuisine. Amazing food! Plus she made pie!
Honestly that was the highlight of the day. I wish we had just spent the day in the "Bu" rather than wasting time at Glamourcon.
Posted by shawn at November 16, 2003 09:28 AM