Marcon is a no-go for me this year....

[poltr1]

I won't be attending Marcon this year. There are a number of reasons.

1) Going to cons just costs too much these days, between gas, convention registration, and hotel fees.
2) I have to work on Saturday. (We have a deadline of next Friday.)
3) I'll be spending time with M on Sunday.
4) I've been feeling ambivalent about Marcon the past few years -- too big, the same old things every year.
5) I've had a chronic feeling of estrangement toward or by fandom.

Comments

[tigertoy.livejournal.com]

I haven't been to Marcon for several years -- the downtown hotel (very expensive hotel rooms plus parking) combined with it being Indy 500 weekend (I've never believed it would be wise to try to drive home through Indy on race day, so I feel that it being that weekend means I have to stay over Sunday night, at the aforementioned way-too-high prices) mean it's just too expensive. But every year, after I'm committed to the decision to not go, all the anticipation from the folks who are going has me wishing I was.

[catalana.livejournal.com]

The drive through Indy has never been bad by the time we've driven through it on the way back from Marcon. (This year we left Marcon at 4:30, just for a comparison.) There are plenty of other reasons you might not go, but I wouldn't worry too much about this one.

[dagonell.livejournal.com]

I would love to go to Marcon again. It's where Karen and I "became a couple". I suspect it's going to be slightly weird this year. Robert Aspirin was found dead in his bedroom yesterday. His ride to Marcon used her key when he didn't answer the door. He was packed for the con, and apparently reading a Terry Pratchett novel when he simply died. He was going to be Guest of Honor at Marcon.
-- Dagonell