Emergency responders were forced to disperse a crowd along Piedmont Avenue this morning in a flashmob gone wrong. According to witnesses, a group of dancers wearing cardboard boxes shambled into the crosswalk to perform scenes from the 1978 musical film “Grease”.
Category: News
2016 Theme Presidential Debate
Cardboard*Con send us a nice letter today along with a $3 coupon to Applebee’s. From what we can tell this was their way of attempting to purchase our vote for their 7th annual event.
2015 Theme Sexy Senior Prom
Cardboard*Con made sent another mix tape to us last week along with a note asking us if we’d like to be their date to Senior Prom, but we won’t go unless YOU won’t go. You just might get lucky 😉
2014 Theme Come Sail Away
Reports are coming in that the Cardboard*Con Party On Committee held a surprise press conference last night in the parking lot of The Pink Pony, an adult dance club located due east of Atlanta’s tony Buckhead neighborhood, which likes to call itself the “Beverly Hills of the East”.
2012 Theme The Corrugation
Last night Cardboard*Con announced its third annual running of the cardboard. Here’s what they’ve shared:
Cardboard*Con 3 is expected to follow the a slightly different route from last year, as we will BEGIN on the OTHER side of Peachtree Street at Meehan’s Public House Downtown, from whence we shall begin our first PARADE!!
2011 Event Announced
Cardboard*Con returns to Atlanta again for another year of cardboard costuming! Thrill to the splendor of a convention without long lines or badge problems
We will start at the Hyatt, move to Marriott and then to Trader Vic’s in the basement of the Hilton!!
MIT Nerds Race Cardboats
Today a bunch of geeks up in Massachusetts launched their first-ever cardboard boat race!! These nerds have their own cute little newsletter and have written a long, long, long story about their cardboard regatta that may eat into your rum-drinking time. We advise that you just read our article, which steals the best part of their article and adds some gravitas to it, due to our powerful voice in the cardboard community.