Very Convention-al
Hey everyone, it’s me Kristy! I’m the one who makes all of those sticker packs you find hiding out in your Fright Rags order, I’m also the one who runs the Street Team (don’t worry it will soon be more of an interactive team instead of just a Facebook profile haha), I field customer service emails, but more than anything I am the girl you will find standing behind the Fright Rags table at Conventions. And it’s that last piece to my puzzle that has prompted this latest conversation topic.
Going to Horror Conventions has become a big part of my life over the last almost 2 years. I’ve been a Horror nerd since I was about 3 or 4, but only started going to Cons over the past couple of years. Mainly because it took me that long to find friends as enthusiastic as me about Horror who would trek 4 or 5 hours just to meet some Horror celebs and geek out on action figures and rare out of print dvd’s. It was at Monster Mania in August of 2008 that I met Ben Scrivens, owner/founder of Fright Rags and he changed my life for the better. Because of him not only did I start working for the greatest Horror t shirt company in the universe, but I met some of my all-time favorite Horror celebs and got an awesomely painful concussion from Jeff Zornow at Monster Mania Conn this past June! On a personal note, if it weren’t for Fright Rags and the Con life I would have never met my boyfriend, and I would have never met Fright Rags superfan Mike Kenny, who is now practically engaged to my niece Melissa. I am overstating it, but the Convention life has given me so many amazing experiences, and so many new friends, it’s a life I could live forever, and hopefully I will…
It prompts me to ask the question of you: What are some of your favorite Convention moments? It can be any Convention, whether Fright Rags has a table there or not. We’re about to start a new Con season and it just made me want to know more about your experiences at Cons! Have you met your significant other there? Met a celeb who was a class act? Met a celeb who ruined your childhood memories of them? Tell me all of it! Fright Rags customers happen to be the best part of this job, so I would be jazzed if you took a moment to share!
You will catch Fright Rags in all three installments of Monster Mania (March, June and August) and hopefully more Conventions this year-we will keep you posted!
Thanks!
-Kristy!
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Wowzers, Kristy Jett! Me and your niece get a mention in your latest blog. I’m touched haha. But, seriously, thanks very much for mentioning us. To be honest, one of my favorite convention moments was meeting you and the whole Fright-Rags gang, obviously it’s wonderful to have met you and for introducing me to Melissa which has made my life perfect. But, just the sheer fun and excitement of meeting people that are as passionate about this genre of cinemas as I am was just incredible. Hanging out with Tim, Sean and Zornow in the hotel room at Monster-Mania was always a blast. Gotta love the sober circle of me, you and Sean. I know having you take pictures of me and Sean pretending the room was under attack from an earthquake must have been a highlight in your life haha. I will always be forever grateful and overjoyed that we met and have become as tight as we are! Oh and Ben… I think it’s time Fright-Rags makes an original Kristy Jett design shirt… I’d buy it hahah!
Convincing Robert Englund to sketch a Freddy on my calf, then getting it tattooed over. I was just about to turn 28 and it seemed a good ‘before I’m 30′ idea.
One of these years we’re going to have to make a concerted effort to get you out to Seattle for Crypticon. If not this year then down the road sometime.
I’m not much of a convention-person myself and had never been to a convention – horror or otherwise – before the first Crypticon here in Seattle which I attended as a patron. But there I rapped with Tony Todd about the Bush Administration and the sorry state of the economy. And at Crypticon II (because we ALL know as horror fans that sequels with numbers instead of Roman numerals suck
I had Tom Atkins offer to help me hang panels for the art show during the opening hours on the first day, chatted with Michael Berryman about Michael Landon and had a convention-goer gush show so much appreciation for what we brought to Seattle that he offered to pay for my next autograph.
When the radiant Kristy and I had a “Zombie Vs Shark Fright Rags photo shoot” at Rock and Shock 09!!!!!!!! hahahaha
Kristy is a gem