If you can get to a furry convention, especially if you've never been before, go. I've run two big furmeets (~100 attendees) and went to my first furcon late last year here in Australia (MiDfur).
They are absolute blast - you'll be very tired at the end, but well worth the effort! You guys have a lot more dealers over there too, meaning much bigger chance to buy more merchandise that you can actually see before you buy.
And if you want to see fur suits - then the fur suit parade at a convention is an awesome eyeful.
Scrapper, Black Dragon, who would be keen to visit Anthrocon one day.
--- On Tue, 31/3/09, Shujin Tribble <shujintribble_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Shujin Tribble <shujintribble_at_yahoo.com>
I'll admit, I'm still pretty new to the con-scene in furrydom, though I'd been to MANY Sci-Fi cons back in the NYC / Long Island area (and one pitiful one here in Buffalo). I was convinced by Verm (Vermilion Violator) to go to AnthroCon in 2007 because... and he was right, I needed a break from being Widower / Single Dad.
It was my first FurCon, first con of any kind in 10 years... and I never realized how many friends I hadn't yet met up to that point. I had such an amazing time I forgot to eat and drink... it was a great experience for me - your milage may vary, of course.
If you DO go to a con, I hope your experience turns out to be as fun as mine was. (I have some pics up at Flickr ( http://www.flickr. com/photos/ shujintribble/ sets/72157600842 908882/ )... and have fun looking!
ShujinTribble
"You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe."
From: Philip Bustamante <pbustama_at_csulb. edu>
To: SkunkworksAMA_at_ yahoogroups. com
Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 4:06:28 AM
Subject: Re: [SkunkworksAMA] Re: AnthroCon
yeah... I 1) just got into this stuff and don't know if
I'd feel comfortable going or not, and 2) am on the west
coast, so I can't make it out there anyway.
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Received on Wed Apr 01 2009 - 20:50:16 CDT