In which Kevin Standlee is a bit like the Speaker of the House of Commons [1] and a bit like a senator on one of those committees we have. I: I'm thinking of the speech Speaker Peter Milliken gave back on May 19, 2005, when he made Canadian history. Come to think of it, we've had a number of firsts in Canadian parliamentary procedure in the last five years or so. I wish they'd stop doing that...

Balticon party Update and a transcontinental note First of all, the Balticon Party was a great success.  Thanks for those who made it a great evening.  We had over a 100 people attending the party, but are looking for pictures.  We were unable to get pictures of that evening.  We had tons of people exciting and talking about everything from the Bid to past hoaxes to space theory.  There are things...

Here, something to make you laugh . (Link posted previously by kevin_standlee , pointing to corwynofamber who linked to a youtube video.)

kevin_standlee just reminded those eager to watch tonight's Nebula Awards ceremony that live coverage begins at 18:30 PST (which I believe equates to 02:30 British Summer Time). Full details here .

So I didn't finish up talking about the events of yesterday--and they are well worth mentioning, since they involved the Match Game SF panel headed up by kevin_standlee . HY-larious. For those of you not familiar with this, this is an SF version of the old game show "Match Game", in which two contestants try to match up answers from six panelists on fill-in-the-blank type questions. The folks...

Photos now online: Columbus, Indiana (Mar-2009) Bakersfield Cosplay Picnic (07-Mar-2009) Having made it back to Orange County Friday morning (a week ago), I tried to work at the office for a while but gave it up and went home for a nap. Then it was time to pack the car for the drive to Bakersfield. Bakersfield? Yes, I'd reserved two rooms for myself, Lynn...

Kevin has a long post on his LiveJournal about the length definitions for various Hugo Award categories (both written and dramatic). Sadly way too may people in fandom get obsessed with definitions and lose sight of the purpose of categories. This is one reason why it took so long for the Best Dramatic Presentation split to happen - too many Business Meeting attendees were not prepared to accept...

I'm going to anticipate Cheryl Morgan here maybe a little and discuss something that's been going around for a bit both on blogs and on the mailing list that shall not be named - but first a commercial announcement: Please buy one of my shirts. Well, actually, it's not one of my shirts, (my shirts probably wouldn't fit you anyway) it's a shirt I designed that is available for purchase on Zazzle....

I have been informed by cherylmmorgan and kevin_standlee that there is a pending attempt to eliminate the semiprozine category from the Hugo Awards. As noted in my last post and the comments following, Lone Star Stories is not semiprozine, so this wouldn't effect me or my publication. However, there are fine semi-professional publications (online and in print) that deserve recognition...

Back before I became involved in fandom, there was Vootie , the funny animal apa started by retooned and Reed Waller. About a year after I started getting active, Vootie ended and Marc Schirmeister started Rowrbrazzle . The WikiFur reference for Vootie says the transition between the two apas is "traditionally considered to be when funny animal fandom became furry fandom." Back then, the...