On the way out of San Diego, we stumbled on Better Buzz Coffee. They make their signature iced coffee drinks in cocktail shakers. Imagine a mint iced coffee made with fresh muddled mint leaves.
Tag: SDCC
Comics aren’t missing from comic-con.
“Why should Comic Con be an exclusive comics-only club? What is wrong with welcoming all things geeky? For four days, the spotlight is on the things we love. Isn’t that a good thing?”
EXACTLY.
I do not understand why people who have traditionally been excluded from the cool kids’ hangout are so determined to turn around and exclude someone else.
I was looking at the program grid this weekend. Events are color-coded for comics, movies, TV, gaming, sci-fi/fantasy, and “everything else.” The majority of the events were comics-related. Comics aren’t missing from comic-con. They’re the nucleus around which everything else is built.
An interesting perspective on what conferences and festivals have in common with each other…
An interesting perspective on what conferences and festivals have in common with each other, and how they’re different from everyday life.
Committed: The Altered State of Comic-Con – Comics Should Be Good
The words “Comic-Con” and “Hotel” shouldn’t cause this much anxiety when used together.
The words “Comic-Con” and “Hotel” shouldn’t cause this much anxiety when used together.
The new system for San Diego Comic Con & WonderCon registration is live. Tickets…
The new system for San Diego Comic Con & WonderCon registration is live. Tickets aren’t on sale yet, but you’ll want to get an account ready before they launch (whenever that ends up being).
TicketLeap dissects the bottleneck that led to Saturday’s Comic-Con ticket sales meltdown
For the techies: TicketLeap dissects the bottleneck that led to Saturday’s Comic-Con ticket sales meltdown. (TLDR version: Hostname lookups were turned on in the database, and it was blocking on DNS.)
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Back from Comic-con, mostly unpacked, and now sorting & uploading the rest of the photos.
Back from Comic-con, mostly unpacked, and now sorting & uploading the rest of the photos.
Wow. Some downtown San Diego lots are pre-selling parking now. If you want to park
Wow. Some downtown San Diego lots are pre-selling parking now. If you want to park underneath the convention center, I’m guessing you’ll need to buy it today.
Wow. Saturday tickets for Comic-Con International (San Diego) are 95% sold.
Wow. Saturday tickets for Comic-Con International (San Diego) are 95% sold. If you want to go Saturday but don’t have tickets yet, you’d better hurry!
WTF? 4-day passes have ACTUALLY SOLD OUT already! I was starting to think December…
WTF? 4-day passes have ACTUALLY SOLD OUT already! I was starting to think December maybe, but the first week of November? I'm glad we finally bought ours a few days ago!
4-Day passes *with* preview night have sold out.
4-Day passes *with* preview night have sold out. Annoyingly, there’s no indication of how many 4-day passes *without* preview night are available, or what the percentage was, or anything at all to gauge whether the remaining memberships are likely to sell out next spring or next week.
Need last-minute tickets to San Diego Comic-Con?
Need last-minute tickets to San Diego Comic-Con? The show sold out weeks ago, but the con is re-selling canceled memberships on eBay. They’re going FAST, within minutes of each auction going up, so your best bet seems to be to follow their updates on Twitter to find out when a new auction goes up.