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Last year, my friend and I were outside of the hotel past midnight after being out and about since 5am. We were exhausted and just going to smoke a cigarette (yeah, yeah, I know) before bed. There was this woman also smoking and she seemed sad, so my friend started talking to her. Turned out she wasn't sad, just tired like us, and she worked for BBC Worldwide (or maybe BBC America?). Anyway, she was working herself up to go to the Nerd HQ VIP party. They had ordered a car to take her there (we were at the Hilton Gaslamp), but she didn't want to go. She then spent the 15 minutes before the car arrived trying to convince my friend and I to use her passes and go in her place. It seemed like she was expected to "make an appearance" and she wanted it to seem like her passes were used. She even offered to let us take the car that was coming when we said it was really far away. My friend and I, at that point, were so tired and grubby from the day that we said no. If only we had known beforehand! We would have been showered and refreshed and ready! Ah well. Still a funny story to look back on. Only at Comic Con would you fall backwards into a VIP party invite.
We were invited and it was so much fun!! Matt Smith was a blast!!! He grabbed us onto the dance floor and then later he got Kass a drink because he was taking forever at the bar. Hobnobbed with peeps from TWD, Agents of Shield, as well as Stephen Amell, Nathan Fillion, some guy from Teen Wolf Paris was howling over, Seth Green and naturally our friends bestie, Zac. We were chatting with a guy that was on my friends show and his boyfriend was just standing there so I started chatting with him. Super nice guy, talking about random stuff and then he said he's going to go to Hall H tomorrow (which would have been Saturday). I laughed and said "Not if you aren't in that line right now!" He said he's going to be escorted in. "Oh you have connections?" He said "Oh, I'm ON the panel." Say what? "I'm on a TV show called Orphan Black." I've never seen the show at that time and figured he was someone that was on a few episodes and gets killed or something. Surprise!! It's actually a main character. So Jordan Gavaris is our new pal, who plays Felix. My friends sneak into the Hard Rock party upstairs every year. That's the night Kass turned 18 at midnight, Q said "let's go to a strip joint!" I said Paris is too young. "Ahh, she's cute, they will let her in without carding her." ha After midnight, he said he's too tired and needs to go to sleep. But, we get to go to their show when they come back out!
Really jealous of these stories, folks! The best we did was go to the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund party last year. We lucked out because we were staying at the same hotel and we had a babysitter, so we were able to leave our sleeping toddler for the night and go upstairs! Sadly, not much went on and we called it an early night.
The SlamCon party...
Misha Collins
Meh.*SLAMS ON BRAKES* YOU HAVE MY ATTENTION. When where how.
This year I'm on the look out for a party to get my dance and drink on. Somewhere that plays good music and the dancefloor is busy, not just a posers location. Any recommendations for ones to shake my a*s at? 😁
Hahaha - I was waiting for your response. I know how much you adore him.
I wish so much to have any of these stories and experiences. Unfortunately not only am I not that lucky to be invited in but being the type of person who is horribly shy and keeps to self (in fact almost every vacation is just me) so getting connections to anything is rare as well.