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August 13, 2014 Trae Dorn AnimeCon.org, Black Materia Inc, Chrono LC, Con Scene, Conventions, Ryan Kopf

Ryan Kopf Helping Run Anime Kaiju, Taiga Con under “Black Materia Inc.” brand

Update: It appears the list of Black Materia, Inc cons also includes Star City Anime in Roanoke, VA Update #2:

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July 31, 2014 Trae Dorn Con Scene, Conventions, San Diego Comic Con

A Quick Aside On Convention Rape Culture

We haven’t been addressing the assault of a young cosplayer at San Diego Comic Con, but that doesn’t mean it’s

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July 31, 2014 Trae Dorn AnimeCon.org, Chrono LC, Con Scene, Conventions, Ryan Kopf

Ryan Kopf’s AnimeCon.org Sends Weird, Overreaching Statement To Banned Attendee

Ryan Kopf and his company Chrono LC (which operates under the name “AnimeCon.org” and manages Anime Zap, QC Anime-zing!, Anime-SPARK!,

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July 28, 2014 Trae Dorn Awesome Con, Awesome Con Indianapolis, Awesome Con Milwaukee, Con Scene, Conventions

An Open Letter to the owner of AwesomeCon.net

So we’ve written a few things about Awesome Con here on Nerd & Tie, but believe it or not this

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July 17, 2014 Trae Dorn Con Scene, Conventions, indiegogo, Nezumi Con

Help Pay For Nezumi Con 2015

So there’s been a lot of negative stuff on Nerd & Tie about rumblings in the convention scene. From the

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July 15, 2014 Pher Sturz Awesome Con, Awesome Con Milwaukee, Con Scene, Conventions, Daisho Con, November Cons, Wisconsin

Awesome Con or Daisho Con?: A Follow-Up Investigation

Author’s Note: This is a follow-up investigation to this article, which appeared on Nerd and Tie’s megablog on Friday, July

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July 14, 2014 Trae Dorn Con Scene, Conventions, DashCon

DashCon: A Perfect Storm of Incompetence

There are good cons and bad cons. There are cons that work and cons that don’t. There are cons that

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July 11, 2014 Trae Dorn Awesome Con, Awesome Con Indianapolis, Awesome Con Milwaukee, Con Scene, Conventions, Daisho Con

‘Awesome Con’ Is Not So Awesome, Steals Established Con’s Weekend

Note: Does Trae sound like a dick in this article? He sure thinks he did. We’re leaving it intact, but

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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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