05-24-2021, 12:04 PM
A DM Highlander tale
So I tabled at a Highlander convention in a hotel on Geary in SF. I want to say that was in the early 90s when the TV show was hot. Adrian Paul, who played Duncan MacLeod, was an avid Kung Fu practitioner and the con wanted a Kung Fu demo at his behest. Lam Kwoon was hired and I haggled out a table there.
Our 'store' didn't have a lot to offer given that Highlander fans weren't really into KF, but I had packed a big box of VHS and a TV because I felt I could sling a lot of HK wuxia flicks. There were a lot of hot ones around that time (they're all dated now) and I was working for HK Film Magazine so I was very on top of that genre. I knew if I could show some of those, I was sure to sell some. Unbeknownst to me, Lynn, Sifu's X, decided to repack my table offerings. She took out the TV and replaced it with yixing tea pots - a full freaking box of fragile pots. I was furious. Not only did I have to pack those damn pots in and out, I didn't sell a single one. Why would I? I still managed to sell a puny amount of VHS tapes, but that was it. It was one of many clashes Lynn and I had over the years.
I demoed Shaolin cane.
I remember this extremely nerdy fanboy who kept hanging around our table chatting because we were trapped. He wore an overcoat and kept flashing us with his sword (a cavalry sabre if memory serves). There was also one woman in a barbarian armor bikini that was porn star eye-catching - early cosplay.
I also remember one of the students who came out to demo left his brand new VHS camcorder in his car in plain sight. It was stolen, of course. I felt really bad about that.
I don't remember if the cfs participated but I think they might have, given that we were all more connected into the con community.
So I tabled at a Highlander convention in a hotel on Geary in SF. I want to say that was in the early 90s when the TV show was hot. Adrian Paul, who played Duncan MacLeod, was an avid Kung Fu practitioner and the con wanted a Kung Fu demo at his behest. Lam Kwoon was hired and I haggled out a table there.
Our 'store' didn't have a lot to offer given that Highlander fans weren't really into KF, but I had packed a big box of VHS and a TV because I felt I could sling a lot of HK wuxia flicks. There were a lot of hot ones around that time (they're all dated now) and I was working for HK Film Magazine so I was very on top of that genre. I knew if I could show some of those, I was sure to sell some. Unbeknownst to me, Lynn, Sifu's X, decided to repack my table offerings. She took out the TV and replaced it with yixing tea pots - a full freaking box of fragile pots. I was furious. Not only did I have to pack those damn pots in and out, I didn't sell a single one. Why would I? I still managed to sell a puny amount of VHS tapes, but that was it. It was one of many clashes Lynn and I had over the years.
I demoed Shaolin cane.
I remember this extremely nerdy fanboy who kept hanging around our table chatting because we were trapped. He wore an overcoat and kept flashing us with his sword (a cavalry sabre if memory serves). There was also one woman in a barbarian armor bikini that was porn star eye-catching - early cosplay.
I also remember one of the students who came out to demo left his brand new VHS camcorder in his car in plain sight. It was stolen, of course. I felt really bad about that.
I don't remember if the cfs participated but I think they might have, given that we were all more connected into the con community.
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