This is kind of interesting. In October, the Millennium Hotel in Minneapolis will be host to the Fiddler’s Green Convention. From the website:
Fiddler’s Green will be a Sandman-focused convention at the Millennium Hotel, Minneapolis, 12-14 November 2004. Membership is limited to 500 paid attending members, plus convention guests and staff.
All proceeds, after the con is over and the bills are paid, will be donated to the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.
It’s a $100 to register, which for me means $200 to cover myself and a nurse, so I’m not sure I’ll go. I’ve only been to one con in my whole life, a Star Trek con back in Green Bay in ’88 or ’89. My reaction then to the whole experience was to get a bit freaked out. I liked Trek, but I wasn’t about to put on a uniform and become fluent in Klingon. I was a fan, but these people were freaks. Or at least that’s how my insecure 16-year-old mind perceived it back then. But I do remember buying a white baseball cap with the United Federation of Planets logo on the front, so I can’t completely deny my own geek tendencies. I think it’d be a blast to go to a con now. I hope I would be a little less judgmental and simply enjoy the spectacle. Imagine all the great pictures I could get for the blog.
