I’m all ears!
For the second year in a row, I headed up to Addison for Texas’ one and only furry convention: Furry Fiesta 2013: The Time Traveller’s Ball. I had a wonderful time, and so without further ado:
- JUST TAKE THE TOLL ROAD around Austin, especially if you’re going northbound.
- Driving up was much more pleasant in my still-pretty-new Honda CR-V
- The con was made even more fun by the friends that went with me and the ones I met there!
- Artist Alley needs to be a little bigger and supervised.
- What? No Rock Band in the game room? Aw, I so wanted to do Power of Love…again and again.
- BuckHopper just barely got last year’s Voice Over panel uploaded before this year’s show because he was very very busy with work.
- Of course when you realize that his work involves videogames, the amount of sympathy you have for him might drop just a teensy bit.
- I think his Voice Recording Basics panel needed to be just a little bit more, well, basic. My head was spinning near the end.
- I was a very sad bear just ten minutes before my panel started because nobody was there. *sniff*
- People then started to show up, and I became happy, and nervous!
- I burned through my prepared material in a half hour…need to rehearse next time
- Things went downhill fast during discussion when the subject of DRM and piracy came up…argh
- At dinner, the restaurant owner asks how we’re doing and notices the badges. Her: “Are you here for a convention?” Us: “Yeah!” Her: “What kind of convention is it?” AWKWARD SILENCE.
- Seriously, I have never seen nine adults (including me) simultaneously freeze like deer in the headlights.
- OH YEAH, ITS AN ART CONVENTION! :3
- Luckily, I remembered my ‘training’ the next day. Get some furry common sense, y’all!
- One guy trying to explain Furry Fiesta to an older person got “What? Fairy Fiesta?” as a reply. That explains a lot, actually.
- I’m not sure which made my attempt to record the fursuit parade worse: the lighting, my iPad mini, or the two rubes that stood next to me…seriously, I kept expecting to hear one playing a banjo and the other a jug.
- The Furry Psychology panel filled up quick, they should just give Dr. Nuka a video room next time, it’ll be like college but much less boring.
- If the International Anthropomorphic Research Project were to change the last word in their name to something starting with “F” it would be I-ARF which would be pawsome!
- Got my first dose of con funk in AA when some nasty dude decided to sit next to me. Ended up having to shoo him off later, too…jerk.
- Not sure which was better: acquiring a pair of bear ears to wear, or my friend Chris’ reaction to them. “What the hell are those things?!”
- There were lots of Marty McFlys but one guy (a fursuiter no less) NAILED IT. How? He had a WALKMAN. Everybody else GO HOME.
- There were lots of 4th Doctors, too 🙂
- While my panel went well, my attempts to sell berks in Artist Alley did not. *shrug*
- I guess I didn’t really need that Sales Tax ID after all, then.
- Speaking of AA: If you are going to be in AA read the rules on the wall and don’t whine like a petulant child when they don’t match your expectations.
- $3.75 for gas? Makes me glad the Excelsior gets about 30MPG on the freeway even with 3 dudes with 3 days worth of luggage.
- Thanks for putting us in the ‘annoying kid’ section of IHOP, waiter. *twitch*
- Either the con is short on staff or they were not very noticeable, because I don’t remember seeing very many staff members.
- One person in AA had an old school early digital camera that I used to take his picture with a fursuiter: a big chunky HP one that was the size and weight of a brick.
- Never mind the burgers (which are good) I want In-N-Out to come to San Antonio because the ‘well done’ fries are the BEST. THING. EVAR.
- Boston Market. We also need them in San Antonio, too.
- Some friends call TFF ‘CircleCon’ because everything on the second floor is well, in a circle.
- Thing I forgot: Electric razor. The ol’ greymuzzle was showing by Sunday
- Every time I thought I was going to need/use my laptop, I didn’t because my iPad mini did the job. I may have crossed a threshold.
- Of course, just when I start to get familiar with the area around the hotel, they decide to move it next year.
- I’ll definitely have to take Thursday off next year…maybe Monday, too 🙂
Eduardo Soliz 