{"id":31,"date":"2008-04-11T09:03:34","date_gmt":"2008-04-11T13:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/2008\/04\/11\/dragoncon\/"},"modified":"2008-04-11T13:47:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-11T17:47:00","slug":"dragoncon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/11\/dragoncon\/","title":{"rendered":"Dragon*Con &#8211; I can&#8217;t wait!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">Anyone else getting anxious about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dragoncon.org\/\" title=\"Dragon*Con\">Dragon*Con<\/a> this year?\u00a0 I can&#8217;t wait to be immersed in all the geeky goodness.\u00a0 The celebrities, the pseudo-celebrities, the panels, the costumes, the dealer rooms, staying up late playing games, the crowds (yes, even the crowds can be fun), and just generally being a complete geek for three or four days.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">For those of you that don&#8217;t know, Dragon*Con is the largest multi-media, popular culture convention focusing on science fiction and fantasy, gaming, comics, literature, art, music, and film in the US.\u00a0 Dragon*Con 2008 will be held Labor Day weekend (August 29 &#8211; September 1, 2008) in Atlanta, GA.\u00a0 Many of us folks from <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/theuniquegeek\" title=\"The Unique Geek\">THE UNIQUE GEEK<\/a> are regulars at this event.\u00a0 You can see my photos from the past few years on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/onceuponageek\" title=\"My Dragon*Con Photos\">my Flickr page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">I&#8217;m getting jazzed about going!\u00a0 Anyone else?\u00a0 Are you going or not?\u00a0 Feel free to comment.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\u00a0The Irredeemable Shag<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Tell the world about ONCE UPON A GEEK:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li 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