OK, reading the #sf35 tag on Twitter is really making me regret missing the Thon. (An event that I've never attended as an active Twitter user.) Thanks a LOT, derspatchel.

Next year.

(Actually, am getting a lot of personal poo-poo sorting done today, the previous post being evidence of. But still, it sounds like a hell of a lineup this year. La.)

Work is work. There's stuff worth talking about but nothing I'd want to blog about; so goes working for oneself. The overall status of Appleseed and my relationship with it remains stable.

I want to finish the next Gameshelf before PAX, which affords me another five weeks. I've put a lot of work into it (as have many friends), but my motivation ( Read more... )

This is my first year since 2002 when the lead-up to noon on President's Day Eve does not see me establishing my nest in the theater, waiting for the 24-hour Boston SF Film Festival to start. The Thon is exercise in endurance unbearable without friends, and while I have friends in attendance, this year all my past Starship Thon berthmates are ( Read more... )

Do I want to go to the Thon this year?

I had a great time. Thanks to xartofnothingx, daerr and kyroraz for joining me this year, as well as the N hundred of you other crazy people.

Recap: ( I watch 13 movies in 24 hours, surrounded by SF film geeks, and tell you about it. )

The plan is to be in line with xartofnothingx at 10am ( Read more... )

Only two more weeks n change before the 2009 Boston Sci-Fi movie marathon, prezint's day weekend. This year's theme is Aliens Attack! The lineup's been announced, and derspatchel has written up a fine summary of it. (When's the last time they've announced the full line-up in January ( Read more... )

The shorts this year were a mixed bag, as usual. This was the first one that the whole audience liked, an antidote to the incomprehensible this-r-serious-film short that preceded it.

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Meh, rest of thon not so good ( Read more... )

It appears that I shall be going to the thon with daerr and xartofnothingx. Yayyy! A veteran and a newbie, respectively, so this will be a good time. I know some of y'all're planning on attending too, and I look forward to seeing you there. (Are the seats up in the balcony still from the 19th Century? If so I think we'll stick to the ground level ( Read more... )