Guest Blogger Mike Drucker's Day At NYCC

There's an hour and twenty minutes until they open the doors forregular goers and I'm choking on Triple Espresso gelato. There's somesort of rocky, chipping thing in here, which is burning my throat onthe way down.

Well.

Already things are somewhat hectic. I met up with Ed Murray and Lancean hour ago. I received a Staff T-Shirt. I'm not staff, per se, but Iwill cherish having it more than is likely healthy.I also ran into my old boss Pat Driscoll and the Black20 comedyfun-time folks. As I talked to Pat, I could tell that a few of hisfriends didn't know me and were a hair's width away from turning onthe camera and editing me down into absurdity.

Spoke with Matt Little a few minutes ago and I'm now doing two comedyshows tonight: an early sort of run-through comedy show at 4:00 p.m.and the real, big one at 7:00. They're both on what's called theVariant Stage, and I need to actually find out where that is.

Ed just bought a burger.

Here's the last thing right now: the convention space is being sharedwith a much smaller showing by the City University of New Yorkpresenting a job fair. You've never seen the odd Mexican stand-offbetween people wearing Nightwing costumes and terrified collegestudents wearing three-piece suits.

Later That Day:

Just did my first set. Small crowd, but it was alright. Sort ofworking the three or four people hanging out. It was fun, though. Didsome older jokes I haven't done in a while. It's weird hearing "ArmyStrong, Army Smash" reverberate through the Javits Center, likelyannoying people pushing small-press comic books.

I used a Batman joke I haven't used in nearly a year.

Also, I now have a performer's pass. Take that, Dad.

Later that Night:

I'm home now. I did my last set and it went great. There were someguys from Wizard in the audience and they really enjoyed my set, whichfeels very, very, very relieving. For some reason, I wanted the guysfrom Wizard to like me a lot. But I did well and much later thatnight, two guys came up to me on the street and told me they enjoyedthe set. Bonus!

Ending Coming:

Here's What I Bought Today at the Con:

Colon:

1 Large Super Mario Plastic Statue
1 Large Goomba Plastic Statue
1 World of Warcraft Starter Deck1 Batman vs. Joker VS. Card Set
1 Spiderman vs. Doctor Octopus VS. Card Set
1 Magic: The Gathering Deck (my first in perhaps a decade)
1 Comic Book Legal Defense Fund T-shirt
1 Plush Red Mushroom (To Make You Grow Larger)
1 Plush Green Mushroom (To Make You Live Longer)
1 Duncan Yo-Yo

G'night.