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Big Shiny Robot: Highlights of the fan convention experience
Though there seems to be a nerd convention going on somewhere around the country every weekend on the calendar, fall always feels like convention season to me.
Actor John Ryhs-Davies poses at FanX Though there seems to be a nerd convention going on somewhere around the country every weekend on the calendar, fall always feels like convention season to me. Fall and spring. I do a lot of conventions for my day job—(You didn't think being a dashing City Weekly columnist was all I did, did you?
We can't all be so lucky as Scott Renshaw...)—I'm a full-time writer, and I do write lots of nerdy things. As a result, I'm in demand at cons around the country (and sometimes world), and I get to go to a lot of them.
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