SteamCon has been fun, albeit low key. calendula_witch and I arrived earlier than expected, with a deeply surprising lack of traffic fail given the awful weather and the usual Friday afternoon crowded highway between Portland and Seattle. Ran into Tim and Serena Powers in the parking lot, who were gracious enough to help us with our bags. Ran into Duane Wilkinson just inside, all of which...

Gallifrey One report part 4: Saturday Late Night, Sunday. (See also part 1 , part 2 , part 3 .) Late Saturday night, I went down to the foyer to see what was happening. Lynn was in bed, Maria was terrorizing the convention in her "Lucy Saxon" dress, and Sarah had dressed up in the dress she wore to Winter Formal. She had official duties as...

My Animé Los Angeles report, part 5: Saturday. (See also part 1 , part 2 , part 3 , part 4 , part 6, etc.) Day Two is the big day at most three-day conventions, and Animé Los Angeles was no exception. Not for Registration -- we issued about 750 badges on Saturday, compared to over 1400 on Friday and 500 on Thursday -- but that means that there were about 500 more people...

Trying to catch up with November. Part 2 of my Loscon 35 (2008) report. (Other sections: part 1 .) Joyce Hooper (right) and I talked about what she wanted for the convention's ribbons. She wanted to switch Loscon to use horizontal ribbons, and stop using vertical ones. Loscon 34's chair, drarizona had continued the long tradition of vertical format ribbons....

As Cheryl reports , she and I spent 40 minutes or so on the phone with Roberto De Antuñano, host of MSN Mexico's Ultralínea podcasts. I did my usual thing of explaining Worldcon history in a nutshell and how WSFS/Worldcon/Hugo Awards are related to each other. At one point where he asked us to tell him more about the guests of this year's Worldcon, I had to explain that while I'm the head of WSFS's...