Convention News

January 19, 2016 Trae Dorn Con Scene, Conventions, Yourminicon

Yourminicon Cancels Six Events Including Yourminicon Wisconsin

Yesterday we, probably for the first time ever, mentioned “YourminiCon Wisconsin” in a post. Well, anyone who saw that and

Convention News The Mega-Blog

January 18, 2016 Trae Dorn Con Scene, Conventions, TCE2, Titletown Comic and Entertainment Expo

Attendees Still Awaiting Refunds From Cancelled Titletown Comic & Entertainment Expo

Last fall we reported on the financial straits and eventual cancellation of the October Titletown Comic & Entertainment Expo (TCE2).

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January 5, 2016 Trae Dorn Anime California, Anime Midwest, Anime ZAP, AnimeCon.org, Animinneapolis, Chrono LC, Con Alt Delete, Con Scene, Conventions, MetaCon, Ryan Kopf

So Ryan Kopf is Suing Me

Update (7/5): After being initially dismissed in Iowa, Kopf has refiled the case in Illinois. So we do a lot

Convention News The Mega-Blog

December 23, 2015 Trae Dorn AnimeCon.org, Chrono LC, Con Alt Delete, Con Scene, Conventions, Ryan Kopf

A Quick Post About Con-Alt-Delete

We literally keep getting contacted about stuff that happened at Ryan Kopf’s Con-Alt-Delete, but we haven’t bothered really making a

Convention News The Mega-Blog

December 16, 2015 Trae Dorn Calgary Expo, Con Scene, Conventions, GamerGate, Honey Badgers, MRAs, The Mary Sue

‘The Mary Sue’ Responds to MRA Group’s Ridiculous Calgary Expo “Lawsuit”

You may recall that last April a group of (mostly women) Men’s Rights Activists known as the ‘Honey Badger Brigade’

Convention News The Mega-Blog

December 9, 2015 Trae Dorn Con Scene, Conventions, Thai Pham, TouhouCon

Over Two Months Later, TouhouCon Artists Still on the Hook for ‘Free’ Hotel Rooms

One of the things TouhouCon 2015 (Sep 18–20, Anaheim, CA) did this year was promise complimentary hotel rooms for participating

Convention News The Mega-Blog

December 9, 2015 Trae Dorn Con Scene, Conventions, Norman Reedus, the walking dead, Walker Stalker Con

Convention Tip: Try Not to Bite Norman Reedus

Look, I shouldn’t have to tell you things like this — we’re all adults, and presumably “non-consensual biting” was covered

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November 19, 2015 Trae Dorn AlterniCon, Con Scene, Conventions

AlterniCon 2015 Cancelled Less Than Two Days Before Event

So the staff of AlterniCon 2015 haven’t been having a good week. Yesterday organizers announced the Boston based event had

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November 9, 2015 Trae Dorn Con Scene, Conventions, Dr. Awkward, MC Lars, NekoCon, Professor Shyguy, Tribe One

NekoCon Staff Loses Its Sh*t, Cancels Multi-Guest Concert During First Song

When you go to a convention as an attendee or vendor, there’s an expectation that you’ll be treated with some

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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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