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March 8, 2017 Trae Dorn Con Scene, Conventions, Cosplay, Elite Con

Elite Con’s Cosplay Ban Is Causing the Internet to Flip Out

Elite Con is a tiny, one day collectors’ show scheduled for this Sunday, March 12th, in Tampa Florida. It’s a

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March 7, 2017 Trae Dorn Ben Fritzsching, Con Scene, Conventions, STX Brazos Valley Comic Con

Guests from STX Brazos Valley Comic Con Still Haven’t Been Paid, Organizer Ben Fritzsching Remains Silent

About a month ago we reported that some guests from STX Brazos Valley Comic Con (or Brazos Valley STX Comic

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March 6, 2017 Trae Dorn Anime Fan Fest, Con Scene, Convention Scene, Otaku Magazine

New Jersey’s ‘Anime Fan Fest’ 2017 Has Been Cancelled, Is Apparently a ‘Major Bummer’

Well, mark another con in the cancellation file. Otaku Magazine’s Anime Fan Fest was originally scheduled for April 22-23, 2017

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March 6, 2017 Trae Dorn Con Scene, Conventions, Phoenix Comicon

Phoenix Comicon Sends Out a Third Party Survey, Accidentally Lets Things Get Weird

It’s not uncommon practice for a convention to maintain a mailing list to stay in contact with their attendees and

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March 2, 2017 Trae Dorn Con Scene, Conventions, Lebanon MEGA Con

Missouri’s Lebanon MEGA Con 2017 Cancelled One Month Before Event

Originally scheduled for March 31st-April 2nd, it appears that Lebanon, MO based Lebanon MEGA Con has unfortunately been cancelled. Organizers

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February 28, 2017 Trae Dorn Con Scene, Conventions, Emerald City Comicon, Tom Taylor

Comic Writer Tom Taylor Cancels Emerald City Comicon Appearance, Will No Longer Do U.S. Based Cons

Current writer of Marvel’s All New Wolverine comic Tom Taylor has canceled his appearance at this week’s Emerald City Comicon.

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February 15, 2017 Trae Dorn Angry Goat Productions, Con Scene, Conventions, Cosplay Unplugged Los Angeles, Ray Jelley

Angry Goat Productions Quietly Cancels Their Sailor Moon Themed Events

Update (3/31): The event appears to have been uncancelled. Update (5/9): And it looks like Angry Goat Productions has re-canceled

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February 10, 2017 Trae Dorn BayCon, Con Scene, Conventions, Jon Del Arroz

Jon Del Arroz Blames Not Getting Invited to BayCon 2017 on Politics, Despite Being Invited for 2018

Author Jon Del Arroz has made regular appearances at the San Francisco Bay Area conventon BayCon for the last few

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February 10, 2017 Trae Dorn Chris Bradley, Con Scene, Conventions, Kerrigan Mahan, Power Rangers

Kerrigan Mahan, His Agent, and How to Accidentally Bait a Journalist (UPDATED)

A very different article originally appeared in this space. We chose to rewrite it after more information was made available

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Strum your sitar and prepare to launch all Eagles as Miles and Charlie once more become the Space Scamps as they make a second trip to the moon for three more episodes of Gerry Anderson’s ‘Event Horizon meets Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace’ show Space 1999. Miles is now worried he has created a monster by showing Charlie this show, and in doing so they get to talk about psychedelic trippiness and Kano’s obsession with Computer in ‘Black Sun,’ Christopher Lee (although he’s totally phoning it in) and the dispatch of a weaselly middle manager in ‘Earthbound,’ and then with ‘The Troubled Spirit’ Halloween comes a little early and it’s probably more spooky than whatever we’ll end up doing for our Halloween episode…

EPISODES DISCUSSED:
00:11:32 Black Sun
00:34:20 Earthbound
00:58:40 The Troubled Spirit

Talking Points Include: More Space 1999, Death Stranding, a trip to Scotland, the science is impossible, Moon Base Alpha’s limited resources, British Pessimism vs. American Gung-Ho, Gene Roddenberry would never, Hard SF has a tendency to go full magic weirdness, Bohemian Rhapsody deserves it’s rep, Christopher Lee is phoning it in, Simmons is the David Brent in Space, cowardly heroes, our brave explorers enjoying shouting MMMMUUUUUUUUTAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNT like in ‘Mission of the Darians,’ Charlie repeats a Johnny Byrne joke from the last episode, awesome sitar music this is the most Halloween episode we’ve done for the show, a wicked burn from Charlie’s old teacher Mr. Jafferji, is Moonbase Alpha a liminal space? M. Night Shyamalan films and surprisingly… some Star Trek.

[ Additional Show Notes ]

Music by Alfred Etheridge-Nunn. Read Miles’s blog or Charlie’s blog.

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