# DragonCon-- Atlanta, here I come! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 8, 2000, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dragoncon-atlanta-here-i-come/21761 "2000-06-08T16:20:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rosebud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@Rosebud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rosebud)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2000, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dragoncon-atlanta-here-i-come/21761/1 "2000-06-08T16:20:10Z")
Been kicking this around for a while, thought I’d toss it out and see what y’all think. I’m going to Atlanta at the end of the month-- June 28 through July 2, to be precise-- for a big assed sci-fi and fantasy convention at the Hyatt Regency (and Apparel Mart). I don’t know at the moment exactly what our schedule will be, but if anyone in the area wants to pop into the city for dinner near the hotel, let me know! I’m somewhat limited in how far I can go 'cause even though we’ll have a rental car, I don’t drive-- but, last time I was there, there was a nice selection of touristy spots to eat in. Just a thought! (Oh, and yes-- I AM a geek.) ---
**Author:** ![Mullinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2000, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dragoncon-atlanta-here-i-come/21761/2 "2000-06-08T17:22:08Z")
Have a dandy time whilst you are here. Maybe a lunch during the day would work? You will be staying about 3 blocks from where I work. I know there are plenty of other Atlanta Dopers, so we might be able to build a groundswell of support. ---
**Author:** ![Rosebud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@Rosebud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rosebud)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2000, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dragoncon-atlanta-here-i-come/21761/3 "2000-06-08T18:23:34Z")
Lunch would certainly work just as well for me. Let’s see who’s interested; I haven’t yet been able to make it to an NYC Dopefest (I always end up working!) and this little jaunt down south is about the only time I know I’ll be free all summer! ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2000, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dragoncon-atlanta-here-i-come/21761/4 "2000-06-08T18:40:00Z")
Well, I would join y’all, since I also work downtown, but I will be away on vacation. Sorry 'bout that. Enjoy DragonCon. Sorry I’m gonna miss that. It’s always a surrealistic treat to see downtown Atlanta teeming with Klingons and such… ---
**Author:** ![StrTrkr777](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@StrTrkr777](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StrTrkr777)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2000, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dragoncon-atlanta-here-i-come/21761/5 "2000-06-08T20:18:24Z")
I do not work or go downtown that much, so Mullinator is there a Marta stop close by? I can ride Marta down for lunch or maybe a get together in the evening one evening. Anyone else interested? Jeffery ---
**Author:** ![Rosebud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@Rosebud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rosebud)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2000, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dragoncon-atlanta-here-i-come/21761/6 "2000-06-08T20:39:56Z")
…but, I seem to recall from the last time we went to DragonCon that there is indeed a Marta stop nearby. Not exactly sure though, as we ended up not needing to use it… ---
**Author:** ![Rosebud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@Rosebud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rosebud)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2000, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dragoncon-atlanta-here-i-come/21761/7 "2000-06-09T02:18:50Z")
Just bumping this one more time. I suspect since it’s kind of short notice, and a holiday weekend, that any gathering is likely to be pretty small (not that I’d mind meeting more of you!). So, if anyone’s interested, please feel free to e-mail me directly at the address in my profile. Hope to see some of you there! ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2000, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dragoncon-atlanta-here-i-come/21761/8 "2000-06-12T16:14:46Z")
The Peachtree Center Marta station (North-South Line) will be your best bet, StrTrkr777. ---
**Author:** ![Narile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@Narile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Narile)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2000, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dragoncon-atlanta-here-i-come/21761/9 "2000-06-12T22:52:34Z")
Rosebud, Have a fun time. Let us know what panels you attended and which were neat for what reason. I wish I could attend it, but Atlanta is a bit far from San Jose. ---
**Author:** ![Rosebud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@Rosebud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rosebud)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2000, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dragoncon-atlanta-here-i-come/21761/10 "2000-06-12T23:21:22Z")
Thank you, Narile! I keep screwing up the vb code for links, but if you click here > **[Dragon Con - Largest Multi-genre and Pop Culture Convention](https://www.dragoncon.org/)** > > Dragon Con is an annual multi-media and pop culture event held on the Labor Day weekend in Atlanta, Georgia. Hosting the parade, gaming, art show, awards, and other events. you will find their official site, if you haven’t already. Check out the fan photo galleries in “related links.” Incidentally, I’m sure there will be folks there from San Jose-- I should put a lid on it before I start to sound like the DragonCon PR Girl, but this thing is _huge_. Perhaps you can hitch a ride with somebody 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2001, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dragoncon-atlanta-here-i-come/21761/11 "2001-07-17T14:08:12Z")
So, who’s going to Dragon\*Con again this year? I’ll be there. **Rosebud** told me she doubted she’d make it, but that was some months ago. I know of four other Dopers (including a Moderator) who are also going, but since they haven’t said so publicly I won’t name them. It’s August 31 - September 3 this year. We should all gather for a Dope/Geek Fest. ---
**Author:** ![Simetra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Simetra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simetra)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2001, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dragoncon-atlanta-here-i-come/21761/12 "2001-07-17T14:16:44Z")
I might be there with my buddy, **Dragon**. Appropriate nickname eh? All depends on how much money I have at the end of August. Anyway, hope I can go, and if I do, hope to see a few 'Lantadopers there. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Rosebud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@Rosebud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rosebud)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2001, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dragoncon-atlanta-here-i-come/21761/13 "2001-07-17T14:25:03Z")
Whoa, flashback! I was just talking about DragonCon with a friend of mine last night. He’d just gotten back from Maryland’s Shore Leave (a Trek Con, though they have B5 guests a plenty) and I was saying how I had been too broke to even crash on the floor last minute. I want to go to DragonCon but I’m pretty sure I can’t. Things have changed with the people I went with last year (I’ll spare the gory details, but one of them is treating the other one like absolute crap and the other one is just tolerating it and as a roundabout result we aren’t keeping in very good touch these days). I know some other folks who would probably go, but the money thing is an issue as is how we’d get down there. This may be the first year in a long time that I’m not making it to any conventions… I’m gettin’ all sad and stuff ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2001, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dragoncon-atlanta-here-i-come/21761/14 "2001-07-17T15:26:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fiver \* > \*\* > I know of four other Dopers (including a Moderator) who are also going, but since they haven’t said so publicly I won’t name them. > \*\* One would be me! I am so excited. ::Squeals like a little girl:: I haven’t been to a decent Con in _forever_! And Claudia is gonna be there and everything. 😃 ::happy dance:: Anybody want to try and build a DopeFest around this thing? Or will it just be a GeekFest? 😉 As long as it doesn’t interfer with my Claudia and Marcus and Jeffry leering, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2001, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dragoncon-atlanta-here-i-come/21761/15 "2001-07-17T15:42:48Z")
**Arden Ranger** : Anybody want to try and build a DopeFest around this thing? Well, now that I see **Simetra** is also coming, presumably with a contingent of BamaDopers in tow, I’m wondering if I should host a little get-together at my house, which is only four or five miles from the con hotels. I can put out beer and food; and put MST3K on the DVD player. Y’all can meet the cats I’ve mentioned in various threads, and see the actual computer I post from home in my underwear from! How’s all that sound? ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2001, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dragoncon-atlanta-here-i-come/21761/16 "2001-07-17T15:49:03Z")
Ooooh… Your \* actual\* computer? [sub]Hey, Verrain! Some place to check our game mail! :D[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2001, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dragoncon-atlanta-here-i-come/21761/17 "2001-07-17T22:25:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fiver \* > \*\*It’s August 31 - September 3 this year. We should all gather for a Dope/Geek Fest. \*\* I won’t be attending-though I do wander through Peachtree Center on an almost daily basis, unless I get this job I’ll be interviewing for. **Montrealdope** , **Bamadope** , and an **Atlantadope** all in one summer? Naaaah, impossible. [sub]And I have to admit to not really knowing what DragonCon is, even though I remember people wandering around in costumes last year while I was trying to eat lunch. Wasn’t it during the same time as the Salvation Army convention?[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2001, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dragoncon-atlanta-here-i-come/21761/18 "2001-07-17T23:20:12Z")
Heh. Yes, **Lsura**. **Fiver** told me about the little old ladies having lunch with the Klingons. 😃 I love Sci-Fi cons. Such a weird collection of folks. ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2001, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dragoncon-atlanta-here-i-come/21761/19 "2001-07-18T01:27:33Z")
I’m going! _looks at her blue pass and drools with anticipation_ I haven’t been to a con in far too long, and this one’s going to have half the B5 cast, it seems. 😃 It hasn’t even been a year, but God I love that show. 😃 But I don’t think I’ll have time to leave the hotel for much, what with it being my first time and rooming with veterans. I suspect they’re going to keep me hopping. I can’t wait! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Rosebud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@Rosebud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rosebud)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2001, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dragoncon-atlanta-here-i-come/21761/20 "2001-07-18T01:31:13Z")
I am SO disappointed that I can’t go! ☹ ☹ [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dragoncon-atlanta-here-i-come/21761.md?page=2)