COME TO BUTTHEAD!

On November 11, 2018 By Luther M. SilerIn Photography1 Comment

1100 Elizabeth Street in Lafayette! COME SEE ME and help raise money for adult education!

KOKOMO-CON 2018: The Cosplay

On October 13, 2018October 13, 2018 By Luther M. SilerIn Geek, PhotographyLeave a comment

So tired.

Had a really good time.

But SO tired.

Have cosplay.

The view from my (new) hotel window: Kokomo, IN!

On October 12, 2018 By Luther M. SilerIn Photography1 Comment

Tomorrow! 10-5! Kokomo Event and Conference Center, booth #44! Come say hi!

Also, nice view.

What we need … is a video

On October 11, 2018 By Luther M. SilerIn idiocy10 Comments

This is probably the single most self-indulgent thing I’ve ever done in this space, so please, forgive me, but: we’re vlogging tonight.

I’m so very sorry.

In which I’m a bit of a dick

On October 9, 2018October 9, 2018 By Luther M. SilerIn life1 Comment

I accidentally said “Have a nice weekend!” to at least two or three different people today at various points, confusing the hell out of at least one student, and when I skipped out of the office (more or less literally) saying “See you Monday!” to everyone, I did it knowing full well that because I am going to be out of the building for three days I will probably end up with six days’ worth of catching up to do once I come back. So the last laugh is sure as hell gonna be on me.

It’s been a hellishly busy couple of days, but busy is all it has been, and busy I don’t really mind. I’m good at busy. Of course, I’m gonna stay that way for good chunks of the next several days, and they seriously think I’m gonna be in Indianapolis at 8:00 in the morning tomorrow, too, which would be a hilarious joke if motherfuckers weren’t serious. So things might be a little light around here for the back half of the week, but I’ll make up for it with cosplay pictures after the con.

My copies of CLICK are supposed to show up tomorrow, which is good, because tomorrow is pretty definitively before the con, but it’s also bad because I’ll already be gone before they get here and I won’t get to hold or touch the precious before I see them when my wife brings them to me Friday night. I’ll need to decide how much I’m selling them for, too, once I actually see them.

…damn, I need a new price board.

More to do! Hooray!

I’ll post a hotel view picture tomorrow. Behave, y’all.

CLICK WILL be at KOKOMO-CON!

On October 5, 2018 By Luther M. SilerIn Writing2 Comments

Click print cover con exclusive

I have thrown both caution and financial security to the wind– screw it, I got me a decent-paying job now, I can do that once in a while– and paid through the nose for both rush printing and rush shipping, but: barring an act of God or nature, I will have copies of CLICK available for purchase at Kokomo-Con next Saturday. I just got my booth, too– I’ll be in Booth #44, which looks like a pretty good spot, on a corner not far from the main entrance.

Remember, there are only two ways to buy CLICK right now: first, by buying it directly from me at a convention, or second, by supporting me on Patreon at the $2 a month tier (“Grond’s Chess Buddies”) or higher. Kokomo-Con was a blast last year; it’s a smaller, one-day con and probably one of my favorite convention experiences I’ve had so far. Come out and see me!

GUYS

On September 9, 2018 By Luther M. SilerIn Geek1 Comment

Hall of Heroes Con, Day 1

On September 8, 2018September 8, 2018 By Luther M. SilerIn Geek, Photography3 Comments

That … went well. I have already paid for my booth and then some, so tomorrow is going to be all profit, and since tomorrow doesn’t feature a home Notre Dame game at 3:30 (at which point traffic conspicuously dried up) I have high hopes that it could be even better a day than today was. That would be quite nice.

Also interesting: every con I’ve ever attended has had celebrity guests of some stripe or another, but other than Timothy Zahn coming to the booth next to me I’ve never really interacted with any of them. Seth Gilliam, Katrina Law, Kevin Sussman and John Schneider all walked past my booth several times, and it’s possible that William Katt did a few times too but I don’t actually know who he is so I didn’t recognize him.

(Seth Gilliam, in particular, is a ghost. The first couple of times he walked past I was the only one who realized who he was. I almost called him over to the booth the first time, thinking he was just a regular con-goer, and only stopped myself at the last second.)

Not as many cosplay pictures as I usually take, mostly because the one real disadvantage of my booth is that it’s not in a great place to ask people to stop for a picture. Every time I tried it led to a traffic jam, so I stopped doing it after a while. That said: enjoy, and remember you can click on the pictures to get a larger version!