Friday! I got out of class at 2:20. I know how traffic and parking in downtown Columbus are at this time of day. So I left my car on campus and hopped on the bus headed downtown.
I got to the Expo and began walking around. I found the MD booth. I saw Palumbo and Valvolino. Steve Blechman is such a flamer! I mean no offense by saying this, just stating the facts as I saw them. I have only seen him in pictures before, and he looked quite the flamer, but seeing him in person takes the flaming to a whole new level. Derek Anthony was not at the MD booth. I would go past it several times after that, and Derek was nowhere to be seen.
I had a very hard time getting a hold of the Blockhead and Special Ed. It was loud so we had difficulty talking on the phone, and the place is a complex maize. I did finally get to meet them both. They are fun.
I saw Jay, Dennis James, Kamali, Dennis Wolfe, Milos, Bill Wilmore, Art Atwood, Johnny Jackson, a handful of other pros, some NPC competitors... I saw guys who looked familiar, but I had to squint to read their name tags (if they were wearing one) to put a name to the face. I saw Troponin (Justin Harris) and his new DVD. The line was way too long, so I didn't go to his booth.
The most impressive and memorable part of the expo for me, though, was seeing Trey Brewer. Pictures don't do him justice. He is huge. He said he now weighs 315. His voice was hoarse from a cold he had last week, and from having to yell over the loud music in the expo. He does look much older than 21 in person, but his shoulders and arms are spectacular. He has stretch marks on his forearms. He walked with some difficulty because of his quads, which were covered up by long shorts. Even in this crowd of juiceheads, wherever Trey walked, people parted like the dead sea to let him through. He is a really cool guy and he acts very professionally. His cheeks and jaw looked kinda puffy and reminded me alot of some offseason pictures of Jay Cutler that I had seen. Trey was the talk of the expo. Everyone else I know who went there asked me the same thing: "What did you think of Trey Brewer?"
After a couple hours at the expo, I was getting tired of the body odors of people who hadn't showered in days, and of all the skinny retards with ILS bumping into me. So I left, and walked the 2 miles or so to campus on the bike trail by the Olentangy river (It was awesome: spring is coming!), found my car in the parking lot by the Ohio Stadium, and came home!
