Tag: Convention Stories

• Convention Stories: The Adventure with Ming Chen

  

  So this is a very recent story that happened at Chattanooga Comic Con 2023. During the convention the event offered a Trolley Pub with one of their guests Ming Chen from the show Comic Book Men. The Trolley Pub is a local attraction where a party rents a trolley and petals their way around the…

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  November 19, 2023

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• Convention Stories: How a Cowboy Helped Us Get Out of a Mall

  So this story takes place around Halloween of 2021 right after we attended both Anime Weekend Atlanta and Soda City Comic Con in the same weekend. Which was very exhausting but worthwhile. We were on our way home and decided to watch the new My Hero Academia movie. For context, we went to a theater…

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  October 29, 2023

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• Convention Stories: My Flight from Hell

  So recently I went to Anime Impulse OC and had an amazing time; however, because I went by myself I decided to only go for one day to return home to my wife and spend the rest of the extended holiday weekend with her before going back to work. This required taking two nearly three…

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  October 4, 2023

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• Convention Stories: That Time I Had A Brainfart on an Isekai Question but Redeemed Myself in the End

  For this story, we go back to Anime USA 2019 and at this event, they held a family feud-style panel. Now I wasn’t sure what was supposed to happen but to my understanding, it was supposed to be volunteers versus each other and then the guests, but what actually happened was for one round a…

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  September 10, 2023

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• Convention Stories: Keith Silverstein the Matchmaker

  

  This is a pretty quick story about my first time meeting Keith Silverstein back in Anime Weekend Atlanta 2017. Now at this event, Keith was signing one item for free and I had a couple of Fire Emblem items I wanted him to sign. My wife, who was my fiancé at the time, volunteered to…

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  July 16, 2023

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• Convention Stories: Will Friedle Photobombed my Wife

  This is a fun story that goes back all the way to Dragoncon 2016. This was actually the first huge convention that my wife and I went to together and at the time we were just dating and actually got engaged later that same year. One of the people my wife really wanted to see…

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  May 28, 2023

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• Convention Stories: Hotels The Good, the Bad, and the Weird

  Hotels are a big part of any convention experience because you want to have a place to stay that is close enough to the venue that you can easily enjoy all the days you plan to spend at the convention. I have had to stay at least one or two nights in a hotel in…

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  March 6, 2023

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• Convention Stories: Comments that Make You go Huh?

  When you go to as many conventions as I have you meet a lot of people and I mean a lot of people. Sometimes in passing and sometimes you have full-blown conversations with them and others you’re just a bystander bearing witness to something totally random. However, one thing is certain you will hear something…

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  February 2, 2023

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• Convention Stories: Mishaps with Uber

  Over the course of my travels I’ve made numerous trips using the handy Uber app, I use Uber more than Lyft usually, and for the most part, the trips are the same. You do the song and dance where you find your driver and then silently go to your destination and we give each other…

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  January 5, 2023

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• Convention Stories: Noise Complaint

  For this story, we go back to Anime USA in 2019. I had a wonderful time at this event and luck wound up being on my side as so many things not only went well but better than I could have imagined; however, there was one incident that was less than pleasant and that wound…

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  October 10, 2022

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