The Convention: Furlandia
The Place: University Place Hotel Portland Oregon
The dates: 10-12 May 2013
Furlandia is a first year convention in Portland Oregon. My Monster Hello Kitty plush was my companion for Saturday and Chococat, Friday and Sunday.
Friday: I cooked and wolfed down dinner and drove to the hotel site getting there around 8:30pm. The line for registration was long and it took me over an hour. There was a pre-con party and dance so I stayed around until 10:42pm.
Furlandia was a blast but I need to catch up on a few thing before I start working on con report on 21 and 21 may there were two events First Serena Kitty hosted a bowling meet. The number was smaller than the PDX furs meet but more fursuiters. and if that was not enough we had a park meet the next day.
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Yesterday was The Furry Easter Egg Hunt Eggstravaganza and potluck at Serena Kitty house. The weather was perfect and fellowship great. I took my 18in Hello Kitty Plush with me and had a fine time. One thing I like about these meet is the wide ager rang e form teens to seniors, we even had a real furry family both parent and teen children are furry. I had a wonderful time.
Hollywood Bowl Meet 16 Mar 2013
On 16 mar 2913 there was a Bowling meet at Hollywood Bowl in Portland Oregon. The meet was a fundraiser for Furlandia a new furry convention in Portland Oregon. The was a good turn out around 50 furs. Sadly there was a scattering of Fursuiters. I only saw a few of the old PDx furs. That is another issue for another day. I even won two movie tickets in the raffle. My big Hello Kitty plush accompanied me to the meet.
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Something is rotten in the state of Media.
This reminds me about Northern California Volleyball Association flap.
Except for an inflammatory title, Gaker waste of broadband by regurgitating other site’s stories.
As for TonyA there is something rotten about it. According to another article Tony A had made the complaint in January 2013 for a stay in Feb 2012. The event checks out there was a cheer event on the same weekend of Furry Fiesta but I note no con report noting any interacting between those going to the cheer event and Fury Fiesta.
“A customer known as Tony A. left a review on TripAdvisor about his experience at the Crowne Plaza North Dallas-Addison when the furry convention was in town. Tony A. claims they stayed at the hotel in February 2012, but they did not post the review until January 2013. The question is
http://www.travelerstoday.com/articles/4997/20130225/guest-leaves-scathing-review-texas-hotel-holding-furry-convention-video.htm”
Second thing Travel advisor has removed his comments; probably they are so inflammatory; The of his charges are very vague.
“First of all, I like to bring up the ineptitude of the groups department on scheduling a Furry Convention of unacceptable adults, along with a young girls and boys cheerleading team. The things that our children (ages 4-17) witnessed there, are the kinds of things that we as parents hate to even think that they would be exposed to. My 10 year old daughter and my 8 year old son witnessed lude and lascivious behavior in the pool, outside by these furry people.”
“These “people” if I can call them that [My comment: argumentum ad hominem], were doing unspeakable things [comment: very vague does not give concrete examples] outside on the hallways and in their rooms with their doors open.”
“I am not sure if you folks know what a Furry Rave is. A regular rave is a party where folks dance, drink, party and do their drugs. A regular rave would have been unacceptable then. A Furry Rave included more lude and lascivious behavior, along with the other factors included in a regular rave. That is not only unacceptable for a guest, it should have been unacceptable to this hotel. How did I find out all of these details about this “rave” and what these furry conventions are about? GOOGLE!!!!! How hard is it for someone to do a little due diligence before they schedule something like this? This research took me 5 MINUTES to do. How do these people schedule these two groups together????”
Tony is going to bases his incendiary comment on five minuet search on Goggle. He was at the con hotel. He could at least provide some evidence. By the way I have attended Furry, Anime, Science Fiction, Comiccon, and multi-Genre fan conventions, they a have raves and there is just people dancing. No lewd activity, no drugs. Just a lot of dancing, Techno and Dub step
So what we have the worst case of Sports /Event Helicopter parents, the type who lives insufficient narcissistic lives through their children, pushing their kids where it almost child abuse and pushing everybody else out of the way. That or ether, noting the vagueness and lateness of the complaint, this is an example of social network extortion, the person blackmails the business by threatening to leave a bad reviews less they get freebees and favorable treatment.