This Is Dragon Con!!!

We have been patient. We have remained subdued. For 12 long months we have silently cried in dark rooms, waiting for the seasons to again return us to this time.

This trio is no doubt yearning for its sweet return to Dragon Con

Dragon Con time.

Billed as the largest multi-media, popular culture convention that focuses on sci-fi and fantasy, Dragon Con will inhabit five downtown Atlanta hotels over Labor Day weekend. Tens of thousands of people will descend on the con in less than two weeks, donning costumes and rubbing elbows with the upper crust of geekdom.

You should be among them.

This blog is a pseudopod of The Rome News-Tribune, the daily newspaper of Northwest Georgia. On this blog you will read firsthand accounts of the con as I cover it. Photos will appear here and on the Rome News' website. Your commentary, while not compulsory, is appreciated.

If you're going to the con and you're from the Rome area, give me a shout at ariquelmy@npco.com. I'd like to catch up with you while you're learning Dothraki or scrounging for a steal in the Dealers Room.

If you can't make it to the con, make sure you keep returning to this blog for your necessary, perhaps even vital, updates.

Over the next few days I'll sprinkle some advice across this blog and generally build excitement for what is the most scintillating experience of our feeble lives. We are T-minus 11 days to Dragon Con!