Izabael Muses: Ramblings of a Renegade Djinn

Comic-Con 2007 (San Diego) photos

Ok, I'm posting the comic-con photos to Flickr today.  First I'm going to post a few of them here and make some comments on them.

Also, I'd like to note that while I took tons of pictures I'm only uploading a handful as they are much the same.  Most are either fans taking pictures of me, or me taking pictures with costume characters, or they are me in the hotel and have slight nudity (I have nothing against artful nudity, but all the sites I use have all sorts of nude restrictions--and even when they don't I don't want to alienate my sites from younger fans by doing so.)

Ok, first my favorite:

Me and Gandalf were gonna break open a can of magickal whoop ass on...whoever happened by!

Just before this photo, Shaun Von Dragen pointed out that I was a true nerd and belonged at Comic-Con, because there were Comic-Con employees who were labeled "Elite", and I said that they would be extra hard to kill so we would need a full group.  (This is a World of Warcraft reference for the non-nerds out there.)

 

So I tell this dad that I am the "Angel of Death" but that didn't stop him from offering up his child for a chance to snap a photograph of me.

This little area was excellent, btw.  Much better than a real booth.  Everytime I would stop in here for more than 30 seconds a crowd would form to photograph me. 

That said, almost everyone was extremely nice and polite--except for walking around through the heavy crowds people would bump my wings :(

So I took a picture with these fantastic looking ladies, which didn't do much for my self esteem, as they were like gigantic tall.  Where do they grow girls like this?  I need to drink the water.

Needless to say neither Shaun nor I remember what the heck they were promoting.  There weren't as many booth babes as I thought there would be, but these two were definitely beautiful.

Then to add insult to injury, I hung out with the famous fatty from Return of the Jedi.

So with my flabby back, I felt like Jabba's little cousin or something :-(  But at least I don't drool in public--as far as anyone knows.

So our hotel was downtown San Diego at historical botique  hotel named the Sophia.  It was all redone this year but has been there since 1928.

It was very nice and we had a good time there.  The first night we got into town was after a long day fighting with Shaun because the 120 mile drive turned into drive from hell since we left in time for bumper-to-bumper all the way there. 

We went to dinner at a place called the Ivy--it was chosen randomly from a list of a half dozen chosen for us by the Concierge at our hotel as nice places to eat.  The prices weren't bad compared to shi-shi restaurants in LA, but my entire  dish consisted of 5(!) raviolis. 

Dessert was amazing and I had this crazy dessert that was two cotton-candys  (just like at a carnival or a faire)--one on either side of a dish of pink ice cream!  I wrapped the ice cream in strips of cotton-candy and the result was like eating delicious pink rain clouds!! And just as I was finishing my wonderful dessert guess who came floating by our table, Gwyneth Paltrow and Liv Tyler.  Shaun didn't even notice them go by, too busy was he with dessert, but it turns out they were promoting Iron Man so that was probably their hotel.  After that I wanted to go party, but Shaun was dead sleepy (all the arguing and driving) so that was the end of night one, except that we watched Shrek 3 which was ok.

Second day was our big Comic-Con day, and afterward we ate dinner at a rooftop bar with a nice view of San Diego.  The third day we went to Sea World, where I caught a farmer's tan, and later we shot a video that you-tube or the other video shares won't show even though it is pretty tame! :-/  Overall a really nice time.  I'm grateful for everything the universe provides me.  Enjoy the pictures!!  (The full set on Flickr)

xOxOxXo,
Izabael

Wizard World 2007

Category:  Movies, TV, Celebrities

First of all, I wasn't nearly as close to the Suicide Girl's booth as I thought on set-up day.  They were quite a few "blocks" away.  I barely saw any of them the entire convention, but on Sunday, Von Dragen and I had a chance to cruise around after we sold out of books. 

They were all pretty cute in the typical SG way.  From what I gathered it's all volunteer so whichever ones wanted to show up were allowed.  That seems fine, but none of the girls there were in the products being sold which is pretty lame to me.  They should each be allowed and encouraged to come with stacks of glossies to sell with autographs.  I guess the girls like the supportive community, but selling your image to a website for a 2-year exclusive license seems short-sighted if you plan to seriously make money with your face and body.  If any of you SGs have realized this and are at the end of your contract, you can contact me here and I'll help you get started with no one in control but yourself.     

But maybe none of them want that!  I guess I'm just an old-fashioned, do-it-yourself girl... :-)

Also there was a guy inside the booth with tons of tattoos.  Von Dragen asked him if he was supposed to be a "Suicide Boy."  I laughed because either way he definitely looked like a flamer, but the guy said he was attached to one of the girls named Fractal.  I couldn't remember what a fractal was because i'm a ditz. 

Fractal was pretty hot honestly, and later I had the pleasure to see her sets online and she looks even better there.  She wasn't very engaging though personality-wise.  This was a symptom most of the girls were reported to share based on what other  conventioneers told me over the course of 3-days.   Most people said they seemed to be far happier chatting with themselves than engaging fans.

However, Shaun disputes this and says most of them were quite nice if you bothered to ask questions and keep the conversation going.  He said that only one really stood out in particular though.  "A young coquette with shortish brown hair, a fresh smile and subtly mischievous eyes."  I think he said her name was Pistolina.   

   

Luckily, we also had the pleasure of meeting and spending a little time with a true beauty both inside and out. Over at the Baby Tattoo booth we met Tyese, an adorably erotic brunette. She's small but looks deadly to me with those soulful eyes and mysterious lips. She is on the cover of a tight little art book called "Visions from within the Mechanism: The Industrial Surrealism of Jeffery Scott (1019)" by the aforementioned publisher. It's Giger-derivative but he does enough of his own spin to make it very worthwhile. Also I enjoy his use of more colors while exploring Gigerish themes.

   

I don't have tons to say about the convention.  As you can see by the pictures, I was insanely busy with fans. The only other hottie of note besides your usual assortment of bunnies and pets squeezed into "Love Boat Alley" along with "Bud Bundy", Lou Gossett Jr., and the perennial Lou Ferrigno, was Metal Sanaz. She was delightfully delicious in person with sexy, long black and blonde-streaked hair.  This death metal diva has a body that, sadly, even I would die for. But I should also warn you that she will totally ninja you with camera footage whether you want her to or not. 

Von Dragen probably had more time to enjoy the convention than I because he just sneaks off all the time though he swears he was busy networking…uhh-huhhh…;-) He was pleased to meet one of his favorite comic book artists, Bill Sienkiewicz, and came back from hanging out with

Alice

in Wonderland with lipstick on his lapel at least once. Just kidding. There was no

Alice

. At least I don't think there really was!

   

I had a lot of fun and look forward to Festival of Books next month.

Love,
iZaBaeL::.:.:..: . .       .                    .             :             ..:                       ......