One week from today, I’ll be standing in line to get my badge for DragonCon 2015. The annual sci-fi/fantasy convention is like Christmas for my family, and I start planning and working on my costumes a year in advance. Over on EPBOT.com, Jen Yates has a wonderful list of DragonCon Survival Tips. But for those …
It’s been a week and a half since DragonCon 2014, and I admit that I’ve been so busy since then that I’ve hardly had time to fall into Post Con Depression. To help keep it at bay a little longer, I thought I’d get the highlights of my weekend written down before it all becomes …
Another Dragon*Con has come and gone, and it’s hard to believe that it’s been a week since it ended. I think I’m still catching up on sleep! This year was another epic Dragon*Con for a lot of reasons. Here are my top five six moments from the weekend. (Narrowing this list down was tough!) 6. …
For those of you who are now recovering from Dragon*Con, you should be aware that post-con depression is a very real thing. Thankfully, it’s also treatable. Here is your guide to its symptoms and treatment. Signs of Post-Con Depression: -You woke up this morning and felt sad that you had to put on real clothes …
Please welcome the lovely and talented Kimber McDermott to my Paranormal Investigator Profile series! I had the pleasure of meeting Kimber not through ghost hunting, but through a Guinness World Record attempt of the most people dancing to Thriller. Kimber was a co-organizer of the attempt during Dragon*Con. We didn’t get the record, but 903 …
Poor Tom Felton. I don’t think he ever expected the likes of Mom and me to come get a photo with him during DragonCon 2011. Tom is best known for playing Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter movies, and here were Mom and I looking like we’d arrived for a Malfoy family reunion. In truth, …
DragonCon 2011 has come and gone and, like every year, it was epic. The biggest fan-run sci-fi and fantasy convention in the U.S. is four days of awesome. I was actually there for five days, wore six different outfits (most of which were costumes), and put my arms around everyone from Darth Vader to Tom …
DragonCon this year was, as usual, a great time. In fact, I’ll go so far as to say it was my best DragonCon yet. We attended less panels, giving us a lot more time for just sitting around to watch the (weird) world go by. We had a huge crowd this year, ranging from the …
It’s gloomy and rainy here in Atlanta, and all I really want to do is brew a hot cup of tea and finish reading “The Hobbit.” However, one of my race teams might object since I have a press release to finish writing for them. In an effort to get out of my afternoon slump, …
The official video of our Guinness World Record attempt is now online! Presenting 903 Thriller dancers! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NA8RZCL5jTE[/youtube] I show up around 1:03. I am still amazed that we got that many people dancing together.
