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Well, I had an unexpected game at GenCon this year. If it had been a LARP, it would have been a Cthulhu Live game. Those who play in that game system know you have a high likelihood of going insane, if not actually dying. Probably the thing that most makes me crazy in everyday life is hunting fo ...

What could be better to bring people together than fannish food? OK, giving away huge sums of money might be better but that’s not in the realm of possibility for most of us. Let’s stick with food. Some fannish food is much better in theory than practice, such as the purple potato salad s ...

What keeps you going when you are having a bad day, week, month, year? When you are a fan there’s always something grand ahead -- a fannish event horizon. In one of the episodes of my favorite telly show, "The Big Bang Theory," Leonard has just broken up with his girlfriend and is feeling blue. ...

GenCon is my annual summer geek out these days, and one of the events in which I participated this year was the Queen of Geeks Pageant. Entering was simple. You bought an event ticket. The one hang-up was that you were required to have two costumes to wear during the contest. With airlines c ...

A few years back, a real sweet person volunteered to be my assistant, helping me out when I needed it, and taking some things off my plate. She is absolutely amazing. But me, Mr. Independent, still tries to do things on his own. Like booking plane tickets. So, I booked plane tickets for myself ...

My yearning for the far west and San Diego Comic-Con was mitigated somewhat doing my duty to the local science-fiction convention on which I work, Necronomicon, by participating on panels Friday and Saturday in a local anime conventions science-fiction and fantasy track. Anime is not a strong in ...