Something I told you about the other day in my life is now up on YouTube.
You may recall that last Thursday night, I participated in something called The Cereal Mascot Smackdown at CONvergence in Minnesota. It was a panel with me, Len Wein (you'll see him on the far right in this video), Kelvin Hatle, Kenneth Hite, Christopher Jones, Joe Scrimshaw and Tim Uren. The host was Tim Wick, who was — for obvious reasons — dressed as Austin Powers and he was assisted by Melissa Kaercher. The premise was that we were supposed to argue whether various mascots from cereal boxes could beat the tar (or the high corn fructose) out of each other.
Also, we and most of the few hundred folks in the audience had to eat a lot of cereal. Did I mention when I first wrote about this that I'd eat arsenic-laced packing material before I'd taste another handful of Boo Berry? Ye Gods, what an awful substance. I've given up all food items with high sugar content but if I hadn't, that stuff would have driven me to that decision…even though it does turn the milk a lovely shade of aquamarine.
Anyway, we have excerpts from the panel. The video is shaky and the audio isn't great but maybe you can make out enough of it to be amused. In this first part, we're ad-libbing arguments about whether Boo Berry (the character) could defeat Captain Crunch in some sort of mano a mano competition…
And now, here's another hunk of this epic contest. In it, we're debating the merits of Toucan Sam (from the Froot Loops package) and Sonny, the bird from the Cocoa Puffs box. This is where I decided to cheat and phone a friend…