ConClave Schedule and Other Places To Be

[filkertom]

It should be a fab weekend, with great guests (Michelle West, Theresa Mather, Lee Carrol and Anne Brett) and lots of friends, including Anne, huskiebear, markbernstein, trektone, sazettel, billroper and daisy_knotwise and the girls, bedlamhouse, unkbar (dunno if Joanne will be there, but I hope so), drzarron and dhstein and Sabrina, que_sara_sara and the Chocolate ritual, catalana, maiac, jimhines, so many more -- just a damn lot going on with great people. Here, more or less, is what I'm doing:

• Friday 7:00 pm -- second half of a concert (first half with Michael "Moonwolf" Longcor)
• Saturday 10:00 am -- panel on Using Your Laptop As A Home Studio
• Saturday 1:00 pm -- Iron Filker
• Saturday 5:00 pm -- concert (Wolf's second concert follows)
• Sunday 1:00 -- helping Mark with a performance tips panel

If you're not in the SE Michigan area, however, there are lots of other cons this weekend. Heck, just within driving distance there's Con on the Cob in Akron (which features most of the rest of The FuMP, including lukeski, pixelene, partiallyclips, wormquartet, devospice, powersalad, and more).

There's also Archon in suburban St. Louis, with Laurell K. Hamilton, muskrat_john, a rock-solid filk run by mofilker, ericcoleman and toyboatband, lukeski again [with dement1a], and, oh yeah, the cast of Cinematic Titanic.

And, if you're in the mood for comics and media but mostly comics, there's Mid-Ohio Con in Columbus, with Chris Claremont, Len Wein, Alan Davis, Joe Kubert, Alan Dean Foster, etc., etc., etc.

And there are even more conventions across the country, some of which are mentioned in comments below. All in all, a pretty great weekend, fandom-wise.

So, what's your plan for the weekend?

ETA: How could I forget the excellent FenCon in Dallas, TX? Gregory Benford, Real Musgrave, and, oh yeah, Three Weird Sisters (so I guess ladyat isn't gonna be up here, sigh, but that means you guys get her and quadrivium and weirdsister) and one of the last appearances together of the Brobdingnagian Bards (Andrew McKee and marcgunn).

ETA2: I'm fixin' as fast as I can.... ;)