My little nerdy heart broke a little today!

An icon has been lost. Seriously though no words can really express what an amazing person he was.  If you followed him on Twitter you kind of know. 

Yes he was Spock but he was also so much more.  Look him up, he did quite a bit while he was with us.  

I saw a few days back that he was admitted to the hospital because of complications due to COPD and being as he was in his 80's that was concerning.  When I received the news alert of his passing, I definitely teared up a bit.  It has been nice to see the outpouring of love on social media from celebs and fans alike.  Such a sad day for Trekkies around the world.  

This scene is that much more heartbreaking today.

 

RIP Mr. Nimoy, you did Live Long and Prosper...you will be missed!

Cult of the Sacred Drunken Wookie *garbled wookie sound*

So there is this thing called Mardi Gras where I am from, you may have heard of it...  If so, you know for the month or so leading up to Mardi Gras is Carnival Season.  I know many call it all Mardi Gras but technically that is just the day everything comes to a head. 

During this "season" we have parades.  Lots of parades of varying sorts.  Some are NOT kid friendly...those usually take place in the quarter and come with a warning, sort of.  Others are walking a fine line between kid friendly and not kid friendly...those are the best.  Dirty Jokes hidden in plain sight!

Moving on, recently there was the parade of geeks/nerds/browncoats...you get the idea.  The Intergalactic Krewe of Chewbacchus rolled and truthfully, it was super fun!  There was Star Wars everything and Trekkies and Browncoats and Whovians and, and, and OMG so many others!  The "Pope" was Andy Richter and Peter Mayhew was there too!!!

I think what I loved the most is that it WASN'T like the big super krewes and it is all made by the revelers.  Even a lot of the "throws" are homemade.  I actually got quite a bit of "loot" for it being such a small parade that most people go to just see the costumes/floats.  I was getting so much that the guy next to me, whom I'd never met, started teasing me.  It was all in good fun!  At one point a rather attractive girl gave me this glowing ring thing and he said "oh come on, she has literally gotten everything in this parade." and the girl responded "but look at her sweet little face!" So he said "what about my sweet little face?!?!" Then she said, "not sweet enough..." or something of that nature *shrugged* and skipped away. I thought it was hilarious.  I tried to share some "loot" but he didn't want anything.

Here are some pics below...some mine, some my friend's, all awesome!

Andy Richter

Jayne

*garbled Wookie sound*

Phone home...?

Good job! Stay in character!

Holy $hit! This is the cosplay I was talking about in my NOCC post!!!  *argh* it's blurry and doesn't do it justice!  But seriously how awesome is it?!?!?!

Moisturize me!

*argh* blurry again :( K-9!!!

Seriously...a remote controlled T.A.R.D.I.S?!?  And the Doctor is controlling it!  Love!!!

Resistance is futile!

 

 

 

 

 

 

The "loot".  See that obnoxious light?  Yea, I got that for having such a "sweet face". 

Okay, it may be a little who-centric (ONLY 4 of the 11 pics) but I couldn't upload ALL my pics...well I could, but I wont.  These are just the "best" ones.  I will definitely be attending this next year!  Maybe I'll join the Krewe...hmmmmm. 

Yay, I finally went!!!

My little geeky heart almost exploded :)  Granted WWNOLA isn't huge (yet), but it is my first Comic Con type adventure so I was so flipping excited!!!  Of course people who don't understand my nerdness were BAFFLED why I would pay $40+ just to get in and then more if I wanted to meet anyone famous (which down here seems to be A LOT of Walking Dead peeps). 

I didn't pay any extra for meet & greets/photo ops/autographs but I was perfectly content just observing.  I am a people watcher and there are so many sights to see, I was loving it!  My husband was trying really hard not to fan boy when we saw Brett Dalton signing at his booth.  I mean he was a mere 20 feet away, I had a perfect view of him.  Then not far behind on the next aisle was Tom Felton.  There was a plethora of Walking Dead peeps but I don't watch the show religiously so I only knew a few.  I was sad Norman Reedus had to cancel (at least that's what I was told), I may have paid to meet him.  Not just because he is Darryl but because one of my all time fav movies is Boondock Saints!  

Moving on to the other attendees!  So many wonderful cosplays.  I was impressed and made a decision that I will dress up one of these days but I can't figure out who/what I will cosplay as...hmmmm.  I don't have pics.  I wish I did!!!  Anyways some of my favs were a guy dressed as Jareth (Goblin King) .  It was perfect right down to the obvious bulging package...o_O. Yes I looked...it was difficult not to!  A girl dressed as the cyber doctor.  It was so good.  She had the clothing near perfect and she had the metal cyber doohickey on her face and it even lit up!  I wanted to stop her and tell her how amazing her cosplay was but there were too many people between us and she walked away.  Of course there were storm troopers and Jedi and Vaders galore.  I saw a few Castiels that all seemed to walk around with a confused puppy dog look making them that more awesome.  There were quite a few Doctors of various eras but none topped the Cyber Doctor (can you tell I was impressed?!?).  Oh, there was a "red shirt" Trekkie.  His shirt was all torn up and he had an arm sling and looked thoroughly beat up.  Creative!  There really were too many to name but these were the ones that stood out to me, on the day I was there. 

It seems the NOLA stop gets bigger every year.  I hope it continues to grow!  Because I am assuming the bigger it is, the more likely we'll be to get even bigger celebrities, panels, etc.  Which since I went this time, of COURSE I will be attending in the future.  SDCC is still on my bucket list.  I WILL go there one day!