Post navigation Fish Out Of Water After a bit of a late night I had great plans for Latin study alternated with doing as little as possible today in an effort to conserve what little remains of my sanity at the moment.  It's heading into silly season and I don't know why I thought I had a quiet weekend ahead of me, but that went out the window pretty quick.  C'est la vie. Anyway, today for the first time I ended up at one of those strange cultural phenomena known as a comic conference or a popular culture festival, called Supanova (why they spell it like though, that is beyond me).  I was not expecting to be going, and was rather lukewarm on the concept to be honest... and I certainly wasn't one of the many in the crowds who had obviously been looking forward to this event for months with great anticipation -- sequins, fake blood, brightly coloured wigs and hot glue guns at the ready.  It took me a minute, but as we got near the venue; the penny dropped... aaah pop culture/comics books/fandom/geek fest = cosplay. I seriously had forgotten about the complete license to let your freak flag fly at these sorts of events and was initially a little taken aback at the wide and varied and excessively skimpy costumes on display.  If cookie monster hair and a Sailor Moon costume is what it takes to get you going... more power to you.  But I just