By now one has head how a pattern of misbehavior and vandalism has case Rainfurrest to lose it hotel venue for 2016, and possible the convention. There been a lot written about his but I do have a few issues.
Rose City Comic Con Report 2015
The Convention: Rose Comic Con
The Dates: 19-20 September 2015
Rose City Comic Con is (closer to ) Portland Comic an pop culture convention, Big Kitty attended with me on Saturday and Chococat on Sunday.
Saturday, I missed the Star Trek and Agents of Shield panels because I decided at the last minute to rent a car for the weekend, In fact there was not much I wanted to see in the way of panels on both day. I stayed around for the e cosplay contest. On one had it finally got the chance to see what the band The Slants was all about but they played too loud. The contest was better than the manipulated reality show at Wizard’s World a few years ago.
Sunday I mostly hung around and bought a book and an art poster. I hung around until they kicked us out at 5:00pm.
The Good : When the cast of Neil Stryker and the Tyrant of Time cast brought out the gnome puppet.
The bad: as many who attended Rose City Comic-Con, there needs a better selection of panels. Especially more informative that parading celebrity porn.
The Ugly: nothing
Pictures below the cut
The Convention: Kumoricon 2014
The Place : Vancouver Washington Hilton and Red Lion
The Dates: 4 to 7 September 2015.
Kumoricon is a Anime Convention in Portland and Vancouver WA area. This was my six year attending. Because it was a for day con, again it was all plushies on deck; all my big plushies had a day as my companions.
Time to catch up on my convention going post. Last two months I as attended both Kumoricon mini-con and Newcon Mini-con. Both were at the Lloyd’s Center Doubletree Inn.
Recently I got into a bit of a scuffle with Patch o Furr at Dog Patch press over what I perceived was an attempt to coopt furry fandom into Bay Area LGBT culture by declaring SF as the furry Mecca . Usually Patch does a good job bring up stories, but he has at times have San Francisco queer culture myopic view which come across as declaring a generalization of furry fandom, in my opinion. . I am sorry Patch, words means things. When we look a the use of idiom of Mecca it can be a palace of importance that attracts a lot of people or a center of importance people look to i.e. Silicon Valley as a Mecca of the tech world. I confess I may be reading too much to Patch’s ranting of SF being the fury mecca . Still I objected to it and here was his reply in another column.
“This story is dedicated to furry friend Acton, a “conservative activist” and Hello Kitty collector who gets very upset to see these events welcomed by the community. He insists that he is “100% heterosexual”, and wants you to stop making him think about a diesel driving daddy bear cuddling up to read Hello Kitty bedtime stories with him. Express yourself, hun! This dedication is brought to you by the color pink, and the word Apophasis.”