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WinterCon Is On This Weekend @ Resorts World Casino

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If you’re brand-new to our web-based publication then let me tell you just how much I love hitting the comic book and science fiction conventions that take place in New York City. Not only has PiercingMetal been a regular media attendee for the massive New York Comic Con, Anime NYC and Toy Fair conventions for many years but we also lend the love to smaller scaled events like the Big Apple Comic Con, Five Points Festival and the Winter Con which is actually taking place this weekend and is the reason for this announcement. Let’s focus on a couple of points shall we.

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So What’s WinterCon??? According to their own promotional efforts its “The LARGEST Sci-Fi convention in the NY area! Held annually at Resorts World NYC. Wintercon is a large expo that hosts celebrities, creators, fans and vendors from TV, movies, books, cosplay, comics, gaming, collectibles, anime and so much more!” Though I have not been in attendance for a few years I can confirm that its an entire floor of the casino so make sure you are wearing comfortable shoes.

Where Is It? The Convention will be held at the Resorts World Casino and the location is tagged in our listings so click HERE for the exact geography and how best to get there. I usually take the MTA as that leaves me within a couple of blocks.

Who Should I See? I know that I’ve said this before about this and pretty much every convention that I’ve written about and truth be told you should really try and see as many people as possible. Maximize your convention experience. Now last time around I shared two Instagram posts from 2021 adventures that feature both Barbie Chula and the always lovely Miss Cheng. Since I liked those particular visuals I am using them once again so I hope you don’t mind the repeat. These will also hopefully spark your attention to our Gram profile where thousands of images await you. Back to who should I see, I always love stopping by the table of Keith Williams and Larry Hama and don’t let me forget Nelson DeCastro. There are so many more but these are folks that I always manage to chat with when I run into them. Since I don’t know what vendors will be there I cannot guide you any further.

Will You Be In Attendance:As much as I hate to tell you this, it doesn’t look like I will be attending this one since I pitched my interest and didn’t hear back on it at all. Trust me that happens sometimes and with this particular event there is no lengthy media submission forms to fill out and you instead end up using a central email address. After working in IT for a number of years I can tell you that such things get overrun with every single inquiry possible and finding the most important ones becomes a chore. I do hope many of you in the readership audience manage to get there and have a good time. Be sure to chime in down below in the comments section to let me know how it was since I cannot join you.

Official: https://nywintercon.com/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nywintercon
Official: https://rwnewyork.com/

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PiercingMetal Goes To The 2nd Annual NYC Hot Sauce Expo (3/30/2014): Part Two

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Welcome back. I’m continuing along with the discoveries that were observed at the 2nd Annual NYC Hot Sauce Expo and if you missed the first installment, please click HERE so you can start from the beginning and continue along. Now it’s time for me to pick up where I left off so let’s go. It’s true that milk helps quell the fires within based on hot sauce and as you can see this liquid was available for a hefty markup today.

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The Lactose Intolerant Are Laughing Right Now

My lunch displayed before you all. Also added to my Foodspotting Account because I roll like that.

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Pulled Pork Sandwich Lunch & Beer

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PiercingMetal Goes To The 2nd Annual NYC Hot Sauce Expo (3/30/2014): Part One

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I had to laugh when I realized that I was once again heading to the Hot Sauce Expo after having attended a crushing Metal show the night before. In this particular case I was actually at a few shows in sequence but that is just the way life rolls in a Metal Metropolis such as this one. Last night was the final night of tour for Children Of Bodom and that is not easy to pass up but now that this stuff had completed it was again time to offer up an objective and informative view of this year’s Hot Sauce Expo. I attended last year and it was a blast and of course I am not just speaking about the levels of heat that would invade my stomach at that affair but instead just a damned good time. This year’s Expo offered a few changes that I felt immediately worked out for the better and the first was that it would be in Manhattan, at the Penn Plaza Pavilion. This particular space often plays host to Comic Conventions and with it being indoors would not have weather as a concern for vendors and the all so important patrons with the money. Some readers might recall that last year’s Expo was held outdoors in East River Park down in Williamsburg. Once again I would be a journalistic guest of the fine folks at High River Sauces and was not going to decline based on our having known them for years now. They have a killer sauce from Savatage’s Chris Caffery among many others and I would be hoping to catch Eddie Ojeda once again since this year is the 30th Anniversary of Twisted Sister’s seminal release “Stay Hungry”. This year I would endeavor to be better prepared for the onslaught and brought along some unsalted crackers to ensure that I had a proper coating if necessary in my stomach. Sampling hot sauce after hot sauce after hot sauce was going to do me in otherwise and I wanted to avoid that.

As I approached my second go round at the event I thought back to the enjoyable time that was last year’s happening and should you want to see that report just click HERE. As mentioned, one of the main organizers of the affair is Steve Seabury of High River Sauces and since there are Rock notables often present it made sense to visit this one more time. Check out the poster. It’s cool isn’t it? Trust me, this was going to be one of the only cool things that would be encountered across the course of the day and I am speaking about temperature. Now it was time to get a little spicy.

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PiercingMetal Goes To New York Comic Con 2013: Day 2 – Part 2

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……and we’re back, did you miss us? No need to answer because I know you did. So as I mentioned in yesterday’s post about the wonders of the NY Comic Con, I will be delivering about fifty images per post across the next few days to keep it easy to follow and to not overwhelm the senses. You’ll thank me later for sure. Now let’s get on down to it with “Chapter Two of NY Comic Con Day 2”. As I’ve done in the past with posts like these I blend the wonders of the convention together in terms of the fantastic designs on the Cosplayers and of course the myriad of creative resources that are at every turn. First up for this chapter is The Red Hood. You might remember him as being the original identity of The Joker but now its Jason Todd behind the red helmet and he means business.

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The Red Hood Cosplay

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PiercingMetal Goes To The 1st Annual Hot Sauce Expo!!! (4/21/2013)

Many readers of the Official PiercingMetal Blog are aware that we cover some entertainment related conventions like the Comic Con, Toy Fair and even Book Expo America but even they must be scratching their heads at my inclusion of the 1st Annual Hot Sauce Expo. Generally speaking, the food aspect of this particular event would find me posting this on my PiercingKen.com site but with a number of Heavy Metal and Hard Rock greats all having a hot sauce of their own found me putting the story here for the PiercingMetal fan base. Read on.

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The event itself was the brainchild of Jimmy Carbone and Steve Seabury. I’ve had the pleasure of knowing Seabury, or “Buckshot” for a number of years from the Metal scene and watched him perform on the stage and eventually launch his now super popular High River Sauces brand. That being said, it was time to explore the event and lend some support. Here is the sign that greeted me as I wandered to the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn.

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One of the many event sponsors were the cats from Empire Biscuit and they were baking biscuits and serving them up with a couple of kinds of gravy. While I didn’t manage to snag a photo of those tasty treats I did snap their bag of spiced walnuts and their outrageous gumbo. It was a warm but windy day and that made it chilly at times being on the waterfront. This gumbo was the perfect thing. I will be hitting their restaurant when it opens in the summer for sure.

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Empire Biscuit Treats

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