Now that it's up on their website, I have to believe that it's actually happening. I'm going to a convention - as a guest. Not a "you're on staff and we think you're a good choice to fill a hole on this panel" guest. A "we'd like you to come to our convention 'cause we've heard good things about you and think you'll be an asset to our party con" ( Read more... )

Barring an unexpected surge in votes for "none of the above", the 2011 World Science Fiction Convention will be held from August 17-21 in Reno, Nevada ( Read more... )

...Can be downloaded at http://www.interaction.worldcon.org.uk/atconpub.htm
It looks like the hoax issue (The Starboard Mutiny) isn't available here, which is a pity. Hopefully someone will toss it up on the web ( Read more... )

Maybe I can't take the sky from you. But I can blow you clean out of it if you don't clear my outer markers in the next 3.2 seconds.

One good thing about working cons as opposed to attending them: I remember to eat more often when I'm working.

I also have less trouble keeping my times and days straight when I have deadlines to keep me on track/course.

And you know it's going to be an interesting ride when Frank Wu says he's the moderator for the panel. But it was fun.

-M

There was a BayCon meeting yesterday. It was amusing.

I felt like Brad Pitt in Ocean's Eleven. I munched my way through the meeting. I had cherries (really good cherries), and fast food and chocolate (really good chocolate) and more cherries (really good cherries ( Read more... )

I was poking at the BayCon 04 programming grid and saw the following panel title:Penguinism in TV and Movies

Sadly, upon second glance, it was apparent that I had misread the text. The actual topic is: Paganism in TV and Movies.

Too bad, really. Though it does explain why I didn't see gridlore listed on the panel.

Johnson's Second Law: If, in the course of several months, only three worthwhile social events take place, they will all fall on the same evening ( Read more... )

Some people shouldn't drive when they're angry. Others shouldn't drink when they're depressed.

Me? I shouldn't think when I'm tired.
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