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GWC Community Off-Topic/Other
#1

So where does a guy turn, when he has a dilemma involving travel, vampires, alcohol, matrimony, long-distance friends and acquaintances, the desert, money, zombies, and more alcohol? Well, simple, really…he turns to his extended GWC family for insight. Here goes:

A wonderfully bizarre friend in the Phoenix area is getting married in November to an equally odd fellow whom I also enjoy, and they are having a modest (in attendance) but garish (in behavior) ceremony. She’s a complete zombie aficionado, and he a vamp, and actually met on KoL, of all places, which speaks VOLUMES for their sense of taste, humor, bacon, and booze. (In no particular order.) They’re literally having a “wedding of the undead”, and should be one of the most wildly chaotic bouts of geek-debauchery to hit the southwest in quite a while (Californications not included). These people hang with Frontalot, if that tells you anything. Hip-square off the charts.

The downside? Cost. I’m not exactly sitting on the spoils of past victories, so to warrant the flight (which, admittedly, is pretty cheap as fares go coast to coast), and the ancillary costs (booze) that come along (booze) with weekend hangs with this crowd (stuffed Daleks and booze), I need some real pushing to hand over the credit card. I dig these folks, and I know I’ll have a good time, even stag, but…we are in a recession, and that money could go towards a lot of other things I like to waste my earnings on.

So I call upon thee, my Legion, for some discussion, pros and cons, offers to post bail, offers to come with (and I’d really be down with that idea), anything you can contribute. I don’t want to be the guy who promised he may sort-of-maybe-try-to-make-it, and then bail, without good reason, and by the same token, I don’t want to miss a good experience with supremely dork-cool people because I’m hung up on money, which I really HATE to even concern myself with.

Thots?

#2

Don’t forget you need to give the happy couple a gift too…

Personally I’d say if you can…do it…weddings are usually awesome anyway, and this one sounds like a total one of a kind type of event, and you’ll probably regret more NOT going then you will tightening your money belt for a few months :slight_smile:

#3

I missed going to the Origins Gaming convention this year because I was low on funds. On the other hand, I’ve been going for the past 15 years, so it’s not like I don’t know what I’m missing.
For you on the other hand, this sounds like a once in a lifetime event. Unless your friends are planning on doing this every year, you should really go.

Also, I REALLY want to see the video and pictures from the event. All of us here will be living vicariously through you, so I expect you to share. :slight_smile:

#4

Well, for free accommodations, there’s always home exchange.

#5

Sounds like the kind of thing that’s hard to put a price tag on. I’m still kicking myself over not going to the GWC International Meetup this year. And, all respect, it wasn’t nearly such a prop-heavy, once-in-lifetime event.

#6

True…this has the makings of a Carrot-Top-meets-Gallagher-meets-Tom-Waits kind of vibe. Maybe I should take up a “Live Vicariously Through Me” collection, and I’ll wear a top-hat camera to capture all the debauchery.

#7

If you can make it work, financially… In fact, isn’t that the whole reason not to work a minimum wage job 20 hours a week—so you can live a life that includes stuff like this?

#8

Well, I knew I wasn’t going to hear any advisement to the contrary from you lot, so – tickets bought, undead chaos imminent.

I’ll look into picking up a flip-cam or the like to try and capture our collective descent into ruin, such as it is. (Somewhere between Phoenix and Tucson, I’m pretty sure you will soon find the towns of Sodom and Gomorrah, Arizona…)

#9

When in doubt, Revelry trumps all.