Assimilation one year anniversary wrap up

It’s hard for me to believe the year is whizzing by so quickly. Seems like just yesterday I was wrapping up the underworld party, yet here I am wrapping up the Assimilation one year anniversary. This show had multiple interests for us. Firstly, we were finally going to get to meet End: the DJ after sponsoring the Chrome Elemental tour and promising that we were going to get off our lazy butts and get that interview done one of these days. The second thing was that we were finally going to get to have Darkfaery Girl Maven at a show where we could get a picture with her. (see our myspace photos) The third thing was that we love going to Tulsa and staying over because we love hotels! Why do we love hotels? We get to take a break from the phone, the computer, and the cats! I’m sure the cats are glad when we leave overnight too.
We spent the week before Assimilation taking flyers to various locations and encouraging everyone we could round up to go with us. At one point some people gave me a flyer and didn’t realize I had started the circle. That happens to me a lot when we go out and promote and I still think it’s funny every time.
We got through the stress of figuring out who we were going to ride with at the last minute as usual and got to Tulsa the day of the show at 4:30 pm and checked into the hotel. We gathered up our decorations and tub of promotional materials, Darkfaery girl applications, and headed to the Marquee. We got caught in a loop of one way streets AGAIN and didn’t make it to the club until 6 pm even after we said we’d be there at 5:30 pm…happens every time. You know how when you go inside wal-mart you blink and it’s been two hours? That is how it is for us and one way streets. It doesn’t matter who we ride with either.
I was surprised that we managed to get the streamers and balloons up, get our table set up, and get black table cloths on all of the tables in time to have a beer and relax before the doors opened. That never happens, we are always still setting up ten minutes after, so maybe the one way street Gods were kind to us this time.
So let’s roll out the thanks on this one. First person I have to thank is our Darkfaery Boy Promotional Director James and his beautiful wife Darkfaery Girl Trista, for going beyond the pale at every event we are a part of. Couldn’t do this without them and in this case it would have been a clusterfuck if James hadn’t been there to help when Z got sick from the heat, smoke, and not enough food. Because of my medical problems I count on Z for everything and when he is out of commission I have no ground to stand on. Thanks guys for helping me cope with the stress. Thank you cell phones.
Many thanks to Evan for funding our room and gas, his donations to Darkfaery Subculture Magazine are limitless and I am sure he gets tired of paying for so much, but he does it anyway. He even went out of his way to pay admission for some of the Darkfaery boys and girls who didn’t have money with them.
As always, thanks to my Darkfaery Girls and Boys for representing. Specifically, Mistress Eve, Rayne, and Alice for being on top of things that I didn’t even think of, for always offering us hospitality and trying to take care of us. Thanks for having our backs, and sometimes our fronts! (wink wink)
Thanks to Darkfaery girl Pumpkin for giving us a ride and telling me how great I am all the time, even when I am yelling at people.
And Finally, Thanks to the Assimilation crew and Re:Mission Entertainment for having us out and slapping our logo on the flyers, we appreciate that. See you at Combichrist!

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Hey guys I wanted to let you know there are two tables left at sinnercon for $50 each. If you are a lifestyle group or vendor this will be a great opp for you.

Only 15 days Until SoonerCon 2009!
 
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If SinnerCon isn't quite right for you, we have plenty of other fun activities Saturday night, from gaming, to video rooms, filking, room parties, and more!

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For those of you not selling or demonstrating the hardcore stuff you can still get tables for the Soonercon Exhibitor's Hall at $85 and as a bonus they will throw in a table during Sinnercon at no extra charge.

SoonerCon is a fan run multi-genre convention held annually in Oklahoma City.

If you’ve been around the Oklahoma City area for a while, the name may sound familiar. Here’s why. There used to be a club in Oklahoma City called STAR OKC. Like most fans, they wanted a convention. After putting on a few one-shot types in the late 1970s and early 1980s, these folks, mostly high-school age through just out of college youngsters, decided to get organized, work hard to raise some money, and try to get something started. SoonerCon 1 happened twenty one years ago, in June of 1986. The con was begun and ramrodded by the Chair of SoonerCon 1, Mike Hodge. What he and many other helpers achieved lasted through SoonerCon 13 in 1997. Lots of artist and writer guests, from Tim Powers and Gene Wolfe to Brad Foster and Robin Bailey, were welcomed to Oklahoma City. During those years SoonerCon had hundreds of staff and helpers, and up until the last few years SoonerCon was “owned” by STAR OKC.

With SoonerCon's exclusive emphasis on traditional SF/fantasy books and art, making it a "lit con," a move arose as well for a local charity "media con" emphasizing genre TV/film, comics, gaming and pop culture actors, designers, and other guests--especially from Star Trek. Thus was born ThunderCon, which debuted in June 2001, balancing SoonerCon's November setting, and lasted through seven annual editions and often with staff and helpers working both. The new con operated with a non-profit board and involved all the local fan clubs interested, from Dr. Who, Babylon 5 and Trek's Starfleet chapters to gaming, modelbuilding, real space and even Dark Shadows! With "BoomerCon" judged a little too cute for a sister event, this project was named in honor of both Oklahoma's spring weather, its Indian heritage and the state's heroic 45th Infantry Division, the Thunderbirds—and so ThunderCon was born, its logo even adapted from the 45th's patch. ThunderCon was created and first run by another member of STAR OKC named Larry Nemecek, who with his wife Janet later moved to Hollywood to work on STAR TREK for Paramount. Yea, fanboys! A few other conventions have also taken place in the OKC area, but haven’t “taken root” for more than a year.

In mid-2005, several OKC fans got together and decided to try it again. And here we are! SoonerCon 2006 was held at the Central Plaza Hotel, and in 2007  moved to the Biltmore Hotel, and expanded to a three day event!

So … why the name “SoonerCon”?

Well, first that name stands for a fun SF/Fantasy convention in Oklahoma City, and is (wehope) warm in the memories of lots of fans. We want to start that fun and excitement again! And, in case you wondered, our ConComm checked with both the surviving ex-officers of STAR OKC (who used to “own” the con), and the con’s creator and original Chair. We're using the name with permission! The new SoonerCon is not continuing the original numbering, either. This incarnation of SoonerCon is deliberately designed to celebrate all aspects of fandom. We don’t intend to have a solely “books” or “TV” or “art” emphasis. The emphasis is on FUN.