The event could not have gone better. We had a really nice crowd. JMK was a perfect moderator - we started out by showing the acting clip reel and boy did that go over well - lots o' laughs and really fun. Then they introduced me. It was very relaxed - the first thing out of my mouth was "It's really hard to follow yourself forty years later." There were lots o' stories, a lot of nice, big laughs, and the Opening Numbers song went as good as it's ever gone. What a wonderful audience we had. The second clip reel just went on way too long (I'd been told two ten-minute clip reels, which is exactly what I delivered) - the acting one was fine, but the writing/directing one was five minutes too long. But the best thing about the second clip reel was that it began with three scenes from The Creature Wasn't Nice, and the laughs were so huge - it was really gratifying, especially I Want To Eat Your Face. We could have stopped right there. We never had time for the second song or questions, which was too bad, but we were just having way too much fun.
After, I sold a lot of books, which was also fun. In fact, I wished I'd brought the Kritzer books, too, as we would have done well with them. All in all, a perfect evening.
