I just got this in my email box and wanted to get it out to you pronto: ===== The official Star Trek Magazine has a sensational prize up for grabs for one lucky winner – two gold tickets to the official Star Trek convention on August 5-8, 2010 in Las Vegas Nevada. The soon to […]
Con Nooga, the only multi-fandom convention in Chatanooga will be held this weekend, Feb. 19 through 21. “Topics” covered by the con include sci fi, horror, comics, authors, film makers and concerts. Guests lined up for this weekend include: Troma Entertainment president, Lloyd Kaufman Dark alternative rock band, Bella Norte Author, Christina Barber Freelance journalist […]
Apparently this month is “Women in Horror Month.” In honor of the occasion, Last Doorway Productions is presenting Women In Horror Con on Saturday, February 27 at the SF Center in San Francisco, Calif. For more information, visit their website at www.lastdoorwayproductions.com/events/home.html. Editors, film-makers, actresses … even burlesque performers … and other horror-related female guests […]
The official Famous Monsters of FIlmland Convention will be held in Indianapolis, Indiana, July 9-11, 2010. The weekend-long convention will feature special screenings, parties, music acts, panels, a costume contest and more. Featured Guests Thomas Jane Actor The Mist, Punisher, Dreamcatcher, Mutant Chronicles, Deep Blue Sea Derek Mears Actor The Hills Have Eyes II, Friday […]
A trend I’ve noticed growing lately is the overlap of the belly dance and science fiction communities. When I was an active belly dancer in the early 1990s, many of my belly dance friends were also avid science fiction buffs. In fact, we used to meet at one our houses to watch Star Trek: The […]
Wouldn’t it be cool if when someone asked you what you were doing that weekend, you could answer “Walking like a zombie.”? Well, if you take part in the Moxley Manor Zombie Walk on Saturday May 1, 2010, you most certainly can! “What is a zombie walk?” you ask. Well, according to the Moxley Manor […]
I just finished reading the first book in the Twilight series … not bad, not great either, but that’s another post. Anyway, at the end, the first chapter of the second book, New Moon, was included and it ended with the following sentence: “… into the fevered eyes of the six suddenly ravenous vampires.” And […]
I recently read Jack Finney’s novel, The Body Snatchers and was hit by the idea of a “Body Snatchers Tour of Northern California.” You see, the novel (at least the 1978 version I read — part of The Stephen King Horror Library) was set in Mill Valley, a town in Marin County just north of […]