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• Title : Shattering Conventions: Commerce, Cosplay and Conflict on the Expo Floor
• Author : Bob Calhoun
• Rating : 4.71 (321 Vote)
• Publish : 2015-1-19
• Format : Paperback
• Pages : 292 Pages
• Asin : 0578115824
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Expos. T, Congressman Darrell Issa, William Shatner, Sir Patrick Stewart, a pro-wrestler called The Miz and even the ghost of Elvis. Every profession and obsession has them. During his self-imposed one year mission, Calhoun confronts the Westboro Baptists in front of Comic-Con, gets called out by Andrew Breitbart at a Tea Party rally, sneaks into a hemp expo and is chased out of a plastic surgeons' conference by security guards. Shattering Conventions is filled with first-person observations of such luminaries as George Takei, Gene Simmons, Stan Lee, Mitt Romney, Kevin Smith, Bootsy Collins, Ted Nugent, HP CEO Meg Whitman, Gavin Newsom, Mr. And in between the celebrity run-ins are the stories of Star Wars and Twilight fans seeking camaraderie through cosplay, and entrepreneurs striving to make it in the worst economy since the Great Depression. And the more conventions that Calhoun attends, the more he realizes that all of this coming together might be tearing us apart.. Starting out as a goofy pop-culture experiment, Shattering Conventions becomes a twisted political odyssey where Calhoun witnesses the growing conflict between sci-fi nerds and rightwing extremists for the very soul of a nation. We select hot tubs, handguns, the best Wonder Woman costume and even our presidential contenders at these neo-tribal gatherings where commerce and communal

Thompson, one part Forry Ackerman, Bob Calhoun tackles Comicons, Star Trek fandom, right-wing lunatic fringe gatherings, and everything in between with humor and an eye for detail that gets right to the heart of the craziness and business behind humanity's obsessions." --Ed Brubaker, award winning writer of Fatale, Criminal and Captan America: Winter Soldier"Shattering Conventions is a super-entertaining journey into those peculiar distillations of humanity that we call "conventions." I feel lucky to have read about the conventions I wished I'd been to, but blessed to be able to read about rather than attend for some of the more repugnant events. I would support a year tour of conventions replacing senior year of High School." --Jackie Kash

. Bob Calhoun used to wrestle men in Sasquatch suits while drunks threw food at him. His work has appeared in Salon, The San Francisco Chronicle, AOL News, Filmfax, Giant Robot and Inside Kung-Fu. He chronicled these days of glory in the punk-rock/lucha-libre memoir, Beer, Blood & Cornmeal: Seven Years of Incredibly Strange Wrestling, a national bestseller. Calhoun is currently a Senior Research Analyst at the University of California, Berkeley