By Frank on October 31, 2009
Ah, Halloween. That time of year when people who cosplay are actually not unique snowflakes in a public crowd. It’s also the time of year when the inevitable temptation of foodstuffs starts, starting with candy and sweets and finishing with an “I ate wayyy too much” Christmas dinner. I can feel my teeth rotting already.
While [...]
Posted in Conventions, Social Geekery | Tagged halloween costume, social geekery
By Frank on August 6, 2009
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Mike Fahey from Kotaku reports on the triple-digit exhibitors coming to this year’s Penny Arcade Expo, the fan-based show that took in all of the waylaid common gamer folk left out in the cold from E3. PAX has always been a show for the fans, and this year is no different.
Now, there’s a [...]
Posted in Conventions, Gaming, Overly Positive Thoughts | Tagged games, Penny Arcade Expo
By Frank on July 24, 2009
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This weekend is geekdom’s well-known “nerd prom”, San Diego Comic-Con. Every year, tens of thousands of people make the pilgrimage to the West Coast to partake in the country’s most well-known show on comics, games, sci-fi, and more.
I have to say, every year this show stays in existence (and grows, if the numbers [...]
Posted in Conventions, Social Geekery | Tagged comic con, San Diego Comic-Con International, SDCC
By Frank on August 15, 2008
Mythic Producer Josh Drescher talked a bit today about fitting a bunch of junk into your little bags for a jaunt, pretty much calling out fellow employee Justin Webb for trying to cram everything into one carry-on bag for a trip to Germany’s Leipzig.
Now I’m not really sure what Justin is planning to do while [...]
Posted in Conventions, Social Geekery | Tagged Conventions, mythic, social geekery
By Frank on August 11, 2008
Not too long ago there was a post on Mythic producer Josh Drescher’s blog about how San Diego Comic-Con is like “The Geek Prom”. That’s actually pretty accurate except for the fact that I don’t recall my high school prom having every other person dressed in spandex or having to deal with the fact that [...]
Posted in Conventions, Social Geekery | Tagged comic con, Conventions
By Frank on July 27, 2008
With this weekend being the geek orgy event that is Comic Con, I’m starting to see from my highly comfortable yet envious seat back here in the Midwest that there are a bunch of people who are first-time celebrities to Comic Con. Either they’ve become famous in the past year or so, or they’re heading [...]
Posted in Conventions | Tagged comic con, Conventions
By Frank on July 11, 2008
Those of you who have actually made the really awesome committment to, you know, not be an anti-social shutin and go outside once in a while must have an idea of what cosplay is. If you’ve ever been to one of those geek conventions out there where you actually meet all those truly obsessive people [...]
Posted in Conventions | Tagged Conventions, cosplay
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