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Archive for September, 2016
Zen and the Art of Procrastination
I don’t know Leo Babauta from zenhabits.net, but he apparently has cameras in my apartment and a psychic connection into my brain… Your first thought as you look at this article will be, “I’ll read this later.” But don’t. Let the urge to switch to a new task pass. Read this now. It’ll take you […]
Remembering Bob Weinberg
Bob Weinberg left us yesterday. There may be many folks out there that don’t know the name, but I think you should. Each year the committee hosting the Worldcon is authorized, should they choose to do so, to present a special award during the Hugos. For Chicon 7 when we thought about who it might […]
Ode to Nick Pirandello and Bob Wilson
Note: This article originally appeared in issue 300 of The Drink Tank. So, I love bad film. I mean, *really* love it. Not film that’s poorly made or executed…but film that sized itself up against the jocks and popular folks in high school and said “yeah, that’s never going to be me” and just picked […]
Lessons learned from the FANtastic Detroit Fund
The FANtastic Detroit Fund was Detcon1’s crowd-funded program to provide free memberships to needy fans who would not otherwise be able to attend. Every $55 donation added one membership to the pool, with Detcon1 matching the first 10 memberships received. We also accepted donations of existing attending and supporting memberships. Supporting memberships were upgraded to […]
Wrapping Up The Chicago In 2012 Worldcon Bid
(or, “Crackpot financing schemes and why we love them just as much as we hoped we would”) Note: This article was originally published in Progress Report #1 for Chicon 7 So, everyone reading this remembers that Chicago ran for the 2008 Worldcon and lost, right? Lost by 12 votes, right? Out of like 1600 votes […]
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