Category: Fandom
Comic Con 40th Anniversary
I am back from the 40th anniversary Comic Con. It feels like every year the show sells out earlier, the best panels get harder to gain entry to, the temperatures get...
Rip Van Winkle
To be a Rip van Winkle, is to awake suddenly to profound changes in one’s surroundings. This may be due to physical absence or to absence of mind. (via Wikipedia)
What are some common traits of a dystopian society?
The overwhelming majority of dystopias have some connection to our world, but often in an imagined future or an alternate history. Furthermore, the dystopia was brought...
Dead Siren
The new Dead Siren blog asks the question: What is the difference between Fandom with a capital F and simple imagination and are either a bad thing? And one of the...
Comic Con Booth Babes Continued
IGN, now, just like MySpace, owned by the very savvy folks at FOX has its Comic Con galleries posted now. They have them broken down into convenient categories like The...
Comic Con Booth Babes
Galleries of pictures taken at the record-smashing Comic Con 2006 are already starting to post. ComingSoon.net has more than a hundred photos although most are not of...
Mars Dust in Print
I pleased to be able to report that Mars Dust, the well-dressed fandom web site, has printed a prototype of a magazine they hope to do. Their first issue covers...
When do you know you are rich?
I have heard that you don’t count as rich until you own your own jet. Well real estate tycoon Robert Bigelow is raising the bar. He has committed five hundred...
Padme Amidala Gets Naked for Francisco Goya
A forthcoming movie called Goya’s Ghosts chronicles the life and times and painter Francisco Goya. It particularly focuses on a muse of his, played by Natalie...
Classic Science Fiction Novels
Fun Trivia has a section devoted to science fiction fen. The first quiz is on Classic Science Fiction Novels and I just want you all to know that I got 25 out of 25...
Zero Gee Sex with a View
This week, The Independent published an article, by their Washington Correspondent Rupert Cornwell, which asked whether human space exploration is really such a good...
Shrek Penetrates Entourage Prostitute
Okay, I probably was not really bought out by the Sci Fi Channel. Most likely, I was just annoyed at the way people are trending towards a repulsively mercenary...
