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May 9, 2006
E3 Coverage - Day 1
So this is it … time to head to Los Angeles and see what the scions of the gaming world have come up with to entrance, amaze and entertain us this year. Read on for today’s travelogue …
I’m sitting in San Francisco International Airport and I just have a significant feeling of “ho hum”. This was supposed to be Bu’s and my big vacation … and now I’m going by myself. It feels weird to not be excited about being able to make the pilgrimage to the video game industry’s Mecca … but I just don’t feel it yet. Could it be that there’s some latent emotional scarring from the hotel scare I had the last time I went to a convention in Los Angeles? Could it be that I’m convinced deep down that something is going to go wrong and I’m not going to be able to get in? I don’t know … we’ll see how excited I get once I’m in.
My flight is delayed, which is really weird for flying on a weekday … especially a Tuesday, the slowest travel day of the week. On top of being delayed for an hour and a half, it’s jam packed. I can’t get an aisle seat to save my life. Fortunately, there’s a flight leaving just fifteen minutes later that’s much more comfy … so I switch to that one.
I’ve been wanting to attend E3 for years and now that I’ve finally made it, E3 is going to be televised on G4TV and peeks and previews are going to be available on Xbox Live Marketplace. There’s an unprecedented level of access to the show this year. I’m kinda wondering if it wouldn’t be more fun to just sit at home, skyping with Phicksen and watching the coverage on the television. Of course, Bu has challenged me to get as many pictures of myself with booth babes as possible …
So I pick up the latest issue of Popular Science and a couple DVDs and head to my new gate …
Once I’ve landed in LA, the first thing I notice is that we taxi the plane a really, really, really, really long time. I mean, we must’ve taxied halfway to Las Vegas before we turned around and headed back to the terminal. And the weather report at SFO said that it was “hazy” in LA. Sorry guys, pretty it up all you like … the rest of the world calls that “smog”. And while we’re on the subject of stereotypical LA … while sitting through traffic on the way to the hotel I saw a young lady reading a book, driving and chewing bubble gum at the same time! Now that’s talent!
Los Angeles also seems to really like turning the sides of buildings into billboards. We drove past a building advertising the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra with a picture of ostensibly one of the female members who was about four or five stories high. I wish I could’ve snapped a picture of it … because it was hard to believe that she was a band geek.
Once I finally arrived at the hotel, my mood changed significantly. The staff was immensely helpful and courteous … and surprise, surprise … my room was upgraded to a “Junior Suite”. I thought, great … so they shoved a sofa in a room barely big enough for the bed. Boy … was I wrong. You’ll see when I get the pictures uploaded …
Posted by Legion at May 9, 2006 10:53 PM
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