For 29 years, local fen have gathered on Friday night, in bars, pubs, clubs and restaurants, to meet, to laugh, to swap news, to play games, to plot and scheme, and even, a few times, to court ( Read more... )

[Copied from my posting to Yahoo!Groups and my FRED mailing list ( Read more... )

It is a testament to how far FRED has rebuilt since its dying days, that even though the Guests of Honour from NW-B5 didn't show, we still had eight people (as many seats as I had asked for).... and we still had a fun time, overall ( Read more... )

If you haven't gotten the mailouts, I figured I'd let people know about the latest Special Event regarding a little sci-fi pub night that's getting bigger these days ( Read more... )

As one of my many attempts to improve the situation that FRED is currently in (which is a little better than when I started taking it to Boston Pizza, but not anywhere that I could rest on the egoboo given me at VCon), I've decided that some promotional art is needed. So I've gone to the relevant Yahoo!groups, and now I'm asking here. Basically, we ( Read more... )

I've noticed a lot more stress this season, and the words of well-wishing have not come so readily to me of late. I'm not sure if it's the storm, or the not-quite-a-war (I notice no radios have playing John Lennon's "So this is Christmas" this year, at least not in my part of Canada), or my disorganization catching up with me, or a sense of ( Read more... )

I'm turning the sci-fi pub night I inherited (Forget Reality Enjoy Drinking) into a Festivus party on Friday December 22nd. While there will still be an organized-fandom theme to things (Particularly the Airing of the Grievances), I'd be happy to see any friends of mine willing to have some food and drinks and get a little silly while occupying ( Read more... )

Hoo-boy. What a ride it has been. There is still a lot to sort out -- and soon, it seems.

Well, I'm sure you all want to know about the Hallowe'en season. I didn't get to go to all I wanted, but I was, at least, able to attend einspein's birthday part on Friday. It was nice to finally see her new place, looks very nice, and the neighbourhood looks like it ( Read more... )

Well, the Thing That Was Neither FRED Nor BIFF, But Something In Between went very well. An exact head count eluded Greg and myself, but easily over 25 people showed up. A pretty good turnout for a BIFF, as I understand, and certainly well over what FRED's been doing of late in attendance. That said, there were enough veteran fen with words of ( Read more... )

FRED was pretty good last night. We seem to be able to keep a stable, rotating turnout of 3-4 folks, not anywhere in the ballpark of the days of yore, but whenever one stalwart doesn't make it, that's when another can. Now, the trick is to get people coming in from the cold. It helps that Garth's on board -- indeed, today was BCSFAzine distro night ( Read more... )