No, this isn't an announcement for the next Curmudgeons Con. The June CC had some logistical and scheduling issues, so we weren't sure whether we were going to keep it on our normal second Saturday of the month or reschedule it until literally the night before. We'll be more diligent in announcing the next one.
And yeah, I know that convention season's been going on for a while, now, but that doesn't mean we can't take this opportunity to get organized for what's left of it. Was anybody at Heroes Con over the weekend? How did it go?
Wizard World Chicago is coming up this weekend. There will be at least a couple of Curmudgeons hanging around there somewhere, so if anybody wants to arrange a meet-up and possibly lunch or dinner, we can certainly do that. I'm wondering how well attended it's going to be. The Chicago show has always felt like a driving show, with vendors and audience coming by car, and I have to wonder whether gas prices this year will keep a few people away.
And San Diego is a little more than a month away. Who here is planning to take on that one? If you're going to San Diego, you have to plan so far ahead that I'd be surprised if gas prices have much of an effect on this one. It also feels like most attendees (unless they're already in Southern California) fly in rather than drive.
Dragon*Con is coming at the end of August, and then Baltimore follows at the end of September. Which other cons should we be paying attention to?
Posted by Doug at June 23, 2008 2:45 PM
Chris Maka and I are planning to go to NEXT year's SDCC. (Or CCI:SD; whatever name it's using.)
Tom Galloway, Michael Grabois and myself will be rooming for SDCC this year. This year's Pro/Fan Trivia Matchup theme is "Young Heroes", taking place Sunday, 2.30 pm at Room 4.
Offhand, I know myself, Terence Chua, and Michael Grabois will be at San Diego this year.
Also looks like a fair number of current/former r.a.c. types will be at Worldcon in Denver in early August. Myself, Terence again, David Goldfarb, Carl Fink, are all supposed to be there.
I'm actually scheduled to be on two panels at Worldcon, both Friday afternoon.
Tom, do you actually go through that list of thousands of Worldcon members looking for familiar names?
I've got to get in touch with Programming to confirm my Worldcon panels. I believe I'm on a Lovecraft panel on Friday at 1pm, and a Doctor Who panel on Sunday at 10am. I should also have a filk concert slot and filk panel somewhere. Was rather hoping a comic book panel would be available but it doesn't seem like it based on my communications with the Concom.
Nope, Carl. Just noticed your name on the much shorter program participants list.
I'm on two Worldcon items myself; one on Artificial Intelligence, and playing the Jimmy Kimmel role on Win Tom Whitmore's Money (or perhaps Books). The latter was suggested by David Goldfarb, who's locked in for one of the contestant slots due to that, and since TomW's the Fan GOH and wanted to do a game show, well...
To give credit where credit is due, I adapted the idea from your own "Win Tom Galloway's Money" game show panel.