The Convention Fans Blog

I feel like I have been very fortunate in my celebrity encounters over the years. I’ve attended a lot of cons, and met actors from all manner of shows. The vast majority have not only been pleasant, but downright awesome. Some of the highlights include George Takei, Cirroc Lofton, Avery Brooks, LeVar Burton, Jonathan Frakes, Kevin Sorbo, Richard Hatch, and

Nothing was more talked about at Dragon*con 2009 than the William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy panel. While Nimoy had been on the guest list for a number of months, Shatner had been a late addition. So late in fact, that many programming directors had already submitted their schedules. With so many big name guests already taking up the largest ballroom

This weekend, me and my intrepid photographer headed down to Baltimore to attend Shore Leave 31! Shore Leave is a well established science fiction convention that has a lot to offer fans. We bought some great items, laughed a lot, met cool new people, saw some old friends, and overall had a really enjoyable time. Below is a break down

My friends and I went and saw the new Star Trek movie last night at our local IMAX theater, and I must say, we all thoroughly enjoyed the movie. It really was a pretty well executed, action packed thrill ride of a reboot that the Star Trek franchise needed. However, I’ve seen some other friends of mine raving about how “OMG! Amazing!” it was, and I’m just not there with them. Yes, it was great, but isn’t the best Trek movie out there, and it did have some moments that made my friends and I turn to each other and say “WTF?”

This weekend, my photographer and I attended Costume-Con 27 at the Crowne Plaza Baltimore-North hotel in Maryland. Even though this was a small convention (attendance was around 500), we had a really wonderful time! The Costume-Con 27 organizers made a lot of great decisions during the planning and organization process, and that paid off when it was time to actually