Ummmm....what?: July 2009

Sunday, July 26, 2009

Geekfest 2009

Once again I engulfed myself in the center of the Geek universe at the annual Comic-Con in San Diego over the weekend. It's a place where geeks commune and celebrate everything Geek. I'm the TV Geek so my focus for the weekend was one, DEXTER and two, LOST. Everything else was interesting and amusing and I went with it. For more information, check out www.comic-con.org.

I was walking around in between signings and saw Mr. Spock himself. Surprisingly, not that many people were around him so I got in line to get his autograph. He was a very nice gentleman. He signed and took a picture. After, I shook his hand and said "Thank you, sir." He's 78!

DEXTER

I love DEXTER. It's a TV show on the Showtime network about a serial killer who was raised by a cop and now works as a blood spatter analyst for the Miami PD. It's good drama.

Julie Benz, aka Rita, Dexter's girlfriend, now wife, now mother of Dexter's child

David Zayas, aka Lt. Angel Batista, Dexter's co-worker and "friend"

James Remar, aka Harry Morgan, Dexter's cop dad who taught him how to cover his tracks

C.S. Lee, aka Masuka, Dexter's fellow forensic specialist and "friend"

I was getting Angel Bobble head when "Harry" and Masuka took pics. Great photo op.

I attended the Dexter panel and got to see a sneak peek of Dexter Season 4. In attendance were a few producers, Jennifer Carpenter, Julie Benz, Michael C. Hall and joining the cast, John LIthgow.

I got a bunch of DEXTER stuff- signed bobble heads of Julie Benz, David Zayas and C.S. Lee and a signed action figure of Michael C. Hall. Score!

LOST

Jorge Garcia, "Hurley" was being interviewed, so we tried to get some pics as best as we could.

You couldn't miss the guy. Here's Jason and Trishia with "Hurley"

I got in line for the Lost panel at 8:45am. The panel didn't start until 11am. I was lucky enough to get in. There were several superfans that camped out overnight in line. Below is a clip I found online of the beginning of the panel. I think you might be able to find the rest of the parts by clicking on the right side of the page. Good stuff. Can't wait until the final season begins .

RANDOMNESS

Jason and Olivia Munn

Jason and Olivia Munn

Jason and Deebo from "Friday"

Jason and Alison Haislip of G4

Jason and Gene Simmons

This is Pat doing a workshop for the Art Institute of Orange County. He's the "professional" and gets us in every year. Thanks, man! Check out his work here.

Monday, July 20, 2009

Celebrate Life

I work on the Oncology unit at UCLA. It can be a pretty heavy place to work on both physically and emotionally so it was nice to have a day that celebrated survivors. This year's Celebration of Life featured Chris Ayers, an artist who drew a drawing of an animal everyday for a year during his treatment and turned those drawings into a book. His second book is set to be released this fall. Best wishes to all survivors and their friends and family.

Here's the cake with the image of the butterfly designed by Chris Ayers.

Here I am with my co-worker, Kim on the left and Joyce Wilbur, a survivor on the right.

Wednesday, July 08, 2009

Danke schoen!

Danke means "thank you" in German.

Danke to all that made it out to Beerfest/Oktoberfest on July 4th! Danke to my roommates, James and Seong for letting me throw a party in our backyard and danke shoen to the other celebrants- Andrew, Kay and Joe for being born in July. =)

More pics will hopefully pop up soon. In the meantime, enjoy this short video of the day's events. Stay until the very end of the clip for a special treat. Ole!

BEERFEST09 from gwen78 on Vimeo.

HOUSEWARMING SNEAK PEAK/BIRTHDAY WITH THE FAMS

Jason and Trishia recently got the keys to their new townhome. Mom decided to throw me a birthday party at their new place. She loves me.