CoastConFan Blog

The Gulf Coast Gamers Club hosted Bayou Wars 27, which was held on 7-9 June 2019 at the D’Iberville Civic Center in D’Iberville (just outside Biloxi) Mississippi.  Bayou wars 27 consiste...

http://coastconfan.blogspot.com/2019/06/bayou-wars-27-june-2019.html

This is the second and final post on MobiCon photos.  Many of these photos have been manipulated by my blog photographer Michael W. Moses, so don't be shocked if some of the MobiCon attendees ha...

http://coastconfan.blogspot.com/2019/06/mobicon-2019-photos-part-2.html

MobiCon, Mobile Alabama's multi-genre SF and comic convention was held on Labor Day Weekend, 24-28 May 2018 at the Renaissance Mobile Riverview Plaza Hotel.  Unlike last year, the weather was e...

http://coastconfan.blogspot.com/2019/06/mobicon-2019-photos-part-1.html

The Friends of the Pascagoula Public Library decided to promote literacy in Jackson County in a novel way and cleverly held a mini science fiction convention toward that goal.  Ghoula-Con w...

http://coastconfan.blogspot.com/2019/02/ghoula-con-2019-in-pascagoula-ms.html

Here’s the second half of the photos from Gulf Coast Fan Fest 2018.  A few … well OK, most of them have been manipulated somewhat and a few wildly modified. If you haven’t seen the ...

http://coastconfan.blogspot.com/2018/11/gulf-coast-fan-fest-2018-costumes-part.html

GULF COAST FAN FEST was held in Biloxi, Mississippi at the Mississippi Coast Convention Center on the weekend of 13-14 October, 2018. As per usual, myself and and CoastConFan blog photogra...

http://coastconfan.blogspot.com/2018/10/gulf-coast-fan-fest-2018-costumes-part-i.html

This year Bayou Wars was held in the small town of D’Iberville, right outside of Biloxi on the beautiful Mississippi Gulf Coast from June 8 to 10th 2018 at the D’Iberville Civic Center. ...

http://coastconfan.blogspot.com/2018/08/bayou-wars-26-miniatures-wargaming-and.html

This is the third and last installment of photos from MobiCon 2018.   In case you missed them, here are the first two MobiCon 2018 photo posts: http://coastconfan.blogspot.com/2018/07/mo...

http://coastconfan.blogspot.com/2018/07/mobicon-2018-photos-part-third.html

Here are some more MobiCon 2018 photos by our roving photographer Michael W. Moses.  They are all landscape in this post, but you’ll see very little shrubbery.  In any case … enjoy! ...

http://coastconfan.blogspot.com/2018/07/mobicon-2018-part-second.html

MobiCon 2018 was held in Mobile, Alabama on Memorial Day Weekend, from 25 to 27 May 2018 at the Renaissance Mobile Riverview Plaza Hotel.  I attended MobiCon 2018 with my intrepid photograph...

http://coastconfan.blogspot.com/2018/07/mobicon-2018-photos-part-first.html

Rumors of my (online) death have been highly exaggerated, to misquote Mark Twain. You may have noticed that my posts have been somewhat lean the past year.  I took a short hiatus that stre...

http://coastconfan.blogspot.com/2018/06/the-dead-rise-again-or-you-just-cant.html

Here at the CoastConFan Blog, I did a post called ANCIENT TANIS, FORGOTTEN OCCASIONALLY BUT NOT LOST – FROM ROSEMARY’S BABY TO INDIANA JONES, on Sept 29, 2014.   I’m surprised that  it�...

http://coastconfan.blogspot.com/2017/06/science-fiction-is-not-in-spaces-we-know.html

This is the second post of  two posts about Mobicon 2017.  If you missed it, the first part is HERE .  Since costuming was such a huge part of Mobicon, I have posted copious photos.   As I h...

http://coastconfan.blogspot.com/2017/06/mobicon-2017-was-in-mobile-part-ii.html

Mobicon 2017 was “Mobilis in mobile”, to quote the Latin motto of Capt Nemo ’s Nautilus, from Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1870).  There are several ways to translate th...

http://coastconfan.blogspot.com/2017/06/mobicon-2017-was-in-mobile-part-i.html

I don’t plan on giving a full con report on Southern GeekFest, but just cover the highlights.  The main reason for this blog entry is to post some of the photos we took that Saturday.  I att...

http://coastconfan.blogspot.com/2017/05/southern-geekfest-2017-was-smash-hit.html

Albert Bacon Pratt of Lyndon, Vermont patented a hat and a gun, but the interesting thing is that they were designed to be used together.  The patent for the hat was US 1,183492 A and the pa...

http://coastconfan.blogspot.com/2017/05/mr-pratts-gun-hat-or-how-to-be.html

I recently ran across the image of an old paperback I had back in the late ‘70s and it brought back a flood of memories.  It was the same edition I had owned of The Glittering Plain from t...

http://coastconfan.blogspot.com/2016/10/newcastle-forgotten-fantasy-library.html

My first exposure to the works of Ernest Bramah Smith, under the pen name  Ernest Bramah , was from Lin Carter’s Ballentine Adult Fantasy Series , which introduced young readers (and not a...

http://coastconfan.blogspot.com/2016/10/ernest-bramah-kai-lung-li-kung-and-case.html

Today is 20th of August and H P Lovecraft’s birthday.  He was born in Providence, RI on 20 August 1890 and died 15 March 1937.  His life was short but his writings are a major influence on ...

http://coastconfan.blogspot.com/2016/08/happy-birthday-h-p-lovecraft.html

Well known to my readers is H. P. Lovecraft’s story, The Mountains of Madness (pub 1931) which features an expedition and a huge ancient city in an inaccessible mountain range at the bottom...

http://coastconfan.blogspot.com/2016/07/the-canyons-of-madness-grand-canyon.html

THIS HOLIDAY IS ALWAYS A SOMBER ONE FOR ME.  THIS HISTORY OF MEMORIAL DAY IS INTERESTING AS WELL. My suggestion for this Memorial Day is to learn how to make a cord bracelet in the memor...

http://coastconfan.blogspot.com/2016/05/memorial-day-message-2016.html

This Saturday, 7 May 2016 was yet again another Free Comic Book Day, hosted here by Three Alarm Comics.    For those of you who are new to this,  FCBD has three stated purposes: T...

http://coastconfan.blogspot.com/2016/05/free-comic-book-day-2016.html

I bet you didn’t know Edgar Allan Poe had an older brother in the US Navy and that he also wrote poetry and stories.  His name was William Henry Leonard Poe and not much is commonly known ...

http://coastconfan.blogspot.com/2016/04/edgar-allan-poes-older-brother-william.html

An old friend of mine who was part of the forming of the SF convention CoastCon (and even earlier fan activity) sent me his fan-made music video called Christmas on Mars.  I guess you could...

http://coastconfan.blogspot.com/2015/12/christmas-on-mars.html

Recently on the blog site Propnomicon, a real historical archeological object was brought forth as a possible prop item for playing the role playing game, Call of Cthulhu and this set me thin...

http://coastconfan.blogspot.com/2015/09/call-of-cthulhu-props-slightly-dark-art.html