Adventures on the convention circuit. I’ve attended both video gaming and sci-fi/fantasy conventions as a guy who bought a ticket, a guy with stuff to sell, and finally and most dauntingly, a guy who speaks in public even though he’s mildly terrified to do so. These are those stories.
Surprise! New book! And probably (with apologies to Steven Moffat) not the one you’re expecting. Fatherhood, Fandom, and Fading Out is a book of essays, largely culled from this very blawg as well as from […]
Saturday night was the Tulsa Doctor Who Mini-Con, and during the same weekend Konsplosion was happening in Fort Smith (I only did a solitary panel on Sunday afternoon). Once again, in one weekend, I did […]
This year, in the Facebook groups for two local conventions that I support and attend, there were little blow-ups at the last minute that got under my skin a bit. In one case, an attendee […]
The 11th annual Oklahoma Video Game Exhibition (OVGE) has come and gone, and as has been the case since the first year of the show, I was there with goodies from my game collection for […]
Power UP! Today was a day of dusting, battery compartment cleaning, screen-cleaning and general getting-ready for this weekend’s OVGE event in Broken Arrow. Everything, even my finicky Coleco Donkey Kong Jr. tabletop, is ready for […]
That’s right, I’m going to just sit by the doorway and play video game music on my guitar, and you throw quarters into an upturned hat! Well, okay, so maybe not. Here’s what PDF Unplugged […]
GlitchCon is this weekend! August 1st through 3rd at the Springdale Holiday Inn. A few notes ahead of the show… Death panels! Well, okay, not really. I’m doing two panels Saturday night: at 7pm in […]
The whole schedule can be seen here, and it’s full of events that are smothered in awesomesauce and seasoned with a liberal sprinkling of amazeballs. For those curious, I thought I’d “zoom in” briefly on […]
