Interesting facts for foreign conrunners: at the moment there is only one guy amongs the Finnish Finncon runners. All other committee members are women.

Atorox-palkinto for the best short story has 11 male, 9 female, and 1 male-female pair in the winner list. But we can't forget that Johanna Sinisalo won the prize 7 times (and Pasi Jääskeläinen ( Read more... )

Looks like Lois enjoyed her stay in Finland ( Read more... )

Lois McMaster Bujold, Liz Williams and Ipa from the Finnish SF fandom will be the GOHs for Finncon 2012 (site only in Finnish at the moment)! I'm already looking forward to next year even though this year's Finncon isn't yet over :D ( Read more... )

I did mean to catch up with various dramas yesterday evening, but then I noticed that it's Mafia night (=Helsinki SF Fandom Pub Gathering), and after thinking about it a while, decided to go there instead, since it's been ages since I last visited. And a good thing I did, since I had a great night chatting with old friends about all kinds of stuff ( Read more... )

It's official. I am arranging a Johnny's fanmeet in this Summer's Finncon/Animecon. *scared* :D

Seeing how people in the helpvera community managed to collect almost 20.000 dollars in less than a week to help Vera Nazarian (norilana) has done a lot to help restore my faith in humanity ( Read more... )

I'm writing this on my hotel's TV screen/extremely clunky keyboard combination, but since I paid for it already, I might as well use it :P. The hotel itself is very nice and right in the centre of Tampere, only a few minutes walk away from Tampere-talo (where the con is held) or Telakka which has the evening party ( Read more... )

Hee! After I got back from my holiday, I could finally confirm that I will be able to attend Finncon-Animecon 2008 in Tampere later this month. Now I just have to try to find a room at some hotel for the weekend, since I couldn't make a reservation before I knew how long I would be able to stay :P ( Read more... )

I visited the local SF mafia after a really long while (1,5 years, I think). I guess the funniest thing was that exactly the same faces were there and even the bartentenders still remembered what I used to drink!

I had a very good time chatting with various people I know. If only that would be all. At some point tabby_stardust and I started talking about fanfic ( Read more... )