C2E2 2013 Photos, Part 5 of 6: Actors and Creators Who Made Our Day
Continuing our coverage of last weekend’s fourth annual Chicago Comic and Entertainment Exposition (“C2E2″), this episode covers the sci-fi actors and comic book creators we met this year. With one...
View ArticleC2E2 Photos 2013, Part 6 of 6: Robots, Games, Misfits and Honorable Mentions
The miniseries finale! The show-stopping conclusion! Our final batch of C2E2 2013 photos! Not including pics we took at panels, which I’m saving for separate entries! Otherwise it means we might...
View ArticleIndianapolis Wins at Free Comic Book Day 2013
My wife and I are pleased to report that Free Comic Book Day 2013 was certainly a success at Downtown Comics on Indianapolis’ northside location. Not only were the costumed heroes out in full force as...
View ArticleThe Fable of Why This Blog is C2E2′s Fault
Portrait of the would-be writer at C2E2 2012. Appropriate soundtrack: the theme from Laverne & Shirley.Once upon a time there was a guy from Indiana who wrote a lot in college, took classes for it,...
View ArticleIndy 500 Festival Parade 2013 Photos, Part 1 of 5: the Special Guests
This year marked the third time my wife and I attended the 500 Festival Parade in downtown Indianapolis. It’s become an annual date tradition for us — partly to see the floats and bands, partly for the...
View ArticleIndy 500 Festival Parade 2013 Photos, Part 2 of 5: Some of Your Qualifying...
Previously on Midlife Crisis Crossover: The next five entries (to be posted over Memorial Day Weekend as quickly as time and endurance permit) represent a fraction of the pics my wife and I snapped. In...
View ArticleIndy 500 Festival Parade 2013 Photos, Part 3 of 5: Star Wars! and Other...
Previously on Midlife Crisis Crossover: The next five entries (to be posted over Memorial Day Weekend as quickly as time and endurance permit) represent a fraction of the pics my wife and I snapped. In...
View ArticleIndy 500 Festival Parade 2013 Photos, Part 4 of 5: a Salute to the Marching...
Previously on Midlife Crisis Crossover: The next five entries (to be posted over Memorial Day Weekend as quickly as time and endurance permit) represent a fraction of the pics my wife and I snapped. In...
View ArticleIndy 500 Festival Parade 2013 Photos, Part 5 of 5: Balloons and Floats for...
Previously on Midlife Crisis Crossover: The next five entries (to be posted over Memorial Day Weekend as quickly as time and endurance permit) represent a fraction of the pics my wife and I snapped. In...
View ArticleIndianapolis Comic Con 2014: Hoax, Dream, or Imaginary Story?
Comics! Anime! Video Games! T-shirt vendors! Whovians! Uglydoll! This never-before-shared file photo from C2E2 2011 has it all! (Unlike Indianapolis. For now.)The Indianapolis Comic Con. Comic Con:...
View ArticleThe Joy of Watching San Diego from the Sidelines
I can always tell when the Greatest Spectacle in Entertainment News is revving its engines and approaching the starting line — the Facebook statuses for all my West Coast online cohorts begin chiming...
View ArticleThe Line for Free Cake Began Here
I missed it by that much. On July 30th (this morning) beginning at 8 a.m., a crew from the TLC reality series Cake Boss was on hand at the south end of Monument Circle in downtown Indianapolis handing...
View ArticleWhat to Do with My Free Yellow Cape?
…Behold the freebie I received for running the Norton Symantec promo gauntlet at Wizard World Chicago 2013. Five minutes of minimal effort toward a game meant to sell a product I’ll never buy, and this...
View ArticleWizard World Chicago 2013 Photos, Part 1 of 3: Costumes Not from Marvel, DC,...
This past Saturday my wife and I spent quality time together once again at this year’s Wizard World Chicago. Due to multiple complications we had to settle for one-day admission, but we did our best to...
View ArticleWizard World Chicago 2013 Photos, Part 2 of 3: the Marvel/DC/Star Wars...
Previously on Midlife Crisis Crossover, we began sharing cosplay pics from Wizard World Chicago 2013, albeit limited to subjects we ran across on Saturday, August 10th, because current family events...
View ArticleWizard World Chicago 2013 Photos, Part 3 of 3: Actors, Artists Alley, and Things
Previously on Midlife Crisis Crossover, we spent Part One and Part Two sharing nothing but costume pics my wife and I snapped at this year’s Wizard World Chicago comics-’n'-entertainment convention. In...
View ArticleThe GenCon 2013 Wednesday Night Food Truck Shindig
It’s that time of year again! This weekend GenCon returns to Indianapolis for another extended weekend of gaming and related forms of competition and geekery. My wife and I aren’t fullly accredited...
View ArticleGenCon 2013 Photos, Part 1 of 6: Costume Contest Winners
This weekend our starstruck hometown of Indianapolis hosted the 46th edition of GenCon, one of America’s oldest and largest gaming conventions. Be it RPGs, tabletop games, TCGs, dice games, family...
View ArticleGenCon 2013 Photos, Part 2 of 6: More from the Costume Contest (Game Characters)
Previously on Midlife Crisis Crossover: we commenced with the first installment of our photo collection from this year’s GenCon Indy. For parts Two and Three we’ll continue spotlighting the annual...
View ArticleGenCon 2013 Photos, Part 3 of 6: Still More Costume Contest (Last Call)
Previously on Midlife Crisis Crossover: GENCON GENCON GENCON GENCON GENCON. My wife and I average four conventions a year, and GenCon consistently has the broadest, most impressive assortment of...
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