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I'm glad I got out of bed today.

For a number of reasons, but not least among them: the possibility of going to DragonCon with [livejournal.com profile] wildnsquirrelly was raised. For a brief shining moment I'm seven, hopping up and down and squealing, imploring the cosmos, "Please, please, please, can I go to DragonCon? I'll be good, I promise!" (There's a lot of it going around today -- see [livejournal.com profile] adammaker.)

So I start running the calculations... $225 for a plane ticket, $65 for entry at the con... say $200 for hotel (I've done my time sleeping on the con hotel floor -- I'm too old for that, and the sort of costuming I now tend to favor has too many sharp bits. In the immortal words of Eddie Izzard, "You'll cut your bits off like that!")... I think I can manage it, maybe. No need for a car, you can get everywhere you need to go on the MARTA, so that's good.

I should totally go. Other people should totally go with me.

What's this about being good?

Date: 2005-04-22 07:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wildnsquirrelly.livejournal.com
I know you have a very subjective definition of it, but to joke like that might take all the fun out of going. :D

Re: What's this about being good?

Date: 2005-04-22 07:26 pm (UTC)
ext_3038: Red Panda with the captain "Oh Hai!" (love me - fear me - do as I say...)
From: [identity profile] triadruid.livejournal.com
Pshaw. For all we know (and we could take a poll, if it would help), the cosmolocal definition of "[livejournal.com profile] featherynscale being good" requires her bouncing up and down a *lot* more...

Re: What's this about being good?

Date: 2005-04-22 07:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wildnsquirrelly.livejournal.com
Not a bad point- that was always a good part of *my* definition of it.

Re: What's this about being good?

Date: 2005-04-22 07:36 pm (UTC)
ext_3038: Red Panda with the captain "Oh Hai!" (dragonsex)
From: [identity profile] triadruid.livejournal.com
I thought you'd understand...

In other news, what on earth does "cosmolocal" mean? I have to stop typing so fast...or start thinking quicker.

Re: Cosmolocal

Date: 2005-04-22 07:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wildnsquirrelly.livejournal.com
I'd taken it to mean our little neck of the cosmos. Didn't sound too far fetched to me.

Re: Cosmolocal

Date: 2005-04-22 08:04 pm (UTC)
ext_3038: Red Panda with the captain "Oh Hai!" (strawhenge...then woodhenge and stonehen)
From: [identity profile] triadruid.livejournal.com
You're a cleverer man than I, Gunga Din.

Re: Cosmolocal

Date: 2005-04-22 08:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wildnsquirrelly.livejournal.com
Aye, that's how I get me booty. ;)

Wheedling

Date: 2005-04-22 07:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] featherynscale.livejournal.com
Jordan's going to be there...

(Also, dammit. I don't have any "making a cute and innocent face" icons. Must correct that.)

Temporally correct, spatially screwed

Date: 2005-04-22 07:34 pm (UTC)
ext_3038: Red Panda with the captain "Oh Hai!" (aes sedai)
From: [identity profile] triadruid.livejournal.com
OK, *this* is why you're evil. Jordan?

Blergh. Where is this silly thing? (Can you tell I've never been to a Con?)

Re: Temporally correct, spatially screwed

Date: 2005-04-22 07:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] featherynscale.livejournal.com
Atlanta. You know you want to go. It's labor day weekend. You wouldn't even have to take a day off from work.

I'm still digging for why [livejournal.com profile] kittenpants wants to go. Other than, you know, a lot of art, artists and afore (but below)mentioned goth kids.

Re: Temporally correct, spatially screwed

Date: 2005-04-22 09:29 pm (UTC)
ext_3038: Red Panda with the captain "Oh Hai!" (druidmobile)
From: [identity profile] triadruid.livejournal.com
Which weekend is Labor Day this year, last in August or 1st in September?

I'm thinking about it. Unsure if it's viable financially, but my understanding is you don't fly to Cons, but drive through the night. It's only 12 hours or so. ;)

Re: Temporally correct, spatially screwed

Date: 2005-04-22 10:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] featherynscale.livejournal.com
September 2-5.

Hey, we could drive, if we could be certain that one of the cars would make it. It is about 12 hours, and some of it is through some exciting mountainous territory, but you know about that, apparently.

Re: Temporally correct, spatially screwed

Date: 2005-04-22 10:13 pm (UTC)
ext_3038: Red Panda with the captain "Oh Hai!" (anakin skywalker is darth vader)
From: [identity profile] triadruid.livejournal.com
Got it on my calendar as a placeholder. Since I'm being robbed of my Memorial Day weekend, I may be able to go.

Was just thinking about the cost of 2-3 plane tickets, vs. driving. We'll see...

Re: What's this about being good?

Date: 2005-04-22 07:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] featherynscale.livejournal.com
Ok, fine. In this case, "I'll be good" primarily means that I won't blow any more money on the venture than strictly necessary, that I'll try my damnedest not to get arrested or thrown out of the Con, and that although I will probably chase the goth kids, I'll make a solid effort not to catch any.

Re: What's this about being good?

Date: 2005-04-22 07:34 pm (UTC)
ext_3038: Red Panda with the captain "Oh Hai!" (hiiiii.... - from Lilo & Stitch)
From: [identity profile] triadruid.livejournal.com
For whatever it's worth, I first scrolled down to this comment and only read as far as "primarily means that I won't blow...", and then I filled in the rest, mostly with goth kids.

Anyway. That's not why you're evil, though.

Moi?

Date: 2005-04-22 07:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] featherynscale.livejournal.com
And why am I evil?

(Dammit! Need innocent face icon AGAIN! Twice, in two minutes!)

Re: Moi?

Date: 2005-04-22 07:36 pm (UTC)
ext_3038: Red Panda with the captain "Oh Hai!" (calico davy flint.. at yer service)
From: [identity profile] triadruid.livejournal.com
Do you still have the red faery icon at home? That's kinda innocent...ish.

Re: Moi?

Date: 2005-04-22 07:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wildnsquirrelly.livejournal.com
Try as you might love, everyone that knows you already knows that halo of yours is too rusty & dented to shine brightly. That's OK, we all love you anyway. Quite possibly *because* of it. :D

Re: What's this about being good?

Date: 2005-04-22 07:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wildnsquirrelly.livejournal.com
gotta watch those goths. It's hard to tell the jail bait from the rest under all that makeup.

Re: jail bait

Date: 2005-04-22 09:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] featherynscale.livejournal.com
That's one of the problems, yeah.

definition of good (vs. nice)

Date: 2005-04-22 07:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] capriciouslass.livejournal.com
nice girls go home and go to bed...
good girls go to bed and go home...

And in the center ring...

Date: 2005-04-22 08:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wildnsquirrelly.livejournal.com
Oh goody! The web page says that Joss Whedon is going to be there! If that's not an invitation to fan boydom (or fan girldom, depending on your component bits/frame of mind)I don't know what is.

Re: And in the center ring...

Date: 2005-04-22 09:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] featherynscale.livejournal.com
I'm not a Whedon fan, as it turns out. Please do me the favor of not trying to convert me - Dan's been trying for years.

It does mean, however, that the contingent of monsters will be larger than usual, and I'm okay with that. :)

Re: And in the center ring...

Date: 2005-04-22 09:32 pm (UTC)
ext_3038: Red Panda with the captain "Oh Hai!" (hiiiii.... - from Lilo & Stitch)
From: [identity profile] triadruid.livejournal.com
Hey, we agree on something. I don't like Joss Wheedon either.

But how does Wheedon = monsters? I mean, aside from vamps, which I already expected...

Re: And in the center ring...

Date: 2005-04-23 03:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wildnsquirrelly.livejournal.com
Yes, Whedon = Monsters because there was a *huge* variety of creatures that made appearances on his *shows*. Not *all* of the evil minions were vampires. Hell- not all of the vampires were evil minions. Guess you had to watch to understand. No big deal.

Re: And in the center ring...

Date: 2005-04-23 05:00 pm (UTC)
ext_3038: Red Panda with the captain "Oh Hai!" (am I evil?)
From: [identity profile] triadruid.livejournal.com
Oh, okay. I knew not all of the vamps were evil, I think in the 2.75 fragments of episodes I ever saw, there was the Spike + Buffy involvement, the Buffybot, and the "Key"... thingie.

Re: Whedonism...

Date: 2005-04-23 03:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wildnsquirrelly.livejournal.com
No worries there. A person either likes his work or not. I hope you know by now that while I enjoy a good debate converting others to my way of thinking is not one of my personal goals. There are plenty of other folk around to pay homage to Mr. Whedon, and I'm sure your lack among them will be missed. As you say, there are *way* too many other monsters lurking about to warrant intense focus on even a honey-dipped creature such as yourself.

stupid question...

Date: 2005-04-22 09:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jaiwitchy.livejournal.com
What is dragon con???

Re: stupid question...

Date: 2005-04-23 03:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] featherynscale.livejournal.com
DragonCon (http://www.dragoncon.com) is the biggest sci-fi, fantasy, and comic convention in the US. A long weekend of films, contests, parties, concerts, discussion, shopping, drumming, gaming, etc. With costumes.

Re: stupid question...

Date: 2005-04-23 03:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wildnsquirrelly.livejournal.com
You failed to mention some of the more *fluid-involving* activities that go on there. ;)

Re: stupid question...

Date: 2005-04-23 03:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] featherynscale.livejournal.com
Sure. Drinking and fucking, but I figure that's implicit in "partying".

Or...

Date: 2005-04-23 03:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rfunk.livejournal.com
You should come to Columbus on Memorial Day weekend for Marcon.

Re: Or...

Date: 2005-04-23 03:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] featherynscale.livejournal.com
Hrm. I hadn't considered that... :)

Date: 2005-04-25 03:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kcwitch.livejournal.com
sounds like fun but not this year for me.

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