First impressions

So the Midwest Experience starts to crank itself up... today I helped Newman shlep all the booth ecoutrements out to the car so he could take it all downtown, while Steve and Montoya took the "El" train from the airport to meet him at the convention hall. I was tied up in Mortal Kombatland most of the day (although I did manage to meet Newman for lunch at Hot Doug's), so I couldn't be part of the setup... but I hear everything went well and we should be ready to roll tomorrow morning. I also managed to miss the CYSO performance of Newman's Metropolitan this evening, but having heard the world premiere, I can only imagine it was another successful performance.

I did manage to meet up with Steve for buffalo wings at my favorite kingdom of wingdom, Yaksie's, and this afforded me the great-good opportunity to meet the legendary MONTOYA -- clearly, a very intelligent, easy-going, and extremely cool guy. You can see it in his eyes that he's got talent, vision, and drive. I'm looking forward to hanging out more with him later this week.

Hot dogs... wings... I'm definitely EATING like it's Midwest!