Friday, August 5, 2011
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Helpful D*C Links
If there are any links that should be added to these lists, please let me know. Also, if there are any links that are incorrect, not working or just need to be removed, please let me know.
Official D*C Websites
The Official D*C Site
D*C Newletter
D*C TV
Dragon*Pod
Daily Dragon
D*C Parade
Live Journal Accounts
D*C LiveJournal
D*C Rooms Live Journal
DragonCon's Cheap Hotel Klingon
Potential Photo Shoot Locations
Wiki's
The BEST D*C Wiki
D*C Wikipedia
D*C Track Links
Alternate History
American Sci-Fi Media
Animation
Anime/Manga
Anne McCaffrey’s Worlds
Apocalypse Rising
The Armory
Art Show Forums and Workshops
Brit Track
Costuming
Dark Fantasy
Electronic Frontiers Forums
Filk Singing
Independent Film Track
Kaleidoscope
Paranormal
Podcasting: Now & Beyond
Robotics
Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time
Science
Sci-Fi and Fantasy Literature
Skeptics
Space
Star Gate: Multiverse
Star Wars
Tolkien’s Middle-Earth
Trek Track
Whedonverse
Writer’s Track
XTrack
Young Adult Literature
Facebook Accounts
DragonCon
American Sci-Fi Classics Track
Anime/Manga
Reddit
Dragon*Con
Twitter Accounts
DragonCon
DragonCon TV
American Sci-Fi Media
Filk Singing
Podcasting: Now & Beyond
Blogs
Zach’s Blog – Hockey Cop
The Black Bunny Blog
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Announcement about D*C 2011 Badge Transfers Deadline
The last day the D*C office will process membership transfers will be Wednesday, August 3rd. Anyone wanting to transfer membership must do so through the Dragon*Con Office. They WILL NOT be processing membership transfers at the show. Click here for more information.
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
D*C 2011 – 36 Days away and counting!
As always there is lots going on this year. There will be the traditional Thursday Night Dinner, the Friday Night Poor Man’s Pub Crawl, the Black Bunny Crew will march in the parade on Saturday morning and the Masquerade viewing on Sunday night - plus the thousands of other convention events going on during the weekend.
I have heard from some people about Thursday night dinner. Right now there is a three-way tie between Meehan’s, Max Lager’s and Benihana all close to the three main host hotels. I will need to know a pseudo-concrete number by August 22 to make sure the restaurant has room for us. If you haven’t let know you are going, please do as soon as possible.
The Poor Man’s Pub Crawl is currently FULL. We have seven rooms participating and expect approximately 35 people to walk the crawl. Due to the large numbers this year, ONLY people associated with a Pub Crawl room and judges will be walking the Crawl. I will be tapping a few people (very few) as impartial judges. If you are interested, let me know.
The Black Bunny will be walking in the D*C parade on Saturday morning. I am hoping for a big turnout. If you plan on walking with us, let me know and I will add you to the list. I just want to make sure I have enough parade ribbons for everyone.
The Masquerade viewing on Sunday night will probably be planned…… sometime that Sunday morning. It will be word of mouth, or email, or text, or Facebook, or Twitter, or Google+ but it will not be on MySpace. I really don’t know yet.
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Dragon*Con 2010 - Monday
Dead Dog Day. We were up and had the room completely packed by 9:30a. I went ahead and called for luggage assistance expecting a 1 ½ hr wait – that would get us checked out by 11a. Much to my surprise, there was no wait and they would be up in 10 minutes. I left Darrell with the luggage and ran over to get the car. By the time, I made it back to the Marriott, Darrell and the luggage were waiting for me. We packed up the car and went back to the parking deck. It was nice to meander around the Monday morning dregs and not have to stress about moving the luggage down. Darrell and I took one more walk through the Exhibitors Hall’s and the Dealer’s Room. I got to say good bye to my Kindra, Conner and Paul and then we were outta there. I never make it past noon at D*C on Monday. I am ready to go home. I’m tired.
The rest of my afternoon consisted of unpacking intermingled with long naps.
The next adventure, Disney!!!!!
I leave you with some random D*C pictures taken throughout the weekend…
Dragon*Con 2010 - Sunday
Sunday is normally my sleep in morning but NO not this year. I had pictures with Stan Lee at 10a. Normally, I don’t do the photos but I couldn’t pass up a picture with Lafayette from True Blood and I really don’t think I will ever see Stan Lee again.
After the photo, I wanted to hit the Walk of Fame as early as possible. I have discovered that early Sunday morning visits to the Walk of Fame means shorter lines. One of my vices is getting my DVD’s signed. This morning I was after Marty Klebba and Lee Arenberg from the Pirates movies, Nelsan Ellis and Sam Trammell from True Blood and Patricia Quinn from the Rocky Horror Picture show.
As I arrived, there was no one at Lee or Marty’s tables. I walked up and pulled out my DVD. As they were signing, I told them I had brought them a little gift and asked about their t-shirt sizes. Luckily, I had done some research for Marty’s t-shirt. I was prepared. I think they liked the Black Bunny Crew shirts. Marty was a sweetheart. He ran around the table for me to take a picture and then Lee followed suit. They were great guys.
There was a short line for Sam and Lafayette. I will admit, I was impressed by Nelsan. He took my DVD opened it up and then looked at me and said, ‘Good morning Captain’. I think he is the first celebrity to actually take time to read my D*C badge. It made me smile. Sam was just Sam. He comes across just like his True Blood character – down to earth and just a nice guy. We was even wearing a plaid shirt and blue jeans.
I was about to walk out of the room when Jesse and Josh walked in. We decided to take one more stroll around to see all the celebrities before heading across the hall. On our way out, Tia Carrere bumped into Josh. He didn’t notice who it was until Jesse pointed it out.
We walked to the other side of the Hilton and walked into the smaller Walk of Fame room, I just wanted to lay eyes on the ‘I Dream of Jeannie’ cast. Larry Hagman (Major Nelson) and Bill Daily (Major Healy) definitely looked their age but Barbara Eden has aged gracefully. She is still beautiful.
Then we wandered through one of the Exhibit all’s and back through the Dealer’s Room. None of the vendor’s really stood out to me this year.
Darrell and I walked back over to Artist’s Alley in the Hyatt. That was one thing he wanted to see before the weekend was gone. I stayed awhile but was exhausted. Finally, I told him I would meet him back in the room.
I took a little nap and then started the daunting task of packing up the room. I didn’t get it all done but I made good head way.
At 3p, we had a Disney meeting. It seemed to be the only time we could all get together. We discussed meeting times, travel arrangements and all that good stuff. Dtag had some fantastic t-shirts made for us all to wear to MNSSHP and Zach brought us personalized drinks!
The main Sunday event is the viewing of the Masquerade in someones room. It is usually in my room but since Jesse had the bigger room, we all met there. I’m trying to remember how many people we had… Josh, Kyle, Jesse, Zach, me, Darrell, Kris, Jane, Chris, Julian, Patricia, Liz, Steve, Kindra, Paul and Conner. I think that was most of everybody.
The only exceptional thing about the Masquerade this year was Logan. Logan is Diana and Patrick’s son. He had been costuming as Ang, the last Airbender at D*C. Denise Crosby happen to see him, get a picture with him and told him to enter the Masquerade – she was a judge. I believe it was his first contest. He won a PS3 for Best in Show in the Children’s category. It was nothing but a room full of screams when they announced it.
The rest of the Masquerade was spent questioning costumes, wondering why there was a bored child on stage for the duration of the Masquerade and brainstorming what we could do better – in other words, a typical Masquerade viewing. At least they did play our beloved Duck Dodger’s in the 24 ½ Century. I personally think someone should go as Duck Dodgers (Daffy Duck) and ‘Eager Young Space Cadet ‘(Porky Pig) at the next D*C.
