Things to do at Dragon*Con - Late Night Edition

So, last year Frosty and I decided that we didn't want to sleep the last night of the con, and we would instead sleep on the way home. So we went walkabout. We shall definitely be doing more late night Con this year, and here's why:

Weird Tartan Band - There were lots of people going in to one of the halls so we decided to look. It was pretty hilarious, but you'd have to be there to see why.

All night anime music video screenings - We only stayed for 30 - 60 minutes, but the actual event went on for five hours. Only the amusing ones which mocked anime were any good though. Some people apparently chose this as a good place to sleep for some reason. There are other rooms showing various other things like sci-fi shows, but for whatever reason we chose the anime.

The bums - Atlanta is full of bums, and you're regularly approached. Frosty was approached by one, and for some reason Frosty gave him $5. All I can remember is that the bum told us where the hookers hang out, but that turned out to be unnecessary since Atlanta has..

The most useless pimp ever - I didn't even see or hear him, and Frosty only heard what he said before deciding that we weren't going to stop and stopped talking. All Frosty heard was "Hey man, if you need a little lady to keep you company tonight, I'm [begin trailing off in dissappointment]...". Great sales technique.

We decided to pass on the hookers.

Hey, look at all the goths - Goths hang out all over the convention, there's even a walkway between hotels so they don't have to go outside at all. But at night the ones who can't even stand artificial light surface and hang around outside the Hyatt. Just ignore them and they go away. It's just a gaggle of people who don't understand each other's pain.

Panel without a purpose - At night the panel rooms are usually empty, so random people come along and hold their own panels about nothing in particular. This particular night there were two panel competing for people. This generally involved shouting "HEY YOU! COME IN HERE!" at anyone who walks by. I'm still not entirely sure how, but I ended up actually on one of the panels.


Things to do this year!

Hold a late night WC panel
Crash a room party
Torment pimps
Laugh at more bands who weren't good enough to get an earlier slot
Check out a different late night viewing room. Hey, maybe one will show the WC movie.

Submit your own ideas here. Frosty should now add anything I've forgotten.

We do that every year anyway. The things we're referring to happen somewhere between midnight and 5am.

And that's just what Frosty and Hades were doing at 4 am. Prior to that a whole bunch of us were having a great discussion in the Marriott Lobby for many hours.. and then ace and I worked on formatting pictures for the CIC updates. Everyone needs to come to DragonCon.

The point is, what we were doing at 4am was much more fun than what you were doing at 4am. People need to do more random wandering around Atlanta and the hotels late at night this year.

Me and Hades travel 3000 miles or so. Well, Hades travels like 12,000 round trip.

Just find a seamstress. We'll supply you with patches, a red shirt and a place to buy generic stock flight suits to modify.

You name it, someone is bound to have dressed as it over the past few years. I've seen so many costumes I can't decide which was the best. The Optimus Prime from 2001 was pretty neat.

Those same people are the ones who made the several thousand dollar Halo armor.. I expect to see them in it this year. http://www.nightmarearmor.com/

I super loved the Robocop in 2002.