Meetup Thread

[ecocd]

Ir occurs to me, that there's the opportunity for a lot of overlap in interests from the forumites and it might be worth starting a thread for people to post if they're going to be attending a show or con. There might be another LRR fan going and could arrange meet up before, during or after the show. Since fans are a bit far flung outside of Victoria, it's pretty fun to get the opportunity to meet new fans.

[ecocd]

To get it started, D-Girl and I are seeing Kevin Smith in Chicago tonight and I'm wondering if any other LRR fans are going to be there.

Additionally, Jonathan Coulton will be playing a show in Chicago on Saturday, October 10th and I'm thinking about going. Anyone else thinking about attending?

[Machalllewis]

I'm not going to any of those but can I just say that I quite like the idea behind this thread? Just for future reference haha.

[jtaylor]

I am living in Chicago now but I don't have the time or money to see Kevin Smith tonight. I would like to hang out with you Chicago peoples though.

I'll be at Windy City Comicon Saturday afternoon because I want to meet John Campbell.

[Mad Madam Mimm]

Saturday the 26th, I'm heading down to BATH, BABY!!!!

Ahem.

So yeah, any west country LRR-ites are welcome to drop me a line from then on.

[King Kool]

The only LRR Fan I could meet is TomBrend, because he lives in Boston and I live in Rhode Island.

So, wanna do SouthernNewEnglandLRRCon 2009??

[Cade Antilles]

This is a fantastic thread. When an event I can afford to go to comes up, I will be sure to drop a line here. And, of course, I'll keep an eye on it if someone else is attending a thread I'd like to go to.

[James]

Damn you and seeing Kevin Smith tonight!!!

[King Kool]

Just go to Chicago.

[Gordon Fearman]

I live in New York. So screw all of you people.

[Master Gunner]

I live far, far, away from any other forumites.

Hopefully I'll be able to get a work term in Toronto or BC this summer.

[Metcarfre]

Anybody going to the U2 show in Vancouver in October?

[Gordon Fearman]

You too?

[ecocd]

I live far, far, away from any other forumites.

Hopefully I'll be able to get a work term in Toronto or BC this summer.

While you're probably accurate in your assessment, I think there always going to be people like jtaylor. I didn't know (s)he lived in Chicago. btw, I know Fuzzyfreaker lives in Chicago and Evil Jim makes it down for a fair number of shows. If you're on twitter, follow Fuzzyfreaker and Evil_Jim (I'm ecocd but don't tweet much).

In my experience, if a band is sufficiently obscure people are willing to travel (a) long distances and (b) to the middle of nowhere to see them. And people that live in the middle of nowhere are often the most likely to travel to see a show or concert. In all cases, I think it's worth a note here if you care to meet another LRR fan.

As far as Kevin Smith goes, yeah it was a fair amount of money. gf and I are blowing our entertainment budget for the month on it, but she was able to pre-order tickets and got some sweet box seats for it. It would be awesome if I could get him to tweet @James_LRR about how much the Canucks are going to suck this year.

[Fuzzyfreaker]

Unfortunately, I wasn't able to afford to see Kevin Smith tonight. I walked down to the box office to see if any of the $18 tickets had opened up, but to no avail. Maybe I'll just stand outside and mug somebody.

Also, I will be at that JoCo concert come October 10th, so if anybody wants to meet up there, it should be an awesome time.


Oh! And to compensate for my inability to get into Kevin Smith's shindig, me and (I'm pretty sure) Evil Jim will be at the midnight screening of The Muppet Movie at the Music Box Theater in Chicago tonight.

[Elomin Sha]

July 24th to August 1st 2010, I'll be in Toronto hopefully.

[Trisha Lynn]

Attention NYC-area LRRfans! I am going to be hanging with friends who are going to the NYAF (New York Anime Festival) next weekend (September 25-27) and can be convinced to meet briefly on either Friday or Saturday night for a drink or two.

Anyone wanna meetup?


Trisha Lynn
...shout out, New Yorkers...!

[Darkobra]

I live far, far, away from any other forumites.

Hopefully I'll be able to get a work term in Toronto or BC this summer.

Only Scotsman here! (living in Scotland. Must conquer Highlander.)

[kkief02]

I'm fairly sure none of the fourmites live anywhere near me =/

[James]

Quick question to all the forums goers. Have any of you met and become friends because of these forums?

[Cybren]

I know there's a few other Runners/forumites/whatever things near me (Off the top of my head... uhhh.. Dave-O_Boy), but I haven't met any.

[Master Gunner]

Well there's Wraith and Siobhan obviously, and I seem to recall a couple others too (that became friends, not got together).

[tak197]

Also, all those NYC/Boston/East Coast Runners: remember, there is PAX East in March.

[curbee]

Man, stupid college and stupid family weekend. I'd totally go to NYAF if it weren't for that. I guess there's always PAX East....

[kkief02]

Quick question to all the forums goers. Have any of you met and become friends because of these forums?

Haven't met any of you yet (except morgan, but he is not really a forumite) but I have made friends out of quite a few of them, they know who they are ^-^