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Tonight I depart for San Diego, where I, and 149,999 of my nerd brothers and sisters will be gathering for San Diego Comic-Con. Three times the size of Burning Man, with celebrities and air conditioning (but with folks in costume, like BM), it should be fun.

However, taking a look at what's up this week, I'm kinda glad I'll be out of town. True, I'll miss this cool Obama Art Show on Thursday, but here's what else I'll get to avoid:

-Everyone's Favorite Bully, Chris Daly, and his many fatwas issued to anyone who dares oppose him as the "de facto" leader of so-called "progressives" on the DCCC (that's the Democratic County Central Committee for those of you who don't follow such minutiae).

Since the takeover of the DCCC by elected officials, the same politics of pettiness, bitterness and attack of City Hall has now infected the DCCC. They're having some big meeting this week to decide this non-matter. Somehow, all this bullsnot is supposed to be an improvement over regular citizens running the DCCC. What-ever

Funny how the people who claim to be "progressive" and open are the ones making threats, taking power away from us citizens, spamming my inbox (that's you, Mr. Daly!), and issuing fatwas, and not The People They Oppose. Kinda makes you wonder, doesn't it?

-The Mayor's wedding. Hey, lucky guy, marrying an attractive actress (if you haven't seen her in Life, you're really missing something), whatever, but I ain't going and I'll read about it in People Magazine, or even better, at Beth's awesome blog.

Besides, the Mayor's a cool guy and all, but he's no Christian Bale aka Batman. Or is it the other way around? I dunno. Anyway, best wishes, Mr. Mayor, but I shall be hanging with the Cool Kids from Battlestar Galactica and the Fox Network.

-MUNI failwhales to come. The reason a MUNI blog writes itself most days, and I'm sure Something Big will happen when I'm away (it usualy does). Instead I'll be enjoying the convenience of San Diego's trolley line to take me to the convention every week.

Anyway, that is all. Have a fun week, keep enjoying our uniquely SF summer weather, and stay tuned for updates from the Convention floor at Galactica Sitrep, and will be posting pictures on Flickr here!

Posted by Greg Dewar at 10:47 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

A few days ago I joked around about my upcoming trip to the San Diego Comic-Con, aka Nerdvana, next week. From what I've been receiving in my inbox, thanks to the folks at Galactica Sitrep (and the magic press pass), it is going to be quite a scene with opportunites to meet all sorts of celebrities and enjoy something a bit different than a trip to Vegas.

Thanks to the magic of Facebook and Twitter, though, I could not help but notice a number of political blogger types are all in Austin, Texas for another "nerdvana" of sorts - the Netroots Nation gathering of Thoughtful Political Types who seems to be having as fun a time there as I would with my nerd brothers and sisters in San Diego.

And of course there's the Nerdvanas that skew older (the DNC and RNC conventions this summer) and that big party in the desert.

It seems that truly there is a party for the like-minded to attend this summer. Have fun, everyone!

Posted by Greg Dewar at 4:32 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Wanna know why I voted for Obama? It ain't whatcha think....

No really.

See, I voted for Obama as someone subjected to the inane bullsh*t that was 90's Liberalism On Campus (at UC Hippie Dipsh*t Santa Cruz no less!), that whole big basket of irrational PC bullsnot that was all about nonsense that made even the most liberally liberal wanna vote Republican, just to piss off the arrogant, lying, snotbags on campus.

Anyway.

So when I hear about Failure Ralph Nader (and his FAIL pal Matt Gonzalez) upset that apparently two whites can determine what a black man can say, or hear about Jesse Jetstream go on about how he's pissed that Obama thinks folks should act like responsible adults, well guess what?

I'm GLAD he's pissed these failure-eating morons off. I'm REALLY GLAD.

Because as he did in his speech on race, he said what was REALLY on people's minds. And more importantly, he said "hey guess what white people? you have legitimate greivances too, and you're not a bad person for saying so!"

More to the point, Barack Obama thinks it's time to get past all this crapola. Because India and China figured out how to, and are about to kick our butts if we're not careful. But Barack, being a true American, believes..."yes we can!"

Yes, we can Kick Ass on these folks if we choose to.

If....we choose.

Posted by Greg Dewar at 11:26 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

It's lunchtime so I have a few minutes to post a short post...and since it's Friday, no snooty snarky politics for me today...instead I'm going to let the nerd side express itself here as I have some news...not only am I going to the San Diego Comic-Con, I've got a press pass, thanks to the cool folks who run Galactica SitRep!

I don't usually go to conventions - in fact although I enjoyed Battlestar Galactica (and have written about it for years now), when it comes to sci-fi, anime, movies of the Hollywood variety, and TV, I don't automatically jump on the bandwagon of the latest Nerd Thing. In fact, despite my "nerd cred," I really don't like a good amount of what's out there simply because it's boring or juvenile.

However, I wanted to take a vacation to somewhere different this year, and when the chance came to go to Comic-Con, which boasts 3x as many attendees as Burning Man (and has air conditioning), I decided to go, mostly because this will be the biggest one yet, and every major studio will be there, promoting various projects.

And, I figured it might be fun also, since I've been making a few pennies here and there with my Adama for President website. (In an unprecedented act of fanboy antics, I actually shipped some to the set in Vancouver for the cast and they actually got 'em! Woo hoo!)

I haven't decided where I'll post all my live reports, aside from at SitRep, so stay tuned. Anyone else going? If so, let me know, and we'll see you there!

PS: I know I give the BM thing a hard time but if that's someone's thing, hey that's great and they should totally be in to it and have fun. I'm just a bit tired of the BM people giving folks like me a hard time about our big party with costumed folks and whatnots, esp. since ours has a/c and celebrities.

Posted by Greg Dewar at 12:43 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)