KT's Mephit FurMeet 2002 Photos
Friday, Aug. 30, 2002
- cafekarina.jpg - This sign was posted on a door across the atrium from mine. Continental breakfast for MFM members!
- jugular-lobby.jpg - Jugular Jaguar was the first one there!
- jaggybackride.jpg - Jugular clowns around in the lobby.
- oracle.jpg, oracleinside.jpg - The Oracle. A stained-glass canopy for having weddings under. Has a great echo if you stand right in the center!
- pocky-krystal.jpg - This furry is too intent on reading comics and eating Pocky and Krystal burgers to notice that the Sun has FALLEN OUT OF THE SKY AND IS BURNING ITS WAY DOWN THROUGH THE HOTEL!!
- doggie-redfox.jpg - Redfox skritches a doggie. Arf!
- modelplane.jpg - Damnbear and Redfox put together a model plane.
- modelcopter.jpg - There was also a model copter being built, by a very talented fox plushie!
- funtiger.jpg - The model plane was a Fun Tiger! So Redfox asked me to draw a tiger in the cockpit. I drew the image on paper and cut it out, and he glued it onto the plane. I made one copy for each side, even!
- firedrill1.jpg - The first false alarm of MFM 2002! Furries filed out of the building in single file in an orderly fashion.
- firedrill2.jpg - A car full of non-furries tries to make its way past the fuzzy crowd.
- ryngs-outside.jpg - Guest of Honor Ryngs Raccoon shows off his fursuit during the fire drill.
- 2-ryngs-outside.jpg - 2 the Gryphon and Ryngs chat during the fire drill.
- drabek-outside.jpg - Drabek, whom I know from the Texas Area Furry Friends mailing list, stands outside during the fire drill.
- firetrucks.jpg, sorry-false-alarm.jpg - Then the firetrucks showed up! The hotel manager had to tell them it was just a false alarm.
- skunklounge.jpg - The mephity sign on the Horsebrutality Suite (which, btw, is a pun on "Hospitality Suite". Now you know.)
- jugular-ahem.jpg, jugular-tada.jpg - Jugular Jaguar, ladies and gentlemen: "Ahem... RAAAAR!!"
- jugularjaguarcon.jpg - Jugular Jaguar Con is now open! Jugular handed out badges of his own.
- jaguarattack.jpg - I got tickled by a jaguar and other fursuiters! ACK!!
- tj-video.jpg - TJ Coyote videotapes me taking a picture of him videotaping me taking a picture of him etc. etc...
- cutter-kagelook.jpg - Cuttercoon shows off his newly shaved and bleached hairdo.
Saturday, Aug. 31, 2002
- quasiskunk.jpg - Quasi Skunk wearing his Tacoma Skunks jersey.
- fsp-bigmuzzle.jpg - The Fursuit Parade starts! A dog with a really, really big muzzle goes by.
- fsp-otherjaguar.jpg - A jaguar that isn't Jugular, despite the resemblance.
- fsp-foxie.jpg - A foxie in the parade!
- fsp-robinhood.jpg - More fursuiters go by, including a vulpine Robin Hood.
- fsp-purplebunny.jpg - A purple-haired bunny with big anime eyes.
- fsp-bayne.jpg - Bayne the demonic-looking unicorn. (His horn seems to be missing though.)
- fsp-butterscotch.jpg - Butterscotch Vixen.
- fsp-doggies.jpg - Doggies! And some sort of big cat.
- fsp-tjcoyote.jpg - TJ Coyote loves to be photographed!
- fsp-lion.jpg - A lion in the Fursuit Parade.
- fsp-farmerqoon.jpg, whoopsflash.jpg - The sign advertising Midwest Furfest, and a little lesson in how to photograph signs: If you're using a flash, stand to one side and get it at an angle, like in the Farmer Qoon picture. If you photograph it straight on, the flash will wash out the text, as seen in the Jugular Jaguar picture.
- fsp-kangaroo.jpg - In the Fursuit Parade, a kangaroo goes hopping by.
- fsp-tiger-jag.jpg - A tiger greets Jugular Jaguar, who has a plastic bag full of Eclipse breathmints, which he's preparing to throw around.
- photo-lineup.jpg - The fursuiters line up in one of the ballrooms for a photo shoot.
- photo-tj.jpg - There were so many fursuiters that they couldn't all stand against the wall, so TJ Coyote and others started hunkering down on the floor in front.
- photo-breathmints.jpg - Jugular with his bag of breathmints. He went around throwing them at everybody! Ya s'pose he's making some kind of statement? (I saved a few, and they actually came in handy after I ate tuna!)
- photo-skritch.jpg - While chewing on a plush bone, the big-nosed dog gets a nice skritch from the other canids.
- photo-cuddle.jpg - Cuddlepuppies!
- photo-wolves.jpg - Two very nice wolf costumes can be seen in this shot.
- photo-meee.jpg - At the photo shoot, Jugular makes a play for attention. "Forget the rest of 'em, take pictures of ME!"
- photo-gotvixen.jpg - Butterscotch Vixen in her "got vixen?" T-shirt.
- paintingthemat.jpg - Two people in the parking lot painting the big Twister mat for the Fursuit Olympics.
- mat-twocolors.jpg - Two out of four colors of paw-shaped spots have already been laid down on the Twister mat.
- matstencils.jpg - Spray paint and stencils used to paint the Twister mat.
- honk-amorous.jpg - Bumper sticker in the parking lot: Pepe le Pew says, "Honk if you're feeling amorous!"
- tiger-tire.jpg - A very nice painted tiger design on a spare tire cover in the parking lot.
- mfm-loriana.jpg - Loriana at MFM.
- whatchareadin.jpg - A big white doggie reads over his friend's shoulder.
- pizza-2-ryngs.jpg - 2 and Ryngs at the Pizza Feed. More furries await pizza in the background.
- pizza-jakebe.jpg - Jakebe (in ear-hat) enjoys pizza and chats with friends. Meanwhile, the line of unfed furries grows longer and longer...
Sunday, Sept. 1, 2002
- dugaul.jpg - DuGaul, from the Texas Area Furry Friends list, looking menacing! (He was on Security.)
- taff-lunch.jpg - Texas Area Furry Friends get-together: Bill, DuGaul, Drabek and I had lunch at the hotel restaurant.
- masq-sk-1.jpg - SK-1 emcees the Masquerade.
- masq-diloph1.jpg - First act of the Masquerade: A Dilophosaurus menaces the audience!
- masq-diloph2.jpg - Though extinct for millions of years, the Dilophosaurus still walks among us.
- masq-diloph3.jpg, masq-diloph4.jpg - But in this modern world... leash laws are strongly enforced. So the jaguars come out to Walk The Dinosaur. o/` Open the door, get on the floor! Everybody walk the dinosaur! o/`
- gotvixen.jpg, gotvixe.jpg - Butterscotch Vixen performs in the Masquerade.
- masq-chasevixen.jpg - Butterscotch gets chased around by Quasi Skunk, Tyger Cowboy and BJ Buttons. Furries Who Love Vixens Too Much.
- masq-ham.jpg - Ham, the astronaut chimp, sings "Fly Me To The Moon".
- masq-ferrets.jpg - While introducing the next act, SK-1 is bothered by ferrets.
- masq-whack.jpg, masq-toss.jpg - So he grabs a mallet and plays Whack-A-Ferret!
- masq-yaever1.jpg, masq-yaever2.jpg - Jugular Jaguar impersonates the King, singing a lesser-known Elvis track called "Didja ever get one of them days?"
- masq-saxes.jpg, masq-tc.jpg - Tyger Cowboy performs "Bedbugs" by Squirrel Nut Zippers. "Children I hope you sleep tight / And don't let the bedbugs bite..."
- foxtaurshirt.jpg - Chakat Goldfur shows off his airbrushed foxtaur T-shirt.
- backoff-fanboy.jpg - A sexy skunk T-shirt. "Back off "FANBOY" get your own GIRLFREIND" [sic].
- oracle-lan.jpg - A LAN party under the Oracle.
- matchgame.jpg - The Match Game furry celebrity panel: 2 the Gryphon, Jim Groat, Ryngs Raccoon, Qume (in March Hare outfit), Tahamaki, and PandaGuy.
- maggie.jpg, kittybutt.jpg - Maggie Kitten. Dig them big kittycat eyes!
- tentails.jpg - Loriana and Aerofox show off their ten tails (five apiece)!
- ryngs.jpg, ryngs-tail.jpg - Ryngs Raccoon in fursuit in the Garden Court.
- ryngs-camera.jpg - Ryngs views a picture of himself on someone's digital camera. Cute!
- skunkmaid.jpg - Quasi Skunk in a cute French maid outfit. Ooh la la!
- bj-hug.jpg - BJ Buttons gets a hug from the skunk maid.
- freshtail.jpg - Butterscotch Vixen decided to help the skunk maid freshen up by attaching air fresheners to her tail!
- bj-skunk.jpg, bj-out.jpg - BJ has a run-in with a skunk with less of a sense of hygiene, with disastrous results.
- sonicblu.jpg, sonicblu-badges.jpg - Sonic Blu, and a close-up of his con badges. He's 1/2 desert hedgehog, 1/4 iguana, and 1/4 gila monster.
Monday, Sept. 2, 2002
- tailendofcon.jpg - Furries playing around in the lobby the day after the con.
- withfoxoncart.jpg - Snowie and a fox on a luggage cart.
- thepool.jpg - During the con, people wandered around wondering where the pool was. Some doubted there even was a pool. But I saw it with my own eyes! It was outside, around the back.