Post Comic-Con Blues

Posted on | July 27, 2009 | 1 Comment

The post Comic-Con depression has begun to sink in. I woke up today tired as hell but wishing i had to go catch the Comic-Con shuttle. I feel like I didn’t buy enough crap. I really didn’t if I came back with any cash in hand.

We’re updating the photo gallery later (fixing some photos) and adding our Sunday photos, Masquerade photos, and some photos that other people took as well. We’re also knee-deep in editing the footage from our interviews with Kane Hodder and Robert Englund, the cast of Fringe, the cast of Chuck, the cast of Smallville, Zack Synder, 6 different video games soon to be released, and other con people. Expect them tomorrow!

Go look at photos: http://uglycouchshow.com/gallery

Comic-Con Saturday: Interviews and Hangovers

Posted on | July 25, 2009 | 2 Comments

It’s Saturday, and my head is killing me. A late night of drinking random booze in San Diego will do that.

We’re in the press line for Chuck. It’s pretty packed with reporters from SyFy, IGN, Access Hollywood and all them. The stars are interviewing well. We’ll have this footage up on Tuesday, most likely.

We kinda have to elbow out the other press guys. There’s some with dinky little handycams. Seriously, people?

We’ve also got a Fringe panel later, and we might stop by the steampunk meetup for some photo ops. Those guys always look cool.

friday at comic con

Posted on | July 24, 2009 | No Comments

Guess who’s at comic-con?

Steve Biggs!

Also, Thursday and Friday pics are up on the gallery! View the 2009 Comic-Con Image Gallery

press lines SUCK

Posted on | July 23, 2009 | No Comments

Torgo is hallucinating beside me. He’s speaking to an imaginary Jeff Bridges about Tron and what doesn’t make sense to him. Something about grid bugs. I’m afraid to acknowledge him.

You see, the Press Line was not the experience was expected. Not in the least. We got in easily enough. Our tag was placed on the red carpet, as were many other tags, from many other web media outlets. In fact, they were placed about 6 inches apart, forcing us to jockey for position with each other. The PR wranglers directed the talent to certain outlets and skipped many others, including ours. Talent? Well, that’s an overstatement. There was not much talent there. Tim Burton and the cast of Alice in Wonderland skipped the line entirely. The stars of Tron never came out. Eventually, we left.

We wandered into a room that we woudl be in later, and lo and behold, there were the stars of Tron, being interviewed in a air conditioned room, by the big name broadcast press. Well. Interesting. The online press outside in the heat were clearly snubbed. Soemtimes it sucks being online press.

Anyway, that’s it for us and press lines. It’s one-on-ones and THAT’S IT. We cater to geeks. Geeks need air-conditioning, and so do we.

Torgo is dreaming of riding lightcycles with Jeff Bridges. Wistfully. It’s time to get him some food. His blood sugar is low or some bullshit. Maybe a hooker.