I FINALLY got the Tricky Pixie interview show posted. I invite everyone to watch the show at http://www.pac-fen.com/episodes/E118-Tricky_Pixie/

Let me know what you think.

Emerald City ComiCon will be the next show plus I will have some photos from this years Norwescon. Keep an eye out for those.

Okay, I'm being far too dramatic but I am in some serious physical discomfort. I had some dental work done today and they drilled rather deep. The anesthetic is wearing off and my teeth really hurt now.

What's worse is that I have more work to be done. The end result is I'm going to be severely broke for a considerable amount of time so there will be fewer shows. Hard to cover a convention when you can't afford to go. This is not the end of the show, not by a long shot, but I must cutback on what I can spend since all my money is going to my dentist.

Recently, Song Mistress and all around kewl chick S.J. Tucker aka s00j, fell ill for unknown reasons. Emergency room, CT scans, X-rays and a lot of other very expensive diagnostic tools were used and the current thinking is appendicitis.

In any event, s00j is uninsured and will soon be racking up substantial debt. Many other Fen are answering the call by providing services for donations and such and Pacific Fen Spotlight is joining them.

For a $50.00 sponsorship, you or your store or website will get a special on-air hug and thanks. Not only will you get some advertising, people will know that you care about the fen community and its denizens. 100% of all proceeds will go to help out s00j and her family through this time of need. Visit Pacific Fen Spotlight to help out.

For a list of upcoming shows you may wish to sponsor, see the post I made on the saveours00j community: Your advertising dollars will help out a Fen Sister

If advertising is not something you need, visit saveours00j to connect with other Fen who are donating services and resources to help out our musical Fen sister.

Got my RainFurrest show up a couple of weeks ago. Watch it here: http://www.pac-fen.com/episodes/E115-Rainfurrest_2/

Well it took a while, especially since I had to re-encode everything cause of a spelling error (it does not do well to misspell an interviewee's name) but the SpoCon show is now up. SpoCon 2008 episode

There may be the possibility of an extended show. If all things work out I will be posting all the interviews in their entirety, not just the choicest bits.

So I leave for Denver tomorrow. Keep an eye out for more posts and episodes.

Well I meant to post more but I had such a kick ass time that I completely forgot. The con was fantastic! The panel topics were what you would expect from a sci-fi convention but the panelists certainly brought life to their respective panels. The guests of honor were particularly entertaining.

Also, the con com was way on top of almost everything. There were some major issues with housing but that was the fault of the University. The con com did everything they could to not only help resolve the issue but keep us congoers happy. The con chair Rob McDonell really put together a fantastic crew. He was also very helpful to me when I asked for interviews with some of the guests of honor. And Char and Randy McKay, the Guest Liaisons, were triply helpful and seemingly bent over backwards to help me get interviews with Timothy Zahn and Mark Ferrari.

I got a bunch of interviews with several fans as well as fan groups and a couple of dealers. I also got a great interview with Gareth von Kallenbach of Skewed & Reviewed. And the proverbial cherry on top interviews with Mark J. Ferrari, Artist Guest of Honor and Timothy Zahn (no official website), Main Guest of honor.

The first part of the show is being encoded as I post this and I will upload it as soon as it is done. I expect there to be at least 4 more parts (possibly more) as the GoH interviews were fairly involved. I am looking into hosting options so I don't have to break up the show into small parts, but that will likely have to wait until after my trip.

My next convention will be on Denvention 3 aka WorldCon 2008.

Greetings friends!

I again want to apologize for my lack of an episode, but I've been swamped with my job, plus I've been gearing up for my extended vacation where I will be hitting not one, not two, but three, yes, friends THREE conventions in a row.

First up is SpoCon, Spokane, WA resident convention. Guests of Honor include Timothy Zahn, Mark J. Ferrari, Vixy & Tony of Filkdom, Steve Perrin & John Dalmas. Hopefully I will be able to get interviews with some of them but if not, Cest la vie, there is always the congoers.

I am currently sitting in the Alaska Air Board Room. I tell ya, pretty sweet deal. Granted you have to be in first class or an MVP member to gain access, but since this three week extravaganza is doubling as my vacation, I figured it's worth it. I'm going first class travel all the way, which is good considering I really hate flying. But since I like traveling long distances in cars even more, what can I do?

I still got two hours before my plane departs. I arrived really early cause I didn't know how much of a hassle getting through security would be. It was a lot easier than I had thought it might be. I planned well ahead so that probably helped.

Bit of advice for those of you who need to fly. Check your bags wherever possible. Yes the airlines have started charging a fee per bag (though Alaska didn't), but really, unless you're traveling with a kid how much stuff could you possibly need? I brought my laptop and that was it. Of course, it's not a good idea to check your laptop anyway but still.

I had to take off my shoes and belt. The shoes weren't an issue, the belt... well lets just say I had to grab hold of my trousers to avoid some embarrassment but other than that it was smooth sailing.

Had breakfast at Wendy's. It was typical fast food fare, and cold, but I hate crowds and didn't want to fight my way back through to complain. Besides, I was damned hungry. So now here I am in the exclusive Board Room in my blue jeans and Rustycon 25 t-shirt enjoying some complementary milk. I could have gotten alcohol and I may yet, but seeing how it's just 9am as I write this, I figured, maybe wait until later.

More updates to come when I can get internet access again.

TTFN!

Well I'm now back on schedule as far as releasing episodes... at least I'm releasing it on the actual week it was supposed to be released rather than almost two weeks later! *sigh*

I'm trying to come up with some ideas for my next show. It will have to be a good one as it will be the last for a little while. I'm not quitting, just need to take a break whilst I travel the country and attend some very important conventions. Of course, the camera will be coming with me.

First up will be Spocon the weekend of August 1st through 3rd, then Denvention. Yes folks I'm a goin to Worldcon! My current plan for that is lots of caffiene and adrenalin. Then in mid-August I'll be heading to ArmadilloCon in Austin, Texas. May not get the chance to interview many people as I'll be working a table but I will do what I can.

Anyway, the show is up, had a lot of fun putting it together and now I'm just going to chill.

The C-Cubed episode is finally up. It would have been up sooner but as with everything that's been happening for this episode, the encoding got corrupted. I re-encoded it and finally I was able to post it.

This sure as hell hasn't been my week.

K, while this weeks episode... or should I say LAST week's episode, is currently uploading, I figured I'd post about next weeks show.

I went to the Can't Stop the Serenity event hosted by the Seattle Browncoats. Can't Stop the Serenity is an international event held every June. It is a screening of the movie Serenity whose proceeds benefit a most deserving charity Equality Now. I got a chance to interview a couple fans and had a great time. I also met two guys who have their own podcast called The Movie Guys Podcast. They were also covering the event and we had a great time chatting and talking shop.

Check out their website: http://www.themovieguyspodcast.com

Unlike me who will occasionally review some movies, this is what these guys do every show so if you want to know about an upcoming movie, they're the guys to see. Scott & Matt, thanks for the shout out and plug. You have given me much needed motivation to get my business cards updated. LOL

So I figured the best way to keep everyone up to date for when I'm having issues getting the episode up would be to have a blog. Now I had built one myself for my personal website, but I decided LJ would be a better forum for several reasons. 1) I can propagate a post faster on LJ via my friends blogs. 2) it has a lot more features, and 3) I was being particularly lazy and didn't want to reinstall my homemade blog.

So this week's episode is late and for that I am both ashamed and apologetic. My so called real life intruded rather rudely, but what can you do. Got to pay the bills somehow. I was going to show you clips from a panel I ran at C-Cubed (aka ConComCon) unfortunately my camera decided that it was going to eat the footage. It's a digital camera, not tape or discs to eat, yet the footage was eaten anyway. What really sucks is that I didn't get any back up audio cause I'm still getting used to my new audio recorder and had it on the wrong input setting.  Gods I'm such a doof!

So instead of thought provoking and intelligent discussion on con running, I will be giving you Con-Libs(tm). Katrina Marier took some of the Norwescon rules and contracts and turned them into mad-libs. At the C-Cubed ice breaker, we all sat around and did a couple and this is what we came up with. The show should be up soon.