Thomas Sullivan the Cat, thought 6:30 was plenty of time for a sleep in this morning and made sure I was up in lots of time to greet my favourite time of year – Fan Expo!!! So after a quick prep, making sure I had everything I had, I hit the TTC. I was off to…
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Fan Expo 2012
Here it is August 2012! And it’s almost Fan Expo time, my favorite time of year! The Mind Reels, just shy of it’s 1 year birthday, coming up in October (can you believe it?!) has been invited to attend this year’s Fan Expo and cover it as Media. Sue and I are delighted. I’ve gone…
Polaris 26
Polaris is a fan run convention and has been going solidly for 26 years. It is a quieter more intimate affair than the wondrous eye-dazzler that is Fan Expo. This year, Sue and I were offered media passes to the event thanks to the show’s head of media Evelina Kuczer, and were delighted to attend…
Comic Con: Episode IV A Fan’s Hope
I wanted to see this movie since I first heard about it but misses the chance when it premiered last August at the Toronto International Film Festival. A lot of people I know saw it and liked it, and I love a good con, so would it live up to the hype? I like Morgan…
Lost Girl Season 3… Hints?
So Tuesday afternoon I got a press release about Season 3 of Lost Girl getting underway. All well and good, we knew it was coming, but then, the more I read the more I found out cool stuff I didn’t know… I knew I loved the show, I know Sue loved it, and I know…
Guidestones
Sue and I discovered the web-series Guidestones at the Fan Expo Comic Con earlier this month, and have enjoyed every minute of it, from the storytelling to the hunting for clues. It’s a fan, interactive series, and one we wanted to follow-up on the moment we were introduced to it. So we sat down…
Fandom’s Underbelly – A Hive of Scum & Villainy.
Fandom. I always thought it was supposed to be about a shared love of something. Meeting others who had some of the same passions and interests as you, and bonding over those common appetites. And while this can be true, a lot of the times, this is also just a surface view. Underneath in the…
Episode 6 – An evening with Rick Howland & Nadia Bassett
Episode 6. Welcome to it folks! This week, Sue and I got to sit down and talk with the man himself, Rick Howland. Known to genre fans as Trick from Lost Girl. We sat down with he and his wife Nadia at The Factory Girl on The Danforth for an evening of drinks and dinner….
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