I’ve always seen celebrities as a hunted species. They can never let down their guards, because the world insists on always taking a piece of them. I never wanted to be part of the hungry pack that feeds upon them, so I’ve always tended to give them their space. Maybe I learned that from being a New Yorker for so many years.

One way in which New Yorkers demonstrate their cool is by acting cool toward the famous, letting them have a buffer zone. When I lived in New York, I saw Dustin Hoffman, Lillian Gish, Rex Reed, Jack Palance, Mike Wallace, Paul Simon, Adolph Green, John Lindsay, Vincent Price, and countless others out and about, living their lives, and I did my best not to encroach on their buffer zones. (Though to show you that no one is perfect, I’ll admit that I couldn’t help but break that rule when I saw Edward Gorey in the lobby of the Metropolitan Opera in the early ’80s, resplendent in his raccoon coat, and was unable to resist approaching and babbling.)

Which is a roundabout way of explaining why, though I attended the joint SCI FI Channel/Entertainment Weekly party at the Hotel Solamar Saturday night, you won’t be seeing any photos of the many celebrities who were in attendance. I only brought out my camera to take photos of my friends and the decorations. So though I saw and sometimes chatted with many stars, some from SCI FI series and others from upcoming movies, I believed that they deserved at least one place at Comic-Con in which they were being treated as people instead of being torn limb from limb by the mob. I kept my inner fanboy in check, and so there’ll be no photos of the rich and famous for you today.

But that doesn’t mean I don’t have a couple of cool pics to share with you.

Here’s the view from the fourth floor, showing the names of the hosts both on the plexiglass barrier which prevented us from falling off the roof, as well as projected onto the building across the way.

And here’s the view looking down into the pool, in which both names were also being projected.

I’m now current with uploading my Comic-Con photos, and have posted 188 of them.

And who knows how many more Sunday will bring?