We had a bit of a delay in confirming that we'd have a quorum for Saturday's Curmudgeons Con, but all our red tape has been cut and our registration forms have been filled out, so we're good to go. If you don't know the drill, you can find out here, here, here, or in any of more than a dozen other posts going back a year or more. And you may not believe us, because we have to keep up a certain curmudgeonly demeanor to justify the title of this page, but anybody within the greater Chicagoland area on Saturday is welcome to join us. (Actually, you're welcome to join us even if you're not in Chicago and its environs on Saturday, but it'll be more of a hassle for you to get here.) Come one, come all.
Posted by Doug at May 8, 2008 2:24 PM
Sorry, folks. I could have gotten this up sooner. I woke Sunday to a mini-monsoon, and the consequences it wrought had me in a funk.
Anyway, here are some of the topics we discussed, (some links NSFW. I think you can guess which.) with links where necessary:
Pastor Melissa Scott
Porn actors who crossed over
Traci Lords just turned 40
How Amber Lynn and her brother, Buck Adams, nearly worked together.
The Other Hollywood: The Uncensored Oral History of the Porn Film Industry by Legs Mc Neil
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil
(Yeah, we were working blue! We'll never play the big rooms. We'll get over it.)
Libertarians
Bob Barr as the potential Libertarian candidate, and the potential fight over the nomination
Fond memories of Pat Buchanan and John Hagelin fighting over the Reform Party nomination
Jason appeared on Romper Room
My appearance on the Remote Control Campus Tour was not really televised
Here You Come Again by Dolly Parton
What buying a song like that (or that song) from iTunes says about a person
Alex De Campi's Vertigo pitch meeting
How that makes comics editors look like Moe Green
Where do comics editors find their writers?
DC Comics Chronology
Voyagers!
Julia Duffy (who played Nellie Bly on Voyagers)
... then the guitar player broke into Africa again, and everything went black.
