This year’s Connecticon was amazing. We met some great people, and partied hard! Unfortunately for my site, I lost about 50% of my photos in a horrible memory card accident. I will be trying my hardest to get a new camera for our next convention, Otakuthon, in August.

I do have the surviving pictures, and will be uploading them shortly!

UPDATE!

The photo gallery has been uploaded! Check it out here: http://fleathemagician.com/coppermine/thumbnails.php?album=28

Shortly after Posting about going to PAX East, my life got sent into a bit of a tailspin. One of my best friends died while I was at the convention. The weekend after that I had obligations to staff Anime Boston (which is why there was no coverage from that convention this year). Shortly after that, my godmother passed away. Then my mom and I were forced out of our home and had to move (which thankfully went smoothly thanks to some great friends, many of whom have helped out with the site). The last bit of news that hit my family hard was the death of my grandmother on May 27th.

With all this pain and suffering, I am looking forward to happier times in the form of Connecticon (Connecticut, July 9-11), Otakuthon (Montreal, Aug 13-15) and Another Anime Convention (New Hampshire, Oct 15-17).

Our GRAND RE OPENING will be for CONNECTICON! I just confirmed our Hotel reservations for the weekend and we are ready to go!

Check out our CONNECTICON 2007, CONNECTICON 2008 and CONNECTICON 2009 galleries, and we hope to see you there!

-Flea

Connecticon has come to an end, and I think we can all agree that it was a great time. Our photo gallery will be up soon for you all to enjoy. And thanks to our ace reporter Phil, we have some very special interviews with some of the comic and webcomic guests from the convention, so keep on the lookout for those in the near future.

Congratulations to the lucky people who received some of the first FleaTheMagician.com merchandise which included dog tags and a pretty bitching blow up shark (seen above)

Some special shout outs to the entire nerdfit crew, sketched out life, and everyone we got to meet at the convention, it was a great time!

If you would like to trade links, please contact me at TSFlea@gmail.com or post here, I would love to affiliate with you!

Connecticon may be over, but there is much more in store. Check back for our webcomic interviews, photo galleries, and in November ANOTHER ANIME CONVENTION takes New Hampshire on an epic quest!

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Connection is this weekend and I could not be more excited! We’re going to party hard. As always keep an eye out for us, and stop by all of the Nerdfit.com events too because those guys are awesome.

Otakon was great. Lots of photos were taken, and balloons were blown up! Congratulations to those who got the Penguin and the Dog Tags. I’ll have more at Connecticon.

Just click on the banner at the top of this post (or HERE) to see 140 photos from the con. If you see yourself and want me to add contact information to your photo, just email me at tsflea at gmail com and let me know.

We have just offically been granted press access for Otakon 2009 this July. Get ready Otakon, we’re coming!

In all honesty, AB has been lacking in the fun department. Friday came and went, we only took about 20 pictures. Con is a snoozefest. Room (hot window) parties is(are) where it’s at. We’re going to see if we can do better for Saturday. I WANT to have fun at this convention, I really do. So I’m going to con as hard as I can, and maybe I’ll be able to keep myself awake past midnight.

I had the privilege of going to see Lady GaGa and Kelly Clarkson (with host Blake Lewis) at a special “private” grammy party at the House Of Blues in Boston, MA. I was in the front, but I was too busy enjoying the show to see that my camera was on the wrong setting. I’ve got over 100 pictures, but they’re not all great.

The show was amazing. I went for Kelly Clarkson, but I came out a HUGE GaGa fan and I can not stop listening to her. I wish she would have done a song WITH Kelly, but it was amazing regardless.

A direct link to the photo gallery is here: http://fleathemagician.com/coppermine/thumbnails.php?album=21

FleaTheMagician.com has been DENIED a press badge for Anime Boston. We will still be covering it, but it MAY be our last year unless something awesome happens to make us change our minds. We will however be (respectfully) stepping up our advertising efforts at the convention. Flyers, PRIZES and more.

All the photos by Flea are up HERE. There are about 300 of them so check it out! All the photos that Fish took will be up within the next couple of days, so keep checking back.

Edit: Update! 360 New photos uploaded, all taken by Fish. Check them out HERE. (His pictures start on the bottom row)