This stuff is so fun. I love watching the competition and meeting the gamers and sponsors. The people involved in gaming are really so great. E sports is still so young that you don’t have the massive egos that go with giant salaries, groupies, and endorsement deals. People are passionate about games, and 99% of the time are good sports.
Cool peeps I met today:
Conartistic, who is one of my premiere Xbox Ambassadors, came down just to meet me–how cool is that?
MoB GODFATH3R, who is a character, a crackup and my new BFF.
Dudes from Turtle Beach. They make kickass headsets, and I made them my bitches.
Joe from TPN, who makes cool stuff happen and likes my ideas.
Shoutcasters from GGL and esports.com who were good sports about me shoving them a little.
Other people who are very cool and nice but I can’t remember their names or I lost their cards
Highlights of the weekend:
Between rounds of Gears, shopping at A/X, Aveda, and the CNN store (wonder woman tshirt!)
Dinner last night at Morimoto. I ate raw tuna pizza–and liked it!
Vanilla latte from Dean and Deluca kept me from slipping into a coma
Amy Winehouse on the cover of Rolling Stone!
Lowlights of the weekend:
Crap hotel
Couldn’t sleep AT ALL last night
Bought a sandwich and forgot about it for about five hours…then ate it anyway
Purchasing expensive Aveda hairproducts because the sign said "Is your hair unruly?"
Freaking Met is closed tomorrow when I have a sliver of free time
So, I’m gonna be up for quite some time tonight putting together the coverage for xbox.com (french fries, mayo and 4 tiny diet cokes are on their way up via room service). Tomorrow in my sliver of freeness should I go to MOMA, or check out the Mythic Creatures exhibit at Museum of Natural History?
Sounds like an awesome trip! I would totally go to MOMA if I were you. I’m looking at some of the exhibitions online right now and it looks awesome. Plus Michel Majuras has a painting entitled eggsplosion with the words "gotta catch ’em all" on it. A pokemon reference in an art museum? My how far we’ve come 😉
If u ever come to a gaming event in Alberta, Canada, you let me know. In canada we get no events like that, and im dying to get into one!
this conartistic guy sounds cool… I’d love to meet him my darn self! hehehehee…. sorry bout the rain 🙂