The Smithee Awards Blog

Hello Smitheeites, happy End of Smithee 18. I’m still in Columbus and don’t have my full photo abilities with me so pics, which I took a goodly number of, will have to wait until we’re back home. The write up, however, can proceed apace.
( Smithee Clicky! (Now With PICS!!) )

…and remember
FOOLPROOF PLANS ARE HARD TO COME BY, SON!

-YFNPN

Mere hours separate us from presenting the final Smithee Show of the Smithee 18 season here in Columbus, OH. Once again, we'll be in our full glory at

7 P.M.

Tonight in Ballroom 3.

And now for a nap. For all of you Smitheeites at Origins, see you in about 3.5 hours.

-Your Friendly But Sleepy Promotions Ninja

Hello Hello! We're back on-line and in Columbus, Huzzah! We're still missing the full Smithee complement but by showtime -

Friday, June 26th
7pm
Ballroom 3

All of us should be in town. Meanwhile, if you want to hang and be creative, we're doing the Buttons in the Breezeway at 1pm until we're out of supplies or happy hour arrives (~5). Come say hello and make you a button. Now, We're off to get our stinkin' badges.

We are now just under 60 hours to show time and I'll be signing off the blog shortly to head to Columbus, leaving you all in the capable hands of our laptop-equipped promotional staff. Before I head out, though, I'll leave you all with the odd statistical quirk of this year's show: For the first time in 21 Smithee Awards ceremonies (including MegaMetas), there is no movie with four nominations. There are three with six, two with five, and seven with three, but no fours.

See you on the other side.

Good Monday to all you Smitheeites out there, it's time for the week of Show! Spam!

Smithee 18 at Origins Game Fair
Friday, June 26th: 7pm until we stick a fork in it (Midnight plus-ish)
BALLROOM 3
… … …
OK, so far that's sticking so let's hope we're not somewhere else by this afternoon. Hey, one whole weekend and we're still scheduled in the same room, things are looking up!

Speaking of up, the Buttons in the Breezeway box is all prepped and packed. Your Smithee Ninja was a very busy button pressing fool this weekend and I have 270 giveaway buttons for the grabbing if you are so inclined to get yourself a Smithee button. I'm usually found wandering the dealer's room at select times or if you catch any of the other Smith-ka-teers they usually have a supply of buttons to hand out. Or! You could come to the Buttons in the Breezeway event (Thursday, 1-5ish, somewhere in the breezeway. Hence the name) and color your own Smithee button and have it pressed while you ponder. How's that for unique?

Lastly, check out the twitter feed for up-to-dateness and other bits of info. We're planning on doing some tweeting this convention…because we can!

Would the real Origins Smithee Awards room please stand up?
I repeat, Would the real Origins Smithee Awards room please stand up?

Hi again, this is your Promotions Ninja with the newest news about the change in room location. It looks like we've just been bounced back to Ballroom 3 as of this morning. We're still, also as of this morning, on at 7pm (which is different than the Origins Official posted 8pm - they are working on changing that) except we've yo-yoed back to the original room location. So now the show spam reads:

Origins Smithee Awards XVIII: Full Groan
Friday, June 26th
Ballroom 3
7pm to midnight plus

The Smith-ka-teers have a running joke about the Origins Smithee Show and it goes something like "When everything goes according to plan, that's a sure sign that the Apocalypse is on the way." I just wanted to let you all know that we're safe from the end of the world for another year because I *just* got word that our room got changed from Ballroom 3 to The Regency Ballroom is Ballroom 3. This is not the room change you are looking for. You can go about your business.. So, the current show spam should read:

Origins Smithee Show
Friday, June 26th
Regency Ballroom Ballroom 3
7pm to midnight plus

That is all. You may return to your normal Thursday afternoon schedule.

Oh lookie look...sneak peek at some awesome Origins goodness. Want a button? Come to the show on Friday, June 26th (7pm - midnightish: Ballroom 3) and I'll give you one for free.
( Clicky for More STUFF! )

Aieeeeee!
-Your Friendly Neighborhood Smithee Ninja

it was exactly 2 weeks until the Origins Smithee show, the last show of 2009. Here's a gentle reminder that the show is on FRIDAY this year and that we'll be in the super awesome big bad room of [cue reverb]infinite seating (Ballroom 3).

[Edited: Apparently the start time is now 8pm...which I have sneakily fixed.] [Re-edited: In fine fashion the time was always really 7pm but...umm...well now this post is right. Again. Re-re-edited: Back in Ballroom 3, like we never left. stoopid internets]

This is probably the last time I'm going to get to use the SmitheeTux icon for a while so there he is. There he also is on the exclusive Smithee 18 Penguicon button which we handed out with the ballot packs.
( Penguiclicky! )
Thanks everyone for making our first Penguicon Smithees a incredible experience. All y'all wrockz0rz!

-Your Friendly Neighborhood Promotions Ninja

Holy MOLEY Batman, did I totally blow off the ConBust recap? Well crimony! Your Promotions Ninja is indeed slackeriffic because it's been what...a month? I fire me!
( Clicky for ConBust Smithees )



Smithies and Smithees. We had a great time, thanks for inviting us!
-Your Friendly Neighborhood Promotions Ninja

Indeed we did, but this year we're being extra crazy and presenting at Penguicon just seven days after the Ann Arbor show. We figure it's a good test of...umm...Smithee stamina? Something like that anyway. SO! If you missed the Smithees in Ann Arbor you have a second chance to see them

SATURDAY, MAY 2nd
Penguicon - Romulus
8pm to midnight plus
Columbia Room

Con prices are $50 for the whole weekend or $20/$30/$20 Friday/Saturday/Sunday. There are all sorts of crazy awesome things going on...I mean a knife throwing demonstration plus Brazilian Beef? I wonder if there is some causality there...

Welcome to the show everyone! We were back in our old haunt 1800 Chem this year but decided to enact a couple of changes. Our brief stint in MLB gave us food for thought...
( Smithee Goodness Clicky! )

Thanks for coming out for another schlock filled Ann Arbor Smithee Show! You guys wrock.
-Your Friendly Neighborhood Promotions Ninja


"Hmmm, Brussels Sprouts soda. I have not tried this one."


"Gyaaaaaahhhhhgle! Wow, that's not good. Oddly, it's not the worst tasting one either..."

when I'll shut up with the show announcements.

Tomorrow is your happy day Don because TODAY is the

18th Annual Smithee Awards Show
Tonight
1800 Chem Building
Ann Arbor
7pm until we stop or you do, which ever comes first I guess.

"AASA! That's got to be it, Gus!"

"I Don't know...AASA could stand for a lot of things. Like 'Answer A Silly Aardvark' or 'Anchovy Artichoke Salad Aperitif'"

"No Gus, I'm sure it stands for Ann Arbor Smithee Awards. We'll just show up at the Chem building tomorrow at 7 and I'm sure we'll find the Smithee show. I have a sixth sense about it, just like a cat."

Last year Iron Chef Smithee noted that the local haunts weren't carrying GPSs anymore so he asked the general Smith-ka-teer crowd to keep an eye out for them. My mom and Mr. Paul came through and single handedly saved Smithee 17 from being giant pixie stixless when they found then at the Brighton Costco.

This year the GPS famine is even wider spread and the Giant Pixie Stix herds that had once stretched from horizon to horizon have quietly disappeared the way of the Dodo or the Passenger Pigeon. Not even the once fertile grounds of Brighton yielded up a Box of Stix, we were afraid that the Giant Pixie Stix had become extinct. Then, by luck and good fortune, My mom and Mr. Paul happened to be in Toledo, Ohio at a Sam's club there and what should they find? The last remaining GPS colony possibly in the Midwest. Once again, they have saved the A2 Smithees snack table from a terrible lack of Giant Pixie Stix.

So, when you grab your Giant Pixie Stix and suck out the sugary goodness, give a good thought towards Ohio and the nurturing climate which has allowed the Giant Pixie Stix to survive there during these harsh times. You might also thank Mr. Paul and my mom for finding the Stix and braving the Ohio wilds to bring them back to you, although I'm not so sure how keen my mom is about being called a "Pixie Sitx Savior". She did say she wouldn't mind being called a Pixie Stix Princess though.

-YFNPN

and there are two of us. Synergy, Cycle Toad, synergy."

Max Hell and Cycle Toad contemplate the serendipitousness of twos as they figure out how to get from Frogtown to Ann Arbor by Saturday, April 25th 7pm so they can see the show.

that if you go to the Ann Arbor Smithee show this Saturday, April 25th any time between 7pm and midnightish, please, please, PLEASE sit somewhere where they can easily roller up to you. 1800 Chem isn't exactly roller ninja friendly and they don't want to risk another...incident.

If you're feeling ice creamy, you ought to stroll on over to your nearest participating Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream Parlor for a free scoop of ice cream. Thanks to alessar for the...scoop!

Tux also wants you to remember that there are only 4 more shopping days until the

18th Annual Ann Arbor Smithee Awards
4.25.09
19:00 hours
1800 Chem

but if you can't make it, he understands. He does hope to see you then at

Penguicon
May 1-3; Penguicon Smithee Night May 2nd
8pm, Columbia Room

ANN ARBOR SMITHEE 18 SHOW
5 days and counting!
April 25th, 7pm
1800 Chem Building, Ann Arbor Main Campus


Don't make him send little space rocket men to crash through your big space French Doors. Because he will. I've seen him do it.