So we had a great vacation up to the twin cities. Started at Convergence and once my geek weekend was over we headed to the Minnesota Center for the BOOK arts for jess and then went exploring for a while downtown. Ended up staying in the North Suburbs. Day 2 was at the Walker one of the nicest Contemporary Art museums I’ve ever been too. Almost all the shows were very good. Then we walked Hennepin and Lyndale and saw some pretty neat stores before having some really amazing Vietnamese.
Our final day was spent at the Mall of America, which really is a big mall with a theme park in it. Pretty cool but not too many stores you cant find elsewhere. I really reccomend Benucci TUcci? for lunch. Youll get a really great meal for less than it would cost outside of the mall.
Overall a Great Trip!
Were leaving town early tommorow morning for Minnesota for a little Convergence and some much needed vacation time in the twin cities. So no updates till next thursday at the earliest.
Just saw Transformers and I got to say I enjoyed it alot. It’s hard to redo a cartoon that has some many fans passionate and you cant help but feel a little bit squeezed when you only have two hours. Overall its fun, it’s big and Optimus is very very cool. If you love explosions, well Michael Bay has plenty of them here and the special effects are phenomenal.
New Warriors #2 keeps the path of secrecy going and looks to become a nice little mystery before it’s all done. The crew knows the history of these characthers and that always goes a long way.
O.k. have a great week. see you later
really a small town faire. Its kind of neat that they have the whole star trek thing label on it but really its just a small town fair with nothing much more to it. We only stayed about 1/2 an hour. I did see the future birthplace of Captain Kirk though. It’s behind an alleyway. Someone had taped a picture of Uhura to the back. Funny.
We just got back into Iowa City.
Had a blast on day one in Chicago. We first went to COlumbia College for the Artist Book Fair where we saw some pretty neat stuff and some things I think that took the definition of ‘book’ a little to far. I left Jess there for a while to do some networking and I headed up to Graham Crackers and Millenium Park. HAd a great lunch at HI Tea, and then headed over to The Printer’s row bookfair filled with streets of books both used and new. Finally we hopped on the blue line to go to Quimby’s. It was nice to see Lucky Creature Attacks next to other compilations like Greatest Comic Anthologies of 2006. :> Jess had sold all of her stuff and made enough money to pay for her purchases and more!
Quimby’s is really a very unique comic store. If you ever get to go you should. Not a Superhero book in sight, and the store is probably twice the size of most comic shops. check it out when you can.
We drove into wisconsin for the night to get ready for day 2.
At the Midwest Gaming Classic. Pinball machines galore! We probably played our ten dollar entrance fee just in the amount of quarters we would have had to put into those machines. I also got a awesome Ice Climber sound figure from Japan, Strider for the Genesis, and a Hook Pinball flyer for my brother. Saw more systems that I never knew existed and even got some down time with an beautiful Neo Geo. Awww…
We had a great drive back stopping to see the crazy Grotto in Dickeyville, Wi and building browsing in Mt. Vernon.
UPDATE 1. Added pictures.
We’re heading out to Chicago in just a few hours so Im going to get some sleep. Hopefully the weather holds and we will have nice driving conditions all weekend. If your in Milwaukee for the MGC, I’ll be the one wearing the Mega Man shirt and probably either playing pinball or scouring old Genesis carts. See you Monday.
This weekend we will be driving to Chicago on saturday so Jess can attend a book/paper conference and then to Oceanoc, Wi on sunday for day two of the midwest gaming classic
Looks like a full weekend and Im ready to see what kind of novelty games from my youth we can find at the MGC vendor area.
Well it’s right around the corner. Here come’s the heat, the humidty and the air condition fun!
Im ready for the popcorn to start flowing this week with spiderman 3 and not let up till the fall.
Already planning some long trips(minneapolis for convergence and vacation), milwaukee and chicago, and wish we had air conditioning in the car. Might head down to Kansas City this week for Planet COmicon. Heard it’s the 2nd biggest show next to Wizard World and since yet again that conflicts with a closer and arguably betterlocal event I will not be attending this year
So much fun right around the corner.
