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HEYO! I'm back from a long (and very much welcome) vacation weekend to Horrorhound Cincinnati. I'm glad to report that it was a very relaxing and fun weekend. Surely what the doctor ordered. Here is a daily recap and tons of pics! Enjoy:
Wednesday, March, 15th,
2017 – Up at 0900 hours. I write a letter to dad and then start painting on
my biker jacket. I put the first coat on and it comes out looking pretty good.
I drop off D and head into work for a 3-11shift that seems to drag and drag and
drag! After work, Zillins, JD and I hit the BW3 for early Vacation celebration
drinks and a burger. D joins us just as we are finishing up. We drive home and
pass out around 2am.
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A VERY pregnant Belle, relaxing. |
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A nice post-work pre-vacation drink with the boys. |
Thursday, March, 16th,
2017 – I wake up around 10am, a first for me for a while!! Actually being
able to sleep in for once? Can’t put a price on that! I get up and put on a
second coat of paint on the biker jacket. I finish coloring a commission for a
client and send it to him. He replies with his approval. I do a bunch of last
minute things around the house and start packing for the weekend. D gets up and
we go to stock up on the rest of our booze, food and last minute costume stuff.
We get back around 5pm and finish packing up. Then around 8pm we head to
Crunchies for some eats. We get right in and out, beating the crowd. We come
home and I finish up the jacket, sewing on the patches and last minute paint
touch ups. It came out great! I put on all the pins as well. I attempt to fall
asleep at 11pm, but it doesn’t take. So I end up showering, then watching Jackass 2.5 and I finally pass out
around 2am.
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Lily is worried about our alcoholism. |
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My hand-painted biker jacket back. Painted by me! First time I've touched paints in years! |
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Smiley Crunchy's Burger! |
Friday, March, 17th,
2017 – Alarm blazes at 0600 hours. We brew coffee, load up the Bat Blazer
and head to Mcds for breakfast. Then we hit I-96 around 7:20. We stop off in
Findley, OH to use the Wifi at a Mcds to order TOOL tickets around 10am. After
several attempts to refresh and score tickets, we are finally successful! We
score lawn tickets for TOOL in June. Word is they sold out immediately, so we
were very lucky!
We arrive at Franklin, OH around 12:30 and stop off for gas
and White Castle (necessary). Then we trek another 25 miles to our hotel in
Cincinnati. We wait for Jynel and Coleen to get ahold of us and they do. We end
up standing right at check-in for about an hour, due to their system being
down. Meanwhile, I have to poo really bad. Wonderful start to the day! All I
want to do is get into my room and unwind from the 5 hour drive! I answer some
texts and emails from earlier while I’m waiting. Finally their system goes back
online and we check in. Our room is #703. Funny enough, last year my room was
#704! Right next door to where I was last year. Unfortunately, the rooms are
prearranged this year and Joe, Jynel and Coleen are stuck in the east wing.
(sigh)
We get our keys and scope out our room. I finally take a
nice shit and relax a little bit in the room. We then head over to the con and
find 12 Gauge’s set up. We say hi to Joe and during load in I run into Raphael.
Later on I run into Ron B about 10 different times. Seems he was all over the
show! D and I buy a few bootleg DVDs and magnets and call it a day. We hit the
con cafeteria where I opt for the personal pizza, which sucks. D gets ribs,
which are awesome! I declare I will eat them the following day. We head
back and take a nap in the room, passing
out to a nice Star Trek marathon on
BBC America. We’re back up around 10, and the gang all come up to our room to
partake of some drinks. After loading up and doing some shots, we head
downstairs. Outside I finally get the face time with Coleen about everything
that has happened in the past 7 months. There were plenty of hugs and tears as
we all group hugged several times. We smoked cigs and cigars and just kept chugging
the beers and eating several gummi bears and worms soaked in vodka. It was a
therapeutic night.
After our deep discussion, I headed to the bathroom. Which I
quickly realized being on my feet now, I was severely drunk! I ran into several
people and chatted with them and random others, which I am sure I made an ass
of myself a few times. I run into D and announce that I have to go up to the
room immediately. We do and I throw up violently into the toilet and the sink.
It was extreme and scary for me! I then lay my head down and pass out
instantly, with Star Trek playing in
the background. I don’t remember what time that was.
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Lovely White Castle! |
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When the party hat goes on, its time to get crazy! |
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My girls. |
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The gang! |
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We offer thee, vodka soaked gummies and cigars! |
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We're all okay! |
Saturday, March, 18th,
2017 – I wake up around 0900 hours, severe hangover and dehydration going
on. I chug a water that D lovingly left by my fan for me the night before. I
then wandered downstairs, hungry as fuck and ate TWO plates full of hotel
breakfast. Indeed, hungry as fuck. D joins me and we eat hearty. We go back up
to the room and pass out for more napping in the comfy king size bed and new
pillows.
We wake up around noonish and hit the hotel pool. Its empty
so we got a whole hour to ourselves just to relax and swim around. The water is
nice and warm and I definitely needed that relaxing dip! We get out and dry off
back in the room. We relax a bit and then head over to the show. First we stop
off at the food court, which is wall to wall busy as fuck! But we get our food
and find an open space of real estate to eat at against the wall. We’re all
then yelled at by security to not sit in the halls. But what else is an
oversold crowd supposed to do when the café chairs are all full? No matter, I
scarf down my ribs and potatoes and we head to the show itself. It is
annoyingly busy and crowded. I end up grabbing a couple indie horror flicks,
some horror comics and then hitting the Troma booth and getting a couple
movies. I get Lloyd Kaufman to sign the one he directed and then get a photo
with him and Toxie. Then I’m interviewed by Troma team about why I love Troma
movies. I ham up the jokes and say that Lloyd and I had an affair years ago.
The camera guy seemed to like my inprov.
We head back to the hotel and order some chili fries in the
café which take FOREVER to arrive. Can’t say the hotel restaurant’s service is
good at all. In fact, it sucked ass. I tracked the waitress down and paid our
bill, then headed back to the room. We relaxed some more, watching some Riddick movie while checking out our
buys. Coleen and Joe come up for their stuff at 7ish and D takes a mini nap.
Then she gets up and we get ready with our costumes. She paints on my Eddie
scar and I experiment with the blood needed on it. We get all dressed up, snap
some pics and then head downstairs. We watch the Pickled Circus show and a bit
of Hamilton’s Chump Change Variety show. We head back and refill our drinks and
meet up with the gang farther down the hall. We chat with everyone and then
head back outside to smoke with Coleen. After chatting out there for thirty
minutes we retire back to our room to get into our PJs and order some pizza. We
stay sober and just chat into the night about music, movies and memories. Then
Coleen heads to bed. I hit the pillow around 1am and pass out immediately.
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Lloyd Kaufman and Toxie with some bum. |
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Not quite EDDIE, but close enough. |
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Costumes complete! |
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The gang is all here! |
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Lovely peach ringz! |
Sunday, March, 19th,
2017 – My alarm goes off at 0900 hours. We hit the hotel breakfast and then
come back to the room to pack. I read online that Bernie Wrightson had died. I
email Walters to offer condolences on his friend. We load up the car and find a
close parking spot to the show. I check us out and then we walk back over to
the show for my tattoo appointment. I get there and she isn’t there. She ends
up showing up 30 minutes after showtime and I walk up and introduce myself. She
somehow confused our scheduled time we emailed each other about and so she
cannot get to me until like 3-4pm. I say that we scheduled for early Sunday and
we’re taking off after that. So we talk it out and I say its fine if we wait
until next year. She feels bad but it happens, I understand. Plus now I got the
peace of mind knowing that if my skin shrinks during my upcoming lifestyle
change, that it will look okay. I tell her to keep my deposit and she offers to
do my tat for free the following year. We shake hands and agree, no harm no
foul.
Off the hook from the tattoo, we head to the 12 Gauge booth
to say goodbye. Joe and Jynel aren’t there, so we just chat with Coleen and D
shows off her new taxidermy Bat in a Cage. We donate some money to the cancer
fund for Syd, Hamilton’s girlfriend and he graciously gives us some buttons.
Perfect for my new vest! We take off shortly after that to head home. We stop
off for White Castle again, our last fast food meal before the big change and
then drive the rest of the way home.
We get home around 6pm and the kitties great us at the door.
Belle still hasn’t given birth, so we are relieved. We unpack and D plays with
the cats. I update the blog and upload photos. I watch some of my new movies (Dickshark … not good. And part of Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers… so far,
good!) and then pass out around 8:30. D wakes me back up around 11:30 and we
watch Hush together. Then I update
the online blog and end up passing back out around 2:30am.
--T
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