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The Atlanta Airport Has Ants--I just wonder how this little thing got funded...

Elevators and Other Fruitless Pursuits--The hotels look pretty cool, but they just don't have enough elevators for DragonCon

A Miscellany of One--a random pic

Outdoors? I never knew it existed...--we didn't go out much and we have the pictures to prove it!

Worship the Abrams--Sluggy-related pictures

Kids in the Hall--costumes seen outside the masquerade

Dangerous Double Agents and Masters of Disguise--the masquerade (though our pictures came out pretty poorly)

Film scans--I got my film pictures developed already!  Lots of pictures of masquerade contestants from behind stage!  Plus lots of Leslie in Cenobite getup and a good picture of me as The Shadow.

About the trip

DragonCon was a blast.  I didn't sleep at all.  Honest!  Well okay, not more than 5 hours a night anyway.  Every night I got to bed at the same time as everyone else in our crowded room, but I always got up first to get a shower.  It got a little rough by the end of the trip, but at least I got some decent sleep on the flight back. 

Let's see...people I saw:

• Harlan Ellison--rode the elevator up once with him "directing" us (I think he likes to feel like he's in charge, as if anyone has power over the elevator gods).
• James Doohan--After a rushed trip to the dealer's room I made it to his panel just in time for him to arrive to a crowded room, and I couldn't hear anything.  Gave up and left, got a fuzzy useless picture.  He didn't seem so much with it but he certainly made the crowd laugh.  Hope I have some life left in me at that age.
• John Rhys-Davies--Ran past him a few times.  Heck, it's an honor to be in the same room with this guy.  Some panels too.
• Pete Abrams--Got him to sign some books, saw him belly-sign some happy girls.  Went to the supposed dinner with him, but we ended up at another table across the room, in a pretentious, posh restaurant (Dailey's), with no vegetarian dishes for one of our friends, plus we were already blowing off our other friends.  Bagged out on that one, got Chinese much later with our other friends.  Saw him the next night right in front of us to get Dairy Queen for dinner.  (It's not just ice cream, you know)

I also saw some great panels:

• Iron Artist, hosted by Peter David and Harlan Ellison.  These two managed to make watching artists from several rows away an interesting experience.  Don Bluth beat out Larry Ellmore.  Does this mean Dirk the Daring can whoop Snarf's butt?
• A couple of readings with Peter David.  Hey, last year Leslie got him to sign my Psi-Man novels (the ones with Fabio on the cover, and the name "David Peters").  He has some very entertaining work.  I recommend the Young Justice (especially the upcoming Christmas one) and the Sir Apropos of Nothing.
• A Dark Angel panel.  It was interesting hearing about the alternative pilot (which I didn't pick up down in the dealer room), and enjoyable except for the dork who asked how long the gestation would be if Max got pregnant and gave birth to a litter of kitties.  They actually had to explain about gene splicing being selective.  You don't just toss a salad of chromosomes, drink a pint of Guinness and do the Pan Dance and hope the black magic works this time around, after all.
• Jerry Doyle skipped out on a panel of his that I went to, so instead they showed us movie previews and gave us free stuff like Harry Potter t-shirts (gave mine to Leslie), From Hell letter openers (they're sharp!), and Monsters, Inc. posters (couldn't accept something that big).
• Most of a Lord of the Rings Q&A panel with John Rhys-Davies.  He mentioned some of his experiences, in particular with having a bad reaction to the Gimli makeup.  (It's not all fame and glory, right?) 
• John Rhys-Davies also participated in a presentation of Guards!  Guards! by Terry Pratchett.  I would have gotten it better if I'd had more sleep.  It directly preceded the masquerade, so I wonder if the room was even fuller than it would otherwise have been.

I got some decent stuff, including D&D Forgotton Realms books, some older D&D stuff, Sluggy and other books, and even my first (and maybe last) Magic cards, which literally were placed in a toilet.  At twenty for a buck, who wouldn't go fishing?  Don't care how you play, but we think the pictures are pretty anyway.  Besides, no sense in getting addicted--how many of my friends failed out of CMU that way?

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