Robert Hruzek on May 13th 2007 at 7:00 am just for fun

Dressed for Success

Anime CharacterSpeaking of great places to people-watch (see yesterday’s post), I’ll have to add one more class of great people-watching locales to the two already mentioned (malls and airports), and that’s large hotels.

While here at the Hotel Sofitel O’Hare for SOBCon ‘07, all weekend I’ve been seeing groups of young people wandering about, all dressed in somewhat bizarre costumes; they’re apparently here for an anime convention.

In fact, although I didn’t take this picture, I actually saw a girl in this exact elaborate outfit walking around Saturday evening. Not sure who she’s supposed to be, but I’d sure hate to meet that scary thing in a dark alley!

In addition to that group, an entire wedding party showed up in a stretch limo that was so long it seemed to completely fill the entire porti-cochere outside. As they unloaded, it reminded me of a clown car at the rodeo: it seemed to take 30 minutes for everyone to finish exiting the vehicle.

Oh, and (of course) then there was the most well-behaved and dignified group (that’s us! I’m talkin’ about us!), who are some of the finest people you’d ever want to meet. I must say, the entire weekend has been a stupendous experience, and I’ll still be processing what I’ve learned from this event for some time to come.

6 responses so far

6 Responses to “Dressed for Success”

  1. # Sam (Azuaron)on May 13th 2007 at 1:13 pm

    Unless I’m severely mistaken, that’s a Gundam. Basically, it’s so big that people sit in the… either face or chest and control it (I can’t remember which.) And it easily stomps on tanks. And grabs airplanes. And most fly. And shoot giant lasers. And have energy swords.

    So, yeah, avoid the dark alley with one of them standing in it. It might accidentally step on you without even noticing.

  2. # Robert Hruzekon May 13th 2007 at 5:58 pm

    Hey, Sam, thanks for the tip! I’ll keep my eye out for giant versions of that one; I’d hate to mess up the cool paint job were it to step on me!

  3. # Connie Reeceon May 13th 2007 at 8:22 pm

    I’m glad I had the opportunity to meet you at SOBCon, Robert. It was a terrific conference.

  4. # Robert Hruzekon May 13th 2007 at 9:28 pm

    Thanks, Connie, and ditto! Now I’ve got to locate everyone’s blogs and thank them in “person”…

    Had a great time!

  5. # Markkon May 14th 2007 at 2:33 am

    That’s a very interesting pic, but what have you done with Blue Shark?

  6. # Robert Hruzekon May 14th 2007 at 10:06 am

    Markk, I’m afraid Blue Shark has retired to warmer oceans. Would that I could do the same one day!

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