City Pages, the main Twin Cities weekly alternative paper, has published a pretty important article about harassment that’s gone on at the Source. As unfortunately all too common in these kinds of situations, it’s meant massive disruption for the person … Continue reading
Tag Archives: Convergence
Convergence finally asks me to be an Invited Participant, and what happens? I’m not even in the country for it. It’s been a major break between posts here, and for good reason. At the beginning of May, I started a … Continue reading
About a month ago, there was a tiny little con here in the Twin Cities called JOFCon. “JOF” stands for “journeyfen of fandom”. It’s a knowing take-off of the term “SMOF”, for “Secret Masters of Fandom”. SMOFs are (at least … Continue reading
Convergence 2015 is over. Was some two days ago, actually. But the combination of being 13 hours away from CST, then coming right back into Convergence, is still messing with me. I’m starting to get back into the flow of … Continue reading
And Convergence 2015 is already here. I managed to only get onto two panels: Dystopia of Philip K. Dick: From Page to Screen We’ve probably all seen his stories on screen without necessarily knowing it. From Blade Runner to Total … Continue reading
After some discussion on Steve Brust’s blog, I’m wondering if it’s possible to list all the cons in this area. There really are a lot of them, and it’s very easy to lose track. I’ve seen various attempts to concatenate … Continue reading
Overall, this year’s Convergence was pretty good. It was, very interestingly, slightly smaller than last year’s. This may have been due to the loss of the Sofitel for this year, or because people are staying away due to crowding, or … Continue reading
I didn’t do much actual gaming at Convergence this year, but what I did was good. Thursday night, I played a little Zar. Usually pretty fun, and this was no exception. No idea who won, but that’s rarely the point. … Continue reading
The next, second, and last, panel I was on at Convergence 2014. The topic was pretty similar to last year’s “I’m Getting Too Old to Find Time to Game”, so we were a little worried about repeating territory already trod. … Continue reading
My first of only two panels for this year’s Convergence, this one was Friday at noon-thirty. Not especially gaming-related, but the panel was very meta, and so applicable in a way. The panelists started off listing our qualifications for being … Continue reading