the_dark_snack  and I had, overall, one of the best Fourth of July weekends we've ever had together. I had Friday through Monday off, so four days free was nice.

On Friday and Saturday we went to the "Days of the Dead" horror convention on the west side of Indy. Aside from seeing all the b-list celebrities and such, we saw a screening of the documentary "I Am ( Read more... )

Penguicon was a week ago, but hadn't gotten around to posting about it yet.

Anyway, the_dark_snack  and I headed up on Thursday (April 28) so that we could relax and take our time. We headed on up to Lansing before turning towards Detroit so that we could go by an outlet mall (the con was at Troy, on the northside of the Detroit metro, anyway). Some flu-like ( Read more... )

Had a megabusy day today (Friday) with the first day of the local county fair which our paper covers thoroughly.

Tomorrow (Saturday) the_dark_snack  and I will spend the day at the Famous Monsters of Filmland Convention. Snack has already scouted it out, and she nearly literally ran into Tony Todd -- twice (guess she should stop saying his name three times). ( Read more... )