See You Next Week – DragonCon awaits!

posted by Tony Youngblood

I’m typing this while sitting on my hotel room bed in sunny downtown Atlanta, preparing myself for four days of geek debauchery. For this is the weekend of Dragon*Con, the world’s largest culture convention — an everlasting gobstopper of science fiction, fantasy, film, television, literature, costuming, podcasting, science!, and more. And this is my Film Talk doctor’s note, explaining why I won’t be posting a film-related blog this week.

I suppose I could write about the Breathless rerelease I saw last week at the Belcourt (less revolutionary and more annoying that I had remembered it). I could also discuss the film-related content of the fest. There is a film-making track with screenings, awards, and all. Lloyd “Toxic Avenger” Kaufman is doing a panel on low-budget genre film-making. Edward James Olmos is in the house!

I could do that. But instead I will be waiting in long lines to see the casts of Star Trek: Next Generation, Quantum Leap, MST3k, and True Blood. I’ll be munching down PB&J’s in the 15 minute gaps between Skeptic, Science, and Podcasting tracks. (Yes, there is a Skeptrack, and Adam Savage and James FREAKING Randi are on it!) I’ll be outwardly politely-waiting and inwardly steaming in the stopgaps of fantasy foot-traffic as scores of photo-ers get their picture taken with every single Silk Spectre, Mad Hatter, Slave Leia, Leeloo, and Steampunk Jesus on the floor. And in those special few moments where the incessant buzzing fades to merely a din, I will take refuge in my kingsized bed snugly beside my three other hotel-mates, close my eyes, and dream of doing it all again the next day.

If you’re also attending the fest, drop me a tweet, and maybe we can meet up. If not, stay tuned next week for your regularly-scheduled Younglbood diatribe.

So say we all!

Tony Youngblood is the current Foursquare Mayor of the Belcourt Theatre, a film and music snob, and producer of the experimental improv music blog and podcast Theatre Intangible. His favorite films include Eric Rohmer’s The Green Ray, Abbass Kiarostami’s The Wind Will Carry Us, Ingmar Bergman’s The Magician, Lee Chang Dong’s Oasis, and Rob Reiner’s This Is Spinal Tap.

Photo at top from an original by Foenix

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