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Dave McCarty
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Test Post for WordPress
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Test Post for WordPress
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The Shield or the Weapon
He said…. I want to talk about Codes of Conduct (CoC). Both how they’re made and how they’re enforced. Now, I am occasionally blessed with a small bit of self-knowledge so right now I am mentally hearing no small number of folks taking a sharp inhale of breath before continuing to read. Stick with it, […]
Succeeding Beyond Imagination
In 1999, I got my first job ever on a convention. I was the chairman of Capricon, a not-quite-thousand-person literary SF convention in Chicago. I have a lot of stories about this particular convention that can be of interest to convention runners, but the one I will focus on today is how I (accidentally) and […]
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 […]
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 […]
Under The Skin – Film
I saw a trailer for this film with Scarlett Johansson and it looked intriguing. At least partially since it was already out of theaters and I hadn’t heard of it. The trailer, however, did seem to promise something that was at least visually interesting (and not just due to the actress). This got me to phone […]
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