Geek God

I'm not sure what the collective noun is for a gathering of geeks, but that's what I was a part of last Thursday when I went with Redrawn and Rhub to the Prince Charles Cinema in London.


Director and (occasional) comicbook writer Kevin Smith was giving a Question and Answer session at the cinema. We arrived at the venue at about 5.30 and even though the doors didn't open until 7pm there was already a que of people beginning to stretch down the street.

The man himself arrived on stage in his Silent Bob coat and proceeded to chat to the audience for nearly 4 hours. He could have clearly gone on longer but the cinema staff were dropping hints that they wanted to go home, the spoilsports. There were three microphones set up that the audience could line up at in order to ask a question which Smith would then answer with a variety of anecdotes.

The audience spent most of the evening creased up in laughter as Smith touched on a variety of topics from British Porn, Angela Lansbury (sometimes linking the two. He had a bit of an obsession with Bedknobs and Broomsticks) and the strange and disturbing lives of his dogs to Jason Mewes' addiction to police procedural tv programmes (Apparently he can't stop watching Columbo and Murder She Wrote) and why his parties aren't as popular as Johnny Depp's.

So I owe a huge 'thank you' to Redrawn for getting the tickets to such a great event especially as these Q&A sessions sell out so quickly. We will have to keep an eye out for the next one...