Don Rickles, Barbara Rickles, Ginnie Newhart, and Bob Newhart pose for a portrait backstage at the Las Vegas Convention Center at the AARP convention in Las Vegas, Nevada on May 31, 2013.
At Amazing Comic Con on Sunday, Tara Strong and her bf along with Greg Cipes and his brother hosted a panel that my bf, @jeffys-stuff, and I were fortunate enough to attend. Tara Strong and Greg Cipes are well known for voicing Raven and Beast Boy from Teen Titans. They talked about their podcast called The Ship-It Show, which I have been a long time fan of!
In this video, they held a Q&A session, and I got the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to ask them a question. I still can't believe how lucky I was for getting the chance to do that! I felt brave at first walking to the line, but once I was finally up to ask my question I got pretty nervous. But Tara and Greg's banter was so hilarious and made me laugh! 😆
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During my four days at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), I had the opportunity to attend only one panel discussion. I’m grateful that I chose to listen and see this particular one in person.
A lengthy queue of eager attendees had formed, all looking forward to hearing…
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(1) Dirty slide scan from Lori K (Growdough). Dream Street at Desert Inn.
(2) Photo courtesy of Henk Binnendijk. The Frontier sign, shown here in front of their race & sports book, is now in the collection at the Neon Museum.
(3) Photo from Herpay Gábor. Approaching Convention Center Dr. Peppermill Shopping Center on the right.
Pokemon Gyms are not exclusively for Pokemon Gym Battles, but instead can often be colloquial names for general use areas during a gym challenge OR the arenas are flipped from battle stages to pools/football fields/baseball/etc.
Galar has SO many stadiums that are huge, it would be a waste of space if those stadiums were only for Pokemon Battles. SURE they are built with battles in mind, particularly dynamax, but they're huge enough to cover Olympic events or regular football matches. Maybe the pokemon battles is just half or even a third of the arena's use. Hell, you could also use them for open air convention halls.
As for the gyms we grown used to, they seem so very diverse that honestly? I feel like they were all unique buildings that then got certified as a "gym" but are just regular everyday establishments. Kind of like how an Aquarium has a Summer Camp program or special event.
Misty and Crasher Wake's gyms are just olympic sized pools for general use, some of them are LITERAL gyms for work out, some of them are indoor gardens and greenhouses to visit and work at, Skyla is Mario 64 Cannon Factory for no reason don't ask, and Elesa's... Well that was literally a roller coaster.
Imagine that maybe the outer facade is all unique unless you're Galar or Paldea (with the designated League buildings that are an office and not the stage.)
And they wouldn't be called "Pewter Gym" or "Cerulean Gym" but Pewter Mining Co. and Cerulean Olympic Pool Area
Edit: This would mean that the Battle Frontier is, indeed, a fucking Las Vegas because then the facilities would double up as hotels/convention centers/offices, maybe LOL
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ph. by Ron Galella + Jim Smeal - taken during the 13th Annual Video Software Dealers Association (VSDA) Convention & Expo on July 24, 1994 at Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada
These photos are of my Helluva Boss autographs and merch that I got at LVL UP EXPO. The first three are of two Vegas convention exclusive posters that I got both signed by Vivienne Medrano (Vivziepop). The rest are of my convention exclusive merch. I got an Imp Squad t-shirt, a Stolas + Blitz sticker pack, and a Loona keychain. ^.^ ❤️🖤🤍😈
why does it always feel like listening to intersex people always gets shoved away as us being "tokenized" when often it's situations when we are actively screaming to be heard
The erasure never fucking ends.
It's hard not to be sick of the amount of times we're shut up because we side with the "wrong" opinion to the persex person speaking
It's the same when a trans man presents a petition signed by a thousand verified trans women he collected at Transfem Con (held annually at the Las Vegas Convention Center) saying they support transandrophobia theory and people are like "stop tokenizing transfems!".
Want to read yet another story of Elvis being generous?
How Elvis' friendship with Tom Jones gathered the King with The VOICE
[1] Elvis wearing the 1973 Arabian jumpsuit. Hilton Hotel, Las Vegas. August, 1973. [2] Donny Sumner, letf, Shaun "Sherrill" Nielsen* and Tim Beaty of the Voice, a pop-rock-gospel trio, warm up before their performance at The Villa at 1711 Hayes St. in Nashville on March 1, 1975. They are still recovering from injuries causes by when their van veered off the highway and rolled down an embankment a month before.
LATE JULY - EARLY AUGUST, 1973
Elvis was in Vegas to rehearse for his second 1973 Las Vegas engagement (Las Vegas, Season 9 - From August 6th to September 3rd 1973)
While in Las Vegas Elvis had the opportunity to help out his friend
Tom Jones, who was facing the possibility of having to replace his
vocal group the Blossoms on his current show. When Elvis heard
about his predicament, he thought he might do Jones a favor by
presenting him with a substitute group. One of the members of his entourage, Kenny Hicks, knew that former Statesmen Sherrill Nielsen and Tim Baty and J. D. Summer’s nephew Donnie had formed a new Nashville vocal group called Voice. Elvis knew all of them well; he had worked with Sherrill in 1966 on How Great Thou Art, and once introduced him to an indifferent Las Vegas audience as “the greatest tenor in gospel music.” Why not fly their new group out to Las Vegas to help Jones out?
#FYI
On the picture above, Elvis is leaving the Anaheim Royal Inn to perform his evening concert on April 24 1973 at the Convention Center in Anaheim, CA (8.30 pm). EP is with his entourage, some of them known Memphis Mafia guys, and his father, Vernon Presley. Kenny Hicks is the one guy on the left, next to Red West. There's not many pictures of them together. Kenny worked as a valet/aide to Elvis, between 1973-1975. In 2010, Hicks published the memoir book, "Elvis, As I Knew Him" (photo 2, book front cover). Kenny is told to be the one letting Elvis know about the Voice group has been formed.
Transported by private jet, the nervous trio arrived at Elvis’s suite, only to be put on the spot to sing for Elvis, Tom Jones, and country singer Bobbie Gentry.
Jones was impressed with the group, and he was touched by the offer — but as it turned out, he told Elvis, he had an unbreakable contract with the Blossoms. It may have been the opening Elvis was looking for all along: After giving the group the bad news, with a flourish he produced a piece of paper for them to sign — a year-long contract, he explained, guaranteeing them $100,000 to serve as his backup group and sing with him in private whenever he felt like hearing them, while signing them to his new publishing company. They couldn’t help being shocked, but they gratefully accepted.
Before the group left the suite Elvis called his father to announce the news; Vernon, though, was less than enthusiastic to learn of his son’s latest whim, which only supported his constant fear that his son’s indulgences would someday leave them all bankrupt.
Excerpt: "Elvis Presley: A Life in Music" by Ernst Jorgensen. Foreword by Peter Guralnick (1998)
Cool, isn't it? EP didn't need to do this, he was in no need for another gospel group (he already had signed The Stamps Quartet to back him in concert for a while now - since 1971), but he signed the Voice, aside from admiring their talent, clearly just to make up for something that went not quite as expected — something he was actually doing to help another one of his friends.
"Sherrill" is Shaun Nielsen's birth name, and it is the name all Elvis fans best know him with, but he changed it to "Shaun" at some point. He said that after enough instances of hearing himself paged 'Phone call for Miss Sherrill Nielsen', he thought changing his name would be a good idea. (Source: elvisoncd.com). Sherrill is a gender-neutral name but, since is not very common for a male, people currently take it as a female name right away.
It's... very similar to before, but in a much bigger venue, the Las Vegas Convention Center! This is the biggest esports event that's happened, ever, by number of participants, and it's the biggest Tekken tournament, like double the previous record.
Played my competitive sets for Friday, got out of my pool on winners side. Feeling good. Will play again tomorrow. Tomorrow it gets serious.
(here's me with the Chipotle card for getting out of my pool. Also pictured, the bracket runner, who's name I didn't catch, and my buddy Miguel from NorCal who was watching my sets. NorCal Tekken is here in force, and a bunch of us got out of our pools -- a few more of the crew watched me play, which was lovely <3 , but they wandered off before I took the picture.)
This is a really enormous event though. EVO is a whole thing. Lots of neat cosplay, amazing fightsticks, a huge arcade area, lots of art, indie games to try, all kinds of stuff. Would recommend. (thanks @nothingxs !)