Conventions/Events

[Paintman]

Paint contractor conventions are cool because you get a vacation also ! Went to a full 7 day convention in Palm Springs and wound up staying for 11 days. I was a little wound up tighter than I thought...needed to relax.

The Chicago Ghost Show was a blast. They held it in an old Chicago high school that used to have 11,000 students. The building itself was fascinating and you should see the trophy case !
The principal was there and gave me a guided tour because he knew I really liked history.
Met Dave Schrader and Linda Godfrey. And..
And....
Svengoolie !

 

[Paulm]

Can we expand this to include any paranormal/UFO/consciousness conventions? Seems like every C2C guest is hyping some convention or another, such as the "Conscious Life Expo" next month in LA.

ive been to a couple of cryptid/bigfoot "town hall" meetings...and been invited to a couple others, even got un-invited a day after the original invite of the last one....lol...they didnt like the fact i had actual questions and ideas that didnt support their theory that everything in the woods thats not a tree HAS to be bigfoot.....hmmmm

 

[Debi]

Can we expand this to include any paranormal/UFO/consciousness conventions? Seems like every C2C guest is hyping some convention or another, such as the "Conscious Life Expo" next month in LA.

Absolutely! ANY CONVENTION or event you'd like to discuss!

 

[crux]

I've never been to one of these conventions myself. A friend of mine who is a Hollywood history buff told me of a time he went to a Hollywood-type show with older famous actors signing autographs, etc. My friend said he met Debbie Reynolds there and asked for an autograph. According to my friend, she acted very strangely, as if in a trance with "nobody home," if you know what I mean. She spoke and acted robotically like an automaton and my friend said it was the strangest thing he'd ever seen.

I've seen similar things myself in other contexts. They don't call it Hollyweird for nothing.

 

[Duke]

I've gone to a few sports memorabilia shows, but have never stood in line to meet any of the athletes or get an autograph/photo.

The only paranormal related event I've attended was the "Little Green Men" festival a few years back in Hopkinsville, KY. A bunch of yokels with more fingers than teeth, idiots in alien costumes, and a couple dilapidated carnival rides. Not a whoopty doo good time.

In March, a group of us will be attending this festival. It's literally ten minutes from my daughter's. Now if I can only find some mescaline. (Hunter Thompson fans will get the joke.)

The Official Frogman Festival

frogmanfestival.com

I have spoken to more than a dozen TV/movie stars from days gone by on a radio talk show I listen to out of Boston every Saturday night. David McCallum, Barbara Feldon, Ruta Lee, Mark Goddard, Tony Dow, June Lockhart, Jon Provost, etc. They are usually promoting a book or some memorabilia show in New England, but McCallum and Feldon are regular guests.

 

[Selectric]

Can we expand this to include any paranormal/UFO/consciousness conventions? Seems like every C2C guest is hyping some convention or another, such as the "Conscious Life Expo" next month in LA.

Alien Con! lol.

 

[Selectric]

Barbara Feldon,

Was that 99?

 

[Duke]

Was that 99?

Yes, and she is a sweetheart to talk to. She's very down to Earth and clearly doesn't take herself too seriously. I've met and/or talked to a lot of entertainment types over the years, she's in my top three.

 

[Stevedog]

I've never been to one of these conventions myself. A friend of mine who is a Hollywood history buff told me of a time he went to a Hollywood-type show with older famous actors signing autographs, etc. My friend said he met Debbie Reynolds there and asked for an autograph. According to my friend, she acted very strangely, as if in a trance with "nobody home," if you know what I mean. She spoke and acted robotically like an automaton and my friend said it was the strangest thing he'd ever seen.

I've seen similar things myself in other contexts. They don't call it Hollyweird for nothing.

I've seen that Hollywood trance before, usually pharmaceutically induced.

When I lived out in California a couple of friends wanted to be a bit mischievous and go play "ding-dong ditch" in another neighborhood. I told them that if we were going to play then we should play big and go try it at a house up in the Hollywood Hills. So we drove over to Hollywood and around some of the homes up there. One particular home looked enticing because there was a party going on. I convinced my friends that we should just go to the party, they were more than a bit nervous about it. I told them it would be fine and to follow my lead.

I walked right up like I had been personally invited, if anyone asked my name was Issac, Issac Carter. If you haven't heard of me yet, you would soon! I started smiling and saying hello to people, asking if they had seen Dave around because I needed to speak with him. And just like that a couple of high-school losers were at a Hollywood party. Unfortunately my friends were now visibly uncomfortable, worried about being caught. Which only increases the odds of getting caught because people start to wonder why these people look nervous and out of place.

We only stayed for about 10 minutes. One of my friends had gone to find a bathroom and came back begging to leave. Apparently there were a few people already in the bathroom doing coke on the counter. And he was pretty sure that one of them was Jack Nicholson.

 

[Debi]

I've seen that Hollywood trance before, usually pharmaceutically induced.

When I lived out in California a couple of friends wanted to be a bit mischievous and go play "ding-dong ditch" in another neighborhood. I told them that if we were going to play then we should play big and go try it at a house up in the Hollywood Hills. So we drove over to Hollywood and around some of the homes up there. One particular home looked enticing because there was a party going on. I convinced my friends that we should just go to the party, they were more than a bit nervous about it. I told them it would be fine and to follow my lead.

I walked right up like I had been personally invited, if anyone asked my name was Issac, Issac Carter. If you haven't heard of me yet, you would soon! I started smiling and saying hello to people, asking if they had seen Dave around because I needed to speak with him. And just like that a couple of high-school losers were at a Hollywood party. Unfortunately my friends were now visibly uncomfortable, worried about being caught. Which only increases the odds of getting caught because people start to wonder why these people look nervous and out of place.

We only stayed for about 10 minutes. One of my friends had gone to find a bathroom and came back begging to leave. Apparently there were a few people already in the bathroom doing coke on the counter. And he was pretty sure that one of them was Jack Nicholson.

OK, that story wins! lol Dang, Steve! Brave guy!