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Earlier installments of this con report include Part I - Before, Part II - Friday, Part III - Saturday and Part IV - Sunday.

This fifth installment concludes my H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival convention report. It covers the aftermath of the event itself, and is mostly intended for people who know me, Lena and Joe, or those who enjoy looking of ( Read more... )

Earlier installments of this con report include Part I - Before, Part II - Friday, and Part III - Saturday. Part V is forthcoming. My apologies for the gap between part III and this one. Illness interrupted my "one installment per day" intentions.

No early events were scheduled Sunday, the third and final day of the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival. We ( Read more... )

I had intended to post the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival convention report blogs at the rate of one installment per day, then ended up getting sick. An ordinary cold evolved into a sinus infection.

Recovering now, and should post the last two installments of the con report in the next few days.

Earlier installments of this con report include Part I - Before and Part II - Friday. Parts IV and V are forthcoming.

Saturday morning we left the house before 8AM so we could get down to the Hollywood district by 8:30. Robert Price, who in addition to being one of two performers at the Cthulhu Prayer Breakfast is also a very close personal friend ( Read more... )

Part I of this con report can be found here. If you don't know who Mike, Joe, Lena and I are, read that first. Parts III through V are forthcoming.

Friday morning, we slept in a bit, and actually experienced a few hours of down time. We lounged around the house and enjoyed some great weather in the back yard.



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I'm breaking my convention report into several blog entries. The first is "Part I - Before," the name of which should make clear that it covers everything up to the actual beginning of the Film Festival on Friday afternoon.

Though the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival and CthulhuCon didn't officially start until Friday, "con weekend" started Tuesday for ( Read more... )

I've been preparing my blog report on the recent H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival, and have had to break it into several parts. So much happened. It's hard to keep everything straight, to remember the sequence of events, which people I met on which days.



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I've been way too busy during this year's H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival and CthulhuCon to blog, but I've posted lots of pictures and comments on Facebook so you can follow me there.

Mike Griffin on Facebook.

My wife Lena and I have had Joe Pulver aka notorious author and provocateur Joseph S. Pulver Sr., as well as Mike Davis of Lovecraft eZine ( Read more... )

No, I have not written three entire book reviews in under 24 hours.

I've been way behind on posting reviews of some of the books I've read, including some I finished reading months ago. This backlog was stressing me out! Some of the reviews were mostly written and just needed to be assembled. In other cases, handwritten notes just needed to be typed ( Read more... )