Actually, one of my Survival Tips For Life is "always pack presentable nightclothes". Because there WILL be fire drills in the hotel (especially at fannish events) and you might as well be prepared to socialize. My favorites are a pair of black silk pajamas: completely decent, yet chic.

At the first PBP I went to, the girls whose room I ended up in (I was so lucky that they would have me) had a costumed pajama party, where everyone had a character and their pajamas had to do with those characters. theredhood (Bronzer) had fabulous black pajamas and had drawn little anime Faiths all over the pants in glow-in-the-dark fabric paint.

I myself am a collector of pajamas. I believe you can never have too many.

Also, look what I got in the mail today, because I took advantage of the fast-shipping-for-the-screenings deal (despite my not going to a screening - I plan to wear it to HG2G this weekend):

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Possibly I should've gotten a large instead of a medium.

I've been to 5 Bronze Posting Board Parties, Wizard World Chicago 2000 amd San Diego Comic Con last year. Cons and parties definitely each hold a different appeal for me. San Diego Comic Con was great. I saw a Smallville panel, Sin City Panel, Simpsons Panel and some others. Then there's the exhibitors and I got some giveaways as well. The cost was like $20-$25 for the day! If you're an entertainment junkie this was the place. The parties are more like getting together with friends to celebrate something you all enjoy. It's a totally different experience.

To me the type of event really is dictated by the size of attendance. At one point I was in favor of the Booster hybrid con/party experience because it seemed that the Buffy crowd had grown too big to accomodate everyone who wanted to go to a PBP and keep the show people the least accosted as possible. I still think that sort of hybrid event can be good even though I think the Booster people have gone way too overboard.

If type of event is dictated by the size of attendance, the size of attendance is dictated by the popularity of who people are attending are going there to see. Serenity is still a toddler. I don't think there will ever be an opportunity to attend a smallish Serenity event after the movie comes out. At the very least I hope people get together locally to see the movie opening weekend. It's been a long road for Firefly fans we deserve some kind of cumulating moment.

It's been a long road for Firefly fans we deserve some kind of cumulating moment.

Heh. I first read that as "cromulating moment."

Yes. Maya doth mightily ROCK.

She really does. She's also incredibly nice and pretty damned cute.

Heh. I first read that as "cromulating moment."

I want a cromulating moment.

Was anyone at the con where Marsters tried that "you first" gambit with the fan who asked him to strip?

That was at Dragoncon during one of James' Q&A. I unfortunately, saw the whole thing.

Don't tell me she did.

Okay, we won't tell you. But what are the odds that people would remember it years later if she'd quietly said "Nevermind then," and sat back down?

When the people who run real fan conventions have the vision to book media guests in the short early period before Creation type cons get their hooks into them you find out how limited the Creation experience can be.

For example, would you rather have spent a weekend drinking at the hotel bar with Frakes and Dorn, or in lines at a Creation Con waiting for their autographs a year later?

Earlier this year I talked with someone who runs an upcoming con. He'd been offered as a possible Guest of Honor a certain writer-director whose name should be obvious in this forum without me typing it. He was asking everyone he knew whether anyone would attend a convention to see said guest...

Needless to say, this particular con got someone else, someone you'd have to Google.

I have not been to any of Allyson's parties, alas, so I have no basis for comparison. But one thing I like about Dragon*Con is that it's big enough to get lost in if you want to just wander, but also well-organized so that it's not chaos. I was probably going to go anyway to see the Serenity people, but it's the meeting up with old friends and the chance of making new ones that convinced me to lay down the cash.

I'm also jaded about autographs and etc. I'm not waiting in line more than a minute and a half for anything (except money).

I want a cromulating moment.

Perv.