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January 17, 2017 Trae Dorn Comic Excitement Convention, Con Scene, Conventions

Comic Excitement Convention’s Flop and the Hubris of Man

You’d probably be forgiven for not knowing that “Comic Excitement Convention” (yes, that’s the actual name) took place this last

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January 16, 2017 Trae Dorn Calgary Expo, Honey Badgers, MRAs, The Mary Sue

Quick Honey Badger Brigade vs Calgary Expo & The Mary Sue Update

We wanted to post a quick update on the lawsuit MRA group “The Honey Badger Brigade” filed against Calgary Expo

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January 16, 2017 Trae Dorn Borough Con, Con Scene, Conventions

So Borough Con Really Could Use a Proofreader…

Look, I’ll be the first to admit that I know very little about Borough Con beyond the basics. I mean,

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January 15, 2017 Gen Prock Awesome Games Done Quick, Con Scene, Conventions, Games Done Quick

Awesome Games Done Quick Raises Over $2 Million for Prevent Cancer Foundation

For the past week, buttons have been mashed, sleep has been lost, donations have rolled in, and records have been

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January 12, 2017 Trae Dorn Comic Outlaws, Con Scene, Conventions, Mike Wheeler, Outlaw Comicon

Outlaw Comicon, Failing at Social Media, and How Not to Deal With Guests

For reasons beyond me, talking to the public seems to be beyond the skill set of a surprisingly high number

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January 10, 2017 Celeste Startwin Con Scene, Conventions, Evercon, Harassment, Knotty Cobbler, Scott Windorski

Artist Scott Windorski Banned From Evercon for Harassment, Smears Event Organizer

This last weekend was the 17th Evercon, one of Wisconsin’s most established small gaming conventions. This was a historic year

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January 4, 2017 Trae Dorn Con Scene, Conventions, Geek Expos, Marvelous New Years Eve, Stan Lee

Marvelous New Years Eve Was Apparently Terrible, Geek Expos Closing Shop

Over this last weekend Geek Expos’s “Marvelous New Years Eve (With Special Guest Stan Lee)” was held in Dallas, TX…

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January 3, 2017 Trae Dorn Con Scene, Conventons, Phoenix Comicon

Phoenix Comicon Now Requiring Volunteers to Pay Membership Dues

One of the big legal quandaries facing for-profit conventions is the quasi-legality of a for-profit business using an unpaid, volunteer

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December 19, 2016 Trae Dorn Anime Apocalypse, Con Scene, Conventions

Anime Apocalypse Officially Calls It Quits

Well, it’s official – Illinois based anime convention Anime Apocalypse has called it quits. Last week, the convention chair Corey

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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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