AM SO FUCKING RETARDED IT ISN'T EVEN FUNNY ANYMORE!!!

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To say that I'm feeling overwhelmed by the amount of money I've spent/am spending to attend Botcon in late September is putting it mildly.

At the core of my being I really do feel that it was a mistake to go to this year's con and last year's show should have been my first and last show.

Yes. I collect Transformers.

Yes. I have 1553+ of them.

But at the root of my collecting gene is the collecting itself and not really much of the peripheral "fandom" that most geek things have.

Hell. I barely read the geek message boards anymore because on any given day the same thing is being said that was said last year and the year before and the year before that. (The panels at these cons are pretty much the exact same thing year after year too with the same lame questions asked and the same stock answers given.)

It is all pretty much the same no matter what your "geek" thing is.

I knew I should have waited to see the actual exclusive toys before filling out the registration form. I failed in this. I failed in this royally and the "collector" retard in me ordered two sets. So that's $405 out the door.

Airfare ended up being $220 or therebouts.

It'll cost $50 to get from the airport to the hotel and then back on return day.

And the hotel will be $129.

I've already spent $804 and I haven't bought a single toy at the con or eaten a meal.

Where the FUCK has my internal sense of value gone?!?!?!

When it comes to this messed up addiction of mine I am usually extremely controlled by a sense of value and I will often compare and constrast every decision based on the implied value I see in something.

And buying these godforsaken exclusives sight-unseen was against every single personal rule I have for my collecting.

Hell... even on Ebay you most often have at least 1 photo of the item in question and a whole decription of it!

With these I didn't even have that to go on and I bought two sets of what is turning out to be figures I have absolutely no care in the world for that aren't worth a damn anything to me.

And while the rumor mill and leaked photos abound my gut feeling is that all these so-called rumors are actually true and I've paid this money for things that I have absolutely no real need or want for.

I AM SO FUCKING RETARDED IT ISN'T EVEN FUNNY ANYMORE!!! (And then it was only funny part of the time anyway!)

Perhaps I will get shit-faced drunk at the con. Why the hell not!

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You know, $804 could buy you one hell of a weekend in Toledo - you could get the nicest room downtown, eat like a king and be drunk enough all weekend to pretend you were someplace else...like Akron.

Well, you can probably sell your exclusive toys on ebay and get at least $500 back. Then the weekend is just costing you $300. And you're getting a couple free meals, free drinks. And hopefully there will be some good panels.

Nevertheless, I shouldn't have bought this stuff sight-unseen either.

You two should go, pick up your toys, and never look back. You definitely (and probably Evebird, too) could use a vacation. I know it's not San Fran, but it's out of Ohio. It's a place you've never been to, AND THEY HAVE A MEDIEVAL THEMED RESTAURANT!!! So don't think of it as a waste or you're going to be in a shitty mood the whole weekend. Go and taunt all the losers at the 'con and then go get a big fucking steak, because you're in Texas. And get me something nice at the medieval themed restaurant. I'll give you money.

I will still go and have the best time I can but that doesn't change the fact that my doy levels are currently at an all time high.

If the problem is that you won't be able to get your hands on the Master Sword, the guy at Transrepro.com is doing both the RID one, and the Fort Max one. Which is awesome, because I don't need to be spending $175 on an accessory, but if the mood strikes me, I probably would have.

And Nala, the sheer fact that you need "show casts" confirms the geek factor. But I hate the message boards too. Not everything has to be a pissing contest.

If you go to the Medieval Restaurant, ask Sir Mix-A-Lot why he sold his song to Target.

Well, it was either that, or a nostaligia single called "Baby got back got back for '05"

Besides, in the age of "Back 'Dat Ass Up" Sir Mix-a-Lot seems quaint. Why not sell ass to kids?

I must correct you to say that it's actually "Back That Azz Up." And I know that because it took me a week to find it on iTunes. It's my all-time favorite song. Dismemberment Plan did a great cover of it once when I saw them in concert. Travis Morrison, formerly of DP, does an awesome cover of Ludacris's What's Your Fantasy.

And thank you, Gigamatt, for getting down with the niggaz with me.

I'm just glad to find another pale whitey who listens to "urban" radio nigga music.

Gawd, even typing that made me laugh.

Wasn't 'Back That Azz Up' based on a Lord Byron poem?

And on that cheek, and o'er that brow,
So soft, so calm, the shake don't stop,
I grab my 40, and fill my cup,
O! sweet love, forsooth, back that azz up.

I stand corrected.

But in defense of my unbearable whiteness, I can sing along with both the Chronic and Enter the Wu Tang in their entirety.

Hey, man...Wu Tang Clan ain't nothin' ta' fuck with.

Kel, I think the west side is getting to you. I'm coming over tonight with some Pet Shop Boys cds and white bread.

Besides, Wu Tang got nothin on Kool Moe Dee. Which shows how current my rap collection is.

With a statement like that, expect a swarm of Killa Bees on your azz sometime soon.

I find it amazing you've all taken a a bitch rant about my frustrations and guilt with going to Botcon and turned it into a rap/hip-hop discussion.

Hey, we're down with OPP.

Now on heavy rotation on my player

It's all about the azz. Come on Nala, break it on down, or turn it out, oh what the devil do the kids say these days...back up to the bumper. Azz.

To quote Chef...

"Black people always used to say 'I'm in the house,' instead of 'I'm here'. But white people started to say, 'In the house.' So we switched it to, 'In the hizz-ouse.' 'In the hizz-ouse,' became 'In the hizz-izz-ouse', and white people started saying that, and we had to change it to 'Hizzy', then 'The hizzle,' which we had to change to 'Hizzle-fo-zizzle.' Now, because white people say 'Hizzle-fo-zizzle,' we have to say 'Flippity-floppity-floop.'"

"C'mon, Mr. Slave, we need to get back to our Flippity Floppity Floop!"

I ask Ohrmazd every night why Isaac Hayes ended up a Scientologist.

you know, Nala's all about de azzzz.

As in the slowly diminishing size of mine?

Or... banana cream pie. Or even cheesecake. But no fried bologna sandwich.

I have had my share of fried balogna sandwich.

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