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D*con fri-sun
so it started friday morning when we loaded up, met our other car of people (Tom, Gloria, Annie, Laz, Jedi, and Fed) At Mc D's around 6am, and headed north. Along the way we decided to count how many "THINK TIFTON" signs we saw on the way to tifton. This place loves itself, seriously, we counted over 30 billboards in under 20 miles. At one point there were 4 signs at once. Gotta love tifton.
We had mapquest directions (mapquest sucks) that supposedly took us around the I75 traffic in Atlanta to the hotel. As it turns out, they just took us on a 2 hour detour around downtown Atlanta, so we went sightseeing for a few hours and arrived at the hotel after stopping at 2 liquor stores to ask directions. We unloaded all our things, and were told by the hotel staff that cases of beer were not allowed this year(?). However they had no problem with the 2 boxes of liquor we unloaded. So we took all our things to the room, emptied out a few backpacks and backpacked the beer in. As we were doing so we saw a guy with 5 cases of beer on his hotel cart.
We were on the 29th floor this year, so the room had a great view, and the elevators in the Marriot weren't too bad. The worst wait was usually around 2 or 3 mins. We got in, threw on costumes (Ghetto trooper FTW) and proceed down to Reg to pick up badges. While standing in line fox news approached us and interviewed our group. I didn't know they were interviewing/filming annie and whilst standing behind her I shot myself in the face with a nerf gun by accident. Now thats newsworthy.
We got badges, and walked around for a while checking out costumes and that kinda thing, and James Marsters stepped on my foot. He was very apologetic. At 5 when we went to the room to get drinks. So we all filled up, and went to the Adultswim panel which was fucking hilarious. Every Adultswim writer/voice actor was dressed as a dragon, and stayed in character the entire panel. (2 DRINK MINIMUM, REDBULL AND VODKA) We then proceed to watch the Nathan Fillion/Alan Tyduk panel which was a riot, 2 of the best improvers I've ever seen. Also caught most of a Battlestar Galactica panel which was great. After that I filled the 2 gallon jug I had with the biggest rum and coke ever, and we all headed down stairs to party it up. After this my memory gets a bit fuzzy. I know we partied with a few sith lords, ran into Michael Rosenbalm (hereafter known as The Bomb) and at some point myself and several other people got into a ducktales theme singalong. Not sure why.
Saturday Morning rolls around and of course I sleep in a bit late and miss most of the parade. A few of my roommates however went and took a lot of pictures/video. Spent most of Saturday going to panels, except for the Venture Bros. panel that I missed totally because I didn't expect the line to start 4 hours before the panel. Said hi to Sean Astin, rode an elevator with none other than James Hong himself, got my picture taken several hundred times, and had a good time harassing every jedi I saw. Also shot a few Storm troopers in the face with nerf darts. Good times. Saturday night we were hanging out in the plasma lounge in the mariott and who else should take the table next to us but the entire firefly cast so we all drank and good times were had by all. Then Laz decided to start sniffing them because he's fucking weirdo. It was then that I got a call that said "OH MY GOD COME TO THE 10TH FLOOR!!!" So we promptly did and found the Colonel Fleet party, which was beyond fraking awesome. I was greeted with a glass of amazing scotch, and introduced to bob barker. All the nuggets (Colonel fleet newbs) were one by one taken in front of the fleet crowd and given callsigns. Annie became laces, Tom became Thruster, Laz became Evil Twin, Fed became Manfur, and so on. I was next in line till the hotel shut down the floor because we made a bit much noise. They could hear us on the 30th floor. I should mention at this point my giant container of Jedi Juice (Lots of booze with a bunch of glowsticks floating in it) Was a bigger hit than my costume, I had to refill that fucker 4 times. Thats about 7 gallons of liquor and 1 of coke. Which is awesome. After the fleet party we went down the the lobby and partied there for a while but I don't really remember the rest of the night. I know Kevin was carried to our room passed out and he almost peed all over Laz, which is hiarious, one should never sleep on the bathroom floor when there are drunks about.
Sunday we headed to the dealers room and drooled over shit we can't afford, jas got interviewed by some radio station, and we watched some good panels and a few fanfilms, and waited patiently for night to fall so we could begin the METALOCALYPSE! We were suddenly minus a kevin, so Laz stepped in as Nathan Explosion, Keenan was as always Toki, and Matt made an amazing Murderface. I donned the Skwiskgaar wig, and Jas was Pickles (which was hilarious btw) and at last we had a full Dethklok party. We spent the first part of the panel mobile, going around taking massive amounts of pictures, and seeking the right room to take over, which we finally found after deciding that the wolfpack elite party was kinda lame. There was a sudden costume change when jas turned Laz into pickles, and Tom became Nathan. We finally found a room and took it over to being the panel proper. NO MORE GOLDEN GIRLS QUESTIONS! We signed a tablecloth and gave it to Bobby Whiskey, the king of cool. Went to the MSI concert after that and caught a few songs before I headed out to drink some more. People kept giving me free bottles of booze for being skiwsgaar, what a sweet gig.
All in all, I give the weekend a 15 out of 10, the only thing that could of made it better would of been the few motherfrackers who didn't make it.
DC 09 here I come.
happyWe had mapquest directions (mapquest sucks) that supposedly took us around the I75 traffic in Atlanta to the hotel. As it turns out, they just took us on a 2 hour detour around downtown Atlanta, so we went sightseeing for a few hours and arrived at the hotel after stopping at 2 liquor stores to ask directions. We unloaded all our things, and were told by the hotel staff that cases of beer were not allowed this year(?). However they had no problem with the 2 boxes of liquor we unloaded. So we took all our things to the room, emptied out a few backpacks and backpacked the beer in. As we were doing so we saw a guy with 5 cases of beer on his hotel cart.
We were on the 29th floor this year, so the room had a great view, and the elevators in the Marriot weren't too bad. The worst wait was usually around 2 or 3 mins. We got in, threw on costumes (Ghetto trooper FTW) and proceed down to Reg to pick up badges. While standing in line fox news approached us and interviewed our group. I didn't know they were interviewing/filming annie and whilst standing behind her I shot myself in the face with a nerf gun by accident. Now thats newsworthy.
We got badges, and walked around for a while checking out costumes and that kinda thing, and James Marsters stepped on my foot. He was very apologetic. At 5 when we went to the room to get drinks. So we all filled up, and went to the Adultswim panel which was fucking hilarious. Every Adultswim writer/voice actor was dressed as a dragon, and stayed in character the entire panel. (2 DRINK MINIMUM, REDBULL AND VODKA) We then proceed to watch the Nathan Fillion/Alan Tyduk panel which was a riot, 2 of the best improvers I've ever seen. Also caught most of a Battlestar Galactica panel which was great. After that I filled the 2 gallon jug I had with the biggest rum and coke ever, and we all headed down stairs to party it up. After this my memory gets a bit fuzzy. I know we partied with a few sith lords, ran into Michael Rosenbalm (hereafter known as The Bomb) and at some point myself and several other people got into a ducktales theme singalong. Not sure why.
Saturday Morning rolls around and of course I sleep in a bit late and miss most of the parade. A few of my roommates however went and took a lot of pictures/video. Spent most of Saturday going to panels, except for the Venture Bros. panel that I missed totally because I didn't expect the line to start 4 hours before the panel. Said hi to Sean Astin, rode an elevator with none other than James Hong himself, got my picture taken several hundred times, and had a good time harassing every jedi I saw. Also shot a few Storm troopers in the face with nerf darts. Good times. Saturday night we were hanging out in the plasma lounge in the mariott and who else should take the table next to us but the entire firefly cast so we all drank and good times were had by all. Then Laz decided to start sniffing them because he's fucking weirdo. It was then that I got a call that said "OH MY GOD COME TO THE 10TH FLOOR!!!" So we promptly did and found the Colonel Fleet party, which was beyond fraking awesome. I was greeted with a glass of amazing scotch, and introduced to bob barker. All the nuggets (Colonel fleet newbs) were one by one taken in front of the fleet crowd and given callsigns. Annie became laces, Tom became Thruster, Laz became Evil Twin, Fed became Manfur, and so on. I was next in line till the hotel shut down the floor because we made a bit much noise. They could hear us on the 30th floor. I should mention at this point my giant container of Jedi Juice (Lots of booze with a bunch of glowsticks floating in it) Was a bigger hit than my costume, I had to refill that fucker 4 times. Thats about 7 gallons of liquor and 1 of coke. Which is awesome. After the fleet party we went down the the lobby and partied there for a while but I don't really remember the rest of the night. I know Kevin was carried to our room passed out and he almost peed all over Laz, which is hiarious, one should never sleep on the bathroom floor when there are drunks about.
Sunday we headed to the dealers room and drooled over shit we can't afford, jas got interviewed by some radio station, and we watched some good panels and a few fanfilms, and waited patiently for night to fall so we could begin the METALOCALYPSE! We were suddenly minus a kevin, so Laz stepped in as Nathan Explosion, Keenan was as always Toki, and Matt made an amazing Murderface. I donned the Skwiskgaar wig, and Jas was Pickles (which was hilarious btw) and at last we had a full Dethklok party. We spent the first part of the panel mobile, going around taking massive amounts of pictures, and seeking the right room to take over, which we finally found after deciding that the wolfpack elite party was kinda lame. There was a sudden costume change when jas turned Laz into pickles, and Tom became Nathan. We finally found a room and took it over to being the panel proper. NO MORE GOLDEN GIRLS QUESTIONS! We signed a tablecloth and gave it to Bobby Whiskey, the king of cool. Went to the MSI concert after that and caught a few songs before I headed out to drink some more. People kept giving me free bottles of booze for being skiwsgaar, what a sweet gig.
All in all, I give the weekend a 15 out of 10, the only thing that could of made it better would of been the few motherfrackers who didn't make it.
DC 09 here I come.
