First Live Fan Tribute to Subspace Rhapsody
On Labor Day weekend I managed to score a seat at a deeply historic live Star Trek event – no, not the Bell Riots (thank goodness) – I was at the …
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Rare 1980s Sci-Fi Con Documentary
Note: I never imagined I would be posting TWO “rare sci-fi convention” videos within weeks of each other, but here we are! So here’s the story… In the fall of …
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Rare 1980s Sci-Fi Con Footage
Note: this resided in my VHS collection for 33 years before I finally transferred it into a digital format in December of 2019. I am tremendously happy to share it …
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My Game of Thrones Ending
This post covers what I expected for the Game of Thrones Ending and was written between airings of episodes 3 and 4 of Game of Thrones, Season 8. We just …
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Review of AnachroCon 2019
On Friday I drove over to the airport Hilton near Hartsfield-Jackson to purchase a weekend pass to AnachroCon (www.anachrocon.org), a small historical fiction convention held in the Atlanta metro area …
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I Survived the 2018 Dragon Con Parade
This is a post about hygiene, playing cruel tricks on your friends, and the Dragon Con parade. Let’s begin with that last one. This year marked the 13th year that …
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Robby Hilliard Awarded 2018 Reinhardt Award
This weekend my friend Robby Hilliard was presented with the prestigious Hank Reinhardt Fandom Award, ostensibly for his service to Dragon Con’s Filk Track where he has served as Director, but …
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Filk Banner Taken at Dragon Con
Update: the banner from the 2018 Dragon Con Filk track has been recovered. This year the folks who run the Dragon Con Filk track suffered a most grievous loss. Some …
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26 Things Not to Touch at Dragon Con
After dancing dangerously close to telling Dragon Con to “get off my lawn” over the past few years I have turned a corner and am now finding joy in people …
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How I Stopped Freaking Out About the Atlanta Comic Con
This past Saturday I was lured downtown by my friend Shawn, who insisted that we needed to check out the new Atlanta Comic Con. I first heard about the event …
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