There's a sci-fi convention in town this weekend, so I went for a day. I hadn't been to a regular SF con in a long time, and even those were Trek-centered. It's always more fun to be there with friends, so it's tough to compare directly to this one where I was alone. Even so ( Read more... )

Just got back from Mephit FurMeet, which continues to be my favorite furry convention. I ran the writing track this year, with help from Phil Geusz and Phil Eggerding (Cirrel) doing some of the events. Around 10-15 people showed up for each writing event. I appreciate that, given how visual art and fursuiting remain the obvious, popular parts of ( Read more... )

I flew to Memphis and did writing talks and read "The Eye of Argon" and saw Phil and Hazel and Linnaeus and Fulminar, and got cool art and did some writing and got a story idea and played card games and computer games and found a $20 and got free pizza and ice cream and met Stargazer and Flux at a Japanese restaurant and got to wear a tail and hugged a ( Read more... )

At Mephit FurMeet 2007 I met up with slysquirrel and Phil again for long and bizarrely wide-ranging conversation; lots of fun. We recently discovered we all drive the same model of car. I also got to meet a few new people such as LinkWolf, Agius, and Fox. On Saturday we went to the very crowded Germantown Commissary, a Memphis barbecue. Maybe we could try a ( Read more... )

I spent Sunday night driving from Georgia to Virginia with multiple tails in my car ( Read more... )