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Overheard at MFM COOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!
Seems artist in question managed to get somebody to allow him crash space at the con.
Seems artist in question FAILED to even bother to take note the persons apperance or likeness to approach them directly.
Seems the artist in question bellowed in hotel lobby the persons last name like Kirk in Star Trek endlessly looking for said person, creating a scene.
Seems artist in question even demanded the hotel GIVE him a room key so that Artist in Question could dump his shit in the persons room, saying literally "I don't want these assholes stealing my stuff!!" Hotel rightfully refused said artist a key, saying said artist wasn't registered with hotel.
Yeah, just had to record this for the ages!! No names given, its a safe bet those who see this will know said artist in question and nod sagely.
Seems artist in question FAILED to even bother to take note the persons apperance or likeness to approach them directly.
Seems the artist in question bellowed in hotel lobby the persons last name like Kirk in Star Trek endlessly looking for said person, creating a scene.
Seems artist in question even demanded the hotel GIVE him a room key so that Artist in Question could dump his shit in the persons room, saying literally "I don't want these assholes stealing my stuff!!" Hotel rightfully refused said artist a key, saying said artist wasn't registered with hotel.
Yeah, just had to record this for the ages!! No names given, its a safe bet those who see this will know said artist in question and nod sagely.
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Apparently I was the room he was looking for, and I never heard about this incident until I got home from the con. If I had witnessed it I don't know how I would have handled it - maybe ducked out to find someone from security and asked for backup for when I withdrew my offer to share the room.
The staff acted exactly as they should have... Not as I'd have preferred (throwing him off premise), but still.
I have to say this new hotel and the staff ROCK. At the old Holiday Inn, we used to get attitude from the staff and management. Even housekeeping was lethargic at best. I asked for an extra comforter for our room while the maid was cleaning and she promised to fetch one. Five minutes later, she was back with a blanket. At the old hotel, it would take 3 or 4 calls and a personal trip downstairs for that kind of service. I loved it.
I have to say this new hotel and the staff ROCK. At the old Holiday Inn, we used to get attitude from the staff and management. Even housekeeping was lethargic at best. I asked for an extra comforter for our room while the maid was cleaning and she promised to fetch one. Five minutes later, she was back with a blanket. At the old hotel, it would take 3 or 4 calls and a personal trip downstairs for that kind of service. I loved it.
kengi
Hokay...I should explain.
D*C told me I didn't rate guest status after seven years of being a guest. After the way Ellen and I were treated by the Guest Services Director, I closed the books on D*C and I save myself a grand a year.
I closed the books on furdom in 2001. Before I burned that bridge, the only conventions I attended were ConFURence and ZonieCon. In '04, I took the suggestion of an absolute total idjit just to prove him wrong (and I was oh so RIGHT) and attended FWA. The convention was all right (although Ellen received quite a culture shock from certain activities). It was after the convention when things went south (which I explained to you earlier).
Would you believe that absolute total idjit wanted me to punt D*C (when they were giving me guest status) to attend MFM as a fanboy (I didn't get jack from the fella running the convention). Then he got bent and pissy with me when I refused, going so far as to threaten to attack me if he ever saw me (I wanted to attend MFM so I could mop the floor with him).
But me at another furcon....NEVER happen. Here are the facts:
1) NO furcon wants me there due to my embattled, embittered and controversial nature.
2) NO furcon will give me my due for my talent, skills and achievements.
3) I don't feel like spending a K to make a C.
D*C told me I didn't rate guest status after seven years of being a guest. After the way Ellen and I were treated by the Guest Services Director, I closed the books on D*C and I save myself a grand a year.
I closed the books on furdom in 2001. Before I burned that bridge, the only conventions I attended were ConFURence and ZonieCon. In '04, I took the suggestion of an absolute total idjit just to prove him wrong (and I was oh so RIGHT) and attended FWA. The convention was all right (although Ellen received quite a culture shock from certain activities). It was after the convention when things went south (which I explained to you earlier).
Would you believe that absolute total idjit wanted me to punt D*C (when they were giving me guest status) to attend MFM as a fanboy (I didn't get jack from the fella running the convention). Then he got bent and pissy with me when I refused, going so far as to threaten to attack me if he ever saw me (I wanted to attend MFM so I could mop the floor with him).
But me at another furcon....NEVER happen. Here are the facts:
1) NO furcon wants me there due to my embattled, embittered and controversial nature.
2) NO furcon will give me my due for my talent, skills and achievements.
3) I don't feel like spending a K to make a C.
I must be the only guy in the fandom to have caught the guy on a nice day. I met Steven Martin once. he allowed me to ride in his car from the San Diego comic con in 1989 to the home in Huntington Beach where I was visiting my birth folks. I see his artwork as Astounding in quality. I wish I could make pictures as well as he can. some of the subject matter can be... Surprising to say the least.
Even So, there is no substitute for the quality that this guy can obviously generate. Now, if he could just work on personality.
Even So, there is no substitute for the quality that this guy can obviously generate. Now, if he could just work on personality.
Most important question-- did he ever manage to find the elusive roomie? And did various assholes steal his stuff?
Someone should really compile a master volume of his stories. The Canadian border bust... the disasterous interview at Warner's Animation... all the times he tried to grab Artists Alley space at SDCC by squatting at empty tables...The possibilities are endless.
Someone should really compile a master volume of his stories. The Canadian border bust... the disasterous interview at Warner's Animation... all the times he tried to grab Artists Alley space at SDCC by squatting at empty tables...The possibilities are endless.
He did...and here is a quote from a LJ
"It's mwalimu complaining about one of his roomies dropping on him at the last minute and then discovering a dealer in need of a room. Said dealer was also a pain, piling his stuff in top of M's and crashing in M's bed one night... Sounds like martin to me!"
"It's mwalimu complaining about one of his roomies dropping on him at the last minute and then discovering a dealer in need of a room. Said dealer was also a pain, piling his stuff in top of M's and crashing in M's bed one night... Sounds like martin to me!"
You know - it would be REALLY Funny if after his outbursts, the hotel staff had him questioned by the local police, and they decided then and there to take him in for a 48-hour sanity observation, dragging him off in handcuffs, leaving all of his precious bins and boxes right there in the hall...
...and - presuming that the powers-that-be at the local sanitarium determined that he was at least marginally sane - he returned to find his pile exactly as he left it, unstolen, untouched and unwanted, and was handed a bill for the time that it "occupied" hotel space.
...and - presuming that the powers-that-be at the local sanitarium determined that he was at least marginally sane - he returned to find his pile exactly as he left it, unstolen, untouched and unwanted, and was handed a bill for the time that it "occupied" hotel space.
What's really scary is that I think I know who it was, even though I wasn't at the con by that time. Other comments in this thread confirms my suspicions.
Wow.
I think the same dude tried to get me to register him at MFF without his ID. I asked for ID nicely, since everybody has to show it. He said, "Don't you know me, I'm Some Dude!" and I said, "No, Some Dude is a Famous Celebrity with Certain Visible Appearance Traits You Don't Have and a Personality Unlike Yours to boot. Can I see your ID please?" I don't think he liked that too much.
Is that the guy?
Wow.
I think the same dude tried to get me to register him at MFF without his ID. I asked for ID nicely, since everybody has to show it. He said, "Don't you know me, I'm Some Dude!" and I said, "No, Some Dude is a Famous Celebrity with Certain Visible Appearance Traits You Don't Have and a Personality Unlike Yours to boot. Can I see your ID please?" I don't think he liked that too much.
Is that the guy?
When I went to the Prancing Skiltaire for the first time, I was walking around and talking to people holding my sketchbook. This guy reached over my shoulder from behind me and literally swipes my sketchbook out of my hands and starts looking through it. I was like and after a minute asked how old I was. I told him my age (I had just turned 18) and he handed back the sketchbook and said "At least you're legal!".
I still have no idea if that was supposed to be a compliment or an insult.
I still have no idea if that was supposed to be a compliment or an insult.
Now I wish I had had the moolah, months ago, to go to MFM and see this! It would have been WORTH it!
Said artist needs to get head out of Ass, Grow up and get a life! You know how many times I've told him that, POLITELY! I've known too many who've said it bluntly and in his face. Don't think he'll ever learn!
Jeff Ringtail
They say opinions are like assholes, everyone has one. I know the both of you guys and i don't reserve judgement for whats between you both. I like art and the politics shouldn't really be any part of anyone's art appreciation. You are wholesome but the other guys pretty good and perverseness.
Thats my asshole of an opinion, love the art and try not to get in anyone's business. Taking sides isn't really a thing to do. Never know who your pissing off?
P.S. if you do know who your pissing off, do it safely.
Thats my asshole of an opinion, love the art and try not to get in anyone's business. Taking sides isn't really a thing to do. Never know who your pissing off?
P.S. if you do know who your pissing off, do it safely.
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