Category: convention

Windycon 2001

 
 
 

[November 9 through 11, 2001, TGN, Schaumburg, IL] Windycon was hopping this time around. The usual setup but with special guests (Gene Roddenberry, Jr. as pictured above) and Dr. Demento. Five party rooms on Friday and 10-15 or so party rooms on Saturday. And, there were a bit more costumed people than usual. Of course, I was camera-less half the time, or was too busy having fun instead of taking pictures as usual. So, if you have any cool pictures, please send them to me! The official eZine-TGN Party Rating is in: 8 out of 10.


Windycon 2001 – Gene Roddenberry Jr. (L) and me

 
 
 

CONvergence 2001

 
 
 

[July 6 through 8, 2001, TGN, Minneapolis, MN] Convergence was, like huge! Over 40 party rooms each night! That’s more than all three Chicago-land scifi cons (Windycon, Capricon, and Duckon) combined!!! And, not only that, there were three different party rooms serving just coffee! One room just served food. Then the rest were party rooms. Some had only a few decorations, others had the entire room decked out. Total fun. And more costumes than ever! The official eZine-TGN Party Rating is in: 10 out of 10.


CONvergence 2001

 
 
 

Duckon 2001

 
 
 

[May 11 through 13, 2001, TGN, Lisle, IL] I would say, Duckon as a con is picking up steam again. It is still smaller than the other two Chicagoland cons (Capricon and Windycon), but some of the party rooms were pretty wild… The official eZine-TGN Party Rating is in: 6.0 out of 10.


Duckon 2001

 
 
 

Capricon 2001

 
 
 

[February 9 through 11, 2001, TGN, Arlington Heights, IL] Capricon is now undoubtedly the best fan run science fiction convention in the Chicago area! They out did themselves this year with a great “Ambassador’s Reception” on Friday with room parties galore on both Friday and Saturday nights. Our costume group (Cliff, Troy, Jed, Lisa and me) won the Best Costume Presentation on Friday dressed in the Star Fleet Ambassador’s Reception uniform as shown in the Star Trek: Insurrection movie. (These were designed and constructed from scratch by Cliff Suda.) We proceeded to be assimilated and all became Borg on Saturday. The official eZine-TGN Con Rating is in: 9.5 out of 10.


Capricon 2001

 
 
 

Windycon 2000

 
 
 

[November 10-12, 2000: TGN, Arlington Heights, IL] This Windycon was right after Worldcon 2000 in Chicago, so the con was rather tame. It was sparsely attended and there were only a few good costumes – so, there are only a few pictures. The picture above is from the Dueling Blenders Party which is alway very popular. Flash, one of your regular bartenders was away on assignment in London, England, so, Indy (right) did a stand in for him. And, the official eZine-TGN Con Rating is in: 4.0 out of 10. Blenders rating is of course 10.0 out of 10.0.


Windycon 2000