I was pretty bummed out this past January when I found out they weren't planning to have a "Weekend Of Horrors" in NYC. Their conventions have been crap for the longest but I still look forward to them. Long gone are the days when they booked one good guest after another, usually established filmmakers with lots of anecdotes to tell. There's not much of a horror scene these days and the convention reflects it. But  the sun broke through the clouds however, when I saw that Creation was going to hold their annual horror con in NYC on  my birthday (April 7, the same as Jackie Chan and Francis Ford Coppola ) with Bruce Campbell as the headliner! I'm sure the only reason they slapped this convention together was because Bruce had a book to promote and they knew he could draw in a couple  thousand  people at $20 a pop just on his name alone.
Actually I paid $35 dollars for a reserved seat that would land me closer to Bruce, but I ended up in row "O", as in "Oh, I'm way in the back!" The sad thing is that they had preferred seats still available the day of the con in row F. Row F!!!

Never the less, nothing was going to bring me down on my special day. It was my birthday and I was going to see Bruce.  I had sworn years ago that if I had another chance to meet Mr. Campbell, I would be bold enough to ask to have a pic taken with him.  Of course when presented with the opportunity to do so this past April, I chickened out and turned to quivering pile of goo, and happily settled for his autograph.( I did get a good pic of him though.)

Now I was eagerly waiting for Bruce to come back  to NYC to promote his book and have a book signing.  Now imagine the odds of that day falling on his birthday, June 22. The bookstore surprised Bruce with 2 giant cakes, some fellow fans bought a giant birthday card which many of his fans there signed and we all sang him Happy Birthday. He said he was going to put that card in a "special place"! Hmmm...  
Thanks Everette for letting me use your camera!

Perhaps this will be a yearly tradition from now on, sharing birthdays with Bruce.... probably not..... 

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