Description in the program book: Maybe it’s flirting; maybe it’s friendship; maybe it’s a lifelong relationship. Finding romance in all its forms and guises in…
Description in the program book: Was there a [same-sex romance] subtext to Lord of the Rings? Is subtext in the eye of the beholder, or…
A person named Sundara at ApolloCon 2007 in a bellydancing-inspired costume A congoer named Nara The name tag of the woman below said Susan Calvin.…
The ApolloCon 2007 opening ceremony was short and simple. The convention chair, Mark Hall said they started ApolloCon because they wanted to have a con…
ApolloCon was a speculative fiction convention in Houston, Texas. ApolloCon 2007 started with a kaffeeklatsch with the editor-legend David Hartwell. Kaffeeklatsches are a tradition at…
The geek factor at Flipside: not too high At that time I had been reading too much of Wired magazine, because it was probably there…
On Saturday morning I was really grumpy and exhausted. I could not sleep all night, both because of insomnia and because of constant noise —…
Pictures of Flipside at night, and me walking into torches The most unexpected thing that happened to me at Flipside was that I walked right…
I went to Flipside, a local Burning Man-style event in the Austin area, in 2007, the year it rained almost non-stop all summer, making water,…
When E turned 2, I took her to Sears to have her photos taken at a photo studio. One of the props in the studio…