On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

...for just a minute.

Some of you may have seen the latest from San Diego via Newsarama. Things have been going this direction thereabouts for a couple of years now, if memory is working properly. So it seems a good idea to have a roster of alternative options for fan gatherings of this sort, if not at the same scale across the continent.

One of these got revived last year, in a bit of a rush, called CAN-CON. Officially, the sub-title is "the Conference on Canadian Content in Speculative Arts and Literature", but I still like to think of it as a convention. An event where, for a weekend, fans and professionals in the field can get together to have some shared fun and learn stuff from each other.

This year, it's September 9th to 11th, and the organizers prevailed upon duncanmac  and myself to set up a spot on Livejournal for anyone interested in attending in either capacity to keep an eye out for news and get questions answered before showing up, if they're of a mind to do so.

That venue is can_con_news . Hope to see you there from time to time between now and September.

This latest round of spam-postings of about a half-dozen banners - including one that I will call "NC-17" to be polite - is not welcome.

I apologize if I've chosen the wrong word from the Russian language to sum up my sentiment:

Достаточно!

Or, alternatively: Довольно, черт возьми!

Seeing as I like travelling by rail whenever I can, and I've noticed that no one else seems to have set up a Community for VIA Rail users/fans...should I consider launching one myself?

Update 2020: I've since set up one on Livejournal - which may have survived without me? - and another here on Dreamwidth, thirteen years later.