Boston, MA Area GwJr's

Ahh. The age old debate.

I thought it was a Thanksgiving movie.

merphle wrote:

I thought it was a Thanksgiving movie.

You’re thinking of Corpse Bride

"What's This?" is on my Christmas song playlist

I say watch it both Holidays. Easter too.

Taharka wrote:

Ahh. The age old debate. :-D

Christmaween is all one holiday, anyway.

sometimesdee wrote:
Taharka wrote:

Ahh. The age old debate. :-D

Christmaween is all one holiday, anyway.

This is very true.

A performance of the soundtrack for Nightmare Before Christmas on October 31 is acceptable, since that’s when all the malls start playing Christmas music anyway.

I withdraw my objection.

Is the Extra Life stream at CIC being streamed today?

PAX East tickets are live

Came here to post that. I was en route to pick up my kid from school. Pulled over, hopped on the queue, then pulled over again when it was my turn.

For $215 total for the weekend I'm gonna try and get there on a press badge. Just got a hotel room which is a mile out and pricey enough for the duration of the weekend. I would be arriving Wednesday evening but probably too late for any sort of crawl.

Hoping I can get at least one other person in the room, but we'll see once the dust settles.

I'm currently in queue. Saturday is already showing as "Low" availability.

I just snagged 4 PAX tickets for myself, my wife, and a couple friends. Hopefully the 5th member of our travel group can get his without too much trouble.

Now to figure out where we're going to stay. My wife says she's done some research and has some hotel rewards hookups so I'll be leaving that to her...

Alright, I'm in for Friday (just me) & Saturday (me & my 3 kids, unless any of them don't want to attend).

And our 5th can't get a Saturday badge. Well dern. I guess one of us will have to find something else to do that day.

Vargen wrote:

And our 5th can't get a Saturday badge. Well dern. I guess one of us will have to find something else to do that day.

Probably my fault. After snagging two for each day, I grabbed two more for Fri and Sat, just in case.

ccesarano wrote:

For $215 total for the weekend I'm gonna try and get there on a press badge. Just got a hotel room which is a mile out and pricey enough for the duration of the weekend. I would be arriving Wednesday evening but probably too late for any sort of crawl.

Hoping I can get at least one other person in the room, but we'll see once the dust settles.

Good luck. I'm not even bothering, because I know I don't have as many listeners as they'd like. I tried and failed with NYCC.

Well, I don't know if the Powers That Be are gonna go that route, assuming they go at all (I know only Rabbit really attended last year), but I should be able to get a press badge as a writer from GWJ.

And if I can't then I guess I'm canceling that hotel room.

Decided to do Thurs/Fri. The weekend is way too crowded for me to enjoy it... and I may just sell the tickets anyway. I do this every year where I teeter. I think I want to like it more than I do.

Iridium884 wrote:

Decided to do Thurs/Fri. The weekend is way too crowded for me to enjoy it... and I may just sell the tickets anyway. I do this every year where I teeter. I think I want to like it more than I do.

I wondered about this too before buying my Sat ticket, but don't all days have the same number of tickets sold?

dewalist wrote:
Iridium884 wrote:

Decided to do Thurs/Fri. The weekend is way too crowded for me to enjoy it... and I may just sell the tickets anyway. I do this every year where I teeter. I think I want to like it more than I do.

I wondered about this too before buying my Sat ticket, but don't all days have the same number of tickets sold?

Yes, but maybe people come late on Thurs or don't stay as long as they do on Sat...... all I have is anecdotal thoughts that I've seen that the weekday crowds were smaller.

My wife snagged us four tickets for Friday, and one each for Saturday and Sunday. We’ll all be there as a family on Friday, and I’ll be soloing on Saturday.

I can never make the evening S&T. Anyone up for lunch or a scheduled meetup in the board game section sometime during the day?

I'll let you know once we're closer and I know if I can get a press badge or not.

ccesarano wrote:

Well, I don't know if the Powers That Be are gonna go that route, assuming they go at all (I know only Rabbit really attended last year), but I should be able to get a press badge as a writer from GWJ.

And if I can't then I guess I'm canceling that hotel room.

I wrote one article for GWJ; does that count?

But I came here to say something different:

Nintendo Switch pop-up store in construction at Natick Mall, 1st floor near Nordstrom.

Yup that's part of their annual Mall Tour or what not.

Also, we'll be at PAX Friday and Saturday next year.

I'll be there for certain, although as an Enforcer. If I'm not exhausted, or it isn't below zero, I'll try to join the S&T.

sometimesdee wrote:

Come hear me sing on December 9 in Wellesley? Please?

Sounds like fun!

Damn, I've been in MA all my life and I've never heard of a "bomb cyclone".

I'm in the western hills though, so it looks like not much for us out here. Good luck Boston friends!

d4m0 wrote:

Damn, I've been in MA all my life and I've never heard of a "bomb cyclone".

I'm in the western hills though, so it looks like not much for us out here. Good luck Boston friends!

It's the Mountain Dew X-Treme of winter weather events.