update

[kmusser]

A quick note to let people know I'm still alive.

Katsucon was ok. Didn't see anything especially exciting and the hotel sucked - I'm glad they're moving next year. I did get to see squire_liz and hang out with byronczimmer and principia_coh who I don't see nearly enough - and finallly played Munchkin Bites which was fun.

This weekend:
Friday I'm playing in a Changeling LARP - I haven't played in a LARP in eons, so should be interesting. (DCinShadow for anyone that's interested). Saturday I might go over to a friends poker night if sleep doesn't claim me first.

Saddened by HST's passing, don't really have anything to add to the many things others have written. The world is a lesser place without him.

Been spending more time with zammis which is a good thing. She's awesome, and sexy, and now has extra lube. Go zammis!

In other news wylddelirium is hot.

Look, dragons!

Comments

[thatliardiego.livejournal.com]

She's awesome, and sexy, and now has extra lube.

You know, I say this about my car, but it just doesn't come off the same...

[theshaggyfreak.livejournal.com]

I never got to make it down to the con...just wasn't up to it. Hopefully they'll have better luck moving the con this time. The last time the tried it, con goers ended up trashing the hotel which prompted them from asking the con not to return.

[principia.livejournal.com]

:(

Too bad you couldn't make it; meeting more of Karl's buddies is always fun. Well, K12 should find the hotel situation much improved.

If you're referring to the one year in Bal'mer:

Congoers did not trash the hotel. There was minor vandalism, and there were significant doubts as to whether congoers in fact had anything to do with much of it.

I was later told by a Katsu staffer who was onboard at the time that the hotel contacted Katsu a few months later to apologize for vastly overreacting: apparently the experience of having a hotel full of drunk Shriners taught them the actual definitions of "trashed" and "irresponsible convention management."

I'm given to understand that they actually tried to get Katsu to come back, but attendees had found the hotel a) too far away, b) too unfriendly (Gee, who knew? They only spent the entire weekend looking down their noses at everyone), and c) too expensive ($169 a night, which I don't have any great issues with, but most people would rather see $50 of that a day go towards the dealer's room).

[theshaggyfreak.livejournal.com]

Well, I'll give it that the hotel staff was quite rude. I had some issues with them during my stay that year. A friend of mine who was a translator for the con explained to me about a lot of things that happened that some folks didn't know about. I did see some of the vandalism, and it was obviously some congoer ('Eva for Eva!' was written on one of the elevators). *Shrug* It just isn't a good hotel for a con really. It just didn't have the room for everything, and the hallways were really narrow which quickly got congested. I have a few holes in my memory concerning the con, though, since I was a bit drunk during most of it :)

[principia.livejournal.com]

There were some dark rumours at the time that members of the Otakon community (who had seemed to have declared war on Katsu that year for no apparent reason) came over to the hotel to cause the damage and make sure KC wouldn't be welcomed by the hotels in Baltimore.

Whether this is true or not, I have no idea. Honestly, I can't imagine why anyone would care that a convention held six months away from theirs took place in the same city. I'm just saying it's something I've heard… and not from Katsu staff.

My impression of the hotel space was that they in fact did have ample room for the 'con, but that they organized their space very poorly.

awww shucks!!

[zammis.livejournal.com]

blush

[chrisv.livejournal.com]

She's awesome, and sexy, and now has extra lube.

*snerk!*

(awesome and sexy she is indeed)

[byronczimmer.livejournal.com]

Was good to see you too!

And we echo your opinions -- hotel stunk, con was lackluster...