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The Gaylord National convention center and hotel comes off as one of the premieres “work horse” venues of the convention scene, hosting both Katsucon and MAGFest, two very popular and rather big conventions. But while the internet loves unleashing memes as to “I don’t know why the prices goes up every year!” complete with images […]
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MAGFest 2019 – Count Your Blessings, Gaylord
February 25th, 2019 
Ari Rockefeller 
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Another Anime Convention 2018 — “Life is a Highway” Was Not Meant to be Taken Literally
December 29th, 2018 Ari Rockefeller If you’ve become familiar with my way of writing these convention reviews for this website, you’ll know that I very much enjoy writing about every aspect that I experience as it applies to me. But it usually gets a glossing over from me since it’s just your typical road trip to a convention. It can’t […]
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Otakon 2018 — And We Were So Optimistic, Too
November 14th, 2018 Ari Rockefeller Man, listening to the last couple of episodes before the trip to Otakon are rather jarring in hindsight, don’t you think? I couldn’t quite explain it, personally, regardless of how much I look back on it, but I was jacked for Otakon more so than prior years.
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Zenkaikon 2018 – Pain is Just Normalcy Leaving the Body
August 15th, 2018 Ari Rockefeller It’s almost unheard of for a convention to cause me actual physical pain, but that’s precisely the theme of the convention this weekend. Not that it was entirely my fault…
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Otakon 2017 — A Capital Idea
April 18th, 2018 Ari Rockefeller I wouldn’t really think a convention like Otakon would have to go through “growing pains,” as it’s been around for over 20 years now. But that’s the situation we find ourselves in going forward. This was the first year of Otakon’s new/temporary home in Washington, DC, until the situation is ironed out with Baltimore. They’ve […]
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