August 22, 2009 | 12 Days to Dragon*Con
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It’s twelve days until I head up to Atlanta, GA for my first ever Dragon*Con. Yes, that’s right, I’m a con virgin. I have no problem admitting that.
All right, all right… In the interests of clarity and factual information, I have gone to cons before. As a young boy, I went to one of those Creation Cons with my mother and grandmother. I can’t remember when this was, or where it was (I am going to assume it was somewhere in Hartford, CT), and it wasn’t a memorable experience for me. All that I can recall is that Robin Curtis (Saavvik from Star Trek III: The Search for a Quick Buck) was a guest there and that just about every piece of Star Trek “memorabilia” was massively overpriced. With regard to the latter, not much has changed in the past decade-and-a-half—barring, of course, monetary changes due to inflation.
Consistency is key, I say.
Ah, yes, now that I’ve disclosed that worthless information, you may now file that under “why did I waste my time reading that for?”
In any event, the reason I’m going to this thing is to see what it is all about. That, and the fact that I’m going out there to hang with friends and meet people who I’ve talked to for years online and on the phone, but never in person.
That’s the only reason I’m going to this thing. Otherwise, I have to say that Dragon*Con has no other appeal to me. People prancing around in costumes from television shows, movies, and the like has no real appeal to me on a geek level. Actually, I find the whole thing rather bleh, although some people are most certainly creative! And I don’t have anything against anyone who partakes in cosplay. It’s just not something I feel I want to participate in.
Then again, I haven’t tried it either. Last time I tried dressing up was for a Halloween party, and that was at Best Buy back in 2006, when I dressed up as Randal Graves from Clerks II and put “Merch Monkey 4 Life” on the back of my Mooby’s shirt. Yes, I have a Mooby’s shirt. It’s an actual, honest-to-goodness piece of merchandise I bought more than 3 years ago. It’s still good. I even have the nametag, and a hat. Not the yellow visor hat, but one with the cow.
Oh, and for those of you wondering: there were pictures of me with that shirt taken, but I don’t have any of them.
I will have that shirt at Dragon*Con. And I just realize that this makes me out to be a hypocrite. While the whole dress-up shtick has little appeal to me, who am I to be a kill-joy bastard and not join in? Therefore, I have come up with two costumes.
One, as you might have already surmised, is a costume of a Mooby’s worker. Someone has to represent those fictitious fast-food minions. Since I don’t know of anyone else doing this, I might as well take the lead.
The second, coolest costume is something that is relatively cost effective and from one of my favorite love-it-and-hate-it science fiction series of all time, Jump the Battleshark Galacticrap. In the, finale of this blockbuster skiffy series, a cameo appearance by its creator, Ron D. Moore, graces the final few minutes of the show’s finale. I won’t spoil it for you, but apparently nothing experienced by the intrepid, rag-tag members of the Fleet meant not one a damn thing, since “God (who doesn’t like that name) did it all.”
As you can see below, here is the schmuck I’m going as.
Schmuck I'm going as hovered over by a blonde and a stoner wearing sunglasses, as seen in "Logicbreak, Part Deuce."
I’ve already ordered old back issues of National Geographic from eBay (what would you do without eBay, really?)Â and located a similar shirt that will work. Best part is that, not including the wig, I’ve spent only $20 on the costume. I have a dark gray undreshirt, I have a silver chain, I’m growing a crappy beard, and I have some denim pants, so I’m already covered there.
The RDM-ish shirt!
I’ll post more on this when I care to. 
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