Dragon Joke(r)s Part Cuatro

This is the scary post. The one where I show you the disturbing costumes.

Yes that's Jareth. His makeup was really good. Unfortunately he was missing one major component of the character, namely: a gigantic, bulging moose knuckle.

I know. This Ronald MacDonald/Chris Nolan Joker hybrid was the best costume at the Con. He epitomized the contradiction that is our current society's corporate greed. Only in America can you sell Whoppers, Big Macs, and Chicken Nuggets to our children while still not providing fair and affordable health care for everyone. Those in poverty can't afford to eat healthier when healthy food is so expensive, and health care takes a quarter of their paycheck or more, if, like me, they have a good plan.

Anyway, sorry for that rant. It really is a fun costume, and this guy was hilarious too. Really friendly, and ready for conversation in spite of his high freak quotient.

I'm sorry but that's all I got for scary day. There was a pyramid head guy from Silent Hill, but I didn't get his photo because I'd already done that at Anime Weekend Atlanta.

Happy Friday, and have a great weekend!

Non DragonCon Part Drei

This is the serious post. The one with the most awesome costumes. What does that leave for tomorrow?

This is Poison Ivy, from Batman and Robin. I think.

This is GLaDOS, from Portal and Half Life. Or else it's the other little eye guy from Portal 2.

These people are definitely from Portal. Looks like a couple of Scientists from Aperture Science, and a female test subject. The portal guns were really cool looking.

This is Doctor Who and some chick. Someone who watches that show will probably know. Someone talked them into holding some little toy man.

And this, my friends, is a travesty. I mean don't get me wrong, the stormtroopers had some of the best costumes at the Con, and they were really awesome dudes. But Darth? I don't know what's wrong with this guy. Darth Vader is probably the most bad ass villain in the history of stories, and this guy defiled his Sithness with this ridiculous costume. It's blasphemy if you ask me.

When I asked him what happened to his costume, he said he was Darth Vader crossed with The Green Lantern.

I've never heard anything dumber in my life.

Proof of Wandering Around Outside DragonCon Part Deux

This post is going to be the cute post. I'll show you all most adorable costumes, on the most adorable kids, and I won't say much.

This guy is dressed up as a character from some Anime that my daughter and her friend love. I try to keep track of that stuff, because some of them are cool, and I like to try to get into the stuff my kids are into, but I can't remember this one.

This is Dobby and Harry Potter. The costumes are pretty bad, but the photo is adorable because Madison is so obviously ecstatic.

This is Pikachu, from Pokemon. Madison loves Pikachu almost as much as she loves Pandas.

This is Ronald Weasley. It's a girl dressed up as Ron though, and that's just AWESOME.

This is the panda crew. You can't tell, but Madison also has a Panda backpack.

That's it for today. Stay tuned for cooler, and creepier costumes for the rest of the week.

A First PROPER DragonCon Post

I know. I wrote about it yesterday, but that was just a segue into trying to trick you people into reading my Project Mayhem post. Not that you should need to be tricked, it's an awesome blog.

I only say tricked because I was chomping at the bit to post these photos, but I couldn't because I'd agreed to cover for a friend, and PM is a FAR more professionally slated blog than this dirty little corner of the World (US) Wide (Thin) Web (Net).

Anyway. Here's a tease. This is the worst photo my shitty camera captured at the Dragon-Non-Con (maybe):

Admittedly, this photo does have one thing going for it: The LOVELY Cole Gibsen taking up the spotlight. Also, it has an excuse: My oldest, Kylie, hit the button on my POS camera.

To be noted: That's my littlest, Madison, on my right (your left) with the panda hat/robe/hakama, and that's Kylie's BFF, Michaela, on my left (your right). I have no idea what I'm looking at, but I promise it's not a passing Princess Leia's cleavage. At least not at this particular moment.

One more thing: God I'm a huge human being. I know the evidence from my meeting with Joe may have suggested otherwise, but it was obviously false.

NOTE TO SELF: Don't write posts the night before anymore. You were probably drunk.

Okay, now it's morning, so hopefully I'll leave all that surliness and poor humor behind. Here's a better picture of a similar situation:

I don't know what has Madison grinning so broadly, but at least it's obvious she's having a blast.

Here's one I took:

Boy, my camera sucks. Oh well. You probably can't tell, but Kylie is wearing her cat eye/demon eye colored contacts. That was her way of dressing up. You can see what I'm talking about in this post.

That's it for photos for today. I'll share some of the awesome costumes with you guys tomorrow and maybe Thursday.

I talked a little bit more about Cole, what a great friend she is, and how nice it was to meet her in my Project Mayhem post yesterday, and I linked you to all her important stuff, but there was one more thing I forgot to mention that I wanted you guys to read, if you have time.

I used to do these successful query letter guest posts on my blog when I was first getting started, and Cole was one of my very first guests. You can read that post, here: KATANA.

DragonCon (and Conferences in General) at Project Mayhem

I had a great time at DragonCon on Saturday.

I brought my daughters and their friend.

I met Cole Gibsen and her husband.

I want to tell you about it.

I have some great photos.

This is not a cop-out.

I will be posting about the whole thing, possibly taking up several posts. But I can't do it today, because I'm covering for Mike at Project Mayhem. Please go read my post, here.