What can I say about MegaCon? I think this video says it all:
Transcript: Melee M.C.: "If you have your own weapon, I still have room for you in this melee!" Off-camera nerd: "Do I still have to pay?" M.M.C: "Yeah..." O.C.N.: "Aww mannnn, I'm running out of moneyyyy"
Some bitch wanted to charge me $37 bucks for a domo kun shirt. Eff a bunch of that noise. I ended up only buying one thing: a bootleg of the unreleased, voiced by Alicia Witt, Chloris Leachman, and Flea Gen 13 movie. Adam picked up Jellyfist and a live album from Voltaire, with whom we had the pleasure of speaking to for about 15 minutes. He told us a funny but sad story about how he got royally screwed over by Hollywood and asked me about my Tree Brains shirt.
We saw a lot of crazy stuff at the convention, but I think the craziest thing I saw was Joey Fatone pass by me like it was totally normal for him to be there. I flipped and called Daniela and she said "Yeah, my Orlando friends see him at the clubs all the time and nobody bothers him." I wanted to run up to him and ask him I could take a pic for my sister, but I was scared that it wasn't actually him ... and that would've been embarrassing. Not as embarrassing as dropping your sword before the start of a melee: