I try to keep tabs on the genre conventions coming through Dallas, and yet I completely dropped the ball about the Texas Fear Fest FailThe short of it is: the con organizer twice planned some big horror con (mainly themed around the Friday the 13th franchise) and twice the event has failed to happen. This time he canceled right before the show ( Read more... )

Been off and on watching fallout from the Twicon demise. While nobody has claimed their spine is leaking, we do have plenty of other drama.

Now Becky is claiming they are under a gag order not to talk about this situation. My guess is the proper phrase is "under the advisement of council we cannot comment". I expect their lawyer does not want ( Read more... )

Awww, the Twihards had their first total failcon...

Not that it is that surprising, but Twicon has canceled both it's shows. With a big announcement on it's website:

In hind sight, it was pretty obvious things were going downhill for these guys. In February, they had to move their Toronto show to Ottawa due to the G20 Conference happening that ( Read more... )

Just got this idea for a filk this monring, And I think this will be my last post on the subject of FedCon ( Read more... )

My name is Michael Nelson, and I am part of the Executive Committee for FenCon (with an N), a Dallas-based, non-profit, literary science fiction convention ( Read more... )

As promised, here's my Fandom Wank entry....

CANCELED!!!

I guess Sunday I'll be posting a wrapup for Fandom Wank....These guys offically make Flanvention look good.

The guys at ORAC have been watching the disaster of Fedcon unfold this morning. Aaron Douglas (aka Chief Tryol from new BSG) was promised as a guest earlier this week at the convention, but apparently he's not been able to contact anyone in charge at the show He goes as far as to say Creation knows how to run a con better OUCH ( Read more... )