FanExpo 2010 Guests Announced

FanExpo Canada has started to announce their lineups for 2010. While I am usually stuck at my table, unable to join the masses for a 2-hour queue in order to acquire a (sometimes insanely overpriced) autograph or attend a Q & A session, I still like seeing the celebrities.

The featured guests for the Festival of Fear portion is promising: David Cronenberg, Lance Henriksen, and Heather Langenkamp being the three names that jump out at me immediately.

The Sci-Fi guest list is a heck of a lot of fun as well: William Shatner, Adam West, Burt Ward and Julie Newmar are just a few of many stars announced (question: do people recognize Peter Mayhew - Chewbacca - by his towering height, or do they make him wear the mask at the table?).

The Comic Book guests will be announced tomorrow, but they've already said that Stan Lee will be in attendance. I've taken this as a good omen. Let me explain.

Before the rains and fall-like temperatures hit us, I got out to clean up my yard and garden a bit. This included cutting back the towering hedge in front of our house. It's normally just taller than I am when it's neatly manicured, but there were crazy branches a foot or more over my head.

I should also point out that for some reason people choose our lawn and hedge to dispose of their litter. It doesn't matter how tidy we keep the place. We live in a nice neighbourhood too, so I get really baffled by the magnetic pull for crap.

I'd already picked up candy wrappers, cigarette butts & packages, coffee cups, fast food containers and *gag* an open condom packet (past favourites include liquor bottles, broken tools and large plant trays you get at nurseries). With the discovery of the prophylactic, my fuse had started to burn dangerously short.

As I'm cutting the long branches at the top of the hedge, I spy a flash of red through the foliage. Great. Someone has thrown an item on TOP of the hedge too.

I keep clipping. Eventually, the object is revealed.

It wasn't a what but a who.

Spiderman. Standing upright in the hedge, staring directly at me, shoulders cleared of the mass of leaves. I almost wanted to apologize for uncovering his hiding spot.

I left him there to continue his work (which apparently doesn't include punishing litterbugs).