Oh yes. It’s that time of year again. Summer convention season.

Monster Mania‘s semi-annual convention is on the horizon. John Carpenter is the guest of honor. There’s a Pet Cemetery reunion. You want to watch out for that road.

Vincent and I attended this convention back in 2005, right after moving to NYC. Needless to say, we had an amazing time. We road in a bus for two hours and sneakily drank Coors Light at 7 in the morning.

We walked around buying stupid shit.

I met Adrienne Barbeau and got a picture taken with her. Hot.

We got drunk at a Bahama Breeze and TGIFridays down the road at a mall.

We laughed. We cried.

It’s good convention fun. I think we’re going to go this year.

If you’re in the New York or Connecticut area (I won’t mention tri-state, because I don’t think New Jersey is really a state) this weekend, then I think you have no other option than to check out Fangoria’s Weekend of Horrors. I knew this was coming up very soon, but hadn’t checked the guest list in quite some time. There are loads of good reasons for checking the show out, including Dario Argento and Doug Bradley. Yeah, that’s right, the mother fucking Pinhead himself is going to be there in person.

This is the perfect summer event to remind you that all is not lost in the sun and heat, that winter is just around the corner a bit. There should be loads of scantily clad women there. That is, if you can handle ones not on the internet. Kidding, but seriously, we all love finding excuses to spend our money in new and creative ways, and blowing loads on things you could otherwise find in stores and on the internet is so much more acceptable when you do it in the presence of thousands of others doing the same. Us horror lemmings, we’re great.

EDIT: Please don’t forget about or neglect the MoCCa show this weekend as well. I myself am a supporter/member of the fine organization, so I won’t be missing this.