I keep thinking, for $600, I could have a full spa day at Burke Williams.

That's it. I'm buying a lottery ticket. Ima go and get a mani and a pedi and a massage and a facial and maybe get all wrapped up in some seaweed and mud.

I promise to hum the Firefly theme at least once.

Ima go and get a mani and a pedi and a massage and a facial and maybe get all wrapped up in some seaweed and mud.

You deserve this kind of spoiling. Even if you DON'T ever hum the Firefly theme, ever again.

Nathan mispoke in an interview a long while ago and thanked "all the flans."

Actually, Nathan is quite popular with flans and blancmanges.

Gandalfe. Four people if StuntHusband is around.

You know me so well.

I love flan.

Just forwarded to me by a non-Buffista Mutant Enemy fanatic:

Bwah!

Ha! Funny, JZ.

Well, before anyone strains themselves pooh-poohing the paid con experience as a crass waste of money, let me say that I considered mine well spent for getting to hang out with Bronzer friends and Angel-loving co-workers for a weekend, find a shirt printed with Jilli's cartoon doppelganger, attend a great concert, sit at a table with Camden Toy while he waxed enthusiastic about live theatre, and not only crack David Boreanaz up but also unwittingly spur him to call Christian Kane his bitch in front of about 3000 people. I have no regrets.

Kiba, DragonCon won't be scary.

From my experience at Comic Con last year and WonderCon and WizardWorld this year, I have discovered that there is this great network called browncoats with cell phones.

It enables you to be constantly in the loop and never miss a thing.

I plan on putting it to good use.

Matt, it's just that, if you do the math for the Angel Booster event, it's $720 to get it all.

And that's just so ridiculous to me. Add in hotel and airfare, and it just pains me, because it's so out of reach.

But my perspective is a little different in that I think the weekend is about making friends and hanging out. I like that the entire weekend isn't scheduled. People plan lunches and dinners and go off and explore the city in groups.

It's not that you're not getting your money's worth, the price above includes all the dinners and open bars.

I'm a bigger believer in cutting that stuff out to bring the price into a range that more fans can afford.

I'm also weirdly jaded. I'm not interested in the lines for pictures. I'm not interested in signings and Q&As. I'm interested on that moment when Greg Grunberg says, "hey, let's call your mom!"

At $300, I think it's more acceptable. $720 is rent.

But these are soley my issues, and i can see youir points and don't find them ugly or anything. I'm egalitarian about fan events. I love, LOVE, that I never had to pay anyone to show up and say hello to their fans. They come because they just really want to.

I love that at D:LA they all sort of shrugged off security and ran into the room with open arms.

I love the pics of Drew Goddard rolling around on the floor with fans at W&H.

It's better for me, as a fan. It's not the greatest thing for other fans.

Different strokes.