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Kinsfire Site Owner
Joined: 01 Nov 2001 Posts: 380 Location: Roselle, NJ
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Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2003 12:51 pm Post subject: AC 2003 report |
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Looks like this may be the first of the AC reports! (Then again, due to some considerable idiocy on my part, I have no pictures to post about the 'con. )
My wife and I live about 2 hours from Philadelphia, so we drove down after we got out of work on Friday. Of course, there was a particularly ugly little thunderstorm zipping through, so it took longer to get there than we wanted.
The fun arose on Saturday. Ran into The Old Grey Raccoon and Assa, which was important, since my wife and I were the ones doing their handfasting. (Catspaw, for those who don't know, is my wife, and a Wiccan minister, capable of performing legally binding marriage ceremonies.) I actually just played the part of cabana boy for the ceremony.
After the ceremony (which I think went off beautifully, and there was general agreement about that), Mike took off to the Charity Auction, where he wanted to get a specific item. (I'll let him talk about that one - it's his story.) In the process of taking some stuff out to the vehicle, I made the mistake of walking in on the auction myself. I say this because I walked in just in time to see the auction start on a handmade sword. Beautiful work on this thing. The bidding started at $50, and someone immediately bid $100. It rapidly hit $120, and I finally got a good look at it. I bid $130, figuring that I could afford it, but that it would probably drive the bidding up.
Two minutes later, I was at my car, placing a sword that should have gone for $300 or $400 in the trunk.
The PF crew that I saw there were (in no particular order) Beau, Fish, Rava, Josh, TOGR, Assa, Khan, Cirrel, Iron Raptor (who really needs to learn to eat at these cons......hallucinations are interesting...) and undoubtedly a number more whom I will remember only AFTER posting this. (To give you an idea of why it's a little difficult to remember who all I met: the convention was the largest they've had to date, with 1800 people verified at one point. They overflowed the Adams Mark, and then overflowed their overflow hotel.)
To be honest, I spent the con doing the one thing I do best - talking. I never even made it to any of the progamming for the convention.
There was some wonderful artwork zipping around the con, and oddly enough, I never got anyone to do a sketch for me! However, there are a few people I intend on hiring to do work for me.
All in all, whether or not I made it to any of the programming, it was fun as hell to see some of my PF friends like Josh, Rava, Khan, Mike and Chris again, and finally meet some of the others, like Cirrel, Fish, and IR.
I know this is short for a Con report, but I plead being very tired. I'll try to add more as I get more conscious. _________________ That which does not kill me probably hurt like a sonuvabitch. |
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Concolor Registered User
Joined: 19 Nov 2001 Posts: 832 Location: South Carolina
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Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2003 10:10 am Post subject: |
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WAAAAHHHHH!!!
I WISH I COULD BE THERE!!!!!!!!!!
_________________ Oddly enough, my life is based on a true story. (Ashleigh Brilliant) |
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Kinsfire Site Owner
Joined: 01 Nov 2001 Posts: 380 Location: Roselle, NJ
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Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2003 1:07 pm Post subject: |
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I wish you'd been there too. I'll be honest with you, Concolor, if I could have afforded it, I would have sent you the money to permit that vacation you guys were going to take.
Obviously, that kind of cash was and is not readily available... _________________ That which does not kill me probably hurt like a sonuvabitch. |
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Cateagle Site Owner
Joined: 20 Nov 2000 Posts: 1004 Location: Ft. Worth, TX
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Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2003 1:59 pm Post subject: |
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*chuckle* Concolor's not the only one who wishes he could've been there. However, I had neither the time nor money, it's an irrelevant point.
I will be waiting, though, to hear all the reports.
eagerly waiting,
Cateagle _________________ "But the wildest of all the wild animals was the Cateagle. He walked by himself and all places were alike to him."
-- With apologies to Rudyard Kipling |
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Concolor Registered User
Joined: 19 Nov 2001 Posts: 832 Location: South Carolina
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Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2003 3:59 pm Post subject: |
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"Next year in Jerusalem!"
... as they say. _________________ Oddly enough, my life is based on a true story. (Ashleigh Brilliant) |
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Nameless Site Owner
Joined: 06 Sep 2002 Posts: 1368 Location: Vienna, Austria
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Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2003 4:05 pm Post subject: |
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That's what the Palestinians say?
(Or did I remember that wrongly?) _________________ I'm a nut, but there are those who appreciate me for it. |
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Concolor Registered User
Joined: 19 Nov 2001 Posts: 832 Location: South Carolina
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Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2003 4:34 pm Post subject: |
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HAHAHAHA!!
Good one, Nameless. No, that's what the Jews say at Passover. And few of them ever get to actually go to Jerusalem for the celebration. _________________ Oddly enough, my life is based on a true story. (Ashleigh Brilliant) |
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