All through for 2008! We'll be back July 2-5, 2009.

Here's the KDKA broadcast: http://kdka.com/local/Anthrocon.Convention.furries.2.759101.html

Kage is on there, so is my friend Rianith ( http://www.furaffinity.net/user/rianith/ ) - she's the white jackalcat suit towards the end.

Why not bring him for his birthday? What better present than to be surrounded by more than 400 living stuffed animals?

It's hard enough to find an open date at a venue for a con, let alone having it not conflict with a thousand other schedules.

So . . . which one will you choose?

You'll come to our con, right? Instead of that big, shiny, largest-anime-con-in-North-America thing?

Pretty pretty please with a cherry on top...??

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Don't cry!

Just think: Anime Expo doesn't have furry artwork...or Uncle Kage's Story Hour...or Fernando's lasagna burritos...or Dorsai...or 2 the Ranting Gryphon...or fursuits...

I actually went to AX '08 after AC '08 (haven't gone to AX in 8 years) and was not impressed with the many anime fans who didn't realize my fursuit was a Growlithe, and not "Tony the Tiger". I would think the badges and the 58 would help a bit. (I even had my LED badge read "I AM NOT TONY THE TIGER", which got some laughs.)

I mean... does this look like Tony the Tiger to you?

I definitely will be going to AC '09 next year. AX is not for me.

Growly

Still working on it... (I have a lot more paperwork to do!)

I've started mailing out the payments but it'll take a week or so to do them all. Then I have to compile the sales tax data for Kage, then take care of shipping out unclaimed artwork.

Summer? What summer?

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Well, if you have to go to that silly anime thing, why not make plans to attend Further Confusion instead? It's held in January, and right in your own backyard, too! And it's the second-largest furry con there is, so you'll sort of get an approximate feel for what Anthrocon is like... more or less

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The blog is (still) at http://web.mac.com/floydnorman/Site/Blog_/Blog_.html, but it doesn't appear to have archives

I pasted the AC entries at http://www.anthrocon.org/node/2808#comment-22753

First Monday in September.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_day

 
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Mostly the fact that we work with multiple venues (The Westin, The DLCC, The Omni, etc.), and we are not their only customer. So the trick is to find a date in which all 3 are available.

(Or, in the case of 2009, where we have another hotel (The Doubletree) since the Omni is unavailable.)

 
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Me too! This will be my first AC if my two other friends can end up coming otherwise the room might make the whole thing a little bit too expensive. I am looking forward to all the activities I think I will be spending like 12 hours in my room over the weekend just sleeping so I don't cuddle up against a fursuiter and pass out, not that I think they would mind but it isn't the best way to meet people ^=^! Anyway here's hoping to seeing everyone and trying to keep my composure in the room with the famous/infamous staff haha.

Yes. In fact, we have an entire section of this website that covers that very topic!

 
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Out of curiosity - what sort of accomodations did you buy, and what is the duration of the trip?

Coach seats on AmTrak are generally an order of magnitude better and more comfortable than equivalent seats in an airline; more roomy and cushy, more space for your legs. The view is usually much more interesting, as well. But seats on a train can sway and jostle you sideways - something that usually never happens in an airliner (though turbulent air can make the cabin pich and rock, and drop out from under you...), and even the most comfy seats are not necessarily good for sleeping in. A small roomette with a bed would be desirous for anything taking longer than 20 hours.

If you are going to be in a coach seat for that length of time, take plenty of opportunity to get up and walk about the train, and stretch those legs and muscles. When you are sleepy, having an inflatable pillow in your trip-bag, along with a stadium-style blanket, will make the sleepy hours at night a lot more bearable; just slip off your shoes, and hope to curl up. And cheap foam earplugs will help drown out the obnoxious sounds of celphone users and obsequious and undisciplined rugrats. The earplugs will ALSO come in handy if you share a room with People who Snore.

AmTrak DOES offer blankets on some of their long-haul trains, but at $10 (or more) a pop. On a long-haul route, there should be a dining car, and you will be asked to select a time "window" in which to dine. You will be seated at a table by the staff, and you will almost certainly be seated with another party. This is an excellent opportunity to learn about your fellow travellers, and practice the art of polite conversation. Generally, hot meals served in a dining car are quite good.

HINT: Do NOT tell the folks that you dine with that you are a spy. You won't be able to carry it off, and real spies would never tell strangers, no matter how charming they are as dinner partners, that they are spies. It just isn't done. At best, you lose all credibility. You really do not want to know what the worst could be.

On the other hand, meals from the snack/lounge car are going to be microwave-heated food at best, often the same sort of stuff you could get at the Piggly-Wiggly or Winn-Dixie. And it is overpriced. Instead, pack a substantial sandwich and some fruit, and cookies (not crackers, not chips, not Doritoes, or any of that fried salty snack stuff), or alternately a bag of chilled baby carrots and celery sticks to munch on, between meals. Yes, you can bring your own non-alcoholic beverages and food aboard the train. A small, plastic, insulated mini-cooler, the soft-sided kind, big enough for a six-pack, is just right for a couple cans of coke or pepsi, and aforementioned sandwich(es) and fruit/vegetable snacks, especially with a slab of "igloo-ice" or "Blu-ice" or equivalent artificial ice-pack, frozen the night before and placed on top, or on edge, sideways.