Thanks to the generosity of my good friend Jenn, last weekend I attended Fan Expo. She gave me the passes as an early Christmas/Birthday/Next Christmas present, and was in no way motivated by a desire to have company for her Fan Expo adventure or avoid thinking up other presents for me. We met for lunch [...]
So, I have a zillion things to post about, which I’ll get to once the journal paper I’m working on is finished and my research is under control. There will be a number of movie, book, and concert reviews to catch up on, as well as some more thoughtful essays as I try to produce [...]
In the last issue of The House Always Wins… The intrepid investigator House had scoped out the Pulp Show and Sale, but that was not the only mission that lay before him. After completing his search there, he set out to the Toronto Reference Library, to battle the faceless hordes of the 2009 Toronto Comic [...]
This weekend past, a few of my favourite authors were appearing at Ad-Astra, Toronto’s regional SF convention. Since I’m going to Worldcon this summer, I figured attending Ad-Astra would be a good practice run, and so off I went, with a few others in tow. Now, strictly speaking, my secondary title up above (“My First [...]