Here is our illustrious tale of E3 expo at LACC in Los Angeles, CA.

SFO at 545am, got caught in the Long Term / Short Term endless loop, we finally parked and then got on the AirTram (aka FUCK THIS TRAM) and into the terminal... (sidenote - i'm not this retarded, i swear, i have flown out of SFO all my life but only once since it got changed around). Not doing too bad on time but with a couple chains of events, I ended up almost missing the flight. My homie of 10+ years & brilliant coworker Larissa convinced the gate dude to wait and I was there within 30seconds flat. w00p w00p. The Standard downtown, the Bonaventure, photos of our convention and booth areas, and lots of fun: TONS of pictures, check it out

We got lucky and hitched a cab with a guy that was expensing his whole trip. Free ride from LAX to downtown, as you may know, is $50+ of good karma on our side. Stuffy, corporate downtown LA... and some rich dude with a "sense of humor" eh - check the fake leg, haven't actually ever seen one of these in action:

We met up with Larissa's cousin, who manages at The Standard. I took pics during breakfast because the hotel is really freaken cool looking.

Standard lobby

Standard diner

Booth mirrors

Riss

See? Hotel is rad.

Nutella with breakfast, dearies

I am transplanting this lobby into my living room. Sorry y'all.

The bathroom sink lobby has interesting wallpaper... (click the twit pic to see full size glory)

And then it was off to the Bonaventure on the other side of the LA Library... to meet up with everyone from work, and track down our badges. ALL ACESS?!??! Like, access to your bank account, too? Sweet Times.

captain obvious and professor duh, reporting for duty!

This is what we labored over... for grueling days and nights and temper tantrums and overall GLORY

Huge light boxes looked sweet

Keeping our experience rooms classy with etched glass. Actually, this looked REALLY good in person. The glass and lighting kept such a cool ambiance in the press and experience rooms.

Trying to get an overall view, our booth area was huge with tons of rows of game demos and a large presentation screen (in the back there... the PAIN logo - that is on like a 40' wrap screen)

RATCHET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Our homie

We found the guys from MAG (obvs not really them, these are humans, and the guys from MAG are polygons, duh)

Oh yeah. And these dudes.

 GHOST RIDE THE WHIP! (god I'm funny)

PSN room with cool hanging chairs to check out PSN via PSP, or 4 walls of PS3 consoles to check out exclusive PSN games.

I WAS EXPLICITLY INSTRUCTED TO NOT GO INTO DETAIL ON THE PSP Go! or  show any pics. You can see what you can see on the Press Conference or E3 coverage, but other than that... THEY ARE FREAKIN COOL.

PSN's anticipated title, Fat Princess. PSN does have the option for single player if you do not want to play over the network. Cake and playing with yourself... what could possibly go wrong?

Guitar Hero - VAN HALEN!

A couple demo rows... massive.

Wandered a bit, met up with some of our Vendors, saw what I could of the NintendoDS booth since it was right next to us. Looked good but the feedback across all parties is that PlayStation press conference and booth presence took top spot in this year's expo. HELL YAH!

Oh yeah and I'm pretty sure the clerk at the Bonaventure thinks I'm retarded... I ran to the fountain pathway yelling "Oh My God! Larissa! FLYING WATER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

We headed upstairs to the brewery for some food and rest, and ESPN was showing a montage of pro sport games that have had squirrels run across the field (was nothing else going on this hour in the world of sports) cabbed back to LAX and made it home pretty late. Our flight attendant on the trip back had us cracking up... "There may be 50 ways to leave your lover, but there are only 6 ways off this aircraft" - "A tub of I can't believe it's not butter will descend from the overhead compartment, secure over nose and mouth..." - "Prepare for blastoff" -!!!

Still managed to meet up with one of my Sailor Jerry coworkers to grab my uniform and all the POS materials but dang! Overall it was a LONG day. Flying twice in a day and enduring a convention hall in under 20 hours is exhausting.