Loscon Day Two
Saturday at Loscon is always our busiest day – it’s Blood Drive Day! Unfortunately, because it’s such a busy day, I didn’t take a lot of pictures. The day started at about eight in the morning when we met the …
Category: Fun Stuff
Fun and refreshments along the way.
Loscon Day One
The first day of Loscon was a busy day for us. It started with our first panel, “Married to a Fan: Fan Guests of Honor interview”. Nick Smith of the Los Angeles Filk Harmonics moderated, asking us questions. We’ve known …
Loscon Day Zero
After waiting two years, it finally arrived. Loscon 47: the year we were Fan Guests of Honor. We were very well treated. Normally we commute each day from home to the convention at the LAX Marriott, but the committee paid …
Next week is Loscon!
Still doing con prep, especially prep for the blood drive. That includes flyers, buttons, raffle tickets and a raffle ticket box. Kris is also getting her costume ready for the reading from her novel series, “The Dragonfly Chronicles”. And there …
Now How Much Would You Bleed?
That was our slogan for our “As Seen On TV” themed blood drive. Every year Kris and I host the Loscon blood drive. Generally, we tie our theme to the theme of the convention. When Loscon had a steampunk theme, …
Send in the Clones
While looking on YouTube for Star Wars news, Kris came upon a series of videos by ArTorr. Part three is a very detailed breakdown of the animated TV series, “The Clone Wars”, which premiered on Cartoon Network, then moved to …
The Art of the Brick
Yesterday, Kris and I were lucky enough to be invited by The Left Coast Mahjong, Art Show and Lego Cabal (friends of ours through Loscon) to go to “The Art of The Brick” exhibit at the California Science Center https://californiasciencecenter.org/ …
Faking It
I’ve been seeing a lot of ads on Facebook for vegan plant-based meat products. They don’t particularly interest me, I’m a meat-eating, barbequing, Meatiator, Montague’s All Meat Marvel, Baconator, meatavore kind of guy. But if someone else wants to graze, …
Return to Loscon
Kris and I were supposed to be the Fan Guests of Honor at last year’s Loscon, but because of reasons, it was canceled. So, our status was carried over to this year’s Loscon 47 http://loscon.org/47/los-angeles-oldest-running-science-fiction-convention/ The one of the first …
The Great Escape (to Oxnard)
I’ve often mentioned that sometimes my life feels like nothing but work, write, sleep, work, write, sleep. Since the lockdown, there has been little to go out and do. But with restrictions starting to loosen, especially in Ventura County, we …