Category: Edmonton

  • Nerdiness Afoot in YEG

    Ahoy, nerdlings!  Winter seems to have passed us by and it is time to shake off our hibernation and get out into the world.  Conveniently, your fellow geeks are running events  firmly in your wheelhouse.  So give yourself a shake, put on your best pop-culture t-shirt, and hit up one of these upcoming events: 50,000…

  • Public Displays of Nerdery (and where to find them)

    There is nerdery afoot and aflight in the city of Edmonton!  And you need to get out there and take part, lest your nerd cred atrophy over these long winter months.  To forestall any nerd-cred shrinkage, why not take in some of these fine events: An Epic Valentine’s Day of Epic Epicness Join the Graphic…

  • Nerd Events Update

    Even though people are busy with the holidays, there are still plenty of nerd events on tap.  Here are the ones I know about: Game Day for Cthulhu Come and join your fellow gamers at Happy Harbor Comics (10729 104 Ave) for an afternoon of gaming on Sunday, December 11th.  The games will run from…

  • Random Acts of Publicity: LitFest

    For the final instalment in Random Acts of Publicity Week, instead of talking about a single book by someone I know, I’m going to talk about a single book festival by someone I know.  Ladies and gentlemen, I give you LitFest, produced by my pal David Cheoros. As described on the website: “Litfest is a…

  • Animethon Wrap-up!

    If you swung by the site Sunday looking for an Animethon Day 2 post, my apologies.  Due to a combination of illness and staying up Saturday night gaming until 2am, I not only didn’t get back to Animethon on Sunday, but I pretty much spent the day sleeping/dozing on the couch.  So today, which was…

  • Weekend at Animethon: Day 1

    Day One of Animethon complete!  As first days go this was a pretty good one; a few bobbles along the way but nothing that won’t be smoothed out (hopefully) for Days 2 and 3. I got to the Registration line at about 9:35 this morning, and there was a fairly healthy line.  Not Gen Con…