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Saturday, July 30th, 2005
I arrived at Starring Lake Park in Eden Prairie for the AM 1280 "The Patriot" picnic and live broadcast at around 10:30 a.m. The weather was about as perfect as you could hope for; sunny, warm, with just enough breeze to keep people from overheating.
The Patriot began their ...
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Sunday, July 24th, 2005
It was a very hot and humid day for going out to the Wings of the North Air Expo in Eden Prairie, however, I made the effort anyway, and it was well worth the effort. Not like it was really that great an effort.
Please note, getting good pictures was ...
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Sunday, July 10th, 2005
Convergence 2005 is officially over! And, as usual, it was a blast. Be sure to check out my during the con reports. See the following pages for more write ups:
Report 1
Report 2
Report 3
Report 4
Now for pictures and more details:
Kelly McCullough, Elizabeth Bear, Patrick Smith (back), Kevin Trainor ...
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Monday, July 4th, 2005
The photos with commentary is now up in the
Mission Reports section. Enjoy.
When you are done there, Check out the Rampant Wombat for more Convergence details.
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Monday, July 4th, 2005
Convergence 2005 is over. In fact, its now the day after. Time to get this final post finished and write a mission report and put up the photos. Not to mention pick the girls up from doggie camp and get some yard work done around here.
Final numbers for Convergence, roughly, ...
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Monday, July 4th, 2005
It is Sunday morning at Convergence 2005. I have survived another night of drunken revelry. At least, this time, it was easier as I chose not to get hammered like on Friday night.
Saturday evening started out with dinner in the bar with some friends, then heading up to the masquerade ...
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Monday, July 4th, 2005
Afternoon…the Raptor Center put on a very good demo, featuring three of their touring birds: Otis, the Red Faced Screech Owl; Chuk, the Peregrine Falcon; Madame Maxine, the Bald Eagle.. This was an educational presentation in a freeform format.
The Raptor Center volunteers, Sharon and Amber fielded numerous questions about ...
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Monday, July 4th, 2005
Its now the morning of Day 2 of Convergence 2005. and I am just a wee bit hung over.
Yesterday, after getting checked in and overcoming problems with the card key programming for the elevator so I can get to my room on the club level, I headed down to the ...
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Thursday, March 10th, 2005
Elements of the Cold Death Quadrant, including members of the IKV Rakehell, IKV Warhammer, IKV Black Thunder and other groups were all in attendance at MarsCon over the first weekend of March.
The MarsCon theme this year was pirates, and many Klingons dressed the part with the Rakehell throwing an appropriately ...
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Monday, March 8th, 2004
Things are still a bit ofa blur, however, I had better get a bit down be for my mind turns to mush.
I arrived at the hotel for MarsCon at about 4 o'clock, picked up my membership badge, then stalked around the dealers room. The dealers room for MarsCon may not ...
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Sunday, March 7th, 2004
The saga conitnues...
Okay, so I had to leave to walk the dogs mid-afternoon. I made it back by about 6 o'clock, and was ready to rock. Put the garb back on.
Masquarade time. The pre-show was a gorup of belly dancers. Very nice preformance by them. Then Doctor Demento took center ...
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Saturday, March 6th, 2004
The story so far...
I managed to drag myself out of bed in time to drive up to the hotel this morning and do some practice run throughs of the K'Abbott and Kostello routine with Patrick. This was critical as it was the first routine in this year's skit, and the ...
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Monday, December 1st, 2003
The IKV RakeHell put on a performance of Kahless in Wonderland. What a hoot! They had all kinds ofn die-tie, hippish costumes, crossed with Alice in Wonderland. The starting point is Woodstock, on Mars. Kahless is off to the battle of the bands, and is tripping ...
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Monday, December 1st, 2003
Friday, April 13, 2001. The place is the Hilton in Minneapolis, the event MiniCon 36.
Okay, although I've been to many conventions over the years, this is the first time for me to attend a convention in the MidWest, specifically Minnesota, where I had recently relocated to from the People's Republic ...
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Monday, December 1st, 2003
This is the Twin Cities big convention. Held at the Radisson Bloomington, a hotel nicely laid out for SF conventions, with main party rooms in the cabana surrounding the pool, and meeting rooms throughout the hotel. Attendance was expected to hit 2000, which puts it on a par ...
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Monday, December 1st, 2003
Silly me! I didn't take a lot of notes. Just pics.
Enjoy!
166k JPEG Laura, the Captain of the IKV Rakehell
182k JPEG Evil, but cute
153k JPEG Klingon pirate radio
130k JPEG Klinging on to the lady!
161k JPEG Klingon sword fighting demo
106k JPEG a scene from Sis'Kil and Kil'bert, by ...
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Monday, December 1st, 2003
Although somewhat sparsely attended this year, StarQuest put on another great show. Guests in attendance were MacDudes Bob May (the Robot from "Lost In Space") and Herb Jefferson Jr. (Boomer of "BattleStar Galactica") for a second year, Claudia Christian (Ivanova of "Babylon 5"), Chase Masterson (Leeta of "Deep Space 9"), ...
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Monday, December 1st, 2003
WonderCon, Oakland, California, April 2000
Richard Hatch presented his Battlestar Galactica trailer, and spoke of his on going efforts to attain the rights to revive the series in film. The trailer is spectacular, with great CGI special effects, and footage of many of the surviving original cast members. It also contains ...
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Sunday, November 30th, 2003
John Colicos with resident Cylon.
John Colicos performed King Lears Curse for the audience
William Campbell with friends
William Campbell, Michael Ansara, and John Colicos with resident Cylon
Dr. Lawrence Schoen and Lcdr. BaroH vestai-Qlavaq
Chet Braun leads a martial arts workshop at the Kon.
Dahar Master QetaH battles Dax in a Bat'leth demo.
San Diego Klingons, ...
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Sunday, August 31st, 2003
This was billed as the BIG event for Star Trek and it was. Most of the cast members from all four incarnations of Star Trek, the cast of Babylon 5, and many actors who have appeared as guest stars on these and many other shows and films from Lost ...
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