Joss and 5 BDH's at DragonCon!!!
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I still like the flag idea. :) well if you see a tall semi-asian man with what look's like a five and a half foot tall Niska on his shoulders then that's me.
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Originally posted by SlayThis:
And a fun aside regarding the con suite - picture being in a hotel hospitality suite with that many people. In the corner of a room, a TV set is playing Out of Gas, and when the ballad hits the speakers, everybody - and I do mean EVERYbody - sings along. It's very cool. And Shinyhappyklin belts it out louder than anyone in the room. Very cool!
Oh wow....now I'm really self-conscious...especially since singing is NOT my strong suit (that's my mom's gig)...slaythis, are you the guy who had the "Badger Specials" slipped inside of your jacket??? Hmmmmmm???? Let's just say we DO have fun!
As a clarification to this whole con suite thing, Dragon*Con has a con suite available pretty much 24 hours a day for people to grab a free snack and a place to decompress. They let groups use it in blocks of 2-4 hours at a time, and that's how we got it. Didn't cost us anything but time (props to those who did help with cleaning and stuff). There was a wonderful Captain Sisko clone who kept things under control (and provided occasional harrassment to moi...I still owe him one!
) If we were to try to do our OWN, we'd have to keep it staffed when ever it was open, and it'd have to be open a lot to make it worthwhile.My suggestion? We take whatever $$ we have and use it toward making a kick-ass fan table, and making a really cool Shindig party. Also to make more of a Serenity presence in the parade so we have our own identity instead of being lumped with the Buffistas.
Also, re the parade...it's fun, but last year it ran right before a BDH panel, and by the time I got out of the parade, I had to race to the conference room, and even though I still had an hour to go, I had to squeeze into a seat with one other person (luckily, a friend) so I could get a seat upfront, and then endure the heckling by Harlan Ellison because of all the Firefly folk invading his panel...
Can we try to see if we can avoid having a BDH event that close to the parade again? Or making sure that those of us out there hoofing it get primo seats saved for our trouble? It would be a kindness.
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Also, re the parade...it's fun, but last year it ran right before a BDH panel, and by the time I got out of the parade, I had to race to the conference room, and even though I still had an hour to go, I had to squeeze into a seat with one other person (luckily, a friend) so I could get a seat upfront, and then endure the heckling by Harlan Ellison because of all the Firefly folk invading his panel...
Can we try to see if we can avoid having a BDH event that close to the parade again? Or making sure that those of us out there hoofing it get primo seats saved for our trouble? It would be a kindness.
Agreed.
Last year I ran from the end of the parade to the panel room and wound up getting stuck in nearly the last row. A bit disappointing to say the least.
I know the parade time is locked, and I am not sure how much flexibility there is for the panels. If there is another panel w/ the BDHs scheduled near the time of the parade this year I will just skip the parade.
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Ok Browncoats, I believe this is the time to make our request know to the DragonCon staff about perhaps scheduling NOTHING during parade time, certainly guarantees an audience. I have skipped the parade because of panel conflicts and I would like to see and perhaps be IN the parade. Also maybe allowing an hour after the parade to start things up again. And if they can't do any of that, at least perhaps we can convince them NOT to schedule the Firefly BDHs till way later. Let the calls to DragonCon begin...770-909-0115 (M-F 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM EST) or dragoncon@dragoncon.org or fax 770-909-0112.
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Ok, editing my post does NOT bump this thread back up. So much for the sneaky way, I'll be blatant.
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Keep this up there
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Bump, we need to get communicating our thoughts to DragonCon, Browncoats
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Originally posted by fireflygal:
Ok Browncoats, I believe this is the time to make our request know to the DragonCon staff about perhaps scheduling NOTHING during parade time, ... And if they can't do any of that, at least perhaps we can convince them NOT to schedule the Firefly BDHs till way later. ...
It ain't gonna help. They have so much to schedule, and the main ballrooms are a scarce commodity. Count on there being something big opposite the parade. If you're lucky, it will be other big stars that you can live without seeing.
But if you want to be in the parade and there ends up being a BDH panel opposite or immediately after, it may come down to having friends get good seats and videotaping the panel for you.
To get an idea of how things typically run, check out last year's D*C schedule here...
http://www.dragoncon.org/dc_publications.htm#Schedule
(download the "2004 Schedule Grid" PDF file)
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Originally posted by Stillshiny:
Looks most likely that we're gonna hook up with SITA. So FIREFLYGAL, which hotel are you in? I guess it may not necessarily matter, just curious. When it all boils down what's important is where the folk with the browncoats is at. And our BDH's of course. Don't know if I can put much to the Consuite. We'll have to see. But it sure as anything looks like we're going. Just work on the preparations & getting the final arrangements.
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Well gee thanks for sending me an email about your plans there pal. =sarcasm= I've been checking my email for your respsonse for the past week. Don't ya ever check your email ?
Well looks like I'm gonna have to find someone else to group up with cuz my preference woulda been to take my BF along but he can't go.
So if anyone needs a roomate, I'm 22 years old, female, compatible fandoms (Buffy, Angel, Firefly ( DUH!), StarWars, Dune, Anime).
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