Trying to recap the Opening Ceremonies would be a disservice to the Guests of Honor and the ToastMaster. Mr. Scalzi was very entertaining and a living example why you should never be introduced by someone who knows where the bodies are buried. He did tell a story on himself that involved being licked from the [...]

Here’s a guarantee for first-time Con-goers who show up five minutes before the first panel on Friday night without registering in advance: they won’t take plastic at the sign-in. Fortunately the ATM in the lobby hadn’t been run dry yet, and I made the opening panel “The Dynamic Duo – Revealed!” just as Scalzi said, [...]

Everything that follows is in some sense John Scalzi’s fault. From what I understand, many conversations in SF/F start with those words, but in this case it’s not a condemnation, it’s a thank you.

I stumbled across his post detailing his schedule for High Voltage ConFusion while I was deciding whether or not to subscribe to [...]