{"id":13853,"date":"2013-01-27T21:00:45","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T05:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/?p=13853"},"modified":"2013-01-28T17:52:11","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T01:52:11","slug":"birthday-dinner-with-comic-fest-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2013\/01\/27\/birthday-dinner-with-comic-fest-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Birthday Dinner With Comic Fest Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"

A group of us Comic Fest<\/a> committee members along with spouses\/significant others met for a birthday dinner for Fest organizer and Comic-Con<\/a> co-founder, Mike Towry and his son, Ryan, at Filippi’s Pizza Grotto<\/a> in the Little Italy<\/a> neighborhood of San Diego.<\/p>\n

After more than a dozen of us (which eventually grew to nineteen) nudged our way through the front store waiting line we were seated at a long table in a back room, which is a terrible environment for any decent group photos. I got one usable shot, mainly because I only took two. The food is always great here and the portions are enormous. I had the lasagna\/spaghetti combo which I’m pretty sure is my usual whenever I eat here.<\/p>\n

There was no cake with candles so Mike asked me to take a couple of shots of him and his son blowing out straws in a bread roll, which I would then add flames to “in post”, hence the two fake photos.<\/p>\n

It was loud and fun, and there were the inevitable work discussions about the upcoming 2nd annual Comic Fest in October.<\/p>\n

\"Entering <\/a>
Entering Little Italy <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Filippi's <\/a>
Filippi’s Pizza Grotto <\/div> <\/div>
\"The <\/a>
The big group room <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Being <\/a>
Being seated <\/div> <\/div>
\"In <\/a>
In full meal mode <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Lasagna\/spaghetti <\/a>
Lasagna\/spaghetti combo <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Mike <\/a>
Mike and his new gal, Wendy <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Fake <\/a>
Fake photo #1 <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Fake <\/a>
Fake photo #2 <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A group of us Comic Fest committee members along with spouses\/significant others met for a birthday dinner for Fest organizer and Comic-Con co-founder, Mike Towry and his son, Ryan, at Filippi’s Pizza Grotto in the Little Italy neighborhood of San Diego. After more than a dozen of us (which eventually grew to nineteen) nudged our … <\/p>\n

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