Show Notes – Episode #57 “Norwescon Wrap-Up”

Posted by Shannon and Matt at 7:09 pm Show Notes

Apr 082010

Yikes! What a weekend. We were super busy for the whole convention with various volunteer duties but we still had a good time and met a lot of very cool people. This week we’ll give our review of Norwescon and take a brief look back at the other cons we hit during our Big Month of Conventions™.

We also have the weekly geek news, geek events in Seattle and a brand new contest!

Our Geek Week

Listening to Jorge Garcia’s Geronimo Jack’s Beard podcast
Reading Black Magic Sanction by Kim Harrison
Finished Canticle by Ken Scholes
Caught up on TV
- Season finale of Caprica
- V
- Stargate Universe
- Lost
- Breaking Bad

Norwescon Wrap-Up

Volunteering was a pretty new experience for the two of us. We’d spent a couple of hours working registration in years past but neither of us had been involved with the inner workings of the convention to anywhere near the extent that we were this year. It was a great deal of work but also enormously rewarding.

It was great to be a part of the community of people that put on Norwescon every year and we encourage everyone to get involved. Planning for Norwescon 34 is already underway. Contact Volunteers@norwescon.org and even if you don’t know what you can do to help they’ll find something for you to do.

Check the Norwescon Flickr stream for pictures from the con.

Big Month of Conventions

Emerald City ComiCon (part 1 and part 2 of our coverage)
Gamestorm

Next up for us will be Spokane ComiCon! Hope to see you there!

News

Events

April 10. 2010 1pm Barnes & Noble South Center 300 Andover Park W Ste 200, Tukwila – Harry Connolly , Mark Henry, Gayle Ann Williams, and Jessa Slade. Join Harry Connolly (Child of Fire), Mark Henry (Battle of the Network Zombies), Gayle Ann Williams (Tsunami Blue), and Jessa Slade (Seducing the Shadows) as they sign books, hang out, chat, and generally be extroverted.
April 10, 2010 8pm Wayward Coffeehouse 8570 Greenwood Ave N, Seattle – Book Launch: Close Encounters of the Urban Kind – Join authors Jennifer Brozek, Nathan Crowder, Rosemary Jones, Erik Scot de Bie and others as they celebrate the release of the new anthology Close Encounters of the Urban Kind which features twenty tales of urban legends with alien explanations.
April 11, 2010 6:30pm Studio Seven 110 S. Horton St, Seattle – Circus at the End Of The World II featuring Aerialists, Fire Performers, Steampunk vendors & Craftsmen, Henna Artist two performances by Abney Park! Super Low Prices! Full Bar! Snack Bar! All Ages!
April 14, 2010 6:40 and 9:20pm Metro Cinemas 4500 9 Ave NE, Seattle – Wednesday Classics: Aliens
April 15, 2010 7pm University Book Store 4326 University Way NE, Seattle Close Encounters of the Urban Kind – Join authors Jennifer Brozek, Nathan Crowder, Rosemary Jones, Erik Scot de Bie and others as they read their stories from the new anthology Close Encounters of the Urban Kind which features twenty tales of urban legends with alien explanations.
April 16, 2010 8 – 10pm Neptune Coffee 415 Greenwood Ave N, Seattle – Seattle Geekly Trivia Night. This month join us for swords and sorcery trivia! We’ll be covering all the classic 80s genre movies, Conana, Beastmaster, Red Sonja, Clash of the Titans and more! Plus you’ll have a chance to compete against a team of experts from Dungeons and Dragons publisher Wizards of the Coast! Test your knowledge and win prizes!

Contest!

Twin Peaks seasons 1 and 2 giveaway!

In honor of the 20th anniversary of the first broadcast of Twin Peaks we are pleased to be giving away DVD boxed sets of seasons 1 and 2.

Rarely syndicated, the Twin Peaks television series has lost none of its quirky and queasy power to get under your skin and haunt your dreams. So brew up a pot of some “damn fine coffee,” dig into some cherry pie, and lose yourself in David Lynch and Mark Frost’s murder mystery and soap opera, which unfolds, in one character’s words, “like a beautiful dream and terrible nightmare all at once.”
- Amazon

This contest runs from April 8 until April 18, with the winner picked April 19. We’ll ship the swag to you via USPS.

“How do I enter?”
Please register / log in to our website, and leave a comment on THIS POST. You can just say “hi” or whatever! One entry per person please, we’ll delete any multiple or offensive posts. Make sure you use a valid e-mail address when you register so we can contact you if you win!

“How will you randomly pick someone?”
We have D&D dice of all shapes and sizes, even a 100 sider! We’ll roll and see who wins!

And of course you still have time to enter the

Emerald City Swag Bag Giveaway!

So you couldn’t make it to Emerald City ComiCon? Well we raided it on your behalf and we have two (more or less) identical swag bags to give away! The bags contain a selection of comics from Image and DC, a graphic novel sampler, various bookmarks, stickers, buttons, flyers and at least one key chain.

The contest runs from March 25 until April 11 with the winner picked on April 12. We’ll ship the swag to you via USPS

“How will you randomly pick someone?”

We have D&D dice of all shapes and sizes, even a 100 sider! We’ll roll and see who wins!

Music

Music this week was Disaster by MC Frontalot, featuring Schäffer the Darklord and Beefy from the album Zero Day.

Next week’s show will be Episode #58, the Browncoat–o-Rama. We talk with two local Browncoat groups obout the phenomenon of Serenity and Firefly fandom as well as the creators of two different Firefly fan series’ from opposite coasts.

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