When my husband I checked into the Galveston Island Hilton, we were there for birding. However, we noticed that Oni-Con X was going on at the convention center next door. "Cool," we said to one another, "Let's check it out if we have time tomorrow." I pulled up the website in the hotel room (and let me tell you something guys, this hotel charges $10 a day PER DEVICE for the internet, next time we go we're staying somewhere else) and found major guests listed that we had never heard of. That was expected, since we both know nothing of anime. However, world of mouth was that there was a little something for every kind of geek over there, so I went to look for the listing of the dealers and who was in artist's alley. Nothing guys, there was NOTHING like that on the website. So I went to look at the schedule of events and you had to sign on to Google Documents for that. Really? I mean REALLY? What convention does that? Apparently Oni-Con does. I looked at the admission prices and $30 a head for Saturday attendance is a tad steep, considering they won't list what's over there so one can make an informed decision about attendance. Still, we were thinking about it, until we were kept up half the night by running, screaming anime fans. Not to mention the fool jumping up and down on the bed upstairs. Some were even waaaaaaay down on the seawall acting loud and stupid and I could hear them from my hotel room. I have been at Comic Con International in San Diego where there were 150,000 attendees and they were quieter than the little inconsiderate idiots attending Oni-Con X. I was really tempted, when we got up at 5:30am to run up and down the halls and scream like they were doing to me at 2am, but I behave better than that. I am all about having fun at conventions, but you don't have that fun at the expense of other people. Please contain all of the yelling, screaming, bed jumping and running to regular hours, oh, I'll say midnight, I'm not unreasonable. If you feel the need to run amok, go over to the convention center and knock yourselves out. Another option is for the Hilton to designate some floors as convention floors, so the mayhem is limited to those floors, but apparently they didn't do that, so all of the other guests who were there suffered. Also, talking loudly at the elevator about the people attending the other business convention going on at the convention center was pretty classless. Particularly when you are standing there in full goofy anime gear. I can just imagine what the business people thought about you, special snowflake. Speaking of full on goofy anime gear . . . the costumes the attendees were wearing (and most of them were wearing costumes) were hilariously primo. I would have gone over there and stood outside the convention center and taken photos of them all afternoon if the little bastards hadn't kept me up half the night. I particularly loved one guy whose top half was in some kind of purple dinosaur costume with his tail sticking out from his trenchcoat. So kids, next time mom and dad let you out of their house to go an anime convention for the weekend, remember that there are other people there besides your sparkly unicorn self who don't enjoy your LARPing at 2am. Dear God, I'm a geek and I was offended! I can just imagine what the regular hotel guests thought.

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