Not this weekend but next, the second San Diego Comic Fest takes place in…well, you can figure out where it takes place. This is a small, less crowded, mostly-about-comics convention run by some of the folks who started that other annual comic book convention in San Diego. There are no movie and TV stars, there's a small dealer room, there are fewer professional guests…and at last year's, where I had a pretty good time, it mostly consisted of a lot of guys in my age bracket sitting around and talking about how comics and fandom used to be.
If this sounds appealing to you, tickets are still available and you can get all the info here. I am not part of the programming and may not even be able to make it in person but I'll be there in spirit.
My knee, which is generally healing, is still not to the point where I feel I can drive that far. Today, I'm speaking to a class at U.C. Santa Barbara and I'm taking the train there. Amtrak has wi-fi and since I've never blogged from a train, I'll see if I can blog from a train.