"My sweetie was working on Saturday (drives a tour trolly in Boston and had a charter late Saturday afternoon) and told me he saw what he thought was people attending the con because he saw (around the Park Plaza) large women with dyed red hair dressed in velvet and wearing cloaks, accompanied by equally large men with goatees and ponytails, also wearing a long cloak. Yep. That would be Arisia. ;-)"
I love seeing con attendees outside in the 'normal' world during the day. During Anime Boston we headed down Boylston Street to get lunch, and seeing cosplayers with blue hair in McDonalds was a riot. :) This past weekend we ended up eating lunches and dinners at the City Place Mall (I think that's the name; the one over where PF Changs is). It was pretty easy to pick out con attendees (versus people that just happened to be in the area for work or a theater event).
I love nerdy sci-fi people - I think Arisia just brings (in different) a different flavor of nerdy sci-fi people that I don't fit with. I'm not there to hook up or party, I'm there to learn, celebrate geeky things I'm into and buy things related to such geeky things I'm into. Since there isn't too much of these things I don't think I'll be going again (unless maybe a day pass - if there would be enough stuff going on to warrent checking it out).
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Re: glad I didn't bother...
Date: 2004-01-19 04:57 am (UTC)I love seeing con attendees outside in the 'normal' world during the day. During Anime Boston we headed down Boylston Street to get lunch, and seeing cosplayers with blue hair in McDonalds was a riot. :) This past weekend we ended up eating lunches and dinners at the City Place Mall (I think that's the name; the one over where PF Changs is). It was pretty easy to pick out con attendees (versus people that just happened to be in the area for work or a theater event).
I love nerdy sci-fi people - I think Arisia just brings (in different) a different flavor of nerdy sci-fi people that I don't fit with. I'm not there to hook up or party, I'm there to learn, celebrate geeky things I'm into and buy things related to such geeky things I'm into. Since there isn't too much of these things I don't think I'll be going again (unless maybe a day pass - if there would be enough stuff going on to warrent checking it out).