The Never-Ending, Four-Color Festival: Shows And Events



By Tom Spurgeon

* Hannah Lodge has a nice write-up of off-site events in San Diego during Comic-Con International weekend.

* speaking of that article, I'm going to call shenanigans on the 60,000 figure of people showing up without badges. I invite anyone with that actual report to send its findings along, because I don't even know how you count people distinct from ticket holders in a city area unless you have a magic wand. That figure just fails my personal eyeball test. That one intersection is pretty nuts and the traffic right around the convention center and stretching out both sides a bit feels crazy, but it's not even 1/5 of a standard Cubs-game let-out feel-wise and Wrigley holds about 40,000. I've been let out of football games with 70,000 people and that's usually like 15 blocks of people walking down an entire street, not some crowded sidewalks. Here's what 70,000 people (and note we're only getting part of the stadium) looks like without any city infrastructure in the way. Again, someone send me that report. I bet there are several thousand, though.

* finally, Bleeding Cool has a list to all of the San Diego parties to which I'm not invited, and two or three to which I am.
 
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