Okay, I’ve given you the events of the Con, now for my thoughts about it. These are in no particular order, just the stuff that comes to mind when reflecting about DragonCon 2004.
Next year, there WILL be attendance at spanky parties. I’ll not miss them again.
The overall feel of the Con was laid back this year. Not as much cheering or loudness as in years past. Nice!
The roommates were ok, but the hogging of the bed (that they DID NOT have the right to hog) and the odd guy that stalked us for 2 days was not cool. Next year there will be no roomies. We do, however, hope to put together a performance piece for next year with the roomies from this year. They’ll just have to stay somewhere else!
The Con Suite was pretty cool. Joe is loud and can be very rude at times, but overall, he’s a great guy. Hey, anyone who hunts me down to apologize for yelling at me (for no reason) is OK in my book!
The fuzz kept a low profile this year and were not nearly as assholey as last year. This is a needed improvement.
The Tesla Coil Experiment Gone Awry guy, Frank from New Orleans, is well known by our Caroline and her mom Goldie. Har!! How’s that for odd?
Next year, I’ll be eating echinacea before and during the Con. I don’t want to get the ConCrud again. Bleh.
The Con really needs to fix the badge pick up. Why not just mail the goddamn things? If you put a sparkly in them, I don’t think they would be easy to duplicate. Besides, it’s not like you can’t share the stupid things anyway! It sucks that those of us who bought badges this year will have to wait in line for our badge next year and those who walk up with no badge will zoom thru on-site registration. Grrrr! I have to say tho, that it only took about 45 minutes on Thursday at 4pm as opposed to 2.5 hours last year, so that’s better. Having the lines done by name rather than number seemed to help somehow. The line for me and Andy (McC-Ro) was way short! Andy went in at 10pm on Thu and it only took him about 15 minutes.
Those we missed this year: Robert and Donna (The Blessed Bee), Evil from Florida and Ripper (who I did see for a minute as we were leaving).
We saw Virginia Hey, but she couldn’t remember me due to my red/purple hair. She seemed more relaxed and happy this year than when we saw her last.
Steve Bacic (Andromeda) is more luscious in person than on TV. I mean really, really luscious. Grrrruff! He is ultimately lickable!
David Carradine is a huge asshole. He actually snarled at people! I refused to give him a red cent for an autograph despite the fact that we had groovy shirts ready to sign. His assistant had to speak for him since he was sitting there with a frown on his face snarling at the people who were stupid enough to give him $20 a pop for an autograph. Fucker. An actress who was sitting down the row from him said he’d been like that for the whole con and she didn’t know why he even bothered! It appears his cancellation was real and his handlers decided to make him attend. Bad idea. Just stay at home, we don’t need the ‘tude.
Margot Kidder was very nice. She was fascinated with the broad mix of people at this con and she loved my hair. :-) She made a comment about there being “more than just sci fi at this Con!”. Heh, heh, heh, indeed! Smart lady!
Garrett Wang is such a surfer dude. He’s let his hair grow out and when I asked him what he’s doing now he said, “Eh, nothin’. It’s taken me a year to get off my ass and get together some head shots to do these Cons!” Heh, I guess he made enough to live on for a couple of years so he’s gonna hang out until the cash is low. What an actor! LOL
Despite the lack of spankings and nudity, I had a great time this year. I hope we can top it next year. Here’s to DragonCon 2005!! W00t!
I think that the badge problems depended on when you came. I heard it was really bad on Thursday, but when we got there on Friday around 1, we buzzed right through the prereg line. There wasn’t a line at all for me. Guess I got lucky. I did see one person who said Carradine was nice, but he was the client of a friend of hers or something, he even gave her a “hanzo” sword.
Actually, I remember seeing Tibbles in the stairwell during one of the many times we were making the trek between the smoking porch and the room. Of course, it was VERY quick!
Registration? Why that’s up the escalator, across the lobby, past the gift shop and down the other escala … damn. It just becomes a freakin’ mantra after awhile.