Busy summer weekend with downtown hosting their annual Comic-Con. Many more attendees than last year but not as many charming one-off promotions – like last year Cozi TV and Laff channel hosting large interactive fan displays for shows in outdated syndication, like
Roseanne and
That 70s Show. This year they’ve cracked down on a lot of the free events, requiring the Convention Pass for what used to be free, like the Anime screenings in conference halls of the nearby hotels:
Walking back to my apartment tower, three sex workers were in handcuffs along with a druggie guy that was with them (their pimp?). After about 30 minutes of questioning and calling in backup PD cruisers, the druggie guy was issued a formal citation and released.
The police didn’t have time to write citations for the sex workers, releasing them as well, because they were dispatched to the scene of a large fire two blocks away:
Police blocked off the streets to make room for the Fire Department to stage their trucks for what turned out to be an extensive kitchen fire inside a Brazilian steakhouse. The whole block had to be evacuated, to include a nightclub which was hosting an immersive Batman experience to promote HBO’s upcoming Batman spinoff. Many of the evacuees, to include the show’s cast members, who poured into the streets were in full costume, especially in Joker costumes of the Heath Ledger and Joaquin Phoenix variety. The hilarious thing, as they told me, is that when the lights beamed on inside the nightclub and announcements were made to evacuate into the streets, many believed it was part of the immersive experience until they caught sight of the fire engines.
