Yes, but you wouldn't have to go grocery shopping anymore.

Yes, but you wouldn't have to go grocery shopping anymore.

YOU DON'T KNOW!

Just pipe-dreams...but -- D and I have never had a honeymoon and it'll be 5 years in 2014.

1-- Do you think SDCC is a good venue for a geeked-out, smartie-pants, well-behaved 12 y.o. boy?

2-- Hotels are booked and would be WAAAAAY out of our price range; would SFists' homes also be booked for SFCC? (We're excellent, tidy, polite guests, who clean and cook and curl up in tiny places to sleep!) We are also very funny and amusing!

Like I said, I'm just thinking at this point, but JUST MAYBE, if we asked for money only for Xmas, we could swing it. It would be SO. AMAZING.

Thoughts from SDCC pros?

1-- Do you think SDCC is a good venue for a geeked-out, smartie-pants, well-behaved 12 y.o. boy?

Sure! Good luck getting tickets, he says almost sarcastically.

2-- Hotels are booked and would be WAAAAAY out of our price range; would SFists' homes also be booked for SFCC? (We're excellent, tidy, polite guests, who clean and cook and curl up in tiny places to sleep!) We are also very funny and amusing!

I am a little confused here about your plan to stay in San Francisco and commute to San Diego.

Thoughts from SDCC pros?

Don't make plans until you manage to snag tickets, which are nigh impossible to get because a million people want to go and the servers crash and it's a nightmare. I am not sure when they open up sales for next year, but it may be soon.

I am a little confused here about your plan to stay in San Francisco and commute to San Diego.

That's what I get for "thinking" early in the AM!

So, Magic 8 Ball says "BWAHAHAHAHA!! Dream on, Geek Family!"?

Sigh. It was a long shot. Oh, well, we like the Ozarks!

I could come say hi to you guys there and wear my Winchester Bros. shirt for the fan convention experience...

Strix, I will mention DragonCon. It happens in Atlanta over Labor Day weekend. It's not the media draw that SDCC is, but last weekend's con had several stars from The Walking Dead, two previous Doctors, three people from Spartacus including Lucy Lawless, several Trek cast members including William Shatner and George Takei, and so on. In addition to writers, comic artists, costumers, podcasters, and everything else you can think of. And Ed Asner.

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It gets very crowded, especially on Saturday, and it's spread out over several hotels in a several-block area. But tickets for next year are available now, and the convention area is convenient to public transportation.

Cincinnati actually has 2 comic-cons now. One was started 4 years ago, and it's gotten big enough to be 3 days, and is branching out into being more of a pop-culture convention, with actors (including Nicholas Brendon this year, and no, I don't think I'm going) and speed dating and a geek prom and whatnot.

The second one (which happens to be this weekend) just started this year. Apparently some comics creators (::cough::TonyMoore::cough::) decided that they want a convention that is JUST comics-related and not a pop-culture convention. Which is fine, there's no problem with 2 conventions...except they scheduled it for the weekend before the other comic-con. Which is a pretty dick move.

Anyway, I don't know what the dates for them are next year, although I assume September, and they might be big enough to warrant checking out.

Thanks, guys! DragonCon has the bennies of quite a few peeps I know going to it.

Shall have to count the pennies and see. KCCC is getting bigger, but it's during a time when the boy isn't in town. They're getting bigger guests (George Takei! Wil Wheaton! in 2013) so we can still go geek out. We need something in July...

I'm committed to the Decatur Book Festival on the Saturday and Sunday of Labor Day/Dragoncon weekend, but you're welcome to stay with me. The logistics might be a bit complex, but you can take MARTA to Dragoncon. The book festival has some great children's events too.

That gives me a year to clear out the guest room....