I may be growing old, but I'm not going to grow up!!!

[johno]

karisu_sama muses on 26 years of going to conventions. {sorry, it's a locked post...}

Seems we are convention contemporaries.

My first con was Confusion in 1978

Went for Sat afternoon only, after taking my SATs (so it was probably June.)

There have been a couple years where I didn't have the $$ to attend or was overseas so I could not attend a con, but all in all that is 26 years of Convention attending.

Within a couple of years I discovered Filk, Anime (called a less pc name then), Costuming, Met Gordy Dickson (and drank his scotch), and, and, and....

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[wldrose.livejournal.com]

Humm I was 7 so that was 1972 and got Wally Woods autograph.

Ash

[msmemory.livejournal.com]

My first con was a Star Trek Convention in New York City, February 1976. My parents took me as a Christmas present.

One of the things I bought there was a fanzine written by a nobody named Peter David. I got Peter to sign it when he appeared with Gaiman and Ellison at MIT last year. He was a little stunned.

(I can't read the posting you link to, since it's friends only, pout.)

[karisu-sama.livejournal.com]

OK, sheesh, it's open now. :p

[msmemory.livejournal.com]

Thanks! johno, who I met through fandom a decade ago, had piqued my curiosity.