by theGeneral on October 31, 2010
[Oct 29-31, 2010 Halifax, NS, Canada] So, months ago, I decided to go to Hal-Con in Halifax. How did I find Hal-Con in Canada? Well, I was using my own site, ToServeFan.com. I have four volunteers (LAMP, JAR, LAT and SLR) working on populating the data on all (fun stuff, not business/trade) conventions in the entire known universe. So anyway, I was looking into going to a con for the Halloween weekend and picked Hal-Con. Was pretty cool. It was their first con (didn’t know that). The last time Haifax had a con of it’s own was half a dozen years ago, so the turnout was pretty impressive. The execution for being the first con was pretty good. They will need to work on crowd control better next time though. And, like other cons I have been going to, the attendance was way under-estimated, so they had more people than most all of the program rooms could hold. There were several con guests, notably Walter Koenig and Denise Crosby. If con-goers bought the VIP ticket, there was a three hour event that all of the con-guests were at and anyone could visit and talk with them. Of course I chatted up with Walter Koenig and Denise Crosby 
It was a fun time.
Hal-Con
by theGeneral on July 4, 2010
[July 01-04, 2010 Convergence 2010] Convergence was excellent as usual. Jill (JAR) from Illinois made it and so did Tina (my LosCon buddy Nathan’s sister) from California. Charissa and Shelly from Indiana didn’t make it due to a SNAFU at the Indiana airport. A lot of costumes, so that’s always a good thing. Party rooms were great. A lot of them ran out of food and drinks, but that’s a good thing – people had fun. And, for the people who threw parties, less to carry home… (No, really, I threw parties and if there is stuff left, I give it away, like to late night parties, etc. – no point in bringing it home…)
CONvergence 2010
by theGeneral on June 18, 2010
[June 18-20, 2010 Florida SuperCon] I thought Florida Super Con 2010 was basically a pro/media con with generic science fiction types roaming the hall but no. As predicted there were no party rooms – which was expected. The media stars were all there behind booths so you could walk up and talk any of them. No one was really hounded, so you could just walk up and say hi. The only pic I took was of Dawn Wells (Mary Ann in “Gilligan’s Island”)… But, the whole place was taken over by CosPlayers which was totally unexpected, especially from the web page description of the event. But apparently, it’s the annual CosPlay gathering there. Okay, so now I know. I took pictures, of course.
Florida Super Con 2010
by theGeneral on May 28, 2010
[May 28 - May 31, 2010, Santa Clara, CA] Baycon is a science fiction convention held every Memorial Day. Collectively, even though this was a generic scifi and fantasy con, there were more Steampunk outfits than all of the rest of the costumes combined. But, there still was plenty of variety of costumed people walking around. Surprisingly, the con suite was pitifully small. It was two regular hotel rooms with a connecting door and half the room flled with tables. Not conducive for ‘hanging in the con suite’, so everyone went onto the first floor of the hotel. Programming had a lot of glitches, delays and generally it didn’t fall apart because the fans were waaaay patient. One notable thing I did was that I went to the Klingon Charity Slave Auction for Make-a-Wish Foundation and I did win a round of bidding and got Sarah to do my bidding. That was fun. But the overall con was not as good as what a 28th year should have been, so the rating of the con is 7.0 out of 10.
The Ood from Doctor Who
by theGeneral on November 16, 2008
[November 14-16, 2008, Oakbrook, IL] I didn’t technically go to WindyCon. I was just visiting Charissa, Kevin and Shelly because they were throwing Raymond’s party there…
WindyCon 2008
by theGeneral on February 17, 2008
[Feb 15-17, 2008, Arlington Heights, IL] The Comic Book Launch Party at Capricon in 2008 was staffed with almost the entire Dreadnought crew. Here are the pictures from the party room. The event was hopping. Sold a lot of comics. A great success! Click on the pic below to see the pictures!
Comic Book Launch Party at Capricon 2008
by theGeneral on November 25, 2007
[Nov 23 - Nov 25, 2007, TGN, Los Angeles, CA] Last time I was a LosCon was in 2003 when it was held in Burbank. LosCon is now in Los Angeles, which of course kinda makes sense… Theme of this year’s LosCon was “The Dig” (as in archeological dig… The official eZine-TGN Party Rating is: 8 out of 10.
LosCon 2007
by theGeneral on July 9, 2006
[July 7 - July 9, 2006, TGN, Minneapolis, MN] This year’s theme was “Boldly Go” which translated to a ton of Trekkies milling about. There was a huge two room completely built out Star Trek “set” of a party room. It was too cool! Of course there were dozens and dozens of party rooms as usual and it was totally fun, as usual The official eZine-TGN Party Rating is in: 9 out of 10.
CONvergence 2006
A “Klingon Hello Kitty” was roaming about the con. Those pictures became so popular, I just had to create a website just for KHK of course:
Klingon Hello Kitty
by theGeneral on June 3, 2005
[July 1 - July 3, 2005, TGN, Minneapolis, MN] Another Convergence with a ton of room parties. There were so many room parties, there were three floors worth of room parties (as opposed to the normal two floors worth). There weren’t too many costumes this time though. And, no costume really hit the “oh wow” moment. Wallace and Grommit came close though… The official eZine-TGN Party Rating is in: 8 out of 10.
CONvergence 2005
by theGeneral on September 6, 2004
[Sept 3-6, 2004, TGN, Atlanta, GA] DragonCon needs to be experienced by everyone at least once. Let me just warn you, there are no room parties; which is a huge negative in my book. However, please note, with way over 10,000 attendees, a room party can cost the hosts way too much money! Okay, okay… I suppose I shouldn’t publicize secrets, but there are room parties there (shhhh!). You just need to be invited. Oh, that’s hard to do, yes, but just keep your eyes and ears peeled! The official eZine-TGN Party Rating is in: 9 out of 10.
DragonCon 2004
